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||1961 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched. | ||1961 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched. | ||
File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to visualizes [[Hamangia scrying engine|Hamangia figurines]], discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | |File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to visualizes [[Hamangia scrying engine|Hamangia figurines]], discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
||1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service. | ||1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service. | ||
||1977 – Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1905) | |||
||1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago). | ||1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago). | ||
|| | File:Nicolaas de Bruijn.jpg|link=Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|1979: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use combinatorial number logic to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1980 – Erich Hückel, German physicist and chemist (b. 1895) | ||1980 – Erich Hückel, German physicist and chemist (b. 1895) | ||
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1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler dies.
1610: Regicide François Ravaillac drinks Extract of Radium for the first time.
1698: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer born. He will be known as "the father of naval architecture".
1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.
1960: Mathematician and crime-fighter (left) stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter (right) from infiltrating Operation Sandblast, the U.S. Navy submarine circumnavigation of the globe.
1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1979: Mathematician and crime-fighter Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use combinatorial number logic to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.