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First polygraph machine tested [1935]

Birthdays

Ralph Merkle [1952]
Inventor of public key cryptography and cryptographic hashing
John Henry Holland [1929]
Pioneer in the field of genetic algorithms
Johnston McCulley [1883]
American author and creator of 'Zorro'
Joseph Wedderburn [1882]
Scottish mathematician

Death Anniversaries

Bertrand Russell [1970]
Nobel laureate polymath
Dmitri Mendeleev [1907]
Creator of the periodic table of elements

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