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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 publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
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.

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 ||1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
+||Donald Howard Menzel (d. December 14, 1976) was one of the first theoretical astronomers and astrophysicists in the United States. He discovered the physical properties of the solar chromosphere, the chemistry of stars, the atmosphere of Mars, and the nature of gaseous nebulae. Pic.
 File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: The [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter begins its extended mission.