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File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1922: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] born. He will do fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics. | File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1922: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] born. He will do fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics. | ||
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden detail.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1926: Actor-cryptographer [[Niles Cartouchian]] confirms that he personally designed the computational security protocols featured in the action-adventure film ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]''. | |||
||1927 – Julian Sochocki, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1842) | ||1927 – Julian Sochocki, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1842) | ||
||1939 – Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland. | ||1939 – Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland. |
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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.
1926: Actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian confirms that he personally designed the computational security protocols featured in the action-adventure film Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.
1940: Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.
1941: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli uses the exclusion principle to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
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.