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||1985 – Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents. | ||1985 – Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents. | ||
||Magnus Rudolph Hestenes (d. May 31, 1991) was an American mathematician. Together with Cornelius Lanczos and Eduard Stiefel, he invented the conjugate gradient method. Pic. | |||
||1995 – Hao Wang, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (b. 1921) | ||1995 – Hao Wang, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (b. 1921) | ||
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1713: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut born. His work will help to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1733: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus invents a binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy to define and characterize a wide range of crimes against mathematical constants.
1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or yesterday.
1880: In Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1936: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most daring illustration of the year."
1937: Writer Roger Zelazny born. He will win the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.
1939: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician Stanisław Leśniewski dies. He posited three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.