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||1962: The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. | ||1962: The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. | ||
||1986: Kurt Hirsch dies ... mathematician and academic. | File:Euglena Junction.png|link=Euglena Junction|1974: First episode of ''[[Euglena Junction]]'' airs on ABC. | ||
||1986: Kurt Hirsch dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | |||
||1992: George Klein dies ... engineer, invented the motorized wheelchair. | ||1992: George Klein dies ... engineer, invented the motorized wheelchair. | ||
||2008: Michael Crichton dies ... physician, author, director, producer, and screenwriter. | ||2008: Michael Crichton dies ... physician, author, director, producer, and screenwriter. | ||
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1652: Priest and mathematician Jean-Charles della Faille dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
1698: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin dies. He discovered the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.
1850: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter James Clerk Maxwell publishes landmark paper on applications of thermodynamics to the computation and prevent of crimes against mathematical constants.
1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming and several friends, is granted a royal charter.
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1974: First episode of Euglena Junction airs on ABC.
2017: Fire Dance voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.