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||1921: Duane Gish born ... biochemist and academic, creationist. Pic. | ||1921: Duane Gish born ... biochemist and academic, creationist. Pic. | ||
||1924: Gevork Vartanian dies... Russian intelligence agent. He was primarily responsible for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, headed by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and led by Otto Skorzeny, which was an attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943. Pic. | |||
||1927: John Selfridge born ... mathematician who contributed to the fields of analytic number theory, computational number theory, and combinatorics. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Lewis+Selfridge | ||1927: John Selfridge born ... mathematician who contributed to the fields of analytic number theory, computational number theory, and combinatorics. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Lewis+Selfridge | ||
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||1930: Sergio Campanato born ... mathematician who studied the theory of regularity for elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sergio+Campanato | ||1930: Sergio Campanato born ... mathematician who studied the theory of regularity for elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sergio+Campanato | ||
||1933: Larry Jennings born ... magician and author. | ||1933: Larry Jennings born ... magician and author. Pic. | ||
||1934: Siegbert Tarrasch dies ... chess player and theoretician. Pic. | ||1934: Siegbert Tarrasch dies ... chess player and theoretician. Pic. | ||
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882: Physician, astronomer, mathematician, and crime-fighter Thābit ibn Qurra publishes new theory of Gnomon algorithm functions with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1600: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley engages and sinks the Union warship USS Housatonic. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship.
1864: Mathematician and crime-fighter Marius Sophus Lie publishes new theory of continuous symmetry with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1891: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of Georg Cantor.
2003: George Plimpton publishes first in prize-winning series of articles on high-energy literature.
2012: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn dies. He made contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Pinwheel Diagram unexpectedly reveals "between four and five hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
2018: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Discovers Time Travel reveals five hundred gigabytes of encrypted data.
