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||1914: Edwin J. Houston dies ... businessman, professor, consulting electrical engineer, inventor and author. | ||1914: Edwin J. Houston dies ... businessman, professor, consulting electrical engineer, inventor and author. | ||
||1915: Gustave Choquet born ... mathematician. | ||1915: Gustave Choquet born ... mathematician. His contributions include work in functional analysis, potential theory, topology and measure theory. He is known for creating the Choquet theory, the Choquet integral and the theory of capacities. Pic. | ||
||1917: The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text. | ||1917: The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text. | ||
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1597: Priest and mathematician Jean-Charles della Faille born. He will publish a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
1611: Mathematician John Pell born. He will expand the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.
1871: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin invents new type of scrying engine, uses it to commit crimes against mathematical constants.
1893: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
1945: Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition) spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.
1973: The Dark Side of the Moon released. It will go on to become one of the most successful albums ever.
1974: Signed first edition of Humpty Dumpty At Bat sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against physical constants.
1974: Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
1974: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged math criminal Skip Digits performs benefit concert to raise money for the seven persons indicted for their roles in the Watergate scandal.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Taffy Bomb reveals "at least five hundred and twelve kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.