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File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] invents record number of witticisms.
File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)|1789: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)|Jean-André Lepaute]] dies. He was an innovator, introducing numerous improvements in clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.
 
File:Macedonio_Melloni.jpg|link=Macedonio Melloni (nonfiction)|1798: Physicist and academic [[Macedonio Melloni (nonfiction)|Macedonio Melloni]] born.  Melloni will demonstrate that radiant heat has physical properties similar to those of light.
 
File:Dorothy Lewis Bernstein.jpg|link=Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|1914: Mathematician [[Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|Dorothy Lewis Bernstein]] born. She will be the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.
 
File:Nakaya Ukichiro in 1946.jpg|link=Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|1962: Physicist and academic [[Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|Ukichiro Nakaya]] dies. He created the first artificial snowflakes.
 
File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1980: Viking program: After operating on the surface of Mars for 1316 days (1281 sols), the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] lander is turned off when its batteries fail.
 
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] calls for a moment of silence in recognition of the thirty-seventh anniversary of NASA switching off the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] spacecraft.
 
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  • 1789: Clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute dies. He was an innovator, introducing numerous improvements in clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.

    1789: Clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute dies. He was an innovator, introducing numerous improvements in clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.

  • 1798: Physicist and academic Macedonio Melloni born. Melloni will demonstrate that radiant heat has physical properties similar to those of light.

    1798: Physicist and academic Macedonio Melloni born. Melloni will demonstrate that radiant heat has physical properties similar to those of light.

  • 1914: Mathematician Dorothy Lewis Bernstein born. She will be the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.

    1914: Mathematician Dorothy Lewis Bernstein born. She will be the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.

  • 1962: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya dies. He created the first artificial snowflakes.

    1962: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya dies. He created the first artificial snowflakes.

  • 1980: Viking program: After operating on the surface of Mars for 1316 days (1281 sols), the Viking 2 lander is turned off when its batteries fail.

    1980: Viking program: After operating on the surface of Mars for 1316 days (1281 sols), the Viking 2 lander is turned off when its batteries fail.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson calls for a moment of silence in recognition of the thirty-seventh anniversary of NASA switching off the Viking 2 spacecraft.

    2017: Dennis Paulson calls for a moment of silence in recognition of the thirty-seventh anniversary of NASA switching off the Viking 2 spacecraft.

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