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||1978 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White. | ||1978 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White. | ||
||Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey FRS (d. 27 November 1983) was an Australian mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics. | |||
||1988 – Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player and author (b. 1927) | ||1988 – Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player and author (b. 1927) | ||
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1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, is prized by gamblers.
1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
