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File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Reality Television Show. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Reality Television Show. | ||
File:Blue Foliage.jpg|link=Blue Foliage (nonfiction)|2019: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Blue Foliage (nonfiction)|Blue Foliage]]'' "at least five new | File:Blue Foliage.jpg|link=Blue Foliage (nonfiction)|2019: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Blue Foliage (nonfiction)|Blue Foliage]]'' "at least five new hues, possibly six" of the color [[Blue (nonfiction)|blue]]. | ||
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1858: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano born. He will do pioneering work in mathematical logic and set theory.
1915: Physicist Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. born. He will be awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method, which will have important applications in the construction of atomic clocks.
1926: Chemist and composer George Brecht born. He will be a conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who will work as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
2003: Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Reality Television Show.
2019: Chromatographic analysis of Blue Foliage "at least five new hues, possibly six" of the color blue.