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||1937 – Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2005) | ||1937 – Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2005) | ||
||Arthur Edwin Kennelly (d. June 18, 1939), was an Irish[citation needed]-American electrical engineer. | |||
||1942 – The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time. | ||1942 – The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time. |
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1853: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz born. He will share the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
1960: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions with a wide range of applications in electronic devices used to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1966: Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
1967: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tells fellow astronauts that Gemini 10 "was an inspiration to us all."
1997: Geologist and astronomer Eugene Merle Shoemaker dies. Shoemaker was the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.
2017: Judge Havelock With Glass wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "a prescient study of emerging information technologies in mid-1800's America."