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2012 Event - A study describing the Big Bang, published in 'Physical Review', suggests it is actually a phase change ruled by event symmetry, a theory which best supports how spacetime could originate from original matter

2012 Event - After 70 years, two papers on Alan Turing's theory of code-breaking are released to the U.K.'s National Archives

2010 Event - Remains of a human that lived 400,000 years ago are discovered in Israel, challenging the theory that humans originated in Africa

2010 Event - The theory that Egypt's pyramids were built by free workers, not slaves, is reinforced by the discovery of new tombs near the great pyramids

2002 Death - Stephen Jay Gould, "educator, writer", The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, dies at 60

1985 Event - Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter

1980 Death - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist/theory/educator, dies at 84

1979 Death - Arno Schmidt, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum, dies at 65

1976 Event - Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity

1976 Death - Werner C Heisenberg, physicist (Nobel 1932, field theory), dies at 74

1966 Death - Georges Lemaatre, originator of "big bang" theory, dies at 71

1965 Event - Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new celestial bodies know as blue galaxies

1956 Birthday - Judith Butler, born in Cleveland, Ohio, philosopher, professor, U of C, Berkeley, specialty, post-structuralism, Ph. D. Yale University, areas of study include feminist theory, Jewish philosophy, ethics, sexuality, developed idea of sex and gender as social construction

1953 Event - Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory

1953 Event - Einstein announces revised unified field theory

1948 Event - Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow

1945 Birthday - Claude van de Berge, Rony MF Pauwels, Flemish writer, Graph Theory

1943 Birthday - Howard Gardner, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, psychologist, invented theory of multiple intelligences, influenced by Jerome Bruner, Nelson Goodman, Jean Piaget, MacArthur Prize Fellowship, 1981

1941 Death - Friedrich Angel, German mathematician (group theory), dies at 79

1931 Birthday - Richard Rorty, born in New York City, philosopher, focused on philosophy of language, of mind, politics, literary theory

1927 Birthday - John Downey, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, pianist, conductor, professor of composition and theory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, founder, director of the Wisconsin Contemporary Music Forum

1926 Event - Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools

1925 Event - Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution

1925 Birthday - Warren G. Bennis, born in New York City, New York, scholar, author, Leadership Studies pioneer, studied group behavior at MIT, prompting interest in the then-nonexistent field of leadership, published 'Revisionist Theory of Leadership', 1961, stating that humanistic, democratic-style leaders can best manage change in the leadership environment

1922 Death - Daisy M C Baers, Flemish philosophy/theory, dies at 33

1921 Event - Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new theory of relativity

1921 Event - Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity

1920 Birthday - Thomas Gold, astronomer, proposed steady-state theory of universe

1916 Event - Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented

1915 Event - Albert Einstein publishes the General Theory of Relativity

1915 Birthday - Fred Hoyle, cosmologist, proposed steady-state universe theory

1915 Birthday - Pierre Wissmer, Swiss composer/theory, Capitaine Bruno

1914 Birthday - Arno Schmidt, born in Hamburg, Germany, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum

1912 Birthday - Alan Turing, mathematician/pioneer in computer theory, Turing Machine

1911 Birthday - Anatol Rapoport, Russian/US mathem/biologist, game theory

1908 Event - Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light

1906 Event - Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity

1902 Birthday - Karl Menger, Austria/US mathematician, theory of dimension

1901 Birthday - Georg M Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/theory

1891 Birthday - Erik Lindahl, Swedish economist, Theory of Money and Capital

1890 Birthday - Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator/theory, Orfeo

1888 Death - Amos Bronson Alcott, U.S. theory/poet (Table Talk), dies at 88

1885 Birthday - Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, theory of relativity

1882 Birthday - Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player, openings theory

1879 Birthday - Emile Argand, Swiss geologist, Dekbladen Theory

1869 Birthday - Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher, Theory of the Dialects

1866 Death - Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist, dies

1861 Birthday - Friedrich Engel, German mathematician, group theory

1857 Birthday - Thorstein Veblen, U.S., economist, Theory of the Leisure Class-1899

1854 Birthday - Georg Kerschensteiner, German educator, Theory of Education

1849 Birthday - Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist, Courageous Woman

1848 Birthday - Brooks Adams, U.S. philosopher, Theory of Social Revolutions

1834 Birthday - Leon Walras, French economist, border use theory

1832 Event - Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)

1831 Birthday - James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist, electromagnetic theory

1818 Death - Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72

1815 Birthday - Karl Weierstrass, Germany, mathematician, theory of functions

1811 Birthday - Evariste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, Theory of G

1810 Birthday - Theodor Schwann, German co-originator of cell theory

1788 Birthday - Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist

1766 Birthday - John Dalton, English physicist, developed atomic theory of matter

1719 Death - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theory/saint, dies at 67

1600 Death - Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake

1540 Death - Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48

1517 Death - John Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37

1492 Birthday - Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory, humanist and reformer

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