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1791: Painter and inventor Samuel Morse born. He will co-invent the Morse code.
1869: Only known copy of Interview with Wallace War-Heels is stolen by Baron Zersetzung. Twain and War-Heels will soon team up to recover the illustration.
1913: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic Irving Adler born. He will be a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education.
1937: Biochemist and crime-fighter John Kendrew uses data from X-ray crystallography experiments to predict and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl dies. He argued that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.
1978: Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
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1992: Physicist and space activist Gerard Kitchen O'Neill dies. He invented the particle storage ring and the mass driver. In the 1970s he developed a plan to build human settlements in outer space.
2018: Signed first edition of Creature 4 sells for $500,000 USD in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

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 ||1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
-||Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (d. April 27, 1992) was an American physicist and space activist. As a faculty member of Princeton University, he invented a device called the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiments. Later, he invented a magnetic launcher called the mass driver. In the 1970s, he developed a plan to build human settlements in outer space, including a space habitat design known as the O'Neill cylinder. Pic.
+File:Gerard_O'Neill.gif|link=Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (nonfiction)|1992: Physicist and space activist [[Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (nonfiction)|Gerard Kitchen O'Neill]] dies. He invented the particle storage ring and the mass driver. In the 1970s he developed a plan to build human settlements in outer space.
 ||Cyrus Derman (d. April 27, 2011) was an American mathematician and amateur musician who did research in Markov decision process, stochastic processes, operations research, statistics and a variety of other fields. Pic.