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||1910: Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher. | ||1910: Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher. | ||
||1916: Roger Apéry born ... mathematician and academic | ||1916: Roger Apéry born ... mathematician and academic. Pic: https://aperiodical.com/2016/11/aperyodical-roger-aperys-mathematical-story/ | ||
||1925: Stirling Colgate born ... physicist and academic. | ||1925: Stirling Colgate born ... physicist and academic. | ||
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1716: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz dies. He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and designed and built mechanical calculators.
1970: Famed illustration Six Seconds to Hell sells for two million dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1971: Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars. It will map 70% of the surface, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates forty-sixth anniversary of Mariner 9 entering orbit around Mars.