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File:Montgolfier first public balloon flight.jpg|link=Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|1782: The [[Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|Montgolfier brothers]]' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight. Shown here: first public flight (June 4, 1783). | File:Montgolfier first public balloon flight.jpg|link=Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|1782: The [[Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|Montgolfier brothers]]' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight. Shown here: first public flight (June 4, 1783). | ||
||1865 | ||1865: Johan Georg Forchhammer dies ... geologist and mineralogist. | ||
|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1900: Quantum mechanics: Physicist [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law. | |link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1900: Quantum mechanics: Physicist [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law. | ||
||1902 | ||1902: The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu. | ||
||1903 | ||1903: The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. | ||
||1909 | ||1909: Edward Lawrie Tatum born ... geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1911 | ||1911: Hans von Ohain born ... physicist and engineer. | ||
||1918 | ||1918: Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated. | ||
File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1922: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] born. He will do fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics. | File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1922: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] born. He will do fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics. | ||
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File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden detail.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1926: Actor-cryptographer [[Niles Cartouchian]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden detail.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1926: Actor-cryptographer [[Niles Cartouchian]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1927 | ||1927: Julian Sochocki dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||
||Alfred Arthur Robb | ||1936: Alfred Arthur Robb dies ... physicist. | ||
||1939 | ||1939: Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland. | ||
File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1940: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California. | File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1940: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California. | ||
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1546: Astronomer Tycho Brahe born. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
1560: Didacus automaton announces world tour, plans to "travel the seven seas and visit the furthest lands."
1782: The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight. Shown here: first public flight (June 4, 1783).
1922: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov born. He will do fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics.
1926: Actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1940: Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.
1941: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli uses the exclusion principle to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1947: Thomas Goldsmith Jr. is granted a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
1953: Anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author, and photographer Wade Davis born.
1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 orbiter begins its extended mission.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the Viking 2 orbiter beginning its extended mission.