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File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|1943: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] born. He will conceive and start the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s. | File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|1943: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] born. He will conceive and start the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s. | ||
||1954: Vagn Walfrid Ekman dies ... oceanographer and academic ... icebergs tend to drift not in the direction of the prevailing wind but at an angle of 20°-40° to the right. Bjerknes invited Ekman, still a student, to investigate the problem. Later, in 1905, Ekman published his theory of the Ekman spiral which explains the phenomenon in terms of the balance between frictional effects in the ocean and the Coriolis force, which arises from moving objects in a rotating environment, like planetary rotation. Pic. | |||
||1956: Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy. | ||1956: Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy. | ||
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||1961: Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight. | ||1961: Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight. | ||
||1974: The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, | ||1974: The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, causing the module to miss Mars. | ||
||1974: Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. dies ... pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1974: Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. dies ... pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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1815: Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.
1851: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted dies. He discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.
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."
1923: Theoretical physicist, theoretical chemist, and Nobel laureate Walter Kohn born. He will develop density functional theory, which will make it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density.
1928: Engineer Gerald Bull born. He will attempt to build artillery guns capable of launching satellites into orbit.
1941: The Eel Escapes Hydrolab is "proof that The Eel is a criminal," according to Baron Zersetzung.
1943: Computer scientist Jef Raskin born. He will conceive and start the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
2016: Signed first edition of Red Spiral 3 used in high-energy literature experiments spontaneously develops artificial intelligence.