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||1954: Edwin Howard Armstrong dies ... electrical engineer and inventor, best known for developing FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. Pic. | ||1954: Edwin Howard Armstrong dies ... electrical engineer and inventor, best known for developing FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. Pic. | ||
File:The Man Who Knew to Mulch.jpg|link=The Man Who Knew to Mulch|1956: Premiere of '''''[[The Man Who Knew to Mulch]]''''', an American suspense agriculture film about an American family vacationing in French Morocco who become involved in a complex plan to improve agricultural yields using imported machinery and cheap local labor. | |||
||1958: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt. 1958 Explorer 1 was launched on January 31, 1958 at 22:48 Eastern Time (equal to February 1, 03:48 UTC because the time change goes past midnight). It was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, returning data until its batteries were exhausted after nearly four months. It remained in orbit until 1970, and has been followed by more than 90 scientific spacecraft in the Explorer series. *Wik | ||1958: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt. 1958 Explorer 1 was launched on January 31, 1958 at 22:48 Eastern Time (equal to February 1, 03:48 UTC because the time change goes past midnight). It was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, returning data until its batteries were exhausted after nearly four months. It remained in orbit until 1970, and has been followed by more than 90 scientific spacecraft in the Explorer series. *Wik | ||
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File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|2001: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] dies. Kane pioneered graphic novels with his books ''His Name is...Savage'' (1968) and ''Blackmark'' (1971). | File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|2001: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] dies. Kane pioneered graphic novels with his books ''His Name is...Savage'' (1968) and ''Blackmark'' (1971). | ||
||2004: Edwin Albert Power dies ... physicist and an emeritus professor of applied mathematics. He made several contributions to the field of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics (NRQED). Pic. | ||2004: Edwin Albert Power dies ... physicist and an emeritus professor of applied mathematics. He made several contributions to the field of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics (NRQED). Pic. | ||
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1632: Clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi dies. He was recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.
1929: Physicist and academic Rudolf Mössbauer born. He will be awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1957) of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence (now known as the Mössbauer effect), the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.
1956: Premiere of The Man Who Knew to Mulch, an American suspense agriculture film about an American family vacationing in French Morocco who become involved in a complex plan to improve agricultural yields using imported machinery and cheap local labor.
1971: The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
2001: American comic book artist Gil Kane dies. Kane pioneered graphic novels with his books His Name is...Savage (1968) and Blackmark (1971).
2008: Talk show host Dick Cavett attends the 2008 Amfar Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.