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File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1973: The ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' space probe makes its closest approach to the planet Jupiter, at a range of about 132,252 kilometers (82,178 mi). | File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1973: The ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' space probe makes its closest approach to the planet Jupiter, at a range of about 132,252 kilometers (82,178 mi). | ||
||Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (d. December 4, 1978) was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925. | |||
||1998 – The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched. | ||1998 – The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched. | ||
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1131: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám dies.
1131: Red Eyes delivers eulogy for Omar Khayyám.
1798: Physician and physicist Luigi Galvani dies. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.
1820: Physicist John Tyndall dies of chloral hydrate overdose. He studied diamagnetism, and made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
1899: Rabbi Lowe inspects traditional golem for organic toxins.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe makes its closest approach to the planet Jupiter, at a range of about 132,252 kilometers (82,178 mi).
2016: London Has Swollen wins Sundance Film Festival award.
2023: Bingo tokens harvested from diagramaceous soil.