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||1960: In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1). | ||1960: In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1). | ||
||1965: Hermann Staudinger dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1965: Hermann Staudinger dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1965: Joshua Lionel Cowen born ... inventor of electric model trains who founded the Lionel Corporation (1901), which became the largest U.S. toy train manufacturer. At age 18, he had invented a fuse to ignite the magnesium powder for flash photography, which the Navy Department bought from him to be a fuse to detonate submarine mines. He designed an early battery tube light, but without practical application. (His partner, Conrad Hubert, to whom he gave the rights improved it and founded the Eveready Flashlight Company.) At age 22, he created a battery-powered train engine intended only as an eye-catcher for other goods in a store window. To his surprise, many customers wanted to purchase the toy train. Thus he started a model railroad company. Pic. | ||1965: Joshua Lionel Cowen born ... inventor of electric model trains who founded the Lionel Corporation (1901), which became the largest U.S. toy train manufacturer. At age 18, he had invented a fuse to ignite the magnesium powder for flash photography, which the Navy Department bought from him to be a fuse to detonate submarine mines. He designed an early battery tube light, but without practical application. (His partner, Conrad Hubert, to whom he gave the rights improved it and founded the Eveready Flashlight Company.) At age 22, he created a battery-powered train engine intended only as an eye-catcher for other goods in a store window. To his surprise, many customers wanted to purchase the toy train. Thus he started a model railroad company. Pic. | ||
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1588: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne born. He will be remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1635: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Adriaan Metius manufactures precision optical instruments for detecting and preventing crimes against astronomical constants.
1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd dies.
1959: While vacationing in New Minneapolis, Canada, theoretical physicist Edward Teller visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse, where he engages the owners in a spirited debate on the merits of thermonuclear war.
1973: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for his next film by selling shares in the pardoning of Richard Nixon.
1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he is "confident that President Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon."
2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
2013: Rhizolith Group performs new work in remembrance of mathematician Robert Fludd.
2016: Signed first edition of Mad King used in high-energy literature experiments unexpectedly generates a clone of artist Karl Jones.