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||1992: The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
||1992: The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
|link=|2003: Grigori Aleksandrovich Tokaev dies ... rocket scientist and long-standing critic of Stalin's USSR. Pic.


||2006: Alexander Litvinenko dies ... spy and defector.
||2006: Alexander Litvinenko dies ... spy and defector.

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  • 1720: Clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.

    1720: Clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.

  • 1836: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1836: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1837: Theoretical physicist and academic Johannes Diderik van der Waals born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.

    1837: Theoretical physicist and academic Johannes Diderik van der Waals born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.

  • 1924: Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

    1924: Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

  • 2016: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 used in high-energy literature experiment generates "at least four, perhaps as many as seven" previously unknown shades of the color violet.

    2016: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 used in high-energy literature experiment generates "at least four, perhaps as many as seven" previously unknown shades of the color violet.

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