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||1927: Martin Lewis Perl born ... physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Pic. | ||1927: Martin Lewis Perl born ... physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Pic. | ||
||1931: George John Maltese born ... mathematician whose main field of research was functional analysis. Pic. | |||
||1938: Pieces of a meteorite, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. | ||1938: Pieces of a meteorite, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. | ||
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1660: Priest, astromomer, and crime-fighter Giovanni Battista Riccioli publishes new scheme of lunar nomenclature which anticipates future developments in detecting and preventing crimes against astronomical constants.
1709: Public test of Bartolomeu de Gusmão's airship fails to take place.
1860: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1880: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
1886: Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time."