Template:Selected anniversaries/November 28

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  1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake born.

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  1760: First known use of Japanese rod calculus to compute Gnomon algorithm functions.

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  1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

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  1953: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

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  1954: Physicist Enrico Fermi dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".

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  1966: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky dies. He worked with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.