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||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. | ||
||1977: Peter Carl Goldmark dies ... engineer ... instrumental in developing the long-playing microgroove 33-1/3 rpm phonograph disc. Pic. | |||
File:Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin.jpg|link=Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|1979: Astronomer and astrophysicist [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|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. | File:Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin.jpg|link=Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|1979: Astronomer and astrophysicist [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|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. | ||
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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.