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|link=Béryl incident (nonfiction)|The [[Béryl incident (nonfiction)|Béryl incident]] was a French nuclear test, conducted on May 1, 1962, during which nine soldiers of the 621st Groupe d'Armes Spéciales unit were heavily contaminated by radioactivity. | |link=Béryl incident (nonfiction)|The [[Béryl incident (nonfiction)|Béryl incident]] was a French nuclear test, conducted on May 1, 1962, during which nine soldiers of the 621st Groupe d'Armes Spéciales unit were heavily contaminated by radioactivity. | ||
|1964: First BASIC program run by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College. | |||
||1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon. | ||1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon. | ||
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1825: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer born. He will develop an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.
1891: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses census data to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1960: Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
1961: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon warns that U-2 incident may have released a new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1970: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley dies. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory.