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File:Eugene Shoemaker.jpg|link=Eugene Merle Shoemaker (nonfiction)|1997: Geologist and astronomer [[Eugene Merle Shoemaker (nonfiction)|Eugene Merle Shoemaker]] dies. Shoemaker was the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.
File:Eugene Shoemaker.jpg|link=Eugene Merle Shoemaker (nonfiction)|1997: Geologist and astronomer [[Eugene Merle Shoemaker (nonfiction)|Eugene Merle Shoemaker]] dies. Shoemaker was the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.


File:Judge Havelock With Glass.jpg|link=Judge Havelock With Glass|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Judge Havelock With Glass]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Nineteenth Century Representations of Emerging Information Systems.
File:Judge Havelock With Glass.jpg|link=Judge Havelock With Glass|2017: ''[[Judge Havelock With Glass]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "a prescient study of emerging information technologies in mid-1800's America."


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  • 1853: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz born. He will share the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.

    1853: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz born. He will share the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.

  • 1960: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions with a wide range of applications in electronic devices used to fight crimes against mathematical constants.

    1960: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions with a wide range of applications in electronic devices used to fight crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1966: Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.

    1966: Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.

  • 1967: Engineer and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tells fellow astronauts that Gemini 10 "was an inspiration to us all."

    1967: Engineer and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tells fellow astronauts that Gemini 10 "was an inspiration to us all."

  • 1997: Geologist and astronomer Eugene Merle Shoemaker dies. Shoemaker was the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.

    1997: Geologist and astronomer Eugene Merle Shoemaker dies. Shoemaker was the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.

  • 2017: Judge Havelock With Glass wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "a prescient study of emerging information technologies in mid-1800's America."

    2017: Judge Havelock With Glass wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "a prescient study of emerging information technologies in mid-1800's America."

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