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||1948 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss. | ||1948 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss. | ||
||Hedley Ralph Marston FRS FAA (d. 1965) was an Australian biochemist | |||
||1981 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn | ||1981 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn | ||
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1609: Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1818: Mechanical soldier Clock Head receives several patents for an improvements to steam engines.
1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.
1933: Clock Head 2 publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1934: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the public at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
2012: Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause to become the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space and study the interstellar medium.
2016: Polymath George Spencer-Brown dies. He wrote Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Time-Surfing 2 sells for two and a half million dollars.