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||1905: Robert Bacher born ... physicist and academic ... one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. Pic. | ||1905: Robert Bacher born ... physicist and academic ... one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. Pic. | ||
||1913: Bernard Lovell born ... physicist and astronomer. | ||1913: Bernard Lovell born ... physicist and radio astronomer. Pic. | ||
||1920: Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron dies ... pioneer of color photography. He worked on developing practical processes for color photography on the three-color principle, using both additive and subtractive methods; and introduced the anaglyph stereoscopic print, the "red and blue glasses" type of 3-D print. Pic. | ||1920: Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron dies ... pioneer of color photography. He worked on developing practical processes for color photography on the three-color principle, using both additive and subtractive methods; and introduced the anaglyph stereoscopic print, the "red and blue glasses" type of 3-D print. Pic. | ||
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||1939: Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe. | ||1939: Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe. | ||
||1944: Roger Dean born ... illustrator and publisher. | ||1944: Roger Dean born ... illustrator and publisher. (Alive August 2019.) | ||
File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis. | File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis. | ||
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||1965: E. E. Smith dies ... engineer and author. Pic. | ||1965: E. E. Smith dies ... engineer and author. Pic. | ||
||1980: Arthur Sard dies ... mathematician, famous for his work in differential topology and in spline interpolation. His fame stems primarily from Sard's theorem, which says that the set of critical values of a differential function which has sufficiently many derivatives has measure zero. | ||1980: Arthur Sard dies ... mathematician, famous for his work in differential topology and in spline interpolation. His fame stems primarily from Sard's theorem, which says that the set of critical values of a differential function which has sufficiently many derivatives has measure zero. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Arthur+Sard | ||
||2000: John Alexander Simpson dies ... worked as an experimental nuclear, and cosmic ray physicist who was deeply committed to educating the public and political leaders about science and its implications. Pic. | ||2000: John Alexander Simpson dies ... worked as an experimental nuclear, and cosmic ray physicist who was deeply committed to educating the public and political leaders about science and its implications. Pic. | ||
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||2002: George Porter dies ... chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Pic. | ||2002: George Porter dies ... chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Pic. | ||
||2005: Joseph Rotblat dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | ||2005: Joseph Rotblat dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
File:Flow Chart.jpg|link=Flow Chart (nonfiction)|2006: [[Flow Chart (nonfiction)|Flow Chart]] voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Flow Chart.jpg|link=Flow Chart (nonfiction)|2006: [[Flow Chart (nonfiction)|Flow Chart]] voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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||2006: Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police. | ||2006: Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police. | ||
||2013: Jan Camiel Willems dies ... mathematician and theorist. | ||2013: Jan Camiel Willems dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search yes:https://www.google.com/search?q=Jan+Camiel+Willems | ||
File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' sells for two and a half million dollars." | File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' sells for two and a half million dollars." | ||
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1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter Marin Mersenne uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1899: Georg Cantor writes to Dedekind, remarking that his "diagonal process" could be used to show that the power set of a set has more elements than the set itself.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1950: Mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel addresses the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on his work in relativity theory.
2006: Flow Chart voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."