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||1949: Arthur Eichengrün dies ... chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until the adoption of antibiotics, and for his pioneering contributions in plastics. Pic. | ||1949: Arthur Eichengrün dies ... chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until the adoption of antibiotics, and for his pioneering contributions in plastics. Pic. | ||
||1953: Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria born ... Soviet politician of Georgian ethnicity, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II. | ||1953: Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria born ... Soviet politician of Georgian ethnicity, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II. Pic. | ||
||1954: First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray. | ||1954: First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray. | ||
||1968: The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea. | ||1968: The 82 sailors from the USS ''Pueblo'' are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea. | ||
||1971: Hugh Rose Foss born ... cryptanalyst. At Bletchley Park during World War II he made significant contributions both to the breaking of the German Enigma code and headed the section tasked with breaking Japanese Naval codes. | ||1971: Hugh Rose Foss born ... cryptanalyst. At Bletchley Park during World War II he made significant contributions both to the breaking of the German Enigma code and headed the section tasked with breaking Japanese Naval codes. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hugh+Rose+Foss | ||
||1972: Andrei Tupolev dies ... engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-104. Pic. | ||1972: Andrei Tupolev dies ... engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-104. Pic. | ||
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1722: Mathematician and academic Pierre Varignon dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's Principia, and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.
1822: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer born. He will design and invent submarines.
1948: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann publishes his research on applications of the Ackermann function to detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Signed first edition of Blue City Sunset purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known mathematician residing in New Minneapolis, Canada."