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||1956: The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization. | ||1956: The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization. | ||
||1966: Fritz Houtermans dies ... physicist and academic. Pic: http://blog.eag.eu.com/general/houtermans/ | ||1966: Fritz Houtermans dies ... physicist and academic; geochemistry and cosmochemistry. Pic: http://blog.eag.eu.com/general/houtermans/ | ||
||1966: Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface. | ||1966: Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface. | ||
File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|1973: ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' released. It will go on to become one of the most successful albums ever. | File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|1973: ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' released. It will go on to become one of the most successful albums ever. | ||
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||2005: Sergio Campanato dies ... mathematician who studied the theory of regularity for elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sergio+Campanato | ||2005: Sergio Campanato dies ... mathematician who studied the theory of regularity for elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sergio+Campanato | ||
||2012: Florence | File:Florence_Newman_(1940s).jpg|link=Florence Newman Trefethen (nonfiction)|2012: Codebreaker, historian, academic, and poet [[Florence Newman Trefethen (nonfiction)|Florence Newman Trefethen]] dies. Trefethen enlisted as a Naval officer during World War II, serving in the WAVES as a codebreaker with the [[Magic (cryptography) (nonfiction)|Magic project]], whose decryptions of Japanese communications led to the ambush and killing of Japanese Admiral [[Isoroku Yamamoto (nonfiction)|Isoroku Yamamoto]]. | ||
||2015: Georg Kreisel dies ... mathematical logician. Pic: http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/112463880322/georg-kreisel-rip | ||2015: Georg Kreisel dies ... mathematical logician. Pic: http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/112463880322/georg-kreisel-rip | ||
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1597: Priest and mathematician Jean-Charles della Faille born. He will publish a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
1611: Mathematician John Pell born. He will expand the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.
1700: Astronomer, philosopher, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Francesco Bianchini publicly accuses the House of Malevecchio of planning and commissioning the corruption of astronomical data used in the computation of Easter for a given year.
1893: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
1954: Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
1973: The Dark Side of the Moon released. It will go on to become one of the most successful albums ever.
1974: Signed first edition of Humpty Dumpty At Bat sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against physical constants.
1974: Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
2012: Codebreaker, historian, academic, and poet Florence Newman Trefethen dies. Trefethen enlisted as a Naval officer during World War II, serving in the WAVES as a codebreaker with the Magic project, whose decryptions of Japanese communications led to the ambush and killing of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Taffy Bomb reveals "at least five hundred and twelve kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.