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||1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon. | ||1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon. | ||
File:Robin Farquharson.jpg|link=Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|Robin Farquharson]] publishes proof that most voting systems are vulnerable to [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. | ||1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. | ||
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1596: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes born. He will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device.
1877: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot dies. He introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter Robin Farquharson publishes proof that most voting systems are vulnerable to crimes against mathematical constants.
1985: Pin Man publishes his autobiography. He will quickly receive both praise and death threats.
2001: Physicist and academic Clifford Shull dies. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique.
2003: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter dies. He was one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
2017: SOEP cartel threatens to shoot stomach oil smugglers on sight.