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||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. | ||
||Ronald Samuel Rivlin (d. 4 October 2005) was a British-American physicist, mathematician, rheologist and a noted expert on rubber. Pic. | |||
File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' sells for five hundred thousand dollars. | File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' sells for five hundred thousand dollars. | ||
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1903: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff born. He will invent the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.
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.