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||1915: Wilfred Kaplan born ... professor of mathematics. His research focused on dynamical systems, the topology of curve families, complex function theory, and differential equations. Pic. | ||1915: Wilfred Kaplan born ... professor of mathematics. His research focused on dynamical systems, the topology of curve families, complex function theory, and differential equations. Pic. | ||
||1925: | ||1925: Physicist Alfred Perot dies. Together with his colleague Charles Fabry he developed the Fabry–Pérot interferometer in 1899. Pic. | ||
||1925: The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the ''WSM Barn Dance''. | ||1925: The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the ''WSM Barn Dance''. | ||
||1935: Chemist Nikolai Kischner dies ... He significantly contributed to the understanding of alicyclic compounds, their intermediate position between fatty (acyclic) and aromatic compounds and relationships with heterocyclic compounds. He also developed several efficient catalytic synthesis methods that were used by the Soviet dye industry. Pic. | |||
||1948: Alan Lightman born ... American physicist, novelist, and academician. (Alive Sept. 2018.) | ||1948: Alan Lightman born ... American physicist, novelist, and academician. (Alive Sept. 2018.) | ||
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1607: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Laurentius Paulinus Gothus publishes his landmark study Crimina Astronomicae in Constantibus.
1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake born.
1760: First known use of Japanese rod calculus to compute Gnomon algorithm functions.
1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
1953: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
1954: Physicist Enrico Fermi dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1966: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky dies. He worked with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
2018: Triumph voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2018: The Moscow cable car hack begins: computers at Moscow Ropeway (MKD), which manages Moscow's re-built cable car line, are infected with ransomware. MKD will stop all operations as soon as it realizes what has happened, bringing all 35 eight-seat cable cars to a halt. There will be no reported injuries, and all cable cars will land safely.