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File:Embassy.jpg|link=Embassy (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Embassy (nonfiction)|Embassy]] unexpectedly reveals "at least for hundred kilobytes" of encrypted data, "almost certainly related to the '[[ENIAC (SETI)|Empty noise into alien communication]]' SETI project." | |||
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1858: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano born. He will do pioneering work in mathematical logic and set theory.
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.
1934: Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist dies. She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.
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.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Embassy unexpectedly reveals "at least for hundred kilobytes" of encrypted data, "almost certainly related to the 'Empty noise into alien communication' SETI project."