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||1996: Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour. | ||1996: Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour. | ||
||1988: Isidor Isaac Rabi dies ... physicist | ||1988: Isidor Isaac Rabi dies ... physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging. He was also one of the first scientists in the United States to work on the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens. Pic. | ||
||1991: Carl David Anderson dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1991: Carl David Anderson dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||On January 11, 2007, China conducted an anti-satellite missile test. A Chinese weather satellite—the FY-1C polar orbit satellite of the Fengyun series, at an altitude of 865 kilometres (537 mi), with a mass of 750 kg—was destroyed by a kinetic kill vehicle traveling with a speed of 8 km/s in the opposite direction. Pic. | ||On January 11, 2007, China conducted an anti-satellite missile test. A Chinese weather satellite—the FY-1C polar orbit satellite of the Fengyun series, at an altitude of 865 kilometres (537 mi), with a mass of 750 kg—was destroyed by a kinetic kill vehicle traveling with a speed of 8 km/s in the opposite direction. Pic. | ||
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File:Mars_Science_Laboratory.jpg|link=Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|2012: The [[Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|Mars Science Laboratory]] successfully refined its trajectory with a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings, advancing the rover's landing time by about 14 hours. | File:Mars_Science_Laboratory.jpg|link=Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|2012: The [[Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|Mars Science Laboratory]] successfully refined its trajectory with a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings, advancing the rover's landing time by about 14 hours. | ||
||2012: Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan | ||2012: Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan assassinated ... physicist and academic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mostafa+Ahmadi-Roshan | ||
||2012: Steven Rawlings dies ... astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic. | ||2012: Steven Rawlings dies ... astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic. | ||
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1502: Mathematician, cosmographer, and academic Pedro Nunes born. He will be one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, known for his mathematical approach to navigation and cartography.
1664: Mathematician and crime-fighter Pierre de Fermat publishes an original Gnomon algorithm function which locates the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved crimes against mathematical constants.
1569: First recorded lottery in England.
1570: Didacus automaton uses Gnomon algorithm to predict winning lottery numbers.
1638: Scientist and bishop Niels Steensen born. He will question explanations for tear production, the idea that fossils grow in the ground.
1711: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão collaborates with Didacus automaton on design of new airship.
1757: engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham born. He will design the first Panopticon.
1934: Computer scientist Tony Hoare born. He will go on to invent the quicksort algorithm, and make other contributions to computer science.
2012: The Mars Science Laboratory successfully refined its trajectory with a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings, advancing the rover's landing time by about 14 hours.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Mars Science Laboratory successfully refining its trajectory with a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings, advancing the rover's landing time by about 14 hours.