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||1716 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist and academic (d. 1781) | |||
||1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death. | |||
||1867 – Elias Howe, American engineer, invented the sewing machine (b. 1819) | |||
||1881 – Orson Pratt, American mathematician and religious leader (b. 1811) | |||
||1891 – Édouard Lucas, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1842) | |||
||1924 – Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist (d. 1993) | |||
||1942 – Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space. | |||
||1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power. | |||
||1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is not obscene. | |||
||1962 – Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight. | |||
||1966 – Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1896) | |||
||1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J). | |||
||1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened. | |||
||2006 – John Crank, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1916) | |||
File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|2012: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells. | |||
|File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1568: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] develops new theory of [[transdimensional corporations]]. | |File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1568: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] develops new theory of [[transdimensional corporations]]. | ||
|File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|2002: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage. | |File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|2002: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage. | ||
File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|2003: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] reprogrammed to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|2003: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] reprogrammed to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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Revision as of 20:04, 9 July 2017
2012: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
2003: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.