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File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|link=Francis Galton (nonfiction)|1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician [[Francis Galton (nonfiction)|Francis Galton]] born. | File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|link=Francis Galton (nonfiction)|1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician [[Francis Galton (nonfiction)|Francis Galton]] born. | ||
File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1898: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by playing dead. | File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1898: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by playing dead. | ||
File: | File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. | ||
File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to visualizes [[Hamangia scrying engine|Hamangia figurines]], discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to visualizes [[Hamangia scrying engine|Hamangia figurines]], discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1912: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] dies. She conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the hypothetical law of conservation of parity. | File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1912: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] dies. She conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the hypothetical law of conservation of parity. | ||
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1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler dies.
1610: François Ravaillac drinks Extract of Radium for the first time.
1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.
1898: Havelock survives shootout by playing dead.
1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to visualizes Hamangia figurines, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu dies. She conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.
