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||1908: Lev Pontryagin born ... mathematician and academic.
||1908: Lev Pontryagin born ... mathematician and academic.
File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1916: Archaeologist and crime-fighter [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] uses archaeological expedition to Mexico during World War I as cover story for secret investigation into alleged Maya-related [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1925: USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.
||1925: USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.

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  • 1658: Oliver Cromwell dies. He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

    1658: Oliver Cromwell dies. He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

  • 1803: Chemist John Dalton uses symbols to represent the atoms making up molecules of different elements.

    1803: Chemist John Dalton uses symbols to represent the atoms making up molecules of different elements.

  • 1814: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.

    1814: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.

  • 1928: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the press.

    1928: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the press.

  • 1975: Vulnerability in Forbidden graph characterization exploited in blackmail scheme by criminal mathematician Anarchimedes.

    1975: Vulnerability in Forbidden graph characterization exploited in blackmail scheme by criminal mathematician Anarchimedes.

  • 1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.

    1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the Viking 2 spacecraft landing at Utopia Planitia on Mars.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the Viking 2 spacecraft landing at Utopia Planitia on Mars.

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