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||Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams (5 March 1903 – 30 August 1979), was a Welsh physicist, noted for his research on electronic instrumentation for use in nuclear physics. His work on the scale-of-two counter contributed to the development of the modern computer. | ||Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams (5 March 1903 – 30 August 1979), was a Welsh physicist, noted for his research on electronic instrumentation for use in nuclear physics. His work on the scale-of-two counter contributed to the development of the modern computer. | ||
File:Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division).jpg|link=Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division)|1954: The [[Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division]] announces daily [[Flying Diner]] breakfast and dinner flights between San Francisco and [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]]. | |||
||1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage. | ||1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage. | ||
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1844: Astronomer Francis Baily dies. He observed "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836).
1905: Mathematician Emmy Noether uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1954: The Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division announces daily Flying Diner breakfast and dinner flights between San Francisco and New Minneapolis.
2013: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney dies. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
2017: Leonardo Draws Clock Head wins Newbery Award for Best Children's Book Cover of the Year.