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File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]]. | File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]]. | ||
File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Godel]] announced his famous Incompleteness Theorem -- that there are true but unprovable statements in arithmetic -- in a discussion on the foundations of mathematics organized by the Vienna Circle. | File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Godel]] announced his famous Incompleteness Theorem -- that there are true but unprovable statements in arithmetic -- in a discussion on the foundations of mathematics organized by the Vienna Circle. |
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1604: Mathematician Robert Fludd publishes new work on cellular automata theory and its application to crimes against mathematical constants.
1914: Physicist and philosopher James Van Allen born. The Van Allen radiation belts will be named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.
1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by inventor Philo Farnsworth.
1930: Mathematician Kurt Godel announced his famous Incompleteness Theorem -- that there are true but unprovable statements in arithmetic -- in a discussion on the foundations of mathematics organized by the Vienna Circle.
1939: Soviet Air Defense office Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov born. Petrov will became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident.
1985: Mathematician George Pólya dies. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
2004: The unmanned spacecraft Genesis receives a warning from AESOP, the alleged autonomous artificial intelligence living in the Earth's ionosphere, about "return capsule parachute failure". The Genesis capsule will crash-land in Utah on September 8, 2004, after a design flaw prevents the deployment of its drogue parachute.
2017: Signed first edition of Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus sells for two million dollars.
2018: Green Tangle 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.