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||1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space. | ||1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space. | ||
||Marshall Glecker Holloway (d. June 18, 1991) was an American physicist who worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory during and after World War II. He was its representative, and the deputy scientific director, at the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in July 1946. Holloway became the head of the Laboratory's W Division, responsible for new weapons development. In September 1952 he was charged with designing, building and testing a thermonuclear weapon, popularly known as a hydrogen bomb. This culminated in the Ivy Mike test in November of that year. Pic. | |||
||2005 – Manuel Sadosky, Argentinian mathematician and academic (b. 1914) | ||2005 – Manuel Sadosky, Argentinian mathematician and academic (b. 1914) | ||
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1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
1563: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
1974: Mathematician and academic Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.
2017: Culvert Origenes and The Governess wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration.