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File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]]. | File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]]. | ||
||1932 – Gerald P. Carr, American engineer, colonel, and astronaut | |||
File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|1943: Alleged incident of [[Janet Beta at ENIAC|radio-gnomic contact with an extratemporal intelligence]] as part of the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]] ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") program. | |||
||1945 – World War II: Six people are killed when a Japanese fire balloon explodes near Bly, Oregon. They are the only Americans killed in the continental US during the war. | ||1945 – World War II: Six people are killed when a Japanese fire balloon explodes near Bly, Oregon. They are the only Americans killed in the continental US during the war. | ||
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||Mendel Sachs (d. May 5, 2012) was an American theoretical physicist. His scientific work includes the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity. | ||Mendel Sachs (d. May 5, 2012) was an American theoretical physicist. His scientific work includes the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity. | ||
File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|2017: ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most exciting illustration of the decade." | |File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|2017: ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most exciting illustration of the decade." | ||
Creature_3.jpg|link=Creature 3 (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Creature 3 (nonfiction)|Creature 3]]'', stolen last year by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang, is recovered with all of its data intact. | Creature_3.jpg|link=Creature 3 (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Creature 3 (nonfiction)|Creature 3]]'', stolen last year by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang, is recovered with all of its data intact. | ||
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1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.
1867: Pin Man escapes from the Carnevale Tenebre, finds sanctuary in the town of Periphery.
1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.
1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by Karl Guthe Jansky.
1943: Alleged incident of radio-gnomic contact with an extratemporal intelligence as part of the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") program.
2018: Creature 3, stolen last year by the Forbidden Ratio gang, is recovered with all of its data intact.