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||1908: Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth. | ||1908: Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth. | ||
||1915: Martin Nodell born ... cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. | ||1915: Martin Nodell born ... cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. | ||
||1919: Alfred Werner dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1919: Alfred Werner dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1922: Petros Protopapadakis dies ... mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece. | ||1922: Petros Protopapadakis dies ... mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece. | ||
||1922: Francis Brunn born ... juggler | ||1922: Francis Brunn born ... juggler. | ||
||1935: Stephen Warshall born ... computer scientist. | ||1935: Stephen Warshall born ... computer scientist. Pic. | ||
||1938: André-Eugène Blondel dies ... engineer and physicist. He is the inventor of the electromechanical oscillograph and a system of photometric units of measurement. Pic. | ||1938: André-Eugène Blondel dies ... engineer and physicist. He is the inventor of the electromechanical oscillograph and a system of photometric units of measurement. Pic. | ||
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||1939: Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde born ... physician and parapsychologist. She said that there was a secret exchange program between humans and aliens that was being deliberately suppressed by "powerful Western governments", particularly the United States. | ||1939: Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde born ... physician and parapsychologist. She said that there was a secret exchange program between humans and aliens that was being deliberately suppressed by "powerful Western governments", particularly the United States. | ||
||1959: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson dies ... physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1959: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson dies ... physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1966: Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean. | ||1966: Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean. | ||
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1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher Albertus Magnus dies. He was known during his lifetime as doctor universalis and doctor expertus and, late in his life, the term magnus was appended to his name.
1797: Philosopher and crime-fighter Red Eyes Fighting defeats gang of math criminals in close-quarters combat.
1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Kepler born. He discovered laws of planetary motion.
1894: Donnybrook breaks out, Extract of Radium abuse suspected.
1981: Physicist and chemist Walter Heinrich Heitler dies. He made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.
2015: Extract of Radium installs automated vending machines at all San Francisco Muni stations.
2016: San Francisco Muni hack begins, data held hostage for ransom.
2016: Artificial intelligence Killer Poke denies involvement in San Francisco Muni hack.
2017: Signed first edition of Pinwheel Diagram stolen from City Hall in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.