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||2008: Dr John Paul Wild dies ... scientist. In the 1950s and 1960s he made discoveries based on radio observations of the Sun. In the late 1960s and early 1970s his team built and operated the world's first solar radio-spectrographs and subsequently the Culgoora radio-heliograph. Pic. | ||2008: Dr John Paul Wild dies ... scientist. In the 1950s and 1960s he made discoveries based on radio observations of the Sun. In the late 1960s and early 1970s his team built and operated the world's first solar radio-spectrographs and subsequently the Culgoora radio-heliograph. Pic. | ||
|link=|2009: Carol Jo Crannell dies ... a solar physicist known for her work on solar flares and on the astrophysical observation of x-rays and gamma rays. Pic: https://ggstem.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/carol-jo-crannell/ | |||
File:Green Tangle 4.jpg|link=Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|Green Tangle 4]]'' declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Green Tangle 4.jpg|link=Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|Green Tangle 4]]'' declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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28 BC: A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
1480: Polymath and criminal investigator Leonardo da Vinci publicly accuses the House of Malevecchio of making secret treaties with the Forbidden Ratio gang and other criminal mathematical functions.
1482: Mathematician and astronomer Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli dies. Thanks to his long life, his intelligence and his wide interests, Toscanelli was one of the central figures in the intellectual and cultural history of Renaissance Florence in its early years.
1600: Priest and mathematician Matteo Ricci publish his groundbreaking translation of Euclid's Elements into Gnomon algorithm statements.
1900: Astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin born. Her doctoral thesis will establish that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.
1900: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess uses her power of Admonishment to stop would-be kidnappers from abducting the newborn Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. The kidnapping attempt is widely believed to be the work of the Forbidden Ratio gang.
1906: New York mobster and hit man Abe Reles born. A notorious killer, he will fall to his death in 1941 while under police custody, ostensibly a failed escape attempt but widely believed to be murder.
1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller The Eel stops aquatic cryptid Neptune Slaughter from sabotaging Operation Sandblast.
1960: The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
2018: Green Tangle 4 declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.