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File:Mars 23 aug 2003 hubble.jpg|link=Mars (nonfiction)|1965: The Mariner 4 flyby of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]] takes the first close-up photos of another planet. | File:Mars 23 aug 2003 hubble.jpg|link=Mars (nonfiction)|1965: The Mariner 4 flyby of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]] takes the first close-up photos of another planet. | ||
||1992 | ||1992: 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards. | ||
|| | File:John Riedl.jpg|link=John T. Riedl (nonfiction)|1993: Computer scientist, [[Gnomon algorithm]] researcher, and poet [[John T. Riedl (nonfiction)|John T. Riedl]] gives an impromptu reading from his latest procedurally-generated poem "Why The Algorithm" at the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
|| | ||2000: Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin "Mark" Oliphant dies ... physicist and humanitarian who played an important role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and also the development of nuclear weapons. Pic. | ||
||2015 | ||1996: Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge dies ... physicist at Harvard University who did work on cyclotron research. His precise measurements of mass differences between nuclear isotopes allowed him to confirm Albert Einstein's mass-energy equivalence concept. He was the Director of the Manhattan Project's Trinity nuclear test, which took place July 16, 1945. Bainbridge described the Trinity explosion as a "foul and awesome display". He remarked to J. Robert Oppenheimer immediately after the test, "Now we are all sons of bitches." | ||
||2015: NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System. | |||
||2017: Maryam Mirzakhani dies ... mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. | |||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates fifty-second anniversary of the Mariner 4 flyby of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates fifty-second anniversary of the Mariner 4 flyby of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | ||
|File:Geometrical frustration icosahedron.jpg|link=Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|2018: Research into military applications of [[Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|Geometrical frustration]] accidentally releases wave of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Geometrical frustration icosahedron.jpg|link=Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|2018: Research into military applications of [[Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|Geometrical frustration]] accidentally releases wave of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1856: Mathematician Charles Hermite is elected to fill the vacancy created by the death of Jacques Binet in the Académie des Sciences.
1962: Soldier of fortune and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung steals the Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon. The theft will soon be retroactively prevented by the The Custodian.
1962: United States Army tests Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon, at the Nevada Test Site. Yield was 1.65 kt.
1962: The Custodian prevents attempt by Baron Zersetzung to steal the Small Boy tactical nuclear weapon.
1965: The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
1993: Computer scientist, Gnomon algorithm researcher, and poet John T. Riedl gives an impromptu reading from his latest procedurally-generated poem "Why The Algorithm" at the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates fifty-second anniversary of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars.