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||1895: Henrik Dam born ... biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1895: Henrik Dam born ... biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
File:Curie_and_radium_by_Castaigne.jpg|link=Radium (nonfiction)|1899: Marie and Pierre Curie use [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium]] to detect and expose [[crimes against physical constants]].


File:Charles Piazzi Smyth.jpg|link=Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|1900: Astronomer [[Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|Charles Piazzi Smyth]] dies. Smyth made innovations in astronomy, and made pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
File:Charles Piazzi Smyth.jpg|link=Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|1900: Astronomer [[Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|Charles Piazzi Smyth]] dies. Smyth made innovations in astronomy, and made pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1926: Physicist and academic [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] dies. He received widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, ''inter alia'', to the production of liquid helium".
File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1926: Physicist and academic [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] dies. He received widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, ''inter alia'', to the production of liquid helium".
File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1933: [[Alice Beta]] tells reporters that the rise of the Nazi party in Germany will lead to "new and unprecedently dangerous [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."


File:George Ellery Hale.jpg|link=George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|1938: Astronomer and journalist [[George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|George Ellery Hale]] dies. He discovered magnetic fields in sunspots, and was a leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.
File:George Ellery Hale.jpg|link=George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|1938: Astronomer and journalist [[George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|George Ellery Hale]] dies. He discovered magnetic fields in sunspots, and was a leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.
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||2009: Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro dies ... mathematician. During a career that spanned 60 years he made major contributions to applied science as well as pure mathematics. In the last forty years his research focused on pure mathematics; in particular, analytic number theory, group representations and algebraic geometry. His main contribution and impact was in the area of automorphic forms and L-functions. Pic.
||2009: Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro dies ... mathematician. During a career that spanned 60 years he made major contributions to applied science as well as pure mathematics. In the last forty years his research focused on pure mathematics; in particular, analytic number theory, group representations and algebraic geometry. His main contribution and impact was in the area of automorphic forms and L-functions. Pic.
File:Yellow Spiral.jpg|link=Yellow Spiral (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Yellow Spiral (nonfiction)|Yellow Spiral]]'' stolen from the Uffizi gallery in Florence by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang, perhaps under contract to [[Baron Zersetzung]].


||2018: Andrew Alexander Ranicki dies ... mathematician who worked on algebraic topology. More: https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/surgery/bio.htm Pic.
||2018: Andrew Alexander Ranicki dies ... mathematician who worked on algebraic topology. More: https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/surgery/bio.htm Pic.


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  • 1591: Mathematician and engineer Girard Desargues born. He will be one of the founders of projective geometry.

    1591: Mathematician and engineer Girard Desargues born. He will be one of the founders of projective geometry.

  • 1592: Canterbury scrying engine crashes, predicts faulty future; the resulting paradox will develop into an epidemic of capacitor failure by the early twenty-first century.

    1592: Canterbury scrying engine crashes, predicts faulty future; the resulting paradox will develop into an epidemic of capacitor failure by the early twenty-first century.

  • 1677: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza dies. He laid the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.

    1677: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza dies. He laid the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.

  • 1788: Scientist, inventor, and engineer Francis Ronalds born. He will be knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.

    1788: Scientist, inventor, and engineer Francis Ronalds born. He will be knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.

  • 1900: Astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth dies. Smyth made innovations in astronomy, and made pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

    1900: Astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth dies. Smyth made innovations in astronomy, and made pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

  • 1926: Physicist and academic Heike Kamerlingh Onnes dies. He received widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium".

    1926: Physicist and academic Heike Kamerlingh Onnes dies. He received widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium".

  • 1938: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale dies. He discovered magnetic fields in sunspots, and was a leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.

    1938: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale dies. He discovered magnetic fields in sunspots, and was a leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.

  • 1974: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde privately advises White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman that they "will both be sentenced to jail a year from today" for their roles in the Watergate scandal.

    1974: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde privately advises White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman that they "will both be sentenced to jail a year from today" for their roles in the Watergate scandal.

  • 1975: Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

    1975: Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

  • 2002: Capacitor plague affects several brands of portable envy devices.

    2002: Capacitor plague affects several brands of portable envy devices.

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