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== Gnomon Chronicles: April | == Gnomon Chronicles: April 24 == | ||
{{Selected anniversaries/April | {{Selected anniversaries/April 24}} |
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Gnomon Chronicles: April 24
1656: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1914: The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.