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|File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1956: [[John Brunner]] uses [[scrying engine]] to extract [[cryptographic numen]] from [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber transmissions]].
|File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1956: [[John Brunner]] uses [[scrying engine]] to extract [[cryptographic numen]] from [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber transmissions]].


||1961: Otto Loewi dies ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
||1961: Otto Loewi dies ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1961: Reinhold Rudenberg dies ... electrical engineer and inventor, credited with many innovations in the electric power and related fields.
||1961: Reinhold Rudenberg dies ... electrical engineer and inventor, credited with many innovations in the electric power and related fields. Pic.


||1962: The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
||1962: The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

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  • 1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

    1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

  • 1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

    1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

  • 1763: Inventor Claude Chappe born. He will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.

    1763: Inventor Claude Chappe born. He will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.

  • 1881: Physician, physiologist, and APTO field engineer Emil du Bois-Reymond uses experimental electrophysiology techniques to demonstrate a physiological basis for the energy exerted by Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1881: Physician, physiologist, and APTO field engineer Emil du Bois-Reymond uses experimental electrophysiology techniques to demonstrate a physiological basis for the energy exerted by Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • 1932: Enrico Fermi computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.

    1932: Enrico Fermi computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.

  • 2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.

    2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.

  • 2017: Swirl is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2017: Swirl is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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