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||1671 – Jacques d'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732) | |||
||1827 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer (b. 1788) | |||
File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1856: Mathematician [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] is elected to fill the vacancy created by the death of Jacques Binet in the Académie des Sciences. | File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1856: Mathematician [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] is elected to fill the vacancy created by the death of Jacques Binet in the Académie des Sciences. | ||
||1872 – Albert Marque, French sculptor and doll maker (d. 1939) | |||
||1907 – William Henry Perkin, English chemist and academic (b. 1838) | |||
||1911 – Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright brothers, lands his airplane at the South Lawn of the White House. He is later awarded a Gold medal from U.S. President William Howard Taft for this feat. | ||1911 – Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright brothers, lands his airplane at the South Lawn of the White House. He is later awarded a Gold medal from U.S. President William Howard Taft for this feat. | ||
||1921 – Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996) | |||
||1933 – Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party. | ||1933 – Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party. | ||
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||1992 – 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards. | ||1992 – 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards. | ||
||2015 – NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System. | |||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates fifty-second anniversary of the Mariner 4 flyby of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates fifty-second anniversary of the Mariner 4 flyby of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | ||
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1856: Mathematician Charles Hermite is elected to fill the vacancy created by the death of Jacques Binet in the Académie des Sciences.
1962: Soldier of fortune and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung steals the Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon. The theft will soon be retroactively prevented by the The Custodian.
1962: United States Army tests Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon, at the Nevada Test Site. Yield was 1.65 kt.
1962: The Custodian prevents attempt by Baron Zersetzung to steal the Small Boy tactical nuclear weapon.
1965: The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates fifty-second anniversary of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars.