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||1930: Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again. | ||1930: Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again. | ||
||1930: Physicist Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar born. He and his | ||1930: Physicist Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar born. He and his colleagues will discover the columnar phase of liquid crystals made of disc-shaped molecules. Through supramolecular assembly, the discs exhibit a mesophase which has a two-dimensional periodic order. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=sivaramakrishna+chandrasekhar | ||
||1943: Jonathan Bruce Postel born ... computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards. He is known principally for being the Editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) document series, for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), and for administering the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) until his death. Pic. | ||1943: Jonathan Bruce Postel born ... computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards. He is known principally for being the Editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) document series, for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), and for administering the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) until his death. Pic. | ||
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1638: Priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche born. He will be instrumental in introducing and disseminating the work of René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in France.
1667: Mathematician Johann Bernouli born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
1928: Artist Andy Warhol born. He will be a leading figure in the Pop art movement.
1969: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight purchased by Andy Warhol for an undisclosed sum.
1991: Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1996: NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
2012: NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates twenty-first anniversary of the NASA announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Green Spiral reveals "at least two, probably three, possibly four" previously unknown shades of green.