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1791: Painter and inventor Samuel Morse born. He will co-invent the Morse code.
1837: Mathematician Paul Albert Gordan born. Gordon was known as "the king of invariant theory".
1913: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic Irving Adler born. He will be a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl dies. He argued that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.
1978: Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
1992: Physicist and space activist Gerard Kitchen O'Neill dies. He invented particle storage rings and mass drivers; in the 1970s he developed a plan to build human settlements in outer space.

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 ||1952: Guido Castelnuovo dies ... mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to the field of algebraic geometry, though his contributions to the study of statistics and probability theory are also significant. Pic.
-File:Components of a Nomogram.png|link=Nomogram (nonfiction)|1953: In a landmark criminal mathematics trial, an undercover [[Nomogram (nonfiction)|Nomogram]] gives testimony against criminal mathematical functions [[Gnotilus]] and [[Forbidden Ratio]].
 ||1953: Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
 File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1978: Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate]]-related crimes.
-File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|1979: Orbital artificial intelligence [[AESOP]] makes contact with space activist and detective [[Gerard K. O'Neill (nonfiction)|Gerard K. O'Neill]].
 ||1978: Guido Stampacchia dies ... mathematician, known for his work on the theory of variational inequalities, the calculus of variation and the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. Pic.