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||1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia. | ||1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia. | ||
||The first picture of the Moon taken by a US spacecraft, Ranger 7, on 31 July 1964. | |||
||Orange Herald was a British nuclear weapon, tested on 31 May 1957. At the time it was reported as a H-bomb, although in fact it was a large boosted fission weapon. | ||Orange Herald was a British nuclear weapon, tested on 31 May 1957. At the time it was reported as a H-bomb, although in fact it was a large boosted fission weapon. | ||
Revision as of 06:25, 28 March 2018
1831: Engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.
1836: Mathematician and crime-fighter Karl Georg Christian von Staudt publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.