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||1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon. | ||1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon. | ||
||Geneve Lucy Angela Shaffer (d. December 13, 1976) was a American realtor, lecturer and author. In 1909 she was touted by the San Francisco Call as "the first woman in the world to sail in a flying machine". | |||
||2004 – David Wheeler, English computer scientist and academic (b. 1927) | ||2004 – David Wheeler, English computer scientist and academic (b. 1927) | ||
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1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
2012: Documentary film-maker Ridley Scott meets his Kickstarter goal for new film named Alien.