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||1968: Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
||1968: Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
File:Voronoi-diagram-color-commentators.jpg|link=Fantasy Voronoi diagram|1974: [[Fantasy Voronoi diagram]] upstages [[Fantasy football (American) (nonfiction)|Fantasy Football]].
File:Chronography of 354 title and dedication.png|link=Chronography of 354 (nonfiction)|1976: [[Chronography of 354 (nonfiction)|Chronography of 354]] wins Pulitzer Prize.


||1980: Vladimir Potapov dies ... He worked on the theory of J-contractive matrix functions, the analysis of matrix functions, and interpolation problems. mathematician. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=vladimir+potapov+mathematician
||1980: Vladimir Potapov dies ... He worked on the theory of J-contractive matrix functions, the analysis of matrix functions, and interpolation problems. mathematician. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=vladimir+potapov+mathematician
File:Mandelbrot set command line depiction.png|link=Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|1984: [[Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|Mandelbrot set]] develops [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]], discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].


||1988: A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
||1988: A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
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||1990: Kelly Johnson dies ... engineer, co-founded Skunk Works. Pic.
||1990: Kelly Johnson dies ... engineer, co-founded Skunk Works. Pic.


||2009: Edwin G. Krebs dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... together with his collaborator Edmond H. Fischer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes.
||2009: Edwin G. Krebs dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... together with his collaborator Edmond H. Fischer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes. Pic.


||2014: Anatole Beck dies ... mathematician. Pic.
||2014: Anatole Beck dies ... mathematician. Pic.
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||2016: Sidney David Drell dies ... theoretical physicist and arms control expert. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sidney+David+Drell
||2016: Sidney David Drell dies ... theoretical physicist and arms control expert. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sidney+David+Drell


File:Traveller.jpg|link=Traveller (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Traveller (nonfiction)|Traveller]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiments develops [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]].


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  • 1807: Mathematician Joseph Fourier announced to the French Academy of Science that an arbitrary function could be expanded as an infinite series of sines and cosines (now known as the Fourier series).

    1807: Mathematician Joseph Fourier announced to the French Academy of Science that an arbitrary function could be expanded as an infinite series of sines and cosines (now known as the Fourier series).

  • 1878: Mathematician and philosopher Jan Łukasiewicz born. He will think innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle.

    1878: Mathematician and philosopher Jan Łukasiewicz born. He will think innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle.

  • 1913: Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.

    1913: Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.

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