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||1951: The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma | ||1951: The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma | ||
||1953: Werner Baumbach dies ... German bomber pilot during World War II. He commanded the secret bomber wing Kampfgeschwader 200 (KG 200) of the Luftwaffe. Pic. | |||
||1961: The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine. | ||1961: The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine. |
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1631: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin dies. He was a mentor to Johannes Kepler, and played a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a artillery barrage in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the cinema of the United States, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
1985: Physicist and crime-fighter William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
1987: Mathematician and academic Andrey Kolmogorov dies. He made significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.
1981: Musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits begins North American tour.
2018: Signed first edition of Creature 4 stolen from the Louvre in daylight robbery by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.