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||1965: Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054. | ||1965: Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054. | ||
||1970: Rube Goldberg dies ... American cartoonist, sculptor, and author. | ||1970: Rube Goldberg dies ... American cartoonist, sculptor, and author. Pic. | ||
||1972: Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth. | ||1972: Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth. | ||
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903: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi born. He will publish his Book of Fixed Stars in 964.
1823: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker born. His work will include number theory, algebra, and logic.
1880: Mathematician, statistician, and APTO field engineer Pafnuty Chebyshev uses Chebyshev's inequality to defeat Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
1929: Mathematician, physicist, and APTO philosopher Hermann Weyl uses fermions (now known as Weyl semimetals) to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1944: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer Betty Holberton programs the ENIAC computer to confirm the APTO Accords, a landmark accomplishment in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1963: Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1979: Astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin dies. Her doctoral thesis established that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.
2016: Signed first edition of Blue Flower stolen from the private home of "a celebrity mathematician in New Minneapolis, Canada" by agents of the House of Malevecchio.