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||1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time. | ||1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time. | ||
||1989 – The Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings. | |||
||1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux. | ||1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux. | ||
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1609: Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1818: Mechanical soldier Clock Head receives several patents for an improvements to steam engines.
1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.
1933: Clock Head 2 publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1934: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the public at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
2012: Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause to become the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space and study the interstellar medium.
2016: Polymath George Spencer-Brown dies. He wrote Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Time-Surfing 2 sells for two and a half million dollars.