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||2009: Herbert Frank York dies ... nuclear physicist. He held numerous research and administrative positions at various United States government and educational institutes. Pic. | ||2009: Herbert Frank York dies ... nuclear physicist. He held numerous research and administrative positions at various United States government and educational institutes. Pic. | ||
||2014: The US Department of Justice announces that a Federal grand jury had returned an indictment of five officers of PLA Unit 61398 on charges of theft of confidential business information and intellectual property from U.S. commercial firms and of planting malware on their computers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLA_Unit_61398 | |||
||2015: Dale Dehaven Myers dies ... aerospace engineer who was Deputy Administrator of NASA. Pic. | ||2015: Dale Dehaven Myers dies ... aerospace engineer who was Deputy Administrator of NASA. Pic. | ||
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1743: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin publishes the design of a mercury thermometer based on the Celsius scale. The "Thermometer of Lyon" will be built by the craftsman Pierre Casati using this design.
1883: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels stolen. It will later be recovered by Niles Cartouchian and returned to the Smithsonian Museum.
1903: Bacteriologist Ruth Ella Moore born. She will publish work on tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans.
1954: Computer programmer Jean Bartik discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
1971: The Soviet Union launches the Mars 2 spacecraft. The spacecraft will reach Mars, but the landing module will crash after failing to deploy its parachute.
1979: New analysis of the Petrozavodsk phenomenon using Gnomon algorithm techniques reveals traces of the transdimensional drug Clandestiphrine, Prima facie evidence of felony-grade math crimes under the APTO Accords.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars remembers the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 launch, observing a moment of silence for the failure of the mission.
2018: Three Kings 2 voted Picture of the Day by the Citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.