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File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1928: Aviator [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic). | File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1928: Aviator [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic). | ||
||1971: Paul Karrer dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... vitamins. Pic. | |||
||1971: Paul Karrer dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | |||
||1972: Milton La Salle Humason dies ... astronomer. He became known as a meticulous observer, obtaining photographs and difficult spectrograms of faint galaxies. His observations played a major role in the development of physical cosmology. Pic: https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/programs/cosmictimes/downloads/newsletters/1929NL_LateEd.pdf | ||1972: Milton La Salle Humason dies ... astronomer. He became known as a meticulous observer, obtaining photographs and difficult spectrograms of faint galaxies. His observations played a major role in the development of physical cosmology. Pic: https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/programs/cosmictimes/downloads/newsletters/1929NL_LateEd.pdf | ||
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||1980: Kazimierz Kuratowski dies ... mathematician and logician. Pic. | ||1980: Kazimierz Kuratowski dies ... mathematician and logician. Pic. | ||
||1982: Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England. | ||1982: Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England. Pic. | ||
||1983: Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space. | ||1983: Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space. | ||
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||1991: Marshall Glecker Holloway dies ... physicist who worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory during and after World War II. He was its representative, and the deputy scientific director, at the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in July 1946. Holloway became the head of the Laboratory's W Division, responsible for new weapons development. In September 1952 he was charged with designing, building and testing a thermonuclear weapon, popularly known as a hydrogen bomb. This culminated in the Ivy Mike test in November of that year. Pic. | ||1991: Marshall Glecker Holloway dies ... physicist who worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory during and after World War II. He was its representative, and the deputy scientific director, at the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in July 1946. Holloway became the head of the Laboratory's W Division, responsible for new weapons development. In September 1952 he was charged with designing, building and testing a thermonuclear weapon, popularly known as a hydrogen bomb. This culminated in the Ivy Mike test in November of that year. Pic. | ||
||2005: Manuel Sadosky dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||2005: Manuel Sadosky dies ... mathematician and academic ... the father of computer science studies in Argentina. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=manuel+sadosky | ||
||2006: The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched. | ||2006: The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched. | ||
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||2009: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched. | ||2009: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched. | ||
||2014: Stephanie Kwolek dies ... chemist and engineer. | ||2014: Stephanie Kwolek dies ... chemist and engineer ... Kevlar. Pic. | ||
File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|2017: ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration. | File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|2017: ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration. | ||
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Revision as of 08:58, 18 June 2019
1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
1928: Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
1974: Mathematician and academic Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.
2017: Culvert Origenes and The Governess wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration.