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||1968 – Apollo program: The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit performed by the Apollo 7 crew. | ||1968 – Apollo program: The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit performed by the Apollo 7 crew. | ||
||Norman Earl Steenrod (d. October 14, 1971) was a mathematician most widely known for his contributions to the field of algebraic topology. | |||
||1984 – Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) | ||1984 – Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) | ||
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1831: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons dies. He was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.
1881: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes calls Extract of Radium "a plague on all living things, and a curse on civilization."
1884: Inventor George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1948: Musician and physicist J. R. Oppenheimer performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
2010: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies.
