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||2000 – The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
||2000 – The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
||Walter Henry Zinn (d. February 14, 2000) was a nuclear physicist who was the first director of the Argonne National Laboratory from 1946 to 1956. He worked at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory during World War II, and supervised the construction of Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first nuclear reactor, which went critical on December 2, 1942, at the University of Chicago. At Argonne he designed and built several new reactors, including Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first nuclear reactor to produce electric power, which went live on December 20, 1951. Pic.


||2005 – YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
||2005 – YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.

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  • 1855: Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.

    1855: Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.

  • 1876: Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.

    1876: Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.

  • 1904: Engineer and inventor Charles William Oatley born. He will develop of one of the first commercial scanning electron microscopes.

    1904: Engineer and inventor Charles William Oatley born. He will develop of one of the first commercial scanning electron microscopes.

  • 1943: Mathematician David Hilbert dies. He discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.

    1943: Mathematician David Hilbert dies. He discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.

  • 1944: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson uses thermionic theory to compute optimal Valentine's Day card.

    1944: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson uses thermionic theory to compute optimal Valentine's Day card.

  • 1950: Physicist and engineer Karl Guthe Jansky dies. He was one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.

    1950: Physicist and engineer Karl Guthe Jansky dies. He was one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.

  • 1951: Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter Richard Feynman uses principles of quantum electrodynamics to compose state-of-the-art Valentine's Day cards.

    1951: Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter Richard Feynman uses principles of quantum electrodynamics to compose state-of-the-art Valentine's Day cards.

  • 1990: The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.

    1990: The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.

  • 2017: Steganographic analysis of famed illustration Alice and Niles Dancing reveals three terabytes of love letters between mathematicians Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian.

    2017: Steganographic analysis of famed illustration Alice and Niles Dancing reveals three terabytes of love letters between mathematicians Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian.

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