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||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.
||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.
||1952: [[Operation Hurricane (nonfiction)|Operation Hurricane]]: The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hurricane


||1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
||1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.

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  • 1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.

    1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.

  • 1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

    1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.

    1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.

  • 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.

    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.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Malady sells for three and a half million dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    2017: Signed first edition of Malady sells for three and a half million dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

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