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||1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet. | ||1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet. | ||
||1973 – Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator (b. 1913) | |||
File:Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule.jpg|link=Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule|2017: Publication of ''[[Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule]]'' generates new interest in [[Organic golem|organic golems]]. | File:Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule.jpg|link=Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule|2017: Publication of ''[[Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule]]'' generates new interest in [[Organic golem|organic golems]]. | ||
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1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.