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||2004 – Nikolai Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931) | ||2004 – Nikolai Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931) | ||
||Alan Kotok (d. May 26, 2006) was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Early hacker. Pic. | |||
||2015 – Robert Kraft, American astronomer and academic (b. 1927) | ||2015 – Robert Kraft, American astronomer and academic (b. 1927) | ||
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1667: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre born. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, will be prized by gamblers.
2016: New autobiography by Didacus automaton accuses Baron Zersetzung of crimes against mathematical constants.
1895: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange born.
1936: Enrico Fermi publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1938: In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.