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1656: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1914: The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.

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-File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1890: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel device]] develops self-awareness, visits [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]].
+File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1656: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
-File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
+File:Franck Hertz Hg tube.jpg|link=Franck–Hertz experiment (nonfiction)|1914: The [[Franck–Hertz experiment (nonfiction)|Franck–Hertz experiment]], a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
+File:Soyuz 1 patch.png|link=Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in [[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]] when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
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