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File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: The [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter begins its extended mission. | File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: The [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter begins its extended mission. | ||
File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1978: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] blamed for new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1978: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] blamed for new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1989 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921) | ||1989 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921) | ||
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1546: Astronomer Tycho Brahe born. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
1560: Didacus automaton announces world tour, plans to "travel the seven seas and visit the furthest lands."
1782: The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight. Shown here: first public flight (June 4, 1783).
1922: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov born. He will do fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics.
1940: Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.
1947: Thomas Goldsmith Jr. is granted a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
1953: Anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author, and photographer Wade Davis born.
1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 orbiter begins its extended mission.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the Viking 2 orbiter beginning its extended mission.