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||1894: Hermann von Helmholtz dies ... physician and physicist. Pic. | ||1894: Hermann von Helmholtz dies ... physician and physicist. Pic. | ||
||1904: Karl Hessenberg born ... mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. Pic search | ||1904: Karl Hessenberg born ... mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. Pic search. | ||
||1914: William Lofland Dudley dies ... chemistry professor. Pic. | ||1914: William Lofland Dudley dies ... chemistry professor. Pic. | ||
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||1915: Yehoshua Bar-Hillel born ... philosopher, mathematician, and linguist. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in machine translation and formal linguistics. Pic. | ||1915: Yehoshua Bar-Hillel born ... philosopher, mathematician, and linguist. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in machine translation and formal linguistics. Pic. | ||
||1918: Derek Barton, born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic search | ||1918: Derek Barton, born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic search. | ||
||1923: Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed. | ||1923: Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed. | ||
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||1966: The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap". | ||1966: The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap". | ||
||1970: Percy Spencer dies ... engineer, invented the microwave oven. Pic search | ||1970: Percy Spencer dies ... engineer, invented the microwave oven. Pic search. | ||
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1973: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for his next film by selling shares in the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|pardoning of Richard Nixon]]. | File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1973: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for his next film by selling shares in the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|pardoning of Richard Nixon]]. | ||
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File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he is "confident that President Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon." | File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he is "confident that President Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon." | ||
||1979: Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan born ... physicist and academic ... will be assassinated ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists Pic search | ||1979: Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan born ... physicist and academic ... will be assassinated ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists Pic search. | ||
||1980: Willard Libby dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1980: Willard Libby dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||1981: Hideki Yukawa dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1981: Hideki Yukawa dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1988: Joseph Algernon Pearce dies ... astrophysicist and astronomer. Pic search | ||1988: Joseph Algernon Pearce dies ... astrophysicist and astronomer. Pic search. | ||
File:Genesis spacecraft in collection mode.jpg|link=Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft ''[[Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Genesis]]'' crash-lands when its parachute fails to open. | File:Genesis spacecraft in collection mode.jpg|link=Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft ''[[Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Genesis]]'' crash-lands when its parachute fails to open. | ||
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1588: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne born. He will be remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1635: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Adriaan Metius manufactures precision optical instruments for detecting and preventing crimes against astronomical constants.
1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd dies.
1959: While vacationing in New Minneapolis, Canada, theoretical physicist Edward Teller visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse, where he engages the owners in a spirited debate on the merits of thermonuclear war.
1973: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for his next film by selling shares in the pardoning of Richard Nixon.
1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he is "confident that President Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon."
2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
2013: Rhizolith Group performs new work in remembrance of mathematician Robert Fludd.
2016: Signed first edition of Mad King used in high-energy literature experiments unexpectedly generates a clone of artist Karl Jones.