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||1956: Frederick George Donnan dies ... physical chemist who is known for his work on membrane equilibria, and commemorated in the Donnan equilibrium describing ionic transport in cells. Pic. | ||1956: Frederick George Donnan dies ... physical chemist who is known for his work on membrane equilibria, and commemorated in the Donnan equilibrium describing ionic transport in cells. Pic. | ||
||1985: Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family. | ||1985: Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family. | ||
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1653: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1887: Polymath and crime-fighter Francis Galton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1905: Mathematician, author, and poet Piet Hein born. He will propose the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses will become the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.
1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
2012: Signed first edition of Electrical Storm voted Image of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Red Spiral unexpectedly reveals "at least three hundred and fifty kilobytes" of encrypted data relating to the color red.