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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.

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 ||1948: Harry Brearley dies ... was an English metallurgist, usually credited with the invention of "rustless steel" (later to be called "stainless steel" in the anglophone world). Pic.
-||Richard Edler von Mises (d. 14 July 1953) was a scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. Pic.
+||Richard Edler von Mises dies ... scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. Pic.
-||Thomas Wolff (b. July 14, 1954) was a noted mathematician, working primarily in the fields of harmonic analysis, complex analysis, and partial differential equations. Pic.
+||Thomas Wolff born ... mathematician, working primarily in the fields of harmonic analysis, complex analysis, and partial differential equations. Pic.
 File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1962: Soldier of fortune and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] steals the [[Small Boy (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon]].  The theft will soon be retroactively prevented by the [[The Custodian]].