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||1923: Jules Violle dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1923: Jules Violle dies ... physicist and academic. | ||
||1927: Sarah Frances Whiting dies ... physicist and astronomer. | ||1927: Sarah Frances Whiting dies ... physicist and astronomer. Pic. | ||
File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1933: [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leó Szilárd]], waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. | File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1933: [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leó Szilárd]], waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. | ||
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||1959: The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon. | ||1959: The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon. | ||
||1961: Carl Hermann dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1961: Carl Hermann dies ... physicist and academic ... crystallography. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Carl+Hermann | ||
||1962: President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. | ||1962: President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. | ||
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1725: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil born. He will discover what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).
1900: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.
1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
2017: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden wins Pulitzer Prize.
2018: Green Sprouts voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
