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||U.S. nuclear test "George" of Operation Greenhouse test series, 9 May 1951. The "George" shot was a "science experiment" showing the feasibility of the Teller-Ulam design concept (which would itself be fully tested in "Ivy Mike"). | ||U.S. nuclear test "George" of Operation Greenhouse test series, 9 May 1951. The "George" shot was a "science experiment" showing the feasibility of the Teller-Ulam design concept (which would itself be fully tested in "Ivy Mike"). | ||
File:West Ford needles and stamp.jpg|link=Project West Ford (nonfiction)|1963: [[Project West Ford (nonfiction)|Project West Ford]] launches, successfully deploying a ring of 480,000,000 copper needles in orbit | File:West Ford needles and stamp.jpg|link=Project West Ford (nonfiction)|1963: [[Project West Ford (nonfiction)|Project West Ford]] launches, successfully deploying a ring of 480,000,000 copper needles in orbit, forming an artificial ionospheric radio communication system. | ||
||1968 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (b. 1894) | ||1968 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (b. 1894) | ||
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1746: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge born. He will invent descriptive geometry, and do pioneering work in differential geometry.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1941: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1963: Project West Ford launches, successfully deploying a ring of 480,000,000 copper needles in orbit, forming an artificial ionospheric radio communication system.
1972: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian tells a funny story about how the Watergate scandal will play out.
1972: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1974: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged math criminal Skip Digits conducts debut performance of his new opera about impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Two Bugs Fighting unexpectedly releases self-replicating computer virus which spontaneously generates Extract of Radium.