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||1915: Lawrence Hargrave dies ... engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer. Pic. | ||1915: Lawrence Hargrave dies ... engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer. Pic. | ||
||1921: Dmitri Polyakov born ... general and spy. Polyakov revealed Soviet secrets to the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency. Pic. | |||
||1926: Hartley Rogers Jr. born ... mathematician who worked in recursion theory, and was a professor in the Mathematics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Rogers equivalence theorem is named after him. Pic: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=hartley-rogers&pid=175517283 DOB: http://news.mit.edu/2015/hartley-rogers-professor-emeritus-mathematics-dies-0722 | ||1926: Hartley Rogers Jr. born ... mathematician who worked in recursion theory, and was a professor in the Mathematics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Rogers equivalence theorem is named after him. Pic: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=hartley-rogers&pid=175517283 DOB: http://news.mit.edu/2015/hartley-rogers-professor-emeritus-mathematics-dies-0722 | ||
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1476: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop Johann Regiomontanus dies. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the follwing decades.
1913: Mathematician Jordan Carson Mark born. He will oversee the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s.
1989: Rhizolith Group performs at New Minneapolis Canadian Arts Festival.
1990: The Electronic Freedom Foundation is founded. EFF is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.
1990: Signed original edition of Alice Beta Paragliding sells for one and a half million dollars in charity auction for Electronic Freedom Foundation.