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File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
File:The_Custodian_2.jpg|link=The Custodian|1976: [[The Custodian]] tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.


File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1977: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1977: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
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||2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
||2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.


File:The_Custodian_2.jpg|link=The Custodian|2017: [[The Custodian]] tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.


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  • 1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pieter van Musschenbroek uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pieter van Musschenbroek uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.

    1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.

  • 1888: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.

    1888: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.

  • 1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

    1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

  • 1976: The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.

    1976: The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.

  • 1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

    1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

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