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||1954: The German submarine U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. Pic. | ||1954: The German submarine U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. Pic. | ||
File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: The [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: The [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | ||
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1658: Oliver Cromwell dies. He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1803: Chemist John Dalton uses symbols to represent the atoms making up molecules of different elements.
1814: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
1925: USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, is destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio killing fourteen of her 42-man crew, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.
1928: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the press.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the Viking 2 spacecraft landing at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
