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||1991 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union. | ||1991 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union. | ||
||John George Kemeny (d. December 26, 1992) was a Jewish-American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator He will co-develop the BASIC programming language, and pioneer the use of computers in college education. Pic. | |||
||1997 – Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1910) | ||1997 – Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1910) | ||
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1791: Polymath Charles Babbage born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers.
1896: Physician and physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond dies. He discovered nerve action potential, and developed experimental electrophysiology.
1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1899: Engineer and crime-fighter Gustave Eiffel uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
2006: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal dies. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
2016: Survey data reveals widespread Scrimshaw binging the day after Christmas.