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||1953: Werner Baumbach dies ... German bomber pilot during World War II. He commanded the secret bomber wing Kampfgeschwader 200 (KG 200) of the Luftwaffe. Pic. | ||1953: Werner Baumbach dies ... German bomber pilot during World War II. He commanded the secret bomber wing Kampfgeschwader 200 (KG 200) of the Luftwaffe. Pic. | ||
File:Wacław Sierpiński.jpg|link=Wacław Sierpiński (nonfiction)|1960: Mathematician, academic, and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Wacław Sierpiński (nonfiction)|Wacław Sierpiński]] proves that Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory together with the Generalized continuum hypothesis imply the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1961: The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine. | ||1961: The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine. | ||
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||1974: Harold Stanley Ruse dies ... mathematician, noteworthy for the development of the concept of locally harmonic spaces. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Harold+Stanley+Ruse | ||1974: Harold Stanley Ruse dies ... mathematician, noteworthy for the development of the concept of locally harmonic spaces. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Harold+Stanley+Ruse | ||
File:Skip Digits.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1981: Musician and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] begins North American tour. | |File:Skip Digits.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1981: Musician and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] begins North American tour. | ||
||1983: Irene Reinhild Agnes Elisabeth Sänger-Bredt dies ... engineer, mathematician and physicist. She is co-credited with the design of a proposed intercontinental spaceplane/bomber Pic: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576504001298 | ||1983: Irene Reinhild Agnes Elisabeth Sänger-Bredt dies ... engineer, mathematician and physicist. She is co-credited with the design of a proposed intercontinental spaceplane/bomber Pic: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576504001298 | ||
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1631: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin dies. He was a mentor to Johannes Kepler, and played a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a artillery barrage in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the cinema of the United States, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
1960: Mathematician, academic, and APTO field engineer Wacław Sierpiński proves that Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory together with the Generalized continuum hypothesis imply the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1985: Physicist and crime-fighter William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
1987: Mathematician and academic Andrey Kolmogorov dies. He made significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.
2018: Signed first edition of Creature 4 stolen from the Louvre in daylight robbery by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.
