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File:Edward Purdy Ney.jpg|link=Edward P. Ney (nonfiction)|1996: Physicist [[Edward P. Ney (nonfiction)|Edward P. Ney]] dies. Ney made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy, discovering cosmic ray heavy nuclei and solar proton events. He pioneered the use of high altitude balloons for scientific investigations, and was one of the first researchers to put experiments aboard spacecraft.
File:Edward Purdy Ney.jpg|link=Edward P. Ney (nonfiction)|1996: Physicist [[Edward P. Ney (nonfiction)|Edward P. Ney]] dies. Ney made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy, discovering cosmic ray heavy nuclei and solar proton events. He pioneered the use of high altitude balloons for scientific investigations, and was one of the first researchers to put experiments aboard spacecraft.
||2005: Byron Preiss dies ... writer, editor, and publisher. He founded and served as president of Byron Preiss Visual Publications, and later of ibooks Inc. Weird Heroes, The Stars My Destination. Pic.


||2008: Under the belief that Israel and the United States were planning to attack its nuclear program, Iran conducted the Great Prophet III missile test and war games exercise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Prophet_III
||2008: Under the belief that Israel and the United States were planning to attack its nuclear program, Iran conducted the Great Prophet III missile test and war games exercise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Prophet_III

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