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File:Buzjani.jpg|link=Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (nonfiction)|987: Mathematician and astronomer [[Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (nonfiction)|Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī]] publishes limited edition of ''Almagest'' with a pioneering new chapter on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which will be widely read by medieval Arabic [[Crimes against astronomical constants|crime-fighting astronomers]] in the centuries after his death. | File:Buzjani.jpg|link=Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (nonfiction)|987: Mathematician and astronomer [[Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (nonfiction)|Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī]] publishes limited edition of ''Almagest'' with a pioneering new chapter on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which will be widely read by medieval Arabic [[Crimes against astronomical constants|crime-fighting astronomers]] in the centuries after his death. | ||
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||1899: Gregory Breit born ... physicist and academic. During the early stages of the war, Breit was chosen by Arthur Compton to supervise the early design of the first atomic bomb during an early phase in what would later become the Manhattan Project. Breit resigned his position in 1942, feeling that the work was going too slowly and that there had been security breaches on the project; his job went to Robert Oppenheimer, who was later appointed to scientific director of the entire project. Pic. | ||1899: Gregory Breit born ... physicist and academic. During the early stages of the war, Breit was chosen by Arthur Compton to supervise the early design of the first atomic bomb during an early phase in what would later become the Manhattan Project. Breit resigned his position in 1942, feeling that the work was going too slowly and that there had been security breaches on the project; his job went to Robert Oppenheimer, who was later appointed to scientific director of the entire project. Pic. | ||
||1904: | File:Hans_Bernd_Gisevius.jpg|link=Hans Bernd Gisevius (nonfiction)|1904: German diplomat and intelligence officer [[Hans Bernd Gisevius (nonfiction)|Hans Bernd Gisevius]] born. Gisevius will be covert opponent of the Nazi regime, and a radical communist; he will serve as a liaison in Zürich between Allen Dulles, station chief for the American OSS, and the German Resistance forces in Germany. | ||
||1905: Laurence Chisholm Young born ... mathematician known for his contributions to measure theory, the calculus of variations, optimal control theory, and potential theory. Pic. | ||1905: Laurence Chisholm Young born ... mathematician known for his contributions to measure theory, the calculus of variations, optimal control theory, and potential theory. Pic. | ||
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987: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī publishes limited edition of Almagest with a pioneering new chapter on Gnomon algorithm functions which will be widely read by medieval Arabic crime-fighting astronomers in the centuries after his death.
1856: Mathematician Charles Hermite is elected to fill the vacancy created by the death of Jacques Binet in the Académie des Sciences.
1904: German diplomat and intelligence officer Hans Bernd Gisevius born. Gisevius will be covert opponent of the Nazi regime, and a radical communist; he will serve as a liaison in Zürich between Allen Dulles, station chief for the American OSS, and the German Resistance forces in Germany.
1962: Soldier of fortune and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung steals the Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon. The theft will soon be retroactively prevented by the The Custodian.
1962: United States Army tests Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon, at the Nevada Test Site. Yield was 1.65 kt.
1962: The Custodian prevents attempt by Baron Zersetzung to steal the Small Boy tactical nuclear weapon.
1965: The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
1993: Computer scientist, Gnomon algorithm researcher, and poet John T. Riedl gives an impromptu reading from his latest procedurally-generated poem "Why The Algorithm" at the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates fifty-second anniversary of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars.