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File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] inserted into a 1500 x 33,000 km, 24.6 h orbit around Mars. | File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] inserted into a 1500 x 33,000 km, 24.6 h orbit around Mars. | ||
File:John Ashworth Nelder.jpg|link=John Nelder (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician and statistician [[John Nelder (nonfiction)|John Nelder]] dies. He contributed to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He also was responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities. | File:John Ashworth Nelder.jpg|link=John Nelder (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician and statistician [[John Nelder (nonfiction)|John Nelder]] dies. He contributed to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He also was responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the [[Hastings Rarities (nonfiction)|Hastings Rarities]]. | ||
||2011 – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain and espionage agent (b. 1912) | ||2011 – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain and espionage agent (b. 1912) | ||
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1834: Weaver and merchant Joseph Marie Jacquard dies. He invented the Jacquard loom, an early type of programmable machine.
1958: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1974: High-wire artist Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
1975: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes retro-temporal pictures of Philippe Petit's high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, revealing unexpected correspondences with other timelines.
1976: Viking program: Viking 2 inserted into a 1500 x 33,000 km, 24.6 h orbit around Mars.
2010: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder dies. He contributed to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He also was responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.
2017: Paulson celebrates twenty-first anniversary of Viking 2 entering Mars orbit.