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||1945: Members of the Hitler Youth distributed cyanide pills to audience members during the last concert of the Berlin Philharmonic.
||1945: Members of the Hitler Youth distributed cyanide pills to audience members during the last concert of the Berlin Philharmonic.
File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1947: After accidentally corrupting a [[Gnomon algorithm]] configuration file, The United States Army Signal Corps uses the [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]] antenna to extract high-grade [[Clandestiphrine]] from the corruption stream. [[APTO]] field engineers will quickly disambiguate the corruption, but an undisclosed volume of Clandestiphrine remains under Army control.


||1955: The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
||1955: The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
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||1997: George Wald dies ... neurobiologist and academic ... studied pigments in the retina. Share the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit. Pic.
||1997: George Wald dies ... neurobiologist and academic ... studied pigments in the retina. Share the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit. Pic.
File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|1999: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use quantum foam theory to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||2002: Hans Neurath dies ... biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry. Pic search.
||2002: Hans Neurath dies ... biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry. Pic search.
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File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2020: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] wins Pulitzer Prize for series of exo-temporal photographs of Minicon 55 in 2021.
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2020: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] wins Pulitzer Prize for series of exo-temporal photographs of Minicon 55 in 2021.
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  • 1817: Astronomer Charles Messier dies. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".

    1817: Astronomer Charles Messier dies. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".

  • 1852: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann born. He will prove (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.

    1852: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann born. He will prove (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.

  • 1960: Nuclear physicist Donald J. Hughes dies. Hughes was one of the signers of the Franck Report in June, 1945, recommending that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.

    1960: Nuclear physicist Donald J. Hughes dies. Hughes was one of the signers of the Franck Report in June, 1945, recommending that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.

  • 1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight (Vostok 1).

    1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight (Vostok 1).

  • 1984: United States Navy Admiral Edwin Thomas Layton dies. Layton served as a Naval intelligence officer before and during World War II.

    1984: United States Navy Admiral Edwin Thomas Layton dies. Layton served as a Naval intelligence officer before and during World War II.

  • 2020: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for series of exo-temporal photographs of Minicon 55 in 2021.

    2020: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for series of exo-temporal photographs of Minicon 55 in 2021.

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