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File:Electrocuting_an_Elephant.png|link=Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|1903: Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The event is documented in the film ''[[Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|Electrocuting an Elephant]]''. | File:Electrocuting_an_Elephant.png|link=Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|1903: Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The event is documented in the film ''[[Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|Electrocuting an Elephant]]''. | ||
||1904: Anna Winlock dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic search | ||1904: Anna Winlock dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1908: Charles Augustus Young dies ... one of the foremost solar spectroscopist astronomers in the United States. He observed a solar flare with a spectroscope on 3 August 1872, and also noted that it coincided with a magnetic storm on Earth. Pic. | ||1908: Charles Augustus Young dies ... one of the foremost solar spectroscopist astronomers in the United States. He observed a solar flare with a spectroscope on 3 August 1872, and also noted that it coincided with a magnetic storm on Earth. Pic. | ||
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||1910: Léon Delagrange dies ... pilot and sculptor. Pic. | ||1910: Léon Delagrange dies ... pilot and sculptor. Pic. | ||
||1913: Sixto Ríos García born ... mathematician, known as the father of Spanish statistics. Pic search | ||1913: Sixto Ríos García born ... mathematician, known as the father of Spanish statistics. Pic search. | ||
||1914: William Nathan Oatis born ... American journalist who gained international attention when he was charged with espionage by the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1951. He was subsequently jailed until 1953. During WW2, trained in Japanese in Minneapolis. Pic. | ||1914: William Nathan Oatis born ... American journalist who gained international attention when he was charged with espionage by the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1951. He was subsequently jailed until 1953. During WW2, trained in Japanese in Minneapolis. Pic. | ||
||1917: Jessie MacWilliams born ... mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory. Pic search | ||1917: Jessie MacWilliams born ... mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory. Pic search. | ||
||1920: William Colby born ... intelligence officer, 10th Director of Central Intelligence. Pic. | ||1920: William Colby born ... intelligence officer, 10th Director of Central Intelligence. Pic. | ||
||1932: Roman Personov born ... physicist and academic ... one of the founders of selective laser spectroscopy of complex molecules in solids (frozen solutions). Pic search | ||1932: Roman Personov born ... physicist and academic ... one of the founders of selective laser spectroscopy of complex molecules in solids (frozen solutions). Pic search. | ||
File:Shoshichi Kobayashi.jpg|link=Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|1932: Mathematician and academic [[Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|Shoshichi Kobayashi]] born. He will work on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras. | File:Shoshichi Kobayashi.jpg|link=Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|1932: Mathematician and academic [[Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|Shoshichi Kobayashi]] born. He will work on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras. | ||
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File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. | ||
||1986: Wilbur | ||1986: Wilbur R. Franks dies ... scientist, notable as the inventor of the anti-gravity suit or G-suit, and for his work in cancer research. Pic. | ||
||1989: Asteroid Toutatis is rediscovered by by Christian Pollas at Caussols; it had been first sighted in 1934 but was lost soon afterward. Toutatis is an elongated, stony asteroid and slow rotator, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo and Alinda group, approximately 2.5 kilometers in diameter. See also: http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=4179&page=1 Pic. | ||1989: Asteroid Toutatis is rediscovered by by Christian Pollas at Caussols; it had been first sighted in 1934 but was lost soon afterward. Toutatis is an elongated, stony asteroid and slow rotator, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo and Alinda group, approximately 2.5 kilometers in diameter. See also: http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=4179&page=1 Pic. | ||
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|link=Harold Eugene Edgerton (nonfiction)|1990: Engineer and academic [[Harold Eugene Edgerton (nonfiction)|Harold Eugene Edgerton]] born. Pic. | |link=Harold Eugene Edgerton (nonfiction)|1990: Engineer and academic [[Harold Eugene Edgerton (nonfiction)|Harold Eugene Edgerton]] born. Pic. | ||
||1995: Brooks Stevens dies ... engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile. Pic search | ||1995: Brooks Stevens dies ... engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile. Pic search. | ||
||1999: Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota. | ||1999: Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota. | ||
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1616: Astronomer and criminal investigator Simon Marius discovers four Gnomon algorithm functions which use observations of the four largest moons of Jupiter to detect and prevent crimes against planet-moon orbital mechanics.
1752: Mathematician and physicist Gabriel Cramer dies. He published Cramer's rule, giving a general formula for the solution for any unknown in a linear equation system having a unique solution, in terms of determinants implied by the system.
1847: Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
1903: Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The event is documented in the film Electrocuting an Elephant.
1932: Mathematician and academic Shoshichi Kobayashi born. He will work on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.
1934: Mathematician and crime-fighter Dmitry Mirimanoff publishes new type of Gnomon algorithm function which uses non-well-founded set theory to predict that Sputnik 1 will fall to Earth "no later than January 1958."
1958: Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.
1958: Physicist, mathematician, and APTO field operative Max Born discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use the statistical interpretation of the wave function to detect and prevent crimes against physical and mathematical constants.
1959: Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
1961: Physicist and academic Erwin Schrödinger dies. He was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for the formulation of the Schrödinger equation.
1974: Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
2002: Capacitor plague affects several brands of portable envy devices.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Red Spiral 2 accidentally release the notorious criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.