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||1923: Victor Mikhailovich Glushkov born ... mathematician, the founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union, and one of the founders of Cybernetics. Pic.
||1923: Victor Mikhailovich Glushkov born ... mathematician, the founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union, and one of the founders of Cybernetics. Pic.
File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1932: Pilot, engineer, and alleged time-traveler [[Henrietta Bolt]] shoots down [[Baron Zerzsetzung]]'s experimental jet flying wing in time to prevent the Baron from sabotaging [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]]'s cross-the-United-States flight.


File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1932: [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] completes her non-stop flight across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just over 19 hours. She was the first woman to fly nonstop across the US. Earlier in the same year, on 20 May 1932, she accomplished the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic Ocean.  
File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1932: [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] completes her non-stop flight across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just over 19 hours. She was the first woman to fly nonstop across the US. Earlier in the same year, on 20 May 1932, she accomplished the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic Ocean.  

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  • 1654: Blaise Pascal writes to Pierre de Fermat, describing his solution to the Problem of the Points (a probability problem) and asking Fermat to critique it.

    1654: Blaise Pascal writes to Pierre de Fermat, describing his solution to the Problem of the Points (a probability problem) and asking Fermat to critique it.

  • 1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.

    1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.

  • 1888: Rudolf Clausius dies. He was one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.

    1888: Rudolf Clausius dies. He was one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.

  • 1889: Steganographic analysis of Judge Havelock With Glass reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.

    1889: Steganographic analysis of Judge Havelock With Glass reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.

  • 1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

    1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

  • 1896: Author and crime-fighter Mark Twain publishes new collection of short stories based on Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1896: Author and crime-fighter Mark Twain publishes new collection of short stories based on Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • 1899: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges born. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, will be compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.

    1899: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges born. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, will be compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.

  • 1922: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn born. He will write extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

    1922: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn born. He will write extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

  • 1932: Pilot, engineer, and alleged time-traveler Henrietta Bolt shoots down Baron Zerzsetzung's experimental jet flying wing in time to prevent the Baron from sabotaging Amelia Earhart's cross-the-United-States flight.

    1932: Pilot, engineer, and alleged time-traveler Henrietta Bolt shoots down Baron Zerzsetzung's experimental jet flying wing in time to prevent the Baron from sabotaging Amelia Earhart's cross-the-United-States flight.

  • 1932: Amelia Earhart completes her non-stop flight across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just over 19 hours. She was the first woman to fly nonstop across the US. Earlier in the same year, on 20 May 1932, she accomplished the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic Ocean.

    1932: Amelia Earhart completes her non-stop flight across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just over 19 hours. She was the first woman to fly nonstop across the US. Earlier in the same year, on 20 May 1932, she accomplished the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic Ocean.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden sells for three million dollars.

    2017: Signed first edition of Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden sells for three million dollars.

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