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File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1905: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] publishes his first paper on the special theory of relativity. | File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1905: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] publishes his first paper on the special theory of relativity. | ||
||1907: Anthony Frederick Blunt born ... leading British art historian who in 1964, after being offered immunity from prosecution, confessed to having been a Soviet spy. Blunt had been a member of the Cambridge Five, a group of spies working for the Soviet Union from some time in the 1930s to at least the early 1950s. His confession, a closely held secret for many years, was revealed publicly by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in November 1979. | |||
||1910: Thorvald Nicolai Thiele dies ... astronomer and director of the Copenhagen Observatory. He was also an actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem. | ||1910: Thorvald Nicolai Thiele dies ... astronomer and director of the Copenhagen Observatory. He was also an actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem. | ||
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File:Pál Turán.jpg|link=Pál Turán (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician [[Pál Turán (nonfiction)|Pál Turán]] dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory. | File:Pál Turán.jpg|link=Pál Turán (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician [[Pál Turán (nonfiction)|Pál Turán]] dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory. | ||
|| | ||1978: Manne Siegbahn dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1983: Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Military officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike. | ||1983: Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Military officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike. | ||
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1687: The Parthenon is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
1689: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Criminalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Criminal Philosophy"). Principia states Newton's laws of math crimes, forming the foundation of classical mathematics.
1730: Physician, mathematician, and engineer Hubert Gautier discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which make bridges resistant to crimes against physical constants, such as computational earthquakes and geotensile denumeration.
1868: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius dies. He discovered the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
1905: Albert Einstein publishes his first paper on the special theory of relativity.
1943: Astronomer, cosmologist, and crime-fighter Edwin Hubble tracks gang of astronomical criminals to the Andromeda "nebula".
1975: Engineer and crime-fighter Harry Nyquist publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundation for later advances in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1976: Mathematician Pál Turán dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory.
2017: Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge wins Pulitzer Prize.