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1201: Canterbury scrying engine retrofitted with Gnomon algorithm routines.
1569: Astronomer Tycho Brahe uses Gnomon algorithm functions make improved astronomical observations.
1961: Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
1972: Computer scientist Tony Hoare invents new class of Gnomon algorithm based on quicksort.
1978: Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
2016: John Hoyland's Lebanon is found to be coded diagram of the Antikythera mechanism.
2016: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky dies.

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 File:Goldsboro Mk 39 bomb.jpg|link=1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1961:  [[1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Goldsboro B-52 crash]]: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.