American economist, physicist, and scholar

David D. Friedman

David Director Friedman is an American economist, physicist, and legal scholar. He is known for his textbook writings on microeconomics and the libertarian theory of anarcho-capitalism, which is the subject of his most popular book, The Machinery of Freedom. Described by Walter Block as a "free-market anarchist" theorist, Friedman has also authored several other books and articles, including Price Theory: An Intermediate Text (1986), Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters (2000), Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life (1996), and Future Imperfect (2008).

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1945

February 12

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1059 Upon reaching Rome, Bruno of Toul is elected as pope Leo IX and starts initiating reforms.
1096 Pope Urban II confirms the foundation of the abbey of La Roë under Robert of Arbrissel as a community of canons regular.
1404 The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sofia performs the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
1429 English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orléans in the Battle of the Herrings.

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The world in 1945

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april 1 World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
april 11 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
april 12 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman succeeds him.
april 12 World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 80 kilometres from Berlin.

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Carl Reichenbach 1788–1869 German chemist and philosopher (died 1869) Charles Darwin 1809–1882 English biologist and theorist (born 1809) Dayananda Saraswati 1824–1883 Indian monk and philosopher, founded Arya Samaj (died 1883) John L. Lewis 1880– American miner and union leader (died 1969) John Michael Higgins 1963– American actor and comedian Judd Winick 1970– American author and illustrator Mike Posner 1988– American singer-songwriter and producer Naseem Hamed 1974– English boxer Paxton Lynch 1994– American football player

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