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||1899: Max Theiler born ... virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1899: Max Theiler born ... virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1911 | ||1911: The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba. | ||
||1912 | ||1912: Werner Hartmann born ... physicist and academic. | ||
||1925 | ||1925: Douglas Engelbart born ... computer scientist, invented the computer mouse. | ||
||1928 | ||1928: Johannes Fibiger dies ... physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867) | ||
||1945 – Meir Dagan, Israeli military officer and intelligence official, Director of Mossad (2002–11) (d. 2016) | ||1945 – Meir Dagan, Israeli military officer and intelligence official, Director of Mossad (2002–11) (d. 2016) | ||
||1948 | ||1948: Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. | ||
||1948 | ||1948: Orville Wright dies ... pilot and engineer, co-founded the Wright Company. | ||
|| | ||1950: Andrei Andreevich Bolibrukh born ... mathematician. He was known for his work on ordinary differential equations especially Hilbert's twenty-first problem (Riemann–Hilbert problem). Pic: http://www.mi-ras.ru/index.php?c=inmemoria&l=1 | ||
|| | ||1951: Ferdinand Porsche dies ... engineer and businessman, founded Porsche. | ||
||1956 | ||1953: Andrei Zelevinsky born ... mathematician who made important contributions to algebra, combinatorics, and representation theory. Pic. | ||
||1956: African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. | |||
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=On Halting Problems|[[On Halting Problems|1954: Asclepius Myrmidon discovers unregistered halting problem]], predicts new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=On Halting Problems|[[On Halting Problems|1954: Asclepius Myrmidon discovers unregistered halting problem]], predicts new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||Gerrit Mannoury | ||1956: Gerrit Mannoury dies ... philosopher and mathematician, professor at the University of Amsterdam and communist, known as the central figure in the signific circle, a Dutch counterpart of the Vienna circle. | ||
||1958 | ||1958: Ernst Heinkel dies ... engineer and businessman; founded the Heinkel Aircraft Company. | ||
||1968 – Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. | ||1968 – Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. | ||
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1661: Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
1661: Mathematician William Oughtred uses Gnomon algorithm functions to extract data from the severed head of Oliver Cromwell.
1736: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt born. He will make major improvements to the steam engine.
1884: Inventor Herman Hollerith invents new type of scrying engine which generates images from residual consciousness in the severed head of Oliver Cromwell.
1954: Asclepius Myrmidon discovers unregistered halting problem, predicts new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1975: The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
1976: Comic book artist and crime-fighter Gil Kane publishes illustrated history of math crimes throughout history.
1998: Mathematician Samuel Eilenberg dies. He co-founded category theory with Saunders Mac Lane, and proposed the Eilenberg swindle (a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules).