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||1932: A 5.1 kilograms (11 lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri. | ||1932: A 5.1 kilograms (11 lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri. | ||
||1945: Robert H. Goddard dies ... physicist and engineer. | ||1945: Robert H. Goddard dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1948: Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone. | ||1948: Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone. | ||
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||2002: Kristen Nygaard dies ... computer scientist and politician. Pic. | ||2002: Kristen Nygaard dies ... computer scientist and politician. Pic. | ||
||2006: Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein dies ... American mathematician and cryptanalyst. She worked for the Signals Intelligence Service throughout World War II, during which time she played an important role in deciphering the Japanese cryptography machine Purple, and later worked on the Cold War-era Venona project. Pic. | |||
||2014: Kathleen Ollerenshaw dies ... mathematician, astronomer, and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester. She contributed to the study of most-perfect pandiagonal magic squares. Pic. | ||2014: Kathleen Ollerenshaw dies ... mathematician, astronomer, and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester. She contributed to the study of most-perfect pandiagonal magic squares. Pic. | ||
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1602: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1792: Allumette enflammée inverse, symbol of Les Empyrées, accidentally sets fire to Dr. Guillotine.
1792: French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
1896: Engineer and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt warns "flying man" Otto Lilienthal that he is in danger, but Lilienthal insists that his career depends upon "never backing down from the sky."
1896: Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, known as the flying man, dies from injuries sustained the day before when his glider fell and crashed.
1957: X-ray crystallographer and crime-fighter Rosalind Franklin publishes new theory of Gnomon algorithm functions based on the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against chemistry.
1960: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
2001: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing unexpectedly reveals "three hundred to three hundred and fify kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
2017: Signed first edition of Two Bugs Fighting revealed as forgery, confiscated by APTO agents. APTO will reverse-engineer the forgery but fail to identify the forger.