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||1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service. | ||1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service. | ||
||Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (English: /krɛbz/ or /krɛps/) (25 August 1900 – 22 November 1981)[1][2][3][4][5] was a German-born British physician and biochemist.[6] He was the pioneer scientist in study of cellular respiration, a biochemical pathway in cells for production of energy.[7][8] He is best known for his discoveries of two important chemical reactions in the body, namely the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle. The latter, the key sequence of metabolic reactions that produces energy in cells, often eponymously known as the "Krebs cycle", earned him a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953. | |||
||1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom. | ||1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom. |
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1916: Author Jack London dies. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
1944: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington dies. He became famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
1946: ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") successfully refactors the Wow! signal.
1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series provides formula for clandestiphrine, authorities expect rise in crimes against mathematical constants.
1963: Writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
1963: United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded.
1965: Umbrella Man witnesses rubbed with Clandestiphrine, 73% die of stack overflow allergy. Witness Protection Program implements software patch to prevent recurrence.
1967: Clandestiphrine trafficking money laundered via The Little Petroleum Sample That Could, say transdimensional drug authorities.