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||1937: William Sealy Gosset dies ... statistician. He published under the pen name Student, and developed the Student's t-distribution. Pic.
||1937: William Sealy Gosset dies ... statistician. He published under the pen name Student, and developed the Student's t-distribution. Pic.
||1948: Karen Wetterhahn born ... chemist and academic born ... mercury poison death. Pic.


||1964: With the success of the nuclear weapons test named "596", China became the world's fifth nuclear power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/596_(nuclear_test)
||1964: With the success of the nuclear weapons test named "596", China became the world's fifth nuclear power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/596_(nuclear_test)


||1968: United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
||1968: United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
||1968: Phyllis Nicolson dies ... mathematician most known for her work on the Crank–Nicolson scheme together with John Crank.


||1970: In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
||1970: In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.

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  • 1584: Famed illustration Leonardo Draws Clock Head is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective Leonardo da Vinci.

    1584: Famed illustration Leonardo Draws Clock Head is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective Leonardo da Vinci.

  • 1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies. His Elim (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.

    1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies. His Elim (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.

  • 1797: Carl Friedrich Gauss records in his diary that he has discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.

    1797: Carl Friedrich Gauss records in his diary that he has discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.

  • 1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.

    1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.

  • 1868: Physicist and crime-fighter Gustav Kirchhoff uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

    1868: Physicist and crime-fighter Gustav Kirchhoff uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

  • 2017: Spectrographic analysis of Taffy Bomb reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of the color pink.

    2017: Spectrographic analysis of Taffy Bomb reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of the color pink.

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