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File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1954: [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] pledge drive day.
File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1954: [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] pledge drive day.
||1956: Heinrich Scholz dies ... logician, philosopher, and Protestant theologian. Pic.


File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1963: ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] wins Pulitzer Award.  
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1963: ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] wins Pulitzer Award.  
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||1965: Statistician and academic Evelyn Fix dies ... She and Joseph Hodges, Jr. will publish a groundbreaking paper, "Discriminatory Analysis. Nonparametric Discrimination: Consistency Properties," which defines the nearest neighbor rule, an important method which will later become a key piece of machine learning technologies, the k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm.  Pic: https://statistics.berkeley.edu/history/biographies/evelyn-fix
||1965: Statistician and academic Evelyn Fix dies ... She and Joseph Hodges, Jr. will publish a groundbreaking paper, "Discriminatory Analysis. Nonparametric Discrimination: Consistency Properties," which defines the nearest neighbor rule, an important method which will later become a key piece of machine learning technologies, the k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm.  Pic: https://statistics.berkeley.edu/history/biographies/evelyn-fix


||1971: Vikram Sarabhai dies ... physicist and academic ... father Indian space program
||1971: Vikram Sarabhai dies ... physicist and academic ... father Indian space program. Pic.


||1982: Philip Hall dies ... mathematician. His major work was on group theory, notably on finite groups and solvable groups.
||1982: Philip Hall dies ... mathematician. His major work was on group theory, notably on finite groups and solvable groups. Pic.


||1991: Marcus Morton Rhoades dies ... cytogeneticist. His research on maize led to important discoveries for basic genetics and the applied science of plant breeding. He was one of the first cytogenecists to document the pre-meiotic pairing of homologous chromosomes in maize, otherwise referred as somatic pairing (Singh, 2003), and the first to document an instance of meiotic drive, a Mendelian inheritance caused by preferential segregation of certain versions of homologous chromosomes during meiosis. Rhoades' also pioneered work in nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions.  Pic: https://www.nap.edu/read/5859/chapter/18
||1991: Marcus Morton Rhoades dies ... cytogeneticist. His research on maize led to important discoveries for basic genetics and the applied science of plant breeding. He was one of the first cytogenecists to document the pre-meiotic pairing of homologous chromosomes in maize, otherwise referred as somatic pairing (Singh, 2003), and the first to document an instance of meiotic drive, a Mendelian inheritance caused by preferential segregation of certain versions of homologous chromosomes during meiosis. Rhoades' also pioneered work in nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions.  Pic: https://www.nap.edu/read/5859/chapter/18

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  • 1842: Osman Hamdi Bey born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.

    1842: Osman Hamdi Bey born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.

  • 1892: Mathematician Pekka Myrberg born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou.

    1892: Mathematician Pekka Myrberg born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou.

  • 1916: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin dies.

    1916: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin dies.

  • 1947: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.

    1947: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.

  • 1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.

    1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.

  • 1954: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive day.

    1954: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive day.

  • 1963: Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press wins Pulitzer Award.

    1963: Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press wins Pulitzer Award.

  • 2013: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".

    2013: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".

  • 2016: Eye Foot is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2016: Eye Foot is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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