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||1832: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born ... writer and statesman. His works include four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and color. In addition, there are numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him extant. Pic. | ||1832: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born ... writer and statesman. His works include four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and color. In addition, there are numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him extant. Pic. | ||
||1840: Étienne Bobillier dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1840: Étienne Bobillier dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Étienne+Bobillier | ||
||1857: Paul Doumer born ... mathematician, journalist, and politician, 14th President of France. | ||1857: Paul Doumer born ... mathematician, journalist, and politician, 14th President of France. | ||
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File:Thomson_tide_calculator.jpg|link=Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|1869: Aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] steals [[Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|Thomson tide calculator]] for personal use; Steampunks outraged. | File:Thomson_tide_calculator.jpg|link=Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|1869: Aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] steals [[Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|Thomson tide calculator]] for personal use; Steampunks outraged. | ||
||1903: Bill Holman born ... cartoonist. | ||1903: Bill Holman born ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||
File:Nathan Rosen.jpg|link=Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|1909: Physicist [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] born. He will develop the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole. | File:Nathan Rosen.jpg|link=Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|1909: Physicist [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] born. He will develop the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole. | ||
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1868: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan born. He will win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
1869: Aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter steals Thomson tide calculator for personal use; Steampunks outraged.
1909: Physicist Nathan Rosen born. He will develop the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.
1929: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel attends birthday party for Nathan Rosen. They will later collaborate on ideas which will lead The Eel to construct a portable wormhole generator.
1948: Computer programmer and crime-fighter Jean Bartik uses the ENIAC computer to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1990: Engineer Gerald Bull assassinated. He attempted to build artillery guns which could launch satellites into orbit.
2001: Capacitor plague affects several brands of portable envy devices.
2002: Portable envy components at risk of capacitor plague.