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||1924: Allan McLeod Cormack born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=allan+mcleod+cormack | ||1924: Allan McLeod Cormack born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=allan+mcleod+cormack | ||
||1927: U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States. | ||1927: U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States. Pic. | ||
File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1927: German theoretical physicist [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time. | File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1927: German theoretical physicist [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time. | ||
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||1987: Edward Lansdale dies ... American general and CIA agent. Pic. | ||1987: Edward Lansdale dies ... American general and CIA agent. Pic. | ||
||1987: Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud. | ||1987: Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Pic. | ||
||2012: David Sayre dies ... physicist and mathematician ... | ||2012: David Sayre dies ... physicist and mathematician ... pioneered the development of direct methods for protein crystallography and of diffraction microscopy (also called coherent diffraction imaging), later suggesting the use of electron beam lithography for the fabrication of X-ray Fresnel zone plates. Sayre also helped develop the FORTRAN programming language. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=david+sayre | ||
File:Crimson Blossom 2.jpg|link=Crimson Blossom 2 (nonfiction)|2017: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Crimson Blossom 2 (nonfiction)|Crimson Blossom 2]]'' reveals previously unknown [[Color (nonfiction)|color]] which is "midway between [[Red (nonfiction)|red]] and [[Violet (nonfiction)|violet]]." | File:Crimson Blossom 2.jpg|link=Crimson Blossom 2 (nonfiction)|2017: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Crimson Blossom 2 (nonfiction)|Crimson Blossom 2]]'' reveals previously unknown [[Color (nonfiction)|color]] which is "midway between [[Red (nonfiction)|red]] and [[Violet (nonfiction)|violet]]." | ||
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1580: Physician, occultist, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Johann Weyer publicly accuses the House of Malevecchio of secretly distributing clandestiphrine and other illegal drugs.
1583: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin born.
1742: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi uses Gnomon algorithm functions to translate Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy into Italian.
1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss dies. He had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
1898: Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
1927: German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1940: ENIAC program accidentally generates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1941: Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1963: Mathematician, information engineer, and crime-fighter Claude Shannon publishes new theory of entropy which reveals new approaches to the detection and prevent of crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Chromatographic analysis of Crimson Blossom 2 reveals previously unknown color which is "midway between red and violet."