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File:Title page of the Astrolabium of Johannes Engel, printed by Johann Emerich, Venice 1494.jpg|link=Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|1453: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]] born. He will publish numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars. | File:Title page of the Astrolabium of Johannes Engel, printed by Johann Emerich, Venice 1494.jpg|link=Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|1453: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]] born. He will publish numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars. | ||
File:Leonardo_da_Vinci_in_flight.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci|1478: Artist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Leonardo da Vinci]] writes a letter to [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]], suggesting the need for an almanac of [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | |||
||1729 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (b. 1662) | ||1729 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (b. 1662) | ||
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||1995 – Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark. | ||1995 – Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark. | ||
File:Jordan Carson Mark.gif|link=J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|1997: Mathematician [[J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|Jordan Carson Mark]] dies. He | File:Jordan Carson Mark.gif|link=J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|1997: Mathematician [[J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|Jordan Carson Mark]] dies. He oversaw the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s. | ||
||1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice. | ||1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice. | ||
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1453: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel born. He will publish numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
1478: Artist, inventor, and crime-fighter Leonardo da Vinci writes a letter to Johannes Engel, suggesting the need for an almanac of crimes against astronomical constants.
1791: Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore telegraph machine in Paris.
1911: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington builds new type of scrying engine which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
1997: Mathematician Jordan Carson Mark dies. He oversaw the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s.
2017: Famed gem detective Niles Cartouchian captures supervillain Fugitive Rubies.