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File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1887: Physicist and academic [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] dies. He contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. | File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1887: Physicist and academic [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] dies. He contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. | ||
File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|George Biddell Airy]] measures mean density of the Earth using [[Gnomon algorithm]] technique. This data will later be adapted for use in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1888: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1888: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). | ||
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||1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion. | ||1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion. | ||
File:Einstein drumming.jpg|link=Albert Einstein|1932: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein]] uses advanced percussion techniques to reverse engineer a commercial [[Enigma machine (nonfiction)|Enigma machine]]. | |||
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1933: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States. | File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1933: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States. | ||
File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1934: Mathematicians [[Alice Beta]] and [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] co-publish a new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1940 – The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery. | ||1940 – The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery. | ||
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File:Jacques Hadamard.jpg|link=Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|1963: Mathematician [[Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|Jacques Hadamard]] dies. He made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations. | File:Jacques Hadamard.jpg|link=Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|1963: Mathematician [[Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|Jacques Hadamard]] dies. He made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations. | ||
File:Humpty Dumpty At Bat.jpg|link=Humpty Dumpty At Bat|1964: Signed first edition of ''[[Humpty Dumpty At Bat]]'' sell for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:Flag of OPEC.svg|link=Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|1973: [[Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|OPEC]] imposes an oil embargo against a number of Western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria. | File:Flag of OPEC.svg|link=Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|1973: [[Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|OPEC]] imposes an oil embargo against a number of Western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria. | ||
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||1997 – Larry Jennings, American magician and author (b. 1933) | ||1997 – Larry Jennings, American magician and author (b. 1933) | ||
File:The Shovel.jpg|link=The Shovel|1998: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Shovel]]'' reveal two hundred petabytes of data relating to contract violations by [[Egon Rhodomunde]] and [[Baron Zersetzung]]. | |||
File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1999: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] dies. He led the team of researchers which developed the Monte Carlo method. | File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1999: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] dies. He led the team of researchers which developed the Monte Carlo method. | ||
Revision as of 19:29, 14 October 2017
1887: Physicist and academic Gustav Kirchhoff dies. He contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
1888: Mathematician and astronomer George Biddell Airy measures mean density of the Earth using Gnomon algorithm technique. This data will later be adapted for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1888: Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1901: "Brainiac is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.
1907: Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
1932: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein uses advanced percussion techniques to reverse engineer a commercial Enigma machine.
1933: Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
1934: Mathematicians Alice Beta and Albert Einstein co-publish a new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1963: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard dies. He made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
1964: Signed first edition of Humpty Dumpty At Bat sell for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1973: OPEC imposes an oil embargo against a number of Western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria.
1998: Steganographic analysis of The Shovel reveal two hundred petabytes of data relating to contract violations by Egon Rhodomunde and Baron Zersetzung.
1999: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis dies. He led the team of researchers which developed the Monte Carlo method.