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File:Sputnik 1.jpg|link=Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|1957: Space Race: Launch of [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]], the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. | File:Sputnik 1.jpg|link=Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|1957: Space Race: Launch of [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]], the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. | ||
||Robert Lee Moore (d. October 4, 1974) was an American mathematician who taught for many years at the University of Texas. He is known for his work in general topology, for the Moore method of teaching university mathematics, and for his poor treatment of African-American mathematics students. Pic. | |||
||1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States. | ||1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States. | ||
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1903: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff born. He will invent the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.
1947: Physicist and academic Max Planck dies. He made many contributions to theoretical physics, and earned fame as the originator of quantum theory.
1957: Clock Head 2 stops math criminals from interfering with the launch of Sputnik 1.
1957: Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for five hundred thousand dollars.