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||1894: James Thurber born ... humorist and cartoonist. Pic. | ||1894: James Thurber born ... humorist and cartoonist. Pic. | ||
||1903: Herbert Spencer dies ... biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher. | ||1903: Herbert Spencer dies ... biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1913: Delmore Schwartz born ... poet and short story writer. | ||1913: Delmore Schwartz born ... poet and short story writer. Pic. | ||
||1917: Arthur Matthew Weld Downing born ... astronomer. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Arthur+Matthew+Weld+Downing | ||1917: Arthur Matthew Weld Downing born ... astronomer. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Arthur+Matthew+Weld+Downing | ||
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||1919: Kateryna Yushchenko born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic. | ||1919: Kateryna Yushchenko born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1925: Arnaldo Forlani born ... Italian politician who served as the 43rd Prime Minister of Italy from 18 October 1980 to 28 June 1981. He also held the office of Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense. | ||1925: Arnaldo Forlani born ... Italian politician, P2 scandal ... who served as the 43rd Prime Minister of Italy from 18 October 1980 to 28 June 1981. He also held the office of Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense. Alive Dec. 2019. Pic. | ||
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1932: US Navy raises flock of [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]]. | File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1932: US Navy raises flock of [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]]. | ||
||1937: Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky killed ... theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath and neomartyr. | ||1937: Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky killed ... theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath and neomartyr. Pic. | ||
||1938: Jon Hal Folkman born ... mathematician, a student of John Milnor, and a researcher at the RAND Corporation. Pic: diagram. | ||1938: Jon Hal Folkman born ... mathematician, a student of John Milnor, and a researcher at the RAND Corporation. Pic: diagram. | ||
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1825: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1844: Scientist, inventor, and educator Charles-Émile Reynaud born. He will invent the Praxinoscope (an improved zoetrope) and be responsible for the first projected animated films.
1864: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole dies. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
1865: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard born. He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
1894: Mathematician and statistician Pafnuty Chebyshev dies. He proved Chebyshev's inequality (also called the Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality), which guarantees that, for a wide class of probability distributions, no more than a certain fraction of values can be more than a certain distance from the mean.
1932: US Navy raises flock of Carnivorous dirigibles.
1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.
2001: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer Betty Holberton dies. She was one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and was the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging.
2016: Green Spiral 5 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.