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||1963: Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called "red telephone" link between Washington and Moscow. | ||1963: Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called "red telephone" link between Washington and Moscow. | ||
||1963: Raphaël Salem dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1963: Raphaël Salem dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1966: Georges Lemaître dies ... priest, physicist, and astronomer. | ||1966: Georges Lemaître dies ... priest, physicist, and astronomer. | ||
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||2002: Erwin Chargaff dies ... biochemist and academic. | ||2002: Erwin Chargaff dies ... biochemist and academic. | ||
||2005: Jack Kilby dies ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate ... took part (along with Robert Noyce) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000. | ||2005: Jack Kilby dies ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate ... took part (along with Robert Noyce) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000. Pic. | ||
||2006: Markus Eduard Fierz dies ... physicist, particularly remembered for his formulation of spin-statistics theorem, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics, and statistical mechanics. He was awarded the Max Planck Medal in 1979 and the Albert Einstein Medal in 1989 for all his work. | ||2006: Markus Eduard Fierz dies ... physicist, particularly remembered for his formulation of spin-statistics theorem, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics, and statistical mechanics. He was awarded the Max Planck Medal in 1979 and the Albert Einstein Medal in 1989 for all his work. | ||
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1840: Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1875: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer dies. He designed and invented submarines.
1876: Adventurer and alleged "Pirate of the Prairie" Wallace War-Heels says that he has "offered no man violence", but admits that he has "responded to violence with greater violence, many times."
1877: Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
2010: Unlicensed Extract of Radium factory accidentally releases self-sustaining colony of transdimensional corporations.
2017: Chromatographic analysis of Ursa Nano reveals a previously unknown shade of blue, "probably as a result of latest cryptographic numina."