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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 uses Gnomon algorithm to communicate with John Pell.
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.
1921: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt dies. She discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
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.
1994: Diagram of public-key cryptography generation sell for 1.7 million dollars.
2016: Do Not Tease Monster declared Image of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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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.
-||OSCAR 1: The first amateur built satellite, is launched aboard an American Thor-Agena rocket.
+||1961: OSCAR 1: The first amateur built satellite, is launched aboard an American Thor-Agena rocket. Pic.
 ||1969: Years of Lead: Piazza Fontana bombing: The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
+File:Peter Giblets.jpg|link=Peter Giblets|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.
 File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1994: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] sell for 1.7 million dollars.