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||1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States. | ||1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States. | ||
||2000 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. | ||2000 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932) | ||
||2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space. | ||2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space. | ||
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1947: Physicist and academic Max Planck dies. He made many contributions to theoretical physics, and earned fame as the originator of quantum theory.
1957: Clock Head 2 stops math criminals from interfering with the launch of Sputnik 1.
1957: Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for five hundred thousand dollars.