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||1889: Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
||1889: Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
File:Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger.jpg|link=Oliver B. Shallenberger (nonfiction)|1890: Electrical engineer, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Oliver B. Shallenberger (nonfiction)|Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger]] demonstrates new type of alternating current electrical meter which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].


||1890: Grigory Samuilovich Landsberg born ... physicist who worked in the fields of optics and spectroscopy. Together with Leonid Mandelstam he co-discoverer inelastic combinatorial scattering of light, which is used now in Raman spectroscopy. Pic.
||1890: Grigory Samuilovich Landsberg born ... physicist who worked in the fields of optics and spectroscopy. Together with Leonid Mandelstam he co-discoverer inelastic combinatorial scattering of light, which is used now in Raman spectroscopy. Pic.
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||1951: Harald August Bohr dies ... mathematician and soccer player. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr. Pic.
||1951: Harald August Bohr dies ... mathematician and soccer player. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr. Pic.


File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1953: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho unexpectedly previews the upcoming arrest of terrorist bomber [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George Metesky]], when a routine Gnomon algorith upgrade accidentally catalyzes a runaway [[scrying engine]] excursion.
File:Astronaut Farm.jpg|link=Astronaut Farm|Premiere of the political science fiction thriller '''''[[Astronaut Farm]]''''', set in the Edward Eric Blair Memorial Space Station.  


||1957: Paul Walden dies ... chemist known for his work in stereochemistry and history of chemistry. In particular he invented the stereochemical reaction known as Walden inversion and synthesized the first room-temperature ionic liquid, ethylammonium nitrate. Pic.
||1957: Paul Walden dies ... chemist known for his work in stereochemistry and history of chemistry. In particular he invented the stereochemical reaction known as Walden inversion and synthesized the first room-temperature ionic liquid, ethylammonium nitrate. Pic.
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||2017: Rudolf Wille dies ... mathematician and was professor of General Algebra from 1970 to 2003 at Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt). His most celebrated work is the invention of formal concept analysis, an unsupervised machine learning technique that applies mathematical lattice theory to organize data based on objects and their shared attributes. Pic.
||2017: Rudolf Wille dies ... mathematician and was professor of General Algebra from 1970 to 2003 at Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt). His most celebrated work is the invention of formal concept analysis, an unsupervised machine learning technique that applies mathematical lattice theory to organize data based on objects and their shared attributes. Pic.


File:Humpty Dumpty At Bat.jpg|link=Humpty Dumpty At Bat|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Humpty Dumpty At Bat]]'' reveals formula for [[Extract of Radium]].


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