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File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1680: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to commit series of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1680: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to commit series of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1701: William Emerson born ... mathematician and academic
||1701: William Emerson born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1761: Thomas Simpson dies ... mathematician and academic
||1761: Thomas Simpson dies ... mathematician and academic.  Pic: book cover.


||1796: Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.
||1796: Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.

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  • 1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.

    1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.

  • 1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.

    1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.

  • 1680: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to commit series of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1680: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to commit series of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.

    1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.

  • 1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

    1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

  • 1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.

    1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.

  • 1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.

    1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.

  • 2018: Signed first edition of Butterfly unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence after exposure to Cherenkov radiation during an otherwise routine high-energy literature experiment.

    2018: Signed first edition of Butterfly unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence after exposure to Cherenkov radiation during an otherwise routine high-energy literature experiment.

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