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George Boole
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George Boole

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George Boole was an English autodidact, mathematician, philosopher and logician who served as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ireland. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is best known as the author of The Laws of Thought (1854), which contains Boole…

Day of the Dead
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Day of the Dead
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The Day of the Dead is a holiday traditionally celebrated on November 1 and 2, though other days, such as October 31 or …

Dulce María
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Dulce María
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Dulce María Espinosa Saviñón, simply known as Dulce María, is a Mexican singer and actress.

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On This Day

10 events
2008
Lewis_Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton (pictured) overtook Timo Glock in the final corners of the Brazilian Grand Prix to win the Formula One championship by one point.
2000
Expedition_1
As members of Expedition 1, American astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko (all pictured) became the first resident crew to arrive at the International Space Station.
1997
Tropical_Storm_Linda_(1997)
Tropical Storm Linda made landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.
1994
1994_Dronka_floods_and_lightning_strike
A lightning strike ruptured three oil tanks near Dronka, Egypt, causing a flood that killed 469 people.
1984
Velma_Barfield
The serial killer Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1962.
1963
Ngo_Dinh_Diem
President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was assassinated, marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by Dương Văn Minh.
1957
Levelland_UFO_case
A large number of people witnessed a fiery object in the sky near Levelland, Texas, which the United States Air Force said was ball lightning.
1949
Dutch–Indonesian_Round_Table_Conference
The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ended with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
1943
World_War_II
World War II: A U.S. Navy task force turned away an Imperial Japanese Navy formation at the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, thus protecting the landings at Cape Torokina.
1932
Australian_Defence_Force
The Australian military began a "war against emus", flightless native birds blamed for widespread damage to crops in Western Australia.

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