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File:Gemini-10 Agena firing.jpg|link=Gemini 10 (nonfiction)|1966: Human spaceflight: [[Gemini 10 (nonfiction)|Gemini 10]] is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle. | File:Gemini-10 Agena firing.jpg|link=Gemini 10 (nonfiction)|1966: Human spaceflight: [[Gemini 10 (nonfiction)|Gemini 10]] is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle. | ||
File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1967: Engineer and alleged time-traveller [[Henrietta Bolt]] tells fellow astronauts that [[Gemini 10 (nonfiction)|Gemini 10]] "was an inspiration to us all." | File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1967: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller [[Henrietta Bolt]] tells fellow astronauts that [[Gemini 10 (nonfiction)|Gemini 10]] "was an inspiration to us all." | ||
||1987 – Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (b. 1907) | ||1987 – Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (b. 1907) |
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1853: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz born. He will share the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
1960: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions with a wide range of applications in electronic devices used to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1966: Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
1967: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tells fellow astronauts that Gemini 10 "was an inspiration to us all."
1997: Geologist and astronomer Eugene Merle Shoemaker dies. Shoemaker was the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.
2017: Judge Havelock With Glass wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "a prescient study of emerging information technologies in mid-1800's America."