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File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1523: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] uses [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|Judicial astrology]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1523: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] uses [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|Judicial astrology]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants]].


||1696: Robert Plot dies ... naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Pic.
||1696: Robert Plot dies ... naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Pic.
||1755: Jean-Baptiste Oudry dies ... painter and engraver. Pic.


File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1777: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] born. He will have an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and be ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1777: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] born. He will have an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and be ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
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||1937: Orso Mario Corbino dies ... physicist and politician. Pic.
||1937: Orso Mario Corbino dies ... physicist and politician. Pic.


||1943: World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.  
||1943: World War II: The British submarine HMS ''Seraph'' surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.  


|File:Glenn Seaborg.jpg|link=Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|1961: Chemist [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Glenn T. Seaborg]] discovers new hydrogen isotope with important applications in the diagnosis and treatment of [[crimes against chemical constants]].  
|File:Glenn Seaborg.jpg|link=Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|1961: Chemist [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Glenn T. Seaborg]] discovers new hydrogen isotope with important applications in the diagnosis and treatment of [[crimes against chemical constants]].  
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||1993: CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
||1993: CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.


||1998: Edwin Thompson Jaynes dies ... Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He wrote extensively on statistical mechanics and on foundations of probability and statistical inference, initiating in 1957 the MaxEnt interpretation of thermodynamics, as being a particular application of more general Bayesian/information theory techniques (although he argued this was already implicit in the works of Gibbs). Jaynes strongly promoted the interpretation of probability theory as an extension of logic.
||1998: Edwin Thompson Jaynes dies ... Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He wrote extensively on statistical mechanics and on foundations of probability and statistical inference, initiating in 1957 the MaxEnt interpretation of thermodynamics, as being a particular application of more general Bayesian/information theory techniques (although he argued this was already implicit in the works of Gibbs). Jaynes strongly promoted the interpretation of probability theory as an extension of logic. Pic.


||2011: Ernesto Sabato dies ... physicist, author, and painter.
||2011: Ernesto Sabato dies ... physicist, author, and painter. Pic.


||2011: Daniel Quillen dies ... mathematician. He is known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic K-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 1978. Pic: https://ronsview.org/2011/05/10/daniel-quillen/
||2011: Daniel Quillen dies ... mathematician. He is known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic K-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 1978. Pic: https://ronsview.org/2011/05/10/daniel-quillen/

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  • 1523: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé uses Judicial astrology to detect and prevent crimes against astronomical constants.

    1523: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé uses Judicial astrology to detect and prevent crimes against astronomical constants.

  • 1777: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss born. He will have an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and be ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.

    1777: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss born. He will have an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and be ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.

  • 1874: Scene from Gambling Den Fight adapted for opera by John Havelock, performed at theaters across Europe to rave reviews.

    1874: Scene from Gambling Den Fight adapted for opera by John Havelock, performed at theaters across Europe to rave reviews.

  • 1897: J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.

    1897: J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.

  • 1905: Albert Einstein writes his thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen ("A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions").

    1905: Albert Einstein writes his thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen ("A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions").

  • 1913: Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, and J. J. Thomson team up to defeat the combined forces of criminal mathematical functions Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus.

    1913: Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, and J. J. Thomson team up to defeat the combined forces of criminal mathematical functions Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus.

  • 1916: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon born. He will be known as "the father of information theory".

    1916: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon born. He will be known as "the father of information theory".

  • 1916: Jazz drummer and theoretical crime-fighter Albert Einstein stops the Forbidden Ratio from kidnapping newborn infant Claude Shannon.

    1916: Jazz drummer and theoretical crime-fighter Albert Einstein stops the Forbidden Ratio from kidnapping newborn infant Claude Shannon.

  • 1964: Electronics researcher and Gnomon algorithm theorist Ralph Hartley uses the Hartley oscillator to detect and erase the Forbidden Ratio.

    1964: Electronics researcher and Gnomon algorithm theorist Ralph Hartley uses the Hartley oscillator to detect and erase the Forbidden Ratio.

  • 1973: Watergate: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.

    1973: Watergate: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.

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