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||1879: Knud Rasmussen born ... anthropologist and explorer. | ||1879: Knud Rasmussen born ... anthropologist and explorer. | ||
||1879: Joan Voûte born ... astronomer and academic. | ||1879: Joan Voûte born ... astronomer and academic. His preliminary account of the parallax of Proxima Centauri was published in 1917, demonstrating that Proxima was the same distance from the Sun as the Alpha Centauri system. Pic. | ||
||1882: George de Bothezat born ... engineer, businessman, and pioneer of helicopter flight. Pic. | ||1882: George de Bothezat born ... engineer, businessman, and pioneer of helicopter flight. Pic. | ||
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File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1884: Signed first edition of ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' sells for eighty thousand dollars. | File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1884: Signed first edition of ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' sells for eighty thousand dollars. | ||
||1886: Richard March Hoe dies ... engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press. Pic. | |||
||1886: Henri Coandă born ... engineer, designed the Coandă-1910. | ||1886: Henri Coandă born ... engineer, designed the Coandă-1910. | ||
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1883: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley born. He will conduct espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities will only come to light after his death.
1884: Signed first edition of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess sells for eighty thousand dollars.
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1910: Mathematical physicist Charles Critchfield born. He will work on the Manhattan Project, designing and testing the "Urchin" neutron initiator which provides the burst of neutrons that kick-starts the nuclear detonation of the Fat Man weapon.
1952: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing dies. He was influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.
1959: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the upcoming BOMARC nuclear missile site explosion.
1961: Brainiac Explains magazine published detailed plans for simulating the BOMARC nuclear missile site explosion.
2017: Pink City voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
