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File:Igor Sikorsky 1914.jpg|link=Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|1889: Aircraft designer [[Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|Igor Sikorsky]] born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. | File:Igor Sikorsky 1914.jpg|link=Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|1889: Aircraft designer [[Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|Igor Sikorsky]] born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. | ||
||Milton Stanley Livingston (b. May 25, 1905) was an American accelerator physicist, co-inventor of the cyclotron with Ernest Lawrence, and co-discoverer with Ernest Courant and Hartland Snyder of the strong focusing principle, which allowed development of modern large-scale particle accelerators. | |||
||1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | ||1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | ||
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986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.
1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
1981: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.