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||1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs. | ||1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs. | ||
||1977: U.S. Army combat historian Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall dies. Known professionally as S. L. A. Marshall, and nicknamed "Slam" (the combination of all four of his initials), he authored some 30 books about warfare, including ''Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action'', which was made into a film of the same name. However, his legacy is mired in scandal, as he lied about his involvement in the primary events he wrote about. Pic. | |||
||1999: Jürgen Kurt Moser dies ... mathematician, honored for work spanning over 4 decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations. Pic. | ||1999: Jürgen Kurt Moser dies ... mathematician, honored for work spanning over 4 decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations. Pic. | ||
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||2003: SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight. | ||2003: SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight. | ||
||2014: Dieter Grau dies ... scientist and engineer. | ||2014: Dieter Grau dies ... scientist and engineer. Peenemunde. Pic. | ||
||2015: Osamu Hayaishi dies ... biochemist and academic. | ||2015: Osamu Hayaishi dies ... biochemist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Osamu+Hayaishi | ||
File:Green Ring 2.png|link=Green Ring 2 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Green Ring 2 (nonfiction)|Green Ring 2]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Green Ring 2.png|link=Green Ring 2 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Green Ring 2 (nonfiction)|Green Ring 2]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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498 BC: Dionysus gives speech which anticipates the coming of Saturnalia.
497 BC: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome.
1706: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet born. She will translate and comment upon on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.
1842: Mathematician and academic Marius Sophus Lie born. He will largely create the theory of continuous symmetry and apply it to the study of geometry and differential equations.
1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn devotes himself to fighting crimes against mathematical constants.
1900: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright born. She will do pioneering work in what will later be called chaos theory.
1907: Lord Kelvin dies. He did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1938: Physicist Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
1963: Physicist and crime-fighter Nathan Rosen discovers a new form of Einstein–Rosen bridge which detects and prevents crimes against physical constants.
2016: Green Ring 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.