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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)]] 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]]. | ||
||Robert Plot (d. 30 April 1696) was an English naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Pic. | ||Robert Plot (d. 30 April 1696) was an English naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Pic. | ||
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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.
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.
1905: Albert Einstein writes his thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen ("A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions").
1916: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon born. He will be known as "the father of information theory".
1916: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein stops the Forbidden Ratio from kidnapping newborn infant Claude Shannon.
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.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Green Sprouts unexpectedly reveals "at least thirty-five kilobytes" of encrypted data, apparently a previously unknown Gnomon algorithm function related to the color green.