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||1968: Cuno Hoffmeister dies ... astronomer, observer and discoverer of variable stars, comets and minor planets, and founder of Sonneberg Observatory. Pic.
||1968: Cuno Hoffmeister dies ... astronomer, observer and discoverer of variable stars, comets and minor planets, and founder of Sonneberg Observatory. Pic.
File:Planet of the Tweets.jpg|link=Planet of the Tweets|1968: Premiere of '''''[[Planet of the Tweets]]''''', a 1968 American science fiction film about an astronaut (Charlton Heston) who crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future where humans have been replaced by Twitter posts.


||1972: Gale Ann Benson dies ... model, socialite and daughter of Conservative MP Leonard Plugge. She was buried alive and murdered in Trinidad by activist Michael X and members of his Black Power group. Pic.
||1972: Gale Ann Benson dies ... model, socialite and daughter of Conservative MP Leonard Plugge. She was buried alive and murdered in Trinidad by activist Michael X and members of his Black Power group. Pic.
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||2015: Tihomir Novakov dies ... physicist and academic. He is known for his black carbon, air quality, and climate change research. Pic.
||2015: Tihomir Novakov dies ... physicist and academic. He is known for his black carbon, air quality, and climate change research. Pic.
File:Stardust.jpg|link=Stardust (image) (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Stardust (image) (nonfiction)|Stardust]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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