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File:Dennis Paulson of Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars]] celebrates twenty-first anniversary of the NASA announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]], contains evidence of primitive life-forms. | File:Dennis Paulson of Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars]] celebrates twenty-first anniversary of the NASA announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]], contains evidence of primitive life-forms. | ||
File:Green Spiral.jpg|link=Green Spiral (nonfiction)|2018: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Green Spiral (nonfiction)|Green Spiral]]'' reveals "at least two, probably | File:Green Spiral.jpg|link=Green Spiral (nonfiction)|2018: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Green Spiral (nonfiction)|Green Spiral]]'' reveals "at least two, probably four, possibly eight" previously unknown hues of the color green. | ||
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1638: Priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche born. He will be instrumental in introducing and disseminating the work of René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in France.
1667: Mathematician Johann Bernouli born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
1881: Biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist Alexander Fleming born. Fleming will discover the enzyme lysozyme in 1923, and the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) in 1928, for which he will share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.
1928: Artist Andy Warhol born. He will be a leading figure in the Pop art movement.
1928: Cryptologist and APTO field engineer Herbert Yardley discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use cryptographic numina to detect and prevent crimes against computational constants.
1969: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight purchased by Andy Warhol for an undisclosed sum.
1991: Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1996: NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
2012: NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates twenty-first anniversary of the NASA announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Green Spiral reveals "at least two, probably four, possibly eight" previously unknown hues of the color green.