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||1995: Albert William Tucker dies ... mathematician who made important contributions in topology, game theory, and non-linear programming. Pic. | ||1995: Albert William Tucker dies ... mathematician who made important contributions in topology, game theory, and non-linear programming. Pic. | ||
||2000: Herta Freitag dies ... mathematician known for her work on the Fibonacci numbers. Pic. | |||
File:Opportunity in Endurance Crater simulated view.jpg|link=Opportunity (nonfiction)|2004: Mars Exploration Rover ''[[Opportunity (nonfiction)|Opportunity]]'' lands on Mars and rolls into Eagle crater, a small crater on the Meridiani Planum. | File:Opportunity in Endurance Crater simulated view.jpg|link=Opportunity (nonfiction)|2004: Mars Exploration Rover ''[[Opportunity (nonfiction)|Opportunity]]'' lands on Mars and rolls into Eagle crater, a small crater on the Meridiani Planum. | ||
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||2005: Philip Johnson dies ... architect, designed the PPG Place and Crystal Cathedral. | ||2005: Philip Johnson dies ... architect, designed the PPG Place and Crystal Cathedral. | ||
||2009: Eleanor F. Helin dies ... astronomer. | ||2009: Eleanor F. Helin dies ... astronomer. Helin was principal investigator of the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a prolific discoverer of minor planets (see list) and several comets. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Eleanor+F.+Helin | ||
||2012: Franco Pacini dies ... astrophysicist and academic. | ||2012: Franco Pacini dies ... astrophysicist and academic. In 1967 he published in Nature the first specific suggestion that strongly magnetized neutron stars could release their rotational energy and produce a large flow of relativistic particles. The discovery of pulsars in Cambridge (UK) proved the correctness of his hypothesis a few months later by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish of University of Cambridge. Pic. | ||
||2014: Heini Halberstam dies ... mathematician and academic, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is one of the two mathematicians after whom the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture is named. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=heini+halberstam | ||2014: Heini Halberstam dies ... mathematician and academic, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is one of the two mathematicians after whom the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture is named. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=heini+halberstam | ||
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1736: Mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange born. He will make significant contributions to the fields of analysis, number theory, and both classical and celestial mechanics.
1793: Engineer George Cayley publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which simulate the flight of petrels. He will later forecast the emergence of the SOEP cartel.
1812: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page born. His work will have a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that will maintain 'the scientific do not patent'.
1842: Wallace War-Heels rescues runaway stagecoach, then robs the occupants of one-third of their money and possessions.
1853: Physician, scientist, inventor, and crime-fighter Edward Davy receives a patent for his new electric relay, which uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
1855: Mathematician crime-fighter Arthur Cayley uses the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws, to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1915: Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1940: ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") uses scrying engine techniques to pre-visualize the Wow! signal.
1947: Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
1963: Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.
1995: The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
2004: Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity lands on Mars and rolls into Eagle crater, a small crater on the Meridiani Planum.
2017: Purple Racer voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the thirteenth anniversary of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landing on Mars and rolling into Eagle crater.