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||1991 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) | ||1991 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) | ||
||On January 11, 2007, China conducted an anti-satellite missile test. A Chinese weather satellite—the FY-1C polar orbit satellite of the Fengyun series, at an altitude of 865 kilometres (537 mi), with a mass of 750 kg—was destroyed by a kinetic kill vehicle traveling with a speed of 8 km/s in the opposite direction. Pic. | |||
File:Mars_Science_Laboratory.jpg|link=Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|2012: The [[Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|Mars Science Laboratory]] successfully refined its trajectory with a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings, advancing the rover's landing time by about 14 hours. | File:Mars_Science_Laboratory.jpg|link=Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|2012: The [[Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|Mars Science Laboratory]] successfully refined its trajectory with a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings, advancing the rover's landing time by about 14 hours. | ||
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1502: Mathematician, cosmographer, and academic Pedro Nunes born. He will be one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, known for his mathematical approach to navigation and cartography.
1664: Mathematician and crime-fighter Pierre de Fermat publishes an original Gnomon algorithm function which locates the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved crimes against mathematical constants.
1569: First recorded lottery in England.
1570: Didacus automaton uses Gnomon algorithm to predict winning lottery numbers.
1638: Scientist and bishop Niels Steensen born. He will question explanations for tear production, the idea that fossils grow in the ground.
1711: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão collaborates with Didacus automaton on design of new airship.
1757: engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham born. He will design the first Panopticon.
1934: Computer scientist Tony Hoare born. He will go on to invent the quicksort algorithm, and make other contributions to computer science.
2012: The Mars Science Laboratory successfully refined its trajectory with a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings, advancing the rover's landing time by about 14 hours.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Mars Science Laboratory successfully refining its trajectory with a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings, advancing the rover's landing time by about 14 hours.