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File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1869: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] falls asleep, relapses into her [[Janet Beta]] state.  
File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1869: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] falls asleep, relapses into her [[Janet Beta]] state.  


||1881: Otto Toeplitz dies ... mathematician and academic.
||1881: Otto Toeplitz dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1885: George de Hevesy born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1885: George de Hevesy born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.

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  • 1774: British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

    1774: British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

  • 1818: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre uses astronomical equations derived from analytical formulas which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1818: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre uses astronomical equations derived from analytical formulas which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1819: Astronomer and academic Maria Mitchell born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.

    1819: Astronomer and academic Maria Mitchell born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.

  • 1869: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane falls asleep, relapses into her Janet Beta state.

    1869: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane falls asleep, relapses into her Janet Beta state.

  • 1977: Francis Gary Powers dies when the news helicopter he is piloting crashes into a field near Encino, Los Angeles killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears.

    1977: Francis Gary Powers dies when the news helicopter he is piloting crashes into a field near Encino, Los Angeles killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears.

  • 1977: Political campaign manager and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says that Francis Gary Powers "was practically a leftist."

    1977: Political campaign manager and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says that Francis Gary Powers "was practically a leftist."

  • 2003: Steganographic analysis of the proposed evil bit protocol suggests that the proposal was defeated due to a secret campaign of bribery and intimidation orchestrated by Baron Zersetzung.

    2003: Steganographic analysis of the proposed evil bit protocol suggests that the proposal was defeated due to a secret campaign of bribery and intimidation orchestrated by Baron Zersetzung.

  • 2018: Steganographic analysis of Creature unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty terabytes" of encrypted data relating, "apparently a record of top-secret Clandestiphrine experiments directed against the U-2 spyplane incident."

    2018: Steganographic analysis of Creature unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty terabytes" of encrypted data relating, "apparently a record of top-secret Clandestiphrine experiments directed against the U-2 spyplane incident."

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