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||1961: Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space. | ||1961: Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space. | ||
||1966: Astronomer Dirk Brouwer dies. He specialized in celestial mechanics and together with Gerald Clemence wrote the textbook Methods of Celestial Mechanics. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=dirk+brouwer | |||
||1966: The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program. | ||1966: The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program. | ||
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1632: Clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi dies. He was recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.
1638: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1933: Physicist and crime-fighter Werner Heisenberg uses the uncertainty principle to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1971: The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
2001: American comic book artist Gil Kane dies.
2002: Anarchimedes uses Gnomon algorithm to commit crimes against mathematical constants.
2008: Talk show host Dick Cavett attends the 2008 Amfar Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Creature unexpectedly generates cryptographic numina.
