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||1800: Jean Baptiste André Dumas born ... chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities. Pic. | ||1800: Jean Baptiste André Dumas born ... chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities. Pic. | ||
||1827: Augustin-Jean Fresnel dies ... physicist and engineer. | ||1827: Augustin-Jean Fresnel dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||
File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1856: Mathematician [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] is elected to fill the vacancy created by the death of Jacques Binet in the Académie des Sciences. | File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1856: Mathematician [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] is elected to fill the vacancy created by the death of Jacques Binet in the Académie des Sciences. | ||
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||1865: Benjamin Gompertz dies ... mathematician and statistician. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=benjamin+gompertz | ||1865: Benjamin Gompertz dies ... mathematician and statistician. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=benjamin+gompertz | ||
||1872: Albert Marque born ... sculptor and doll maker. | ||1872: Albert Marque born ... sculptor and doll maker. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Marquet_(1875-1947),_c._1920s.jpg | ||
||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. | ||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. | ||
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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.