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||1971 – The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
||1971 – The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.


||1972 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
File:Maria Goeppert-Mayer.jpg|link=Maria Goeppert-Mayer (nonfiction)|1972: Physicist and academic [[Maria Goeppert-Mayer (nonfiction)|Maria Goeppert-Mayer]] dies. She developed a mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, which she shared with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner.


|File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1973: [[John Brunner]] accuses [[Killer Poke]] of infecting [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" program]] with [[Extract of Radium]].
|File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1973: [[John Brunner]] accuses [[Killer Poke]] of infecting [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" program]] with [[Extract of Radium]].

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  • 1771: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan dies. His observations and experiments inspired the beginning of what is now known as the study of biological circadian rhythms.

    1771: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan dies. His observations and experiments inspired the beginning of what is now known as the study of biological circadian rhythms.

  • 1788: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi dies. She was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy.

    1788: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi dies. She was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy.

  • 1958: Project SCORE satellite equipped with Gnomon algorithm control system.

    1958: Project SCORE satellite equipped with Gnomon algorithm control system.

  • 1972: Physicist and academic Maria Goeppert-Mayer dies. She developed a mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, which she shared with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner.

    1972: Physicist and academic Maria Goeppert-Mayer dies. She developed a mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, which she shared with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner.

  • 1986: The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.

    1986: The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.

  • 1987: New class of Fantasy Voronoi diagrams uses Gnomon algorithm to compute record-breaking profits.

    1987: New class of Fantasy Voronoi diagrams uses Gnomon algorithm to compute record-breaking profits.

  • 2016: Steganographic analysis of Pin Man illustration reveals "several hundred gigabytes of encrypted data related to the Carnevale Tenebre program."

    2016: Steganographic analysis of Pin Man illustration reveals "several hundred gigabytes of encrypted data related to the Carnevale Tenebre program."

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