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||1910: James Wallace Givens, Jr. born ... mathematician and a pioneer in computer science. He is the eponym of the well-known Givens rotations. Pic: https://www.siam.org/About-SIAM/Leadership | ||1910: James Wallace Givens, Jr. born ... mathematician and a pioneer in computer science. He is the eponym of the well-known Givens rotations. Pic: https://www.siam.org/About-SIAM/Leadership | ||
||1911: Hans von Ohain born ... physicist and engineer. | ||1911: Hans von Ohain born ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1918: Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated. | ||1918: Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated. | ||
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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: Cocktail made of Extract of Radium and Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first served at Berkeley, California.
1942: 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.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Green Sprouts reveals "at least twenty" previously unknown shades of green.