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||1972: Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation. | ||1972: Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation. | ||
||1972: Beatrice Helen Worsley | ||1972: Beatrice Helen Worsley dies ... computer scientist. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?q=Beatrice+Helen+Worsley | ||
||1973: A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants. | ||1973: A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants. | ||
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||2012: Maurice Sendak dies ... author and illustrator. | ||2012: Maurice Sendak dies ... author and illustrator. | ||
||2014: Roger L. Easton dies ... scientist, co-invented the GPS. | ||2014: Roger L. Easton dies ... scientist, co-invented the GPS. Pic. | ||
Violet_Spiral_2.jpg|link=Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral 2]]'' stolen from the Walker Art Center in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang. | Violet_Spiral_2.jpg|link=Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral 2]]'' stolen from the Walker Art Center in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang. | ||
||2016: Tom M. Apostol dies ... analytic number theorist. | ||2016: Tom M. Apostol dies ... analytic number theorist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=tom+m.+apostol | ||
||2017: Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||2017: Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||
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1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
1789: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.
1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.
1872: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels defeats alleged criminal mastermind Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.
1953: Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the Bernoulli family.
1960: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
2016: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 stolen from the Walker Art Center in New Minneapolis, Canada by the Forbidden Ratio gang.