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||1864 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802) | ||1864 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802) | ||
||Gheorghe Țițeica (b. 4 October 1873) publishing as George or Georges Tzitzeica) was a Romanian mathematician with important contributions in geometry. He is recognized as the founder of the Romanian school of differential geometry. Pic. | |||
||1876 – Florence Eliza Allen, American mathematician and suffrage activist (d. 1960) | ||1876 – Florence Eliza Allen, American mathematician and suffrage activist (d. 1960) | ||
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1903: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff born. He will invent the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.
1947: Physicist and academic Max Planck dies. He made many contributions to theoretical physics, and earned fame as the originator of quantum theory.
1957: Clock Head 2 stops math criminals from interfering with the launch of Sputnik 1.
1957: Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for five hundred thousand dollars.