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||1896: George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. dies ... engineer, invented the Ferris wheel. Pic.
||1896: George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. dies ... engineer, invented the Ferris wheel. Pic.


||1897: Astronomer and educator Paul Oswald Ahnert born. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Paul+Oswald+Ahnert
||1897: Astronomer and educator Paul Oswald Ahnert born. Pic search.


||1904: Louis Néel born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1904: Louis Néel born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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||1955: RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955. The weapon had a nominal yield of approximately 3 megatons. It was scaled down to 1.6 megatons for the live test.
||1955: RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955. The weapon had a nominal yield of approximately 3 megatons. It was scaled down to 1.6 megatons for the live test.
File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|1946: ENIAC ("[[Empty Noise Into Alien Communication]]") successfully refactors the [[Wow! signal (nonfiction)|Wow! signal]].


File:Aldous Huxley.png|link=Aldous Huxley (nonfiction)|1963: Writer and philosopher [[Aldous Huxley (nonfiction)|Aldous Huxley]] dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
File:Aldous Huxley.png|link=Aldous Huxley (nonfiction)|1963: Writer and philosopher [[Aldous Huxley (nonfiction)|Aldous Huxley]] dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
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File:Harry Lehmann.jpg|link=Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|1998: Physicist [[Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|Harry Lehmann]] dies. He contributed to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
File:Harry Lehmann.jpg|link=Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|1998: Physicist [[Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|Harry Lehmann]] dies. He contributed to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
||1998: Iran Chain Murders: Dariush Forouhar assassinated (Persian: داریوش فروهر‎; 1928 – 22 November 1998) was an Iranian pan-Iranist politician and leader of Nation Party of Iran. Pic.
||2001: Luís Antoni Santaló Sors dies - mathematician. Pic.


||2010: Frank John Fenner dies ... scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology. His two greatest achievements are cited as overseeing the eradication of smallpox, and the control of Australia's rabbit plague through the introduction of Myxoma virus. Pic.
||2010: Frank John Fenner dies ... scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology. His two greatest achievements are cited as overseeing the eradication of smallpox, and the control of Australia's rabbit plague through the introduction of Myxoma virus. Pic.
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||2011: Lynn Margulis dies ... biologist and academic. Pic.
||2011: Lynn Margulis dies ... biologist and academic. Pic.


File:Crimson Blossom 2.jpg|link=Crimson Blossom 2 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Crimson Blossom 2 (nonfiction)|Crimson Blossom 2]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
File:Self portrait with Atrocity Exhibition 20221122 205256.jpg|link=Self portrait with atrocity exhibition|2022: '''[[Self portrait with atrocity exhibition]]'''.


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