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||1952: [[Operation Hurricane (nonfiction)|Operation Hurricane]]: The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hurricane | ||1952: [[Operation Hurricane (nonfiction)|Operation Hurricane]]: The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hurricane | ||
||1957: The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is not obscene. | ||1957: The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's ''Howl and Other Poems'' is not obscene. | ||
||1962: Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight. | ||1962: Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight. | ||
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||1965: George Washington Morey born ... geochemist, physical chemist, mineralogist, and petrologist, known for the "Morey bomb" used in hydrothermal research. Pic: https://library.gl.ciw.edu/GLHistory/pgmorey.html | ||1965: George Washington Morey born ... geochemist, physical chemist, mineralogist, and petrologist, known for the "Morey bomb" used in hydrothermal research. Pic: https://library.gl.ciw.edu/GLHistory/pgmorey.html | ||
||1966: Rolf Maximilian Sievert dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1966: Rolf Maximilian Sievert dies ... physicist and academic ... medical physicist whose major contribution was in the study of the biological effects of ionizing radiation. Pic. | ||
||1985: The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J). | ||1985: The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J). | ||
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1842: Mathematician Arthur Cayley admitted to fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, at age 21, younger than any other fellow at the College.
1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.
1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1891: Mathematician Édouard Lucas dies. He studied the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him.
1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.
2006: Mathematician and physicist John Crank dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.
2012: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
2018: Green Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.