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||1909: William Penney born ... mathematician and physicist. | ||1909: William Penney born ... mathematician and physicist ... Penney played a leading role in the development of Britain's nuclear programme, a clandestine programme started in 1942 during World War II which produced the first British atomic bomb in 1952. Pic. | ||
||1911: Ernesto Sabato born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||1911: Ernesto Sabato born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
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1660: Priest, astromomer, and crime-fighter Giovanni Battista Riccioli publishes new scheme of lunar nomenclature which anticipates future developments in detecting and preventing crimes against astronomical constants.
1709: Public test of Bartolomeu de Gusmão's airship fails to take place.
1860: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1880: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
1886: Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time."
2016: Steganographic analysis of Boxes unexpectedly reveals previously unknown type of cryptographic numen. APTO's department of Gnomon algorithm research calls it "a remarkable breakthrough."