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October 20th
| 1632 | Christopher Wren, noted architect and mathematician, born in Wiltshire, England. In 1673 he was the first to find the arclength of one branch of the cycloid.
More information about: Christopher Wren Cycloids |
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| 1975 | Public Record Office in London released information on the Colossus, one of the first programmable electronic digital computers. It was built in 1943 for work on cryptography during World War II.
More information about: The Colossus Computer |
| 1984 | Paul Dirac, physicist, died in Tallahassee, Florida. A Nobel Prize winner in 1933, he is famous for unifying quantum mechanics and relativity theory.
More information about: Paul Dirac |
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