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File:Saccharomyces_cerevisiae_culture.jpg|1969: ''Saccharomyces cerevisiae'' spontaneously generates new type of [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]]. | File:Saccharomyces_cerevisiae_culture.jpg|1969: ''Saccharomyces cerevisiae'' spontaneously generates new type of [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]]. | ||
||1994 – Yevgeni Ivanov, Russian spy (b. 1926) | |||
||1997 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad. | ||1997 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad. | ||
File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1997: Astronomer and academic [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] dies. He discovered Pluto, as well as many asteroids. | File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1997: Astronomer and academic [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] dies. He discovered Pluto, as well as many asteroids. | ||
||2002 – Roman Personov, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1932) | |||
||2005 – Albert Schatz, American microbiologist and academic (b. 1920) | |||
||2008 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (b. 1943) | |||
File:Jekyll_Perfume.png|link=Jekyll (perfume)|2020: [[Jekyll (perfume)|Jekyll]], the "perfume for sociopaths", announces record profits. | File:Jekyll_Perfume.png|link=Jekyll (perfume)|2020: [[Jekyll (perfume)|Jekyll]], the "perfume for sociopaths", announces record profits. | ||
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1551: Writer, humanist, and historian Pedro Mexía dies. He wrote Silva de varia lección ("A Miscellany of Several Lessons"), which became an early best seller across Europe.
1552: Mathematician and criminal Anarchimedes uses Gnomon algorithm functions to commit crimes against mathematical constants.
1574: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd born.
1812: Polymath Charles Babbage uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to visualize the concept of a digital programmable computer.
1903: The short film Electrocuting an Elephant is released. It documents the killing of an elephant named Topsy.
1911: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton dies.
1928: Scrimshaw abuse study finds therapeutic potential of Brownian ratchet.
1949: Computer scientist Anita Borg born. She will found the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
1958: Mathematical models indicate that an American hydrogen bomb will be lost within the next thirty days.
1961: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex."
1966: Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
1969: Saccharomyces cerevisiae spontaneously generates new type of Brownian ratchet.
1997: Astronomer and academic Clyde Tombaugh dies. He discovered Pluto, as well as many asteroids.
2020: Jekyll, the "perfume for sociopaths", announces record profits.
