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||1972: Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000. | ||1972: Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000. | ||
File:Ridley-Scott-researching-Alien.jpg|link=Ridley Scott|1985: [[Ridley Scott]] revisits his documentary film ''[[Alien (documentary)|Alien]]'', tells reporters he is "thinking about" an upgrade version. | |File:Ridley-Scott-researching-Alien.jpg|link=Ridley Scott|1985: [[Ridley Scott]] revisits his documentary film ''[[Alien (documentary)|Alien]]'', tells reporters he is "thinking about" an upgrade version. | ||
||1999: Sam Bard Treiman dies ... theoretical physicist who produced research in the fields of cosmic rays, quantum physics, plasma physics and gravity physics. He made contributions to the understanding of the weak interaction and he and his students are credited with developing the so-called standard model of elementary particle physics. Pic: https://history.aip.org/phn/11603017.html | ||1999: Sam Bard Treiman dies ... theoretical physicist who produced research in the fields of cosmic rays, quantum physics, plasma physics and gravity physics. He made contributions to the understanding of the weak interaction and he and his students are credited with developing the so-called standard model of elementary particle physics. Pic: https://history.aip.org/phn/11603017.html | ||
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3340 BC: Earliest recorded solar eclipse.
1740: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr publishes Atlas Coelestis in quo Algorithmus Gnomonis, his landmark study of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1829: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer Mark Twain born.
1888: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley born. He will invent the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contribute to the foundations of information theory.
1937: Film director and producer Ridley Scott born.
