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File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1546: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] born. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1546: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] born. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1560: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] announces world tour, plans to "travel the seven seas and visit the furthest lands."


File:Montgolfier first public balloon flight.jpg|link=Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|1782: The [[Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|Montgolfier brothers]]' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.  Shown here: first public flight (June 4, 1783).
File:Montgolfier first public balloon flight.jpg|link=Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|1782: The [[Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|Montgolfier brothers]]' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.  Shown here: first public flight (June 4, 1783).
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File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1922: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] born. He will do fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics.
File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1922: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] born. He will do fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics.
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden detail.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1926: Actor-cryptographer [[Niles Cartouchian]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1927: Julian Sochocki dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Julian+Sochocki
||1927: Julian Sochocki dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Julian+Sochocki
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File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1940: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.
File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1940: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.
File:Phagey the Extract of Radium mascot.png|link=Extract of Radium|1941: Cocktail made of [[Extract of Radium]] and [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] (specifically Pu-238) is first served at Berkeley, California.
File:Wolfgang_Pauli.jpg|link=Wolfgang Pauli (nonfiction)|1942: Theoretical physicist [[Wolfgang Pauli (nonfiction)|Wolfgang Pauli]] uses the exclusion principle to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Cathode ray tube amusement device schematic.jpg|link=Cathode-ray tube amusement device (nonfiction)|1947: Thomas Goldsmith Jr. is granted a patent for a "[[Cathode-ray tube amusement device (nonfiction)|Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device]]", the first ever electronic game.
File:Cathode ray tube amusement device schematic.jpg|link=Cathode-ray tube amusement device (nonfiction)|1947: Thomas Goldsmith Jr. is granted a patent for a "[[Cathode-ray tube amusement device (nonfiction)|Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device]]", the first ever electronic game.
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File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2 orbiter]] beginning its extended mission.
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2 orbiter]] beginning its extended mission.
File:Green Sprouts.jpg|link=Green Sprouts (nonfiction)|2018: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Green Sprouts (nonfiction)|Green Sprouts]]'' reveals "at least twenty" previously unknown shades of [[Green (nonfiction)|green]].


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  • 1546: Astronomer Tycho Brahe born. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.

    1546: Astronomer Tycho Brahe born. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.

  • 1782: The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight. Shown here: first public flight (June 4, 1783).

    1782: The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight. Shown here: first public flight (June 4, 1783).

  • 1922: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov born. He will do fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics.

    1922: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov born. He will do fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics.

  • 1940: Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.

    1940: Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.

  • 1947: Thomas Goldsmith Jr. is granted a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.

    1947: Thomas Goldsmith Jr. is granted a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.

  • 1953: Anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author, and photographer Wade Davis born.

    1953: Anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author, and photographer Wade Davis born.

  • 1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 orbiter begins its extended mission.

    1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 orbiter begins its extended mission.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the Viking 2 orbiter beginning its extended mission.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the Viking 2 orbiter beginning its extended mission.

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