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||1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground. | ||1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground. | ||
||Hassler Whitney (d. May 10, 1989) was an American mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did foundational work in manifolds, embeddings, immersions, characteristic classes, and geometric integration theory. | |||
File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1958: [[Chrome Plover]], the famed [[musical electroplating ensemble]], perform new work in tribute to [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" programs]]. | File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1958: [[Chrome Plover]], the famed [[musical electroplating ensemble]], perform new work in tribute to [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" programs]]. | ||
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28 BC: A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
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1906: New York mobster and hit man Abe Reles born.
1958: Chrome Plover, the famed musical electroplating ensemble, perform new work in tribute to "Hello World" programs.
1960: The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
1967: Brainiac Explains lecture series admits to illegal modification of "Hello World" computer program.