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File:Mars 23 aug 2003 hubble.jpg|link=Mars (nonfiction)|1965: The Mariner 4 flyby of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]] takes the first close-up photos of another planet. | File:Mars 23 aug 2003 hubble.jpg|link=Mars (nonfiction)|1965: The Mariner 4 flyby of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]] takes the first close-up photos of another planet. | ||
||1980: Felix Berezin dies ... mathematician and physicist known for his contributions to the theory of supersymmetry and supermanifolds as well as to the path integral formulation of quantum field theory. Pic: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 | |||
||1992: 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards. | ||1992: 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards. | ||
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File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates fifty-second anniversary of the Mariner 4 flyby of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates fifty-second anniversary of the Mariner 4 flyby of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | ||
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1856: Mathematician Charles Hermite is elected to fill the vacancy created by the death of Jacques Binet in the Académie des Sciences.
1962: Soldier of fortune and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung steals the Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon. The theft will soon be retroactively prevented by the The Custodian.
1962: United States Army tests Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon, at the Nevada Test Site. Yield was 1.65 kt.
1962: The Custodian prevents attempt by Baron Zersetzung to steal the Small Boy tactical nuclear weapon.
1965: The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
1993: Computer scientist, Gnomon algorithm researcher, and poet John T. Riedl gives an impromptu reading from his latest procedurally-generated poem "Why The Algorithm" at the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates fifty-second anniversary of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars.