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File:Sir Tony Hoare 2011.jpg|link=Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|1934: Computer scientist [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]] born. He will go on to invent the quicksort algorithm, and make other contributions to [[Computer science (nonfiction)|computer science]]. | File:Sir Tony Hoare 2011.jpg|link=Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|1934: Computer scientist [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]] born. He will go on to invent the quicksort algorithm, and make other contributions to [[Computer science (nonfiction)|computer science]]. | ||
||1941: Emanuel Lasker dies ... mathematician, philosopher, and chess player. | ||1941: Emanuel Lasker dies ... mathematician, philosopher, and chess player. Pic. | ||
||1943: Carlo Tresca dies ... newspaper editor, orator, and labor organizer who was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1910s. He is remembered as a leading public opponent of fascism, Stalinism, and Mafia infiltration of the trade union movement. Pic. | ||1943: Carlo Tresca dies ... newspaper editor, orator, and labor organizer who was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1910s. He is remembered as a leading public opponent of fascism, Stalinism, and Mafia infiltration of the trade union movement. Pic. | ||
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||1962: Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment. | ||1962: Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment. | ||
||1980: Erwin Otto Marx dies ... electrical engineer who invented the Marx generator, a device for producing high voltage electrical pulses. He worked on electrical power distribution via long distances. Pic search | ||1980: Erwin Otto Marx dies ... electrical engineer who invented the Marx generator, a device for producing high voltage electrical pulses. He worked on electrical power distribution via long distances. Pic search. | ||
||1996: Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour. | ||1996: Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour. | ||
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File:Mars_Science_Laboratory.jpg|link=Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|2012: The [[Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|Mars Science Laboratory]] successfully refined its trajectory with a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings, advancing the rover's landing time by about 14 hours. | File:Mars_Science_Laboratory.jpg|link=Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|2012: The [[Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|Mars Science Laboratory]] successfully refined its trajectory with a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings, advancing the rover's landing time by about 14 hours. | ||
||2012: Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan assassinated ... physicist and academic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists Pic search | ||2012: Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan assassinated ... physicist and academic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists Pic search. | ||
||2012: Steven Rawlings dies ... astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic. | ||2012: Steven Rawlings dies ... astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic. | ||
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1502: Mathematician, cosmographer, and academic Pedro Nunes born. He will be one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, known for his mathematical approach to navigation and cartography.
1664: Mathematician and crime-fighter Pierre de Fermat publishes an original Gnomon algorithm function which locates the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved crimes against mathematical constants.
1569: First recorded lottery in England.
1570: Didacus automaton uses Gnomon algorithm to predict winning lottery numbers.
1638: Scientist and bishop Niels Steensen born. He will question explanations for tear production, the idea that fossils grow in the ground.
1711: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão collaborates with Didacus automaton on design of new airship.
1757: engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham born. He will design the first Panopticon.
1934: Computer scientist Tony Hoare born. He will go on to invent the quicksort algorithm, and make other contributions to computer science.
2012: The Mars Science Laboratory successfully refined its trajectory with a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings, advancing the rover's landing time by about 14 hours.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Mars Science Laboratory successfully refining its trajectory with a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings, advancing the rover's landing time by about 14 hours.