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File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1946: Aviator [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood. | File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1946: Aviator [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood. | ||
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1947: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] announces | File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1947: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] announces plan to sell shares in the career of Joseph McCarthy, calls it "a new day in political campaigning." | ||
||1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere. | ||1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere. | ||
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1752: Weaver and merchant Joseph Marie Jacquard born. He will invent the Jacquard loom, an early type of programmable machine.
1945: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.
1946: Aviator Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
1947: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung announces plan to sell shares in the career of Joseph McCarthy, calls it "a new day in political campaigning."