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||1943: Colin Pillinger born ... astronomer, chemist, and academic. | ||1943: Colin Pillinger born ... astronomer, chemist, and academic. | ||
||1943 Schmid was heading for Great Britain, flying a Ju 88 R-1 (serving with 10./NJG3, code D5+EV) and eventually landing at RAF Dyce in Aberdeenshire. With this act Schmid delivered the first radar-equipped Ju 88 to fall into Allied hands. | |||
||1945: Hans Kammler dies ... civil engineer and SS commander during the Nazi era. He oversaw SS construction projects and towards the end of World War II was put in charge of the V-2 missile and jet programmes. Pic. | ||1945: Hans Kammler dies ... civil engineer and SS commander during the Nazi era. He oversaw SS construction projects and towards the end of World War II was put in charge of the V-2 missile and jet programmes. Pic. | ||
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1469: Mathematician, astronomer, and gnomon-builder Paolo Toscanelli accuses the House of Malevecchio of secretly using the gnomon in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence to commit crimes against astronomical constants.
1746: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge born. He will invent descriptive geometry, and do pioneering work in differential geometry.
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."
1941: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1963: Project West Ford launches, successfully deploying a ring of 480,000,000 copper needles in orbit, forming an artificial ionospheric radio communication system.
1972: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian tells a funny story about how the Watergate scandal will play out.
1972: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1974: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged math criminal Skip Digits conducts debut performance of his new opera about impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Two Bugs Fighting unexpectedly releases self-replicating computer virus which spontaneously generates Extract of Radium.