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||1877 – Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist (b. 1796) | ||1877 – Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist (b. 1796) | ||
||Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler (d. 24 January 1879) was a skilled glassblower and physicist, famous for his invention of the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge tube. | |||
||1888 – Ernst Heinkel, German engineer and businessman, founded the Heinkel Aircraft Manufacturing Company (d. 1958) | ||1888 – Ernst Heinkel, German engineer and businessman, founded the Heinkel Aircraft Manufacturing Company (d. 1958) | ||
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1201: Canterbury scrying engine retrofitted with Gnomon algorithm routines.
1569: Astronomer Tycho Brahe uses Gnomon algorithm functions make improved astronomical observations.
1961: Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
1972: New evidence suggests that The Eel Escapes Hydrolab is based on actual events.
1978: Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
2016: John Hoyland's Lebanon stolen in broad daylight by supervillain Gnotilus.
2016: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky dies.
2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.