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||1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.
||1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.


||1968 – Howard Florey, Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
||1968: Howard Florey dies ... pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1972 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
||1972: The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.


File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1974: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] privately advises White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman that they "will both be sentenced to jail a year from today" for their roles in the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]].
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1974: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] privately advises White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman that they "will both be sentenced to jail a year from today" for their roles in the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]].
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File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1975: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1975: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.


||Isaac Jacob Schoenberg (d. February 21, 1990) was a Romanian-American mathematician, known for his discovery of splines. Pic.
||1990: Isaac Jacob Schoenberg dies ... mathematician, known for his discovery of splines. Pic.


||1999 – Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
||1999: Gertrude B. Elion dies ... biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Major General Kenneth David "Nick" Nichols (d. 21 February 2000) was a United States Army officer and an engineer. He worked on the Manhattan Project, which developed the Atomic Bomb during World War II, as Deputy District Engineer to James C. Marshall, and from 13 August 1943 as the District Engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District. He was responsible for both the uranium production facility at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the plutonium production facility at Hanford Engineer Works in Washington state.
||2000: Major General Kenneth David "Nick" Nichols dies ... United States Army officer and an engineer. He worked on the Manhattan Project, which developed the Atomic Bomb during World War II, as Deputy District Engineer to James C. Marshall, and from 13 August 1943 as the District Engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District. He was responsible for both the uranium production facility at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the plutonium production facility at Hanford Engineer Works in Washington state.


File:Exploded electrolytic capacitor.jpg|link=Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|2002: [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|Capacitor plague]] affects several brands of [[portable envy]] devices.
File:Exploded electrolytic capacitor.jpg|link=Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|2002: [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|Capacitor plague]] affects several brands of [[portable envy]] devices.


||Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (d. 21 February 2009) was a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician. During a career that spanned 60 years he made major contributions to applied science as well as pure mathematics. In the last forty years his research focused on pure mathematics; in particular, analytic number theory, group representations and algebraic geometry. His main contribution and impact was in the area of automorphic forms and L-functions. Pic.
||2009: Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro dies ... mathematician. During a career that spanned 60 years he made major contributions to applied science as well as pure mathematics. In the last forty years his research focused on pure mathematics; in particular, analytic number theory, group representations and algebraic geometry. His main contribution and impact was in the area of automorphic forms and L-functions. Pic.
 
File:Yellow Spiral.jpg|link=Yellow Spiral (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Yellow Spiral (nonfiction)|Yellow Spiral]]'' stolen from the Uffizi gallery in Florence by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang, perhaps under contract to [[Baron Zersetzung]].


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  • 1591: Mathematician and engineer Girard Desargues born. He will be one of the founders of projective geometry.

    1591: Mathematician and engineer Girard Desargues born. He will be one of the founders of projective geometry.

  • 1592: Canterbury scrying engine crashes, predicts faulty future; the resulting paradox will develop into an epidemic of capacitor failure by the early twenty-first century.

    1592: Canterbury scrying engine crashes, predicts faulty future; the resulting paradox will develop into an epidemic of capacitor failure by the early twenty-first century.

  • 1677: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza dies. He laid the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.

    1677: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza dies. He laid the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.

  • 1788: Scientist, inventor, and engineer Francis Ronalds born. He will be knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.

    1788: Scientist, inventor, and engineer Francis Ronalds born. He will be knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.

  • 1899: Marie and Pierre Curie use radium to detect and expose crimes against physical constants.

    1899: Marie and Pierre Curie use radium to detect and expose crimes against physical constants.

  • 1926: Physicist and academic Heike Kamerlingh Onnes dies. He received widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium".

    1926: Physicist and academic Heike Kamerlingh Onnes dies. He received widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium".

  • 1933: Alice Beta tells reporters that the rise of the Nazi party in Germany will lead to "new and unprecedently dangerous crimes against mathematical constants."

    1933: Alice Beta tells reporters that the rise of the Nazi party in Germany will lead to "new and unprecedently dangerous crimes against mathematical constants."

  • 1938: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale dies. He discovered magnetic fields in sunspots, and was a leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.

    1938: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale dies. He discovered magnetic fields in sunspots, and was a leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.

  • 1974: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde privately advises White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman that they "will both be sentenced to jail a year from today" for their roles in the Watergate scandal.

    1974: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde privately advises White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman that they "will both be sentenced to jail a year from today" for their roles in the Watergate scandal.

  • 1975: Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

    1975: Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

  • 2002: Capacitor plague affects several brands of portable envy devices.

    2002: Capacitor plague affects several brands of portable envy devices.

  • 2016: Signed first edition of Yellow Spiral stolen from the Uffizi gallery in Florence by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang, perhaps under contract to Baron Zersetzung.

    2016: Signed first edition of Yellow Spiral stolen from the Uffizi gallery in Florence by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang, perhaps under contract to Baron Zersetzung.

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