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||1872: Albert Marque born ... sculptor and doll maker. | ||1872: Albert Marque born ... sculptor and doll maker. | ||
||1874: André-Louis Debierne born ... chemist and is considered the discoverer of the element actinium. In 1910, he and Marie Curie prepared radium in metallic form in visible amounts. Pic. | |||
||1894: Guido Kark Heinrich Hoheisel born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1894: Guido Kark Heinrich Hoheisel born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
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1856: Mathematician Charles Hermite is elected to fill the vacancy created by the death of Jacques Binet in the Académie des Sciences.
1962: Soldier of fortune and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung steals the Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon. The theft will soon be retroactively prevented by the The Custodian.
1962: United States Army tests Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon, at the Nevada Test Site. Yield was 1.65 kt.
1962: The Custodian prevents attempt by Baron Zersetzung to steal the Small Boy tactical nuclear weapon.
1965: The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
1993: Computer scientist, Gnomon algorithm researcher, and poet John T. Riedl gives an impromptu reading from his latest procedurally-generated poem "Why The Algorithm" at the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates fifty-second anniversary of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars.