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||1911: Louis W. Tordella born ... the longest serving deputy director of the National Security Agency. Pic. | ||1911: Louis W. Tordella born ... the longest serving deputy director of the National Security Agency. Pic. | ||
||1918: Grove Karl Gilbert dies ... geologist and academic ... geomorphology, planetary science. Gilbert is considered one of the giants of the sub-discipline of geomorphology, having contributed to the understanding of landscape evolution, erosion, river incision and sedimentation. Gilbert was a planetary science pioneer, correctly identifying lunar craters as caused by impacts, and carrying out early impact-cratering experiments.[6] He coined the term sculpture for a pattern of radial ridges surrounding Mare Imbrium on the moon, and correctly interpreted them in 1893 as ejecta from a giant impact. Pic. | ||1918: Grove Karl Gilbert dies ... geologist and academic ... geomorphology, planetary science. Gilbert is considered one of the giants of the sub-discipline of geomorphology, having contributed to the understanding of landscape evolution, erosion, river incision and sedimentation. Gilbert was a planetary science pioneer, correctly identifying lunar craters as caused by impacts, and carrying out early impact-cratering experiments.[6] He coined the term sculpture for a pattern of radial ridges surrounding Mare Imbrium on the moon, and correctly interpreted them in 1893 as ejecta from a giant impact. Pic. | ||
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||1947: Jacob Bekenstein born ... theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation. Pic. | ||1947: Jacob Bekenstein born ... theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation. Pic. | ||
File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte|1958: Mathematician, codebreaker, and crime analyst [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] makes a fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the [[Forbidden Ratio]], a criminal mathematical function. | File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|1958: Mathematician, codebreaker, and crime analyst [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] makes a fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the [[Forbidden Ratio]], a criminal mathematical function. | ||
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1959: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "is confident that the upcoming [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|U-2 spyplane incident]] is an outstanding investment opportunity." | File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1959: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "is confident that the upcoming [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|U-2 spyplane incident]] is an outstanding investment opportunity." | ||
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1825: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer born. He will develop an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.
1958: Mathematician, codebreaker, and crime analyst W. T. Tutte makes a fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Forbidden Ratio, a criminal mathematical function.
1959: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "is confident that the upcoming U-2 spyplane incident is an outstanding investment opportunity."
1960: Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
1961: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon warns that U-2 spyplane incident may have released a new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1970: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley dies. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Creature unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty terabytes" of encrypted data relating, "apparently a record of top-secret Clandestiphrine experiments directed against the U-2 spyplane incident."