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||1924 – Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist (d. 1993) | ||1924 – Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist (d. 1993) | ||
File:Robin Farquharson.jpg|link=Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician [[Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|Robin Farquharson]] born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as ''Theory of Voting''. | |||
||1942 – Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space. | ||1942 – Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space. | ||
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1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.
1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.
2012: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
2017: Signed first edition of Malady sells for three and a half million dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.