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||2004: The Ryanggang explosion ... North Korea in the northern province of Ryanggang. The nature and cause of the suspected explosion is the subject of speculation. No neighboring nations have claimed any detection of radioactive isotopes characteristic of a nuclear explosion. Pic. | ||2004: The Ryanggang explosion ... North Korea in the northern province of Ryanggang. The nature and cause of the suspected explosion is the subject of speculation. No neighboring nations have claimed any detection of radioactive isotopes characteristic of a nuclear explosion. Pic. | ||
File:The_Custodian_2.jpg|link=The Custodian| | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-second anniversary of the launch of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] spacecraft. | ||
File:The_Custodian_2.jpg|link=The Custodian|2018: [[The Custodian]] tells a funny story about why you can't go in there. | |||
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1737: Physician and physicist Luigi Galvani born. In 1780, he will discover that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1947: First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
1975: Viking program: Viking 2 launched. Following a 333-day cruise to Mars, the Viking orbiter will begin returning global images of Mars.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-second anniversary of the launch of the Viking 2 spacecraft.
2018: The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.