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||1979: Robert Burns Woodward dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1979: Robert Burns Woodward dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2002: Ward Kimball dies ... animator and | ||2002: Ward Kimball dies ... animator, producer, and screenwriter (Disney). Pic (making art!). | ||
||2008: Sixto Ríos García dies ... mathematician, known as the father of Spanish statistics. Pic search | ||2008: Sixto Ríos García dies ... mathematician, known as the father of Spanish statistics. Pic search. | ||
||2010: David Blackwell dies ... statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics. He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. Pic. | ||2010: David Blackwell dies ... statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics. He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. Pic. | ||
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||2011: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program. | ||2011: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program. | ||
||2013: Rubby Sherr dies ... physicist and academic. | ||2013: Rubby Sherr dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search. | ||
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1695: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens dies. He was a leading scientist of his time.
1766: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.
1767: Anatomist, anatomical wax modeler, and crime-fighter Anna Morandi Manzolini publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent Organic golem generation.
1947: The Roswell UFO incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
1948: Janet Beta at ENIAC "raises more questions that it answers," says director of Project Blue Book.
1960: Pilot Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.