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File:Theoricarum by Peuerbach 1915.png|link=Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)|1423: Mathematician and astronomer [[Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)]] born. He will be remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the ''Theoricae Novae Planetarum''. | File:Theoricarum by Peuerbach 1915.png|link=Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)|1423: Mathematician and astronomer [[Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)]] born. He will be remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the ''Theoricae Novae Planetarum''. | ||
||1539: In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold. | ||1539: In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1593: Playwright, poet, and translator Christopher Marlowe is murdered. Pic. | ||
||1739: Digesting Duck demonstrated for the first time. | ||1631: Publication of ''Gazette de France'', the first French newspaper. Pic. | ||
||1739: Digesting Duck demonstrated for the first time. Pic. | |||
||1768: Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann born ... mineralogist and geologist. Pic. | ||1768: Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann born ... mineralogist and geologist. Pic. | ||
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1423: Mathematician and astronomer Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction) born. He will be remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.
1813: Engineer, naval architect, and crime-fighter Samuel Bentham uses Pantopticon technology to locate and capture alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1946: Physicist Louis Slotin dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1964: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard dies. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.
1967: US Army research team uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. In response, APTO field agents confiscate the weapons and revoke Army access to all Gnomon algorithm source files.
1971: NASA launches the Mariner 9 spacecraft. It will map 70% of the surface of Mars, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
2016: Blue Green Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-sixth anniversary of the launch of Mariner 9.