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||Giulio Ascoli (d. 12 July 1896, Milan) was an Italian mathematician. | ||Giulio Ascoli (d. 12 July 1896, Milan) was an Italian mathematician. | ||
||Nancy Farley "Nan" Wood (b. 12 July 1903) was a member of the Manhattan Project and a business owner who designed, developed and manufactured her own line of ionizing radiation detectors. She was a lifelong feminist and a founding member of Chicago NOW. No pic. | |||
||George Elbert Kimball (b. July 12, 1906) was an American professor of quantum chemistry, and a pioneer of operations research algorithms during World War II. | ||George Elbert Kimball (b. July 12, 1906) was an American professor of quantum chemistry, and a pioneer of operations research algorithms during World War II. | ||
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1854: George Eastman born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
1917: The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1922: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology."
1935: Alfred Dreyfus dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
1967: Mathematician Edward Lorenz uses Gnomon algorithm to reveal previously secret crimes against mathematical constants.
