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File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space. | File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space. | ||
||Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel (d. 22 May 1956) was a German physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect. | |||
||1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores. | ||1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores. | ||
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1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.
1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter Franz Ernst Neumann uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.
2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.