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||1961: The world's first nuclear ramjet engine, "Tory-IIA", mounted on a railroad car, roared to life for a few seconds.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
||1961: The world's first nuclear ramjet engine, "Tory-IIA", mounted on a railroad car, roared to life for a few seconds.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
||1964: Mara Neusel born ... mathematician, author, and academic ... an advocate for women in mathematics. The focus of her mathematical work was on invariant theory. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=mara+neusel


||1973: Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
||1973: Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.

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  • 1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.

    1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.

  • 1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.

    1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.

  • 1680: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to commit series of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1680: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to commit series of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.

    1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.

  • 1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

    1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

  • 1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.

    1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.

  • 1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.

    1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.

  • 2018: Signed first edition of Butterfly unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence after exposure to Cherenkov radiation during an otherwise routine high-energy literature experiment.

    2018: Signed first edition of Butterfly unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence after exposure to Cherenkov radiation during an otherwise routine high-energy literature experiment.

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