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||1921 – Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic (d. 1972)
||1921 – Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic (d. 1972)


||1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
File:Niels Bohr.jpg|link=Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|1921: [[Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|Niels Bohr]] introduced his quantum model of the atom.
 
||1922: The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.


File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.


||1934 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
||1934: Santiago Ramón y Cajal dies ... pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
||1939: Lee Harvey Oswald born ... accused assassin of John F. Kennedy.


File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.


||1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
||1954: Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.


||1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
||1967: The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.


||1973 – Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator (b. 1913)
||1973: Walt Kelly dies ... illustrator and animator.


||Carson Dunning Jeffries (d. October 18, 1995) was an American physicist. The National Academies Press said that Jeffries "made major fundamental contributions to knowledge of nuclear magnetism, electronic spin relaxation, dynamic nuclear polarization, electron-hole droplets, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, and high-temperature superconductors." He was noted for being the first to observe the isotropic spin-spin exchange interaction in metals (also known as the Ruderman-Kittel interaction). He also discovered methods for the dynamic nuclear polarization by saturation of forbidden microwave resonance transitions in solids. He also discovered the existence of giant electron-hole droplets in semiconductors.
||1995: Carson Dunning Jeffries dies ... physicist. The National Academies Press said that Jeffries "made major fundamental contributions to knowledge of nuclear magnetism, electronic spin relaxation, dynamic nuclear polarization, electron-hole droplets, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, and high-temperature superconductors." He was noted for being the first to observe the isotropic spin-spin exchange interaction in metals (also known as the Ruderman-Kittel interaction). He also discovered methods for the dynamic nuclear polarization by saturation of forbidden microwave resonance transitions in solids. He also discovered the existence of giant electron-hole droplets in semiconductors.


||Alvin Martin Weinberg (d. October 18, 2006) was an American nuclear physicist who was the administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) during and after the Manhattan Project. He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1945 and remained there until his death in 2006. He was the first to use the term "Faustian bargain" to describe nuclear energy. Pic.
||2006: Alvin Martin Weinberg dies ... nuclear physicist who was the administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) during and after the Manhattan Project. He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1945 and remained there until his death in 2006. He was the first to use the term "Faustian bargain" to describe nuclear energy. Pic.


File:Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule.jpg|link=Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule|2017: Publication of ''[[Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule]]'' generates new interest in [[Organic golem|organic golems]].
File:Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule.jpg|link=Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule|2017: Publication of ''[[Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule]]'' generates new interest in [[Organic golem|organic golems]].
|File:Mars 23 aug 2003 hubble.jpg|link=Mars (nonfiction)|[[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]] agrees to host [[Reality television (nonfiction)|reality TV]] show.
|File:Dick_Turpin_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dick Turpin of Mars|Highwayman [[Dick Turpin of Mars]] takes parting shot at [[Dennis Paulson of Mars]], makes another daring escape.
|File:Dennis Paulson of Mars closeup.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]], new [[Reality television (nonfiction)|reality TV]] show, gets rave reviews.
|File:Mandelbrot-AI-interview.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot|Artist-Engineers prepare an interface to the famed artificial intelligence [[Benoit Mandelbrot]].
|File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring|[[Green Ring]] interviewed by [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] (1969).
|File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.


|File:Rosetta's_last_image.jpg|link=Rosetta spacecraft (nonfiction)|"I regret nothing" says [[Rosetta spacecraft (nonfiction)|Rosetta spacecraft]], before impacting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
|File:Rosetta's_last_image.jpg|link=Rosetta spacecraft (nonfiction)|"I regret nothing" says [[Rosetta spacecraft (nonfiction)|Rosetta spacecraft]], before impacting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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  • 1791: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.

    1791: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.

  • 1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".

    1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".

  • 1921: Niels Bohr introduced his quantum model of the atom.

    1921: Niels Bohr introduced his quantum model of the atom.

  • 1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

    1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

  • 1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

    1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

  • 2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.

    2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.

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