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||1913: Delmore Schwartz born ... poet and short story writer.
||1913: Delmore Schwartz born ... poet and short story writer.
||1917: Arthur Matthew Weld Downing born ... astronomer. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Arthur+Matthew+Weld+Downing


||1919: Julia Robinson born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.
||1919: Julia Robinson born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.
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||2004: Gravity Probe B (GP-B) decommissioned ... a satellite-based mission which launched on 20 April 2004 on a Delta II rocket. The spaceflight phase lasted until 2005; its aim was to measure spacetime curvature near Earth, and thereby the stress–energy tensor (which is related to the distribution and the motion of matter in space) in and near Earth. This provided a test of general relativity, gravitomagnetism and related models. Pic.
||2004: Gravity Probe B (GP-B) decommissioned ... a satellite-based mission which launched on 20 April 2004 on a Delta II rocket. The spaceflight phase lasted until 2005; its aim was to measure spacetime curvature near Earth, and thereby the stress–energy tensor (which is related to the distribution and the motion of matter in space) in and near Earth. This provided a test of general relativity, gravitomagnetism and related models. Pic.


||2013: John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
||2013: John Cornforth dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:Green Spiral 5.jpg|link=Green Spiral 5 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Green Spiral 5 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 5]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
File:Green Spiral 5.jpg|link=Green Spiral 5 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Green Spiral 5 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 5]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].

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  • 1825: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1825: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • 1834: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page builds new type of scrying engine.

    1834: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page builds new type of scrying engine.

  • 1835: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey secretly prints first edition of The Adulteration of Bergamot.

    1835: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey secretly prints first edition of The Adulteration of Bergamot.

  • 1844: Scientist, inventor, and educator Charles-Émile Reynaud born. He will invent the Praxinoscope (an improved zoetrope) and be responsible for the first projected animated films.

    1844: Scientist, inventor, and educator Charles-Émile Reynaud born. He will invent the Praxinoscope (an improved zoetrope) and be responsible for the first projected animated films.

  • 1864: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole dies. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.

    1864: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole dies. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.

  • 1865: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard born. He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.

    1865: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard born. He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.

  • 1932: US Navy raises flock of Carnivorous dirigibles.

    1932: US Navy raises flock of Carnivorous dirigibles.

  • 1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.

    1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.

  • 2001: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer Betty Holberton dies. She was one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and was the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging.

    2001: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer Betty Holberton dies. She was one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and was the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging.

  • 2016: Green Spiral 5 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2016: Green Spiral 5 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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