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File:Igor Sikorsky 1914.jpg|link=Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|1940: [[Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|Igor Sikorsky]] performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
File:Igor Sikorsky 1914.jpg|link=Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|1940: [[Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|Igor Sikorsky]] performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1944: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' reveals Nazi efforts to use [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] for rocket propulsion.


||1962: Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
||1962: Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.

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  • 1089: Celebrated jurist and monk Lanfranc dies.

    1089: Celebrated jurist and monk Lanfranc dies.

  • 1543: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies. He formulated a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.

    1543: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies. He formulated a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.

  • 1686: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit born. He will help lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.

    1686: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit born. He will help lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.

  • 1734: Chemist and physician Georg Ernst Stahl dies. His works on phlogiston continue to be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.

    1734: Chemist and physician Georg Ernst Stahl dies. His works on phlogiston continue to be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.

  • 1844: Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.

    1844: Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.

  • 1928: Mathematician Bertram Kostant born. He will be one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.

    1928: Mathematician Bertram Kostant born. He will be one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.

  • 1940: Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.

    1940: Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.

  • 1974: Physicist Clyde Cowan dies. Cowan, along with Frederick Reines, discovered the neutrino in 1956; Reines received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names.

    1974: Physicist Clyde Cowan dies. Cowan, along with Frederick Reines, discovered the neutrino in 1956; Reines received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names.

  • 2014: Tractor voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2014: Tractor voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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