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||1951 – The first Pan American Games were officially opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina by President Juan Perón. | ||1951 – The first Pan American Games were officially opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina by President Juan Perón. | ||
||1953 | ||1953: Sergei Winogradsky (d. 25 February 1953) was a Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle-of-life concept. Pic. | ||
||File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1954: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment. | ||File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1954: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment. |
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1836: Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1971: Chemist and academic Theodor Svedberg dies. He was awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering use of analytical ultracentrifugation to distinguish pure proteins from one another.
1972: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus dies. He "discovered" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he made notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.
1999: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg dies. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.