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||1793: The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France. | ||1793: The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France. | ||
||1802: Franz Aepinus dies ... astronomer and philosopher. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Posters2/Aepinus.html | |||
||1839: Aleksandr Stoletov born ... physicist and academic. Pic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Stoletov | ||1839: Aleksandr Stoletov born ... physicist and academic. Pic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Stoletov | ||
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||1845: Willgodt Theophil Odhner born ... engineer and entrepreneur. He was the inventor of the Odhner Arithmometer, which by the 1940s was one of the most popular type of portable mechanical calculator in the world. Pic. | ||1845: Willgodt Theophil Odhner born ... engineer and entrepreneur. He was the inventor of the Odhner Arithmometer, which by the 1940s was one of the most popular type of portable mechanical calculator in the world. Pic. | ||
||1856: William Willett born ... inventor, founded British Summer Time. | ||1856: William Willett born ... inventor, founded British Summer Time. Pic. | ||
||1859: Georg Alexander Pick born ... mathematician. Today he is best known for Pick's theorem for determining the area of lattice polygons. Pic. | ||1859: Georg Alexander Pick born ... mathematician. Today he is best known for Pick's theorem for determining the area of lattice polygons. Pic. | ||
||1862: Hon'inbō Shūsaku dies ... Go player. | ||1862: Hon'inbō Shūsaku dies ... Go player. Pic. | ||
||1868: Dr. Hugo Eckener born ... the manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the world, making him the most successful airship commander in history. He was also responsible for the construction of the most successful type of airships of all time. An anti-Nazi who was invited to campaign as a moderate in the German presidential elections, he was blacklisted by that regime and eventually sidelined. Pic. | ||1868: Dr. Hugo Eckener born ... the manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the world, making him the most successful airship commander in history. He was also responsible for the construction of the most successful type of airships of all time. An anti-Nazi who was invited to campaign as a moderate in the German presidential elections, he was blacklisted by that regime and eventually sidelined. Pic. | ||
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||1948: Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone. | ||1948: Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone. | ||
||1949: Homer Burton Adkins dies ... chemist. | ||1949: Homer Burton Adkins dies ... chemist. Pic. | ||
||1949: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense. | ||1949: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense. | ||
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||1976: Josef Mattauch dies ... physicist known for his work in the investigation of the isotopic abundances by mass spectrometry. He developed the Mattauch isobar rule in 1934. Pic. | ||1976: Josef Mattauch dies ... physicist known for his work in the investigation of the isotopic abundances by mass spectrometry. He developed the Mattauch isobar rule in 1934. Pic. | ||
||1979: Walter Gerlach dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1979: Walter Gerlach dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1982: Brigadier John Hessell Tiltman dies .... British Army officer who worked in intelligence, often at or with the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) starting in the 1920s. His intelligence work was largely connected with cryptography, and he showed exceptional skill at cryptanalysis. His work in association with Bill Tutte on the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, the German teleprinter cipher, called "Tunny" (for tunafish) at Bletchley Park, led to breakthroughs in attack methods on the code, without a computer. Pic. | ||1982: Brigadier John Hessell Tiltman dies .... British Army officer who worked in intelligence, often at or with the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) starting in the 1920s. His intelligence work was largely connected with cryptography, and he showed exceptional skill at cryptanalysis. His work in association with Bill Tutte on the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, the German teleprinter cipher, called "Tunny" (for tunafish) at Bletchley Park, led to breakthroughs in attack methods on the code, without a computer. Pic. | ||
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||1992: Teresa Cohen dies ... mathematician. Invited to join the faculty of Pennsylvania State University in 1920, she advanced to the rank of full professor; after her mandatory retirement in 1962, she maintained an office in the Department of Mathematics and tutored students for free until 1985 at the age of 94. Pic. | ||1992: Teresa Cohen dies ... mathematician. Invited to join the faculty of Pennsylvania State University in 1920, she advanced to the rank of full professor; after her mandatory retirement in 1962, she maintained an office in the Department of Mathematics and tutored students for free until 1985 at the age of 94. Pic. | ||
||1995: Leo Apostel dies ... philosopher and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University. Apostel was an advocate of interdisciplinary research and the bridging of the gap between exact science and humanities. | ||1995: Leo Apostel dies ... philosopher and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University. Apostel was an advocate of interdisciplinary research and the bridging of the gap between exact science and humanities. Pic (charming). | ||
File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|2001: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' unexpectedly reveals "three hundred to three hundred and fify kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions. | File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|2001: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' unexpectedly reveals "three hundred to three hundred and fify kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions. | ||
||2002: Kristen Nygaard dies ... computer scientist and politician | ||2002: Kristen Nygaard dies ... computer scientist and politician. Pic. | ||
||2014: Kathleen Ollerenshaw dies ... mathematician, astronomer, and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester. She contributed to the study of most-perfect pandiagonal magic squares. | ||2014: Kathleen Ollerenshaw dies ... mathematician, astronomer, and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester. She contributed to the study of most-perfect pandiagonal magic squares. Pic. | ||
Two_Bugs_Fighting.jpg|link=Two Bugs Fighting (nonfiction)|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Two Bugs Fighting (nonfiction)|Two Bugs Fighting]]'' revealed as forgery, confiscated by [[APTO]] agents. [[APTO]] will reverse-engineer the forgery but fail to identify the forger. | Two_Bugs_Fighting.jpg|link=Two Bugs Fighting (nonfiction)|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Two Bugs Fighting (nonfiction)|Two Bugs Fighting]]'' revealed as forgery, confiscated by [[APTO]] agents. [[APTO]] will reverse-engineer the forgery but fail to identify the forger. | ||
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1602: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1792: Allumette enflammée inverse, symbol of Les Empyrées, accidentally sets fire to Dr. Guillotine.
1792: French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
1896: Engineer and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt warns "flying man" Otto Lilienthal that he is in danger, but Lilienthal insists that his career depends upon "never backing down from the sky."
1896: Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, known as the flying man, dies from injuries sustained the day before when his glider fell and crashed.
1957: X-ray crystallographer and crime-fighter Rosalind Franklin publishes new theory of Gnomon algorithm functions based on the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against chemistry.
1960: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
2001: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing unexpectedly reveals "three hundred to three hundred and fify kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
2017: Signed first edition of Two Bugs Fighting revealed as forgery, confiscated by APTO agents. APTO will reverse-engineer the forgery but fail to identify the forger.