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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.
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:Lex Luthor Action Comics 23.png|link=Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|1974: [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] announces new initiative to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1977: [[Crimes against mathematical constants]] on the rise, according to [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]].
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:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1978: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] blamed for new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
 
||1865: Johan Georg Forchhammer dies ... geologist and mineralogist. Forchhammer conjectured that the ratio of major salts in samples of seawater from various locations was constant. This constant ratio is known as Forchhammer's Principle, or the Principle of Constant Proportions. Pic.
 
||1879: French Army officer and inventor Claude-Etienne Minié dies.  He will gain fame for solving the problem of designing a reliable muzzle-loading rifle by inventing the Minié ball in 1846, and the Minié rifle in 1849.  Pic.
 
|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1900: Quantum mechanics: Physicist [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
 
||1902: The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
 
||1903: The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
 
||1909: Edward Lawrie Tatum born ... geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1910: James Wallace Givens, Jr. born ... mathematician and a pioneer in computer science. He is the eponym of the well-known Givens rotations.  Pic: https://www.siam.org/About-SIAM/Leadership
 
||1911: Hans von Ohain born ... physicist and engineer. Designed the first operation jet engine. Pic.
 
||1918: Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated.
 
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.
 
||1927: Julian Sochocki dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Julian+Sochocki
 
||1936: Alfred Arthur Robb dies ... physicist.
 
||1939: Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
 
||1940: Erhard Fernholz dies ... chemist.  He investigated sterols and bile acids; his work on stigma-sterol contributed to the first partial synthesis of progesterone. Fernholz also did pioneering research on the anti-hemorrhagic properties of Vitamin K. Pic.
 
File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1940: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.
 
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:Wade Davis.jpg|link=Wade Davis (nonfiction)|1953: Anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author, and photographer [[Wade Davis (nonfiction)|Wade Davis]] born.
 
||1958: The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.
 
||1962: NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
 
||1966: Isaak Pomeranchuk dies ... theoretical physicist working in particle physics (including thermonuclear weapons), quantum field theory, electromagnetic and synchrotron radiation, condensed matter physics and the physics of liquid helium.  Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=isaak+pomeranchuk
 
||1972: Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
 
||1976: Donald Howard Menzel dies ... one of the first theoretical astronomers and astrophysicists in the United States. He discovered the physical properties of the solar chromosphere, the chemistry of stars, the atmosphere of Mars, and the nature of gaseous nebulae. Pic.
 
File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: The [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter begins its extended mission.
 
||File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1978: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] blamed for new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
 
||1989: Andrei Sakharov dies ... physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||2009: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) launched ... NASA infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope launched in December 2009, and placed in hibernation in February 2011.It was re-activated in 2013. WISE discovered thousands of minor planets and numerous star clusters. Its observations also supported the discovery of the first Y Dwarf and Earth trojan asteroid. Pic.
 
||2013: Dennis Lindley dies ... statistician, decision theorist, and academic. Lindley was a leading advocate of Bayesian statistics. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=dennis+lindley
 
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.
 
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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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