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File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1958: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE]], the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1958: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE]], the world's first communications satellite, is launched.


File:Antikythera Team logo.svg|link=Antikythera Team|1965: [[Antikythera Team]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and reverse [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||File:Antikythera Team logo.svg|link=Antikythera Team|1965: [[Antikythera Team]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and reverse [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1966 – Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
||1966 – Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
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||1973 – The Islamic Development Bank is founded.
||1973 – The Islamic Development Bank is founded.


File:Hexahedron.jpg|link=Cube (nonfiction)|1976: [[Cube (nonfiction)|Cube]] delivers lecture on [[Geometry (nonfiction)|geometry]].
|File:Hexahedron.jpg|link=Cube (nonfiction)|1976: [[Cube (nonfiction)|Cube]] delivers lecture on [[Geometry (nonfiction)|geometry]].


||1981 – First flight of the Russian heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and largest variable-sweep wing aircraft built.
||1981 – First flight of the Russian heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and largest variable-sweep wing aircraft built.

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  • 1799: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla dies. His deep interest in history of mathematics became apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.

    1799: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla dies. His deep interest in history of mathematics became apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.

  • 1956: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "math-crimes complex."

    1956: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "math-crimes complex."

  • 1958: Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.

    1958: Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.

  • 1966: Accidental release of nuclear weapons precipitates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1966: Accidental release of nuclear weapons precipitates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1995: Physicist Nathan Rosen dies. He developed the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.

    1995: Physicist Nathan Rosen dies. He developed the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.

  • 2000: Arnold's cat map is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says Arnold.

    2000: Arnold's cat map is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says Arnold.

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