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File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] born.  ''The New York Times'' will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] born.  ''The New York Times'' will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
||1921: Bernard d'Espagnat born ... theoretical physicist, philosopher of science, and author, best known for his work on the nature of reality. Pic: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16769-concept-of-hypercosmic-god-wins-templeton-prize/


||1932: The first experimental television program broadcast from the BBC, London.  
||1932: The first experimental television program broadcast from the BBC, London.  

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  • 1647: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor Denis Papin born. He will invent the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.

    1647: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor Denis Papin born. He will invent the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.

  • 1854: Poet Jan Kochanowski dies. He established poetic patterns which would become integral to the Polish literary language.

    1854: Poet Jan Kochanowski dies. He established poetic patterns which would become integral to the Polish literary language.

  • 1919: Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter Johannes Diderik van der Waals publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants based on the states of gases and liquids.

    1919: Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter Johannes Diderik van der Waals publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants based on the states of gases and liquids.

  • 1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury born. The New York Times will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".

    1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury born. The New York Times will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".

  • 1943: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC traded for freshly minted 1943 Eleanor Roosevelt dime.

    1943: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC traded for freshly minted 1943 Eleanor Roosevelt dime.

  • 1974: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski dies.

    1974: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski dies.

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