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  • 1790: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius born. He will discover the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.

    1790: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius born. He will discover the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.

  • 1776: Astronomer, instrument maker, and author James Ferguson dies.

    1776: Astronomer, instrument maker, and author James Ferguson dies.

  • 1894: H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.

    1894: H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.

  • 1924: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz born. A "documentalist", she was particularly known for her work in thesaurus construction and machine-aided indexing, innovating techniques for punch card information retrieval.

    1924: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz born. A "documentalist", she was particularly known for her work in thesaurus construction and machine-aided indexing, innovating techniques for punch card information retrieval.

  • 1925: Mathematician and social activist Alice Beta interviews famed inventor and data processing pioneer Herman Hollerith.

    1925: Mathematician and social activist Alice Beta interviews famed inventor and data processing pioneer Herman Hollerith.

  • 1929: Inventor Herman Hollerith dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.

    1929: Inventor Herman Hollerith dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.

  • 1973: Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."

    1973: Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."

  • 1990: Physicist and academic Robert Hofstadter dies. He shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".

    1990: Physicist and academic Robert Hofstadter dies. He shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".

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