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||1899: Alfred Mosher Butts born ... architect and game designer, created Scrabble.
||1899: Alfred Mosher Butts born ... architect and game designer, created Scrabble.


||1905: Bruno Benedetto Rossi born ... experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays.
||1905: Bruno Rossi born ... experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays. Pic.


||1906: Raphael Weldon dies ... evolutionary biologist and a founder of biometry. Pic.
||1906: Raphael Weldon dies ... evolutionary biologist and a founder of biometry. Pic.


||1909: Stanislaw Ulam born ... mathematician and academic.
||1909: Stanislaw Ulam born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1914: Manuel Sadosky born ... mathematician and academic ... the father of computer science studies in Argentina. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=manuel+sadosky
||1914: Manuel Sadosky born ... mathematician and academic ... the father of computer science studies in Argentina. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=manuel+sadosky

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  • 1771: Engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick born. He will be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.

    1771: Engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick born. He will be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.

  • 1926: Aviator Charles Lindbergh opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.

    1926: Aviator Charles Lindbergh opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.

  • 1927: Aviator, test pilot, and Gnomon algorithm engineer Henrietta Bolt provides protective services for Charles Lindbergh after threats against Lindbergh's life by the House of Malevecchio.

    1927: Aviator, test pilot, and Gnomon algorithm engineer Henrietta Bolt provides protective services for Charles Lindbergh after threats against Lindbergh's life by the House of Malevecchio.

  • 1927: Theoretical physicist Mendel Sachs born. His work will include the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.

    1927: Theoretical physicist Mendel Sachs born. His work will include the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.

  • 1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

  • 1952: Extract of Radium opens state-of-the-art nightclub in Langley, Virginia. The signature cocktail, known as an MKUltra, is made of equal parts Extract of Radium and Clandestiphrine with a twist of Malvoleum.

    1952: Extract of Radium opens state-of-the-art nightclub in Langley, Virginia. The signature cocktail, known as an MKUltra, is made of equal parts Extract of Radium and Clandestiphrine with a twist of Malvoleum.

  • 1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program Project MKUltra.

    1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program Project MKUltra.

  • 1954: Latest generation of Carnivorous dirigibles develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.

    1954: Latest generation of Carnivorous dirigibles develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.

  • 2008: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".

    2008: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".

  • 2009: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel uses portable wormhole generator to escape The Nacreum.

    2009: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel uses portable wormhole generator to escape The Nacreum.

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