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||2010: Frank John Fenner dies ... scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology. His two greatest achievements are cited as overseeing the eradication of smallpox, and the control of Australia's rabbit plague through the introduction of Myxoma virus. Pic. | ||2010: Frank John Fenner dies ... scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology. His two greatest achievements are cited as overseeing the eradication of smallpox, and the control of Australia's rabbit plague through the introduction of Myxoma virus. Pic. | ||
||2011: Lynn Margulis dies ... biologist and academic. | ||2011: Lynn Margulis dies ... biologist and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Crimson Blossom 2.jpg|link=Crimson Blossom 2 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Crimson Blossom 2 (nonfiction)|Crimson Blossom 2]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Crimson Blossom 2.jpg|link=Crimson Blossom 2 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Crimson Blossom 2 (nonfiction)|Crimson Blossom 2]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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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.