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File:Mars Observer diagram.png|link=Mars Observer (nonfiction)|1992: NASA launches the [[Mars Observer (nonfiction)|Mars Observer]], a $511 million probe to [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]], in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. The probe will fail eleven months later. | File:Mars Observer diagram.png|link=Mars Observer (nonfiction)|1992: NASA launches the [[Mars Observer (nonfiction)|Mars Observer]], a $511 million probe to [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]], in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. The probe will fail eleven months later. | ||
File:Humpty Dumpty At Bat.jpg|link=Humpty Dumpty At Bat|2002: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Humpty Dumpty At Bat]]'' reveals previously unknown biography of Babe Ruth by [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]]. | |||
File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|2003: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] dies. | File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|2003: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] dies. | ||
File: | |File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|2004: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] demonstrates new type of quantum laser which detects and isolates [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' says that the twenty-fifth anniversary of the launch of the [[Mars Observer (nonfiction)|Mars Observer]] is a bittersweet event, because the spacecraft will be lost eleven months later. | |||
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1644: Astronomer and instrument maker Ole Rømer born. He will make the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
1789: The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
1845: Judge Havelock With Glass is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," according to the Judge.
1893: Mathematician and statistician Harald Cramér born. He will help found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."
1992: NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. The probe will fail eleven months later.
2002: Steganographic analysis of Humpty Dumpty At Bat reveals previously unknown biography of Babe Ruth by Lewis Carroll.
2003: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor George Plimpton dies.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars says that the twenty-fifth anniversary of the launch of the Mars Observer is a bittersweet event, because the spacecraft will be lost eleven months later.