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|File:Clandestiphrine proposal.jpg|link=Clandestiphrine|1967: [[Clandestiphrine]] trafficking money laundered via ''[[The Little Petroleum Sample That Could]]'', say [[transdimensional drug]] authorities. | |File:Clandestiphrine proposal.jpg|link=Clandestiphrine|1967: [[Clandestiphrine]] trafficking money laundered via ''[[The Little Petroleum Sample That Could]]'', say [[transdimensional drug]] authorities. | ||
||1972: Horia Hulubei dies ... nuclear physicist, known for his contributions to the development of X-ray spectroscopy. Pic. | |||
||1974: Gerald Maurice Clemence dies ... astronomer. Inspired by the life and work of Simon Newcomb, his career paralleled the huge advances in astronomy brought about by the advent of the electronic computer. Clemence did much to revive the prestige of the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office. Pic: https://www.nap.edu/read/10169/chapter/6 | ||1974: Gerald Maurice Clemence dies ... astronomer. Inspired by the life and work of Simon Newcomb, his career paralleled the huge advances in astronomy brought about by the advent of the electronic computer. Clemence did much to revive the prestige of the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office. Pic: https://www.nap.edu/read/10169/chapter/6 |
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1916: Author Jack London dies. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
1944: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington dies. He became famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
1946: ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") successfully refactors the Wow! signal.
1963: Writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
1963: United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded.
1965: Umbrella Man witnesses rubbed with Clandestiphrine, 73% die of stack overflow allergy. Witness Protection Program implements software patch to prevent recurrence.
1998: Physicist Harry Lehmann dies. He contributed to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
2017: Crimson Blossom 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.