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||1965: Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music. | ||1965: Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music. | ||
||1969: Otto Dix dies ... painter and illustrator. Pic. | |||
||1969: Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war. | ||1969: Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war. |
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1616: Physician, alchemist and chemist Andreas Libavius dies. He accepted the Paracelsian principle of using occult properties to explain phenomena with no apparent cause, but rejected the conclusion that a thing possessing these properties must have an astral connection to the divine.
1680: Mathematician, philosopher, and APTO field engineer Elena Cornaro Piscopia discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which prove that the House of Malevecchio is trafficking in math crimes.
1748: Astronomer Charles Messier's interest in astronomy is stimulated by an annular solar eclipse visible from his hometown.
1808: Mathematician Johann Benedict Listing born. He will introduce the term "topology", first in correspondence, then in a famous article published in 1847.
1837: The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
1842: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey dies. He was an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, and is often considered the first modern military surgeon.
1919: Mathematician, logician, and APTO field engineer Gottlob Frege publishes new class of Gnomon algorith functions which use predicate logic to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1920: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin born. She will make contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
2016: Signed first edition of Lend a Hand used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly generates "at least two, probably four, and perhaps as many as eight" organic golems.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a minute of silence in memory of the Viking 2 orbiter, which was turned off forty-one years ago, after returning almost 16,000 images in about 700–706 orbits around Mars.