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File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1946: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] dies. He was one of the inventors of the mechanical television. | File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1946: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] dies. He was one of the inventors of the mechanical television. | ||
||Federigo Enriques (d. 14 June 1946) was an Italian mathematician, now known principally as the first to give a classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry, and other contributions in algebraic geometry. | |||
||1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space. | ||1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space. | ||
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1946: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird dies. He was one of the inventors of the mechanical television.
1966: Mathematician Edward Lorenz uses scrying engine to reveal previously unknown crimes against mathematical constants.
1986: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges dies. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.
1994: Physicist and crime-fighter John Vincent Atanasoff uses the Atanasoff-Berry computer to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1995: Writer Roger Zelazny dies. He won the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.
1995:The Custodian offers supernatural crime fighter job to deceased writer Roger Zelazny.