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||1942: World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland. | ||1942: World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland. | ||
||1945: Robert Dewar born ... computer scientist and academic. | ||1945: Robert Dewar born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1947: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1947: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1652: Architect Inigo Jones dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
1781: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
1947: Lorenz system diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson dies.
1952: Crime-fighter The Governess chastises corrupt accounting firm, compels accountants to return money embezzled from orphan's fund and personally apologize to orphans.