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File:Jean-Baptiste Morin.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]] dies. | File:Jean-Baptiste Morin.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]] dies. | ||
||1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels. | |||
||1935 – Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers. | |||
File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1944: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. | |||
||File:Galileo's Glassworks in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Virtualization of Galileo Galilei|Advances in [[Virtualization of Galileo Galilei|virtualization of Galileo]] use [[Galileo's Glassworks (nonfiction)|book]] in hydrogen bubble chamber. | ||File:Galileo's Glassworks in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Virtualization of Galileo Galilei|Advances in [[Virtualization of Galileo Galilei|virtualization of Galileo]] use [[Galileo's Glassworks (nonfiction)|book]] in hydrogen bubble chamber. | ||
||File:Galileo_E_pur_si_muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|[[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo]] may experience virtualization as pain, warns [[John Brunner]]. | ||File:Galileo_E_pur_si_muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|[[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo]] may experience virtualization as pain, warns [[John Brunner]]. | ||
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||File:Brer_Rabbit_and_Tar_Baby_9000.jpg|link=Tar-Baby 9000|[[Tar-Baby 9000]] infects Brer Rabbit with the [[Snake Lemma]] (1895). | ||File:Brer_Rabbit_and_Tar_Baby_9000.jpg|link=Tar-Baby 9000|[[Tar-Baby 9000]] infects Brer Rabbit with the [[Snake Lemma]] (1895). | ||
||File:Der Reichsspritzenmeister.jpg|link=Der Reichsspritzenmeister|[[Der Reichsspritzenmeister]] offers free injections to first-time patients. | ||File:Der Reichsspritzenmeister.jpg|link=Der Reichsspritzenmeister|[[Der Reichsspritzenmeister]] offers free injections to first-time patients. | ||
File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1973: The ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted. | File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1973: The ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted. | ||
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1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin dies.
1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.