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||1945 – Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
||1945 – Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1900)


||File:Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division).jpg|link=Flying Diner|1953: The [[Flying Diner]] begins twice-daily breakfast and lunch flights between Saint Paul, Minnesota and [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
File:Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division).jpg|link=Flying Diner|1953: The [[Flying Diner]] begins twice-daily breakfast and lunch flights between Saint Paul, Minnesota and [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


||1954 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
||1954 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.

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  • 1592: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard born. He will design and build calculating machines, and invent techniques for producing improved maps.

    1592: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard born. He will design and build calculating machines, and invent techniques for producing improved maps.

  • 1779: Steganographic analysis of The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters unexpectedly reveals previously unknown template for organic golems.

    1779: Steganographic analysis of The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters unexpectedly reveals previously unknown template for organic golems.

  • 1833: Engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick dies. He was an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.

    1833: Engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick dies. He was an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.

  • 1904: American physicist and academic J. Robert Oppenheimer born. His achievements in physics will include the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.

    1904: American physicist and academic J. Robert Oppenheimer born. His achievements in physics will include the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.

  • 1953: The Flying Diner begins twice-daily breakfast and lunch flights between Saint Paul, Minnesota and New Minneapolis, Canada.

    1953: The Flying Diner begins twice-daily breakfast and lunch flights between Saint Paul, Minnesota and New Minneapolis, Canada.

  • 2006: Computer scientist and academic Henriette Avram dies. She developed the MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries.

    2006: Computer scientist and academic Henriette Avram dies. She developed the MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries.

  • 2018: Signed first edition of Lend a Hand stolen from the Louvre by the Forbidden Ratio in a daring daytime robbery. Lend a Hand, which depicts an organic golem, had been in the Louvre for less than twenty-four hours.

    2018: Signed first edition of Lend a Hand stolen from the Louvre by the Forbidden Ratio in a daring daytime robbery. Lend a Hand, which depicts an organic golem, had been in the Louvre for less than twenty-four hours.

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