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||1587: Johannes Fabricius born ... astronomer and academic. Pic search book cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=Johannes+Fabricius | ||1587: Johannes Fabricius born ... astronomer and academic. Pic search book cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=Johannes+Fabricius | ||
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||1902: Karl Brandt born ... German SS officer ... T4. Pic. | ||1902: Karl Brandt born ... German SS officer ... T4. Pic. | ||
||1905: Carl Gustav | ||1905: Carl Gustav Hempel born ... writer and philosopher. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the raven paradox (also known as "Hempel's paradox"). Pic. | ||
||1915: Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik born ... mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. Pic. | ||1915: Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik born ... mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. Pic. | ||
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||1989: Ronald J. DiPerna dies ... mathematician, who worked on nonlinear partial differential equations. Pic. | ||1989: Ronald J. DiPerna dies ... mathematician, who worked on nonlinear partial differential equations. Pic. | ||
||1994: Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space. | ||1994: Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space. (Alive December 2019.) Pic. | ||
||1997: Melvin Calvin dies ... biochemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic. | ||1997: Melvin Calvin dies ... biochemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic. | ||
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||2002: Maurice Stevenson Bartlett dies ... statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns. He is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis. Pic. | ||2002: Maurice Stevenson Bartlett dies ... statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns. He is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis. Pic. | ||
||2005: The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired. | ||2005: The nuclear sub ''USS San Francisco'' collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired. | ||
File:Pond At Dawn.jpg|link=Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|2010: ''[[Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|Pond At Dawn]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Pond At Dawn.jpg|link=Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|2010: ''[[Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|Pond At Dawn]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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1602: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1642: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei dies. He has been called the "father of modern physics".
1774: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and crime-fighter Maria Gaetana Agnesi uses a new synthesis of differential and integral calculus to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1888: Mathematician Richard Courant born. He will co-write What is Mathematics?.
1889: Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
1890: Scientist, inventor, and APTO marketing director Charles-Émile Reynaud discovers a previously unknown Gnomon algorithm function which causes a Praxinoscope to function as a simple scrying engine.
1896: Geologist Sekiya Seikei dies. He was one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.
1923: Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum born. He will become one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.
1973: Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
1981: Mathematician and crime-fighter Marshall Harvey Stone publishes new class of Boolean algebra structures which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2010: Pond At Dawn voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.