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||2004 – Robert Bacher, American physicist and academic (b. 1905) | ||2004 – Robert Bacher, American physicist and academic (b. 1905) | ||
||2013 | File:MAVEN spacecraft.jpg|link=MAVEN (nonfiction)|2013: NASA launches the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] to Mars. | ||
File:Jekyll_Perfume.png|link=Jekyll (perfume)|2017: [[Jekyll (perfume)|Jekyll]], the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales. | |File:Jekyll_Perfume.png|link=Jekyll (perfume)|2017: [[Jekyll (perfume)|Jekyll]], the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales. | ||
|File:Gheorghe Marinescu science film 1899.jpg|link=Documentary film (nonfiction)|[[Documentary film (nonfiction)|Documentary film]] says it is not ready to retire. | |File:Gheorghe Marinescu science film 1899.jpg|link=Documentary film (nonfiction)|[[Documentary film (nonfiction)|Documentary film]] says it is not ready to retire. | ||
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1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.
1959: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.
1962: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
2013: NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.