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||1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours. | ||1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours. | ||
File:Alice and Niles Dancing.jpg|link=Alice and Niles Dancing|1946: Signed first edition of ''[[Alice and Niles Dancing]]'' sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1954 – Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877) | ||1954 – Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877) | ||
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1946: Signed first edition of Alice and Niles Dancing sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as AESOP.
1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.
2017: Reality TV show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Innovative Programming.