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||1490: Albert, Duke of Prussia, last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights born. | ||1490: Albert, Duke of Prussia, last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights born. Albert was the first European ruler to establish Lutheranism, and thus Protestantism, as the official state religion of his lands. He proved instrumental in the political spread of Protestantism in its early stage. Pic. | ||
||1551: Martin Delrio born ... occultist and theologian. | ||1551: Martin Delrio born ... occultist and theologian. | ||
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||2014: Gerald Edelman dies ... biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||2014: Gerald Edelman dies ... biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||2014: Clarence Ellis born ... computer scientist and academic. Ellis was a pioneer in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Groupware. He and his team at Xerox PARC created OfficeTalk, one of the first groupware systems. Ellis also pioneered Operational Transformation, which is a set of techniques that enables real-time collaborative editing of documents. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=clarence+ellis+computer+scientist | |||
||2016: Jacques Jean-Pierre Neveu dies ... mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school (post WW II) of probability and statistics. Pic. | ||2016: Jacques Jean-Pierre Neveu dies ... mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school (post WW II) of probability and statistics. Pic. | ||
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1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1854: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis uses Gnomon algorithm functions to prevent outbreak of Kingpin inclination.
1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
2001: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.
2019: Triumph voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.