Template:Selected anniversaries/February 10: Difference between revisions

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1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster dies.
1900: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1957: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, performs new work based on Gnomon algorithm functions.
1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1967: New isotope of Plutonium discovered, revealing secret history of the Manhattan Project.

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 File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1900: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
 File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1845: Engineer and physicist [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] dies.  He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
+||Edward Hugh Hebern (d. February 10, 1952) was an early inventor of rotor machines, devices for encryption.
 File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1957: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], performs new work based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
 File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]] is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
 File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1967: New isotope of [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] discovered, revealing secret history of the [[Manhattan Project]].
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