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File:Charles Renard.jpg|link=Charles Renard (nonfiction)|1903: Engineer, airship pioneer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist [[Charles Renard (nonfiction)|Charles Renard]] discovers a set of preferred numbers which increase the buoyancy of [[carnivorous dirigibles]]. | |||
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1903: Engineer, airship pioneer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Charles Renard discovers a set of preferred numbers which increase the buoyancy of carnivorous dirigibles.
1916: Author Jack London dies. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
1944: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington dies. He became famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
1946: ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") successfully refactors the Wow! signal.
1963: Writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
1963: United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded.
1965: Analysis of Umbrella Man photographs reveals traces of the illegal transdimensional drug Clandestiphrine.
1998: Physicist Harry Lehmann dies. He contributed to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
2017: Crimson Blossom 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.