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||1927: Robert Norton Noyce born ... engineer who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the realization of the first integrated circuit or microchip that fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name. Pic. | ||1927: Robert Norton Noyce born ... engineer who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the realization of the first integrated circuit or microchip that fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name. Pic. | ||
||1955 English engineer Christopher Cockerell | ||1955: English engineer Christopher Cockerell files the patent for his new invention, the hovercraft, a craft capable of traveling over land, water, mud or ice and other surfaces both at speed and when stationary. *Yovisto | ||
||1961: OSCAR 1: The first amateur built satellite, is launched aboard an American Thor-Agena rocket. Pic. | ||1961: OSCAR 1: The first amateur built satellite, is launched aboard an American Thor-Agena rocket. Pic. | ||
File:Akiva Yaglom.jpg|link=Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|1967: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and [[APTO]] meteorological engineer [[Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|Akiva Yaglom]] discovers a [[Gnomon algorithm]] function which unifies previous theories of turbulence and random processes. Yaglom's function will quickly find applications in the detection and prevention of [[Crimes against physical constants|crimes against weather]]. | |||
||1969: Years of Lead: Piazza Fontana bombing: The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed. | ||1969: Years of Lead: Piazza Fontana bombing: The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed. | ||
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1204: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides dies.
1685: Mathematician John Pell dies. He expanded the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.
1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão's publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1862: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
![1901: Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.](/w/images/thumb/0/0d/Guglielmo_Marconi.jpg/90px-Guglielmo_Marconi.jpg)
1901: Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
1921: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt dies. She discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
1967: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and APTO meteorological engineer Akiva Yaglom discovers a Gnomon algorithm function which unifies previous theories of turbulence and random processes. Yaglom's function will quickly find applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against weather.
1973: Talk show host Peter Giblets films an episode of Peter Giblets Hour in New Minneapolis, Canada his guests include Niles Cartouchian and Pierre Trudeau.
2016: Do Not Tease Monster declared Image of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.