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||2009: NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program. | ||2009: NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program. | ||
File:Pond At Dawn.jpg|link=Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|2013: ''[[Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|Pond At Dawn]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | |||
||2014: An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. | ||2014: An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. | ||
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1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to crimes against mathematical constants.
1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
2013: Pond At Dawn voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
Illustration of Cantor Parabola contains "several terabytes of encrypted data," according to new steganographic analysis.