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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. | ||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 dies ... scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. Pic. | ||1953: Richard Edler von Mises dies ... scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. Pic. | ||
||Thomas Wolff born ... mathematician, working primarily in the fields of harmonic analysis, complex analysis, and partial differential equations. Pic. | ||1954: 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]]. | 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]]. | ||
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||2000: Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin "Mark" Oliphant dies ... physicist and humanitarian who played an important role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and also the development of nuclear weapons. Pic. | ||2000: Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin "Mark" Oliphant dies ... physicist and humanitarian who played an important role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and also the development of nuclear weapons. Pic. | ||
||2015: NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System. | ||2015: NASA's ''New Horizons'' probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System. | ||
||2017: Maryam Mirzakhani dies ... mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. Pic. | ||2017: Maryam Mirzakhani dies ... mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. 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.