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File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]].  He will be burned at the stake.
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]].  He will be burned at the stake.
John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1931: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.


||1596: Francis Drake dies ... captain and explorer. DOB uncertain. Pic.
||1596: Francis Drake dies ... captain and explorer. DOB uncertain. Pic.
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||1856: Friedrich Heinrich Schur born ... mathematician who studied geometry. Pic.
||1856: Friedrich Heinrich Schur born ... mathematician who studied geometry. Pic.


File:János Bolyai.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1860: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
János_Bolyai_-_Romanian_postage_stamp_circa_1960.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1860: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.


||1864: Heinrich Rose dies ... mineralogist and analytical chemist. Pic.
||1864: Heinrich Rose dies ... mineralogist and analytical chemist. Pic.
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||1947: James Victor Uspensky dies ... mathematician notable for writing ''Theory of Equations''. Pic.
||1947: James Victor Uspensky dies ... mathematician notable for writing ''Theory of Equations''. Pic.


File:Nikolai Luzin stamp.jpg|link=Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter [[Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|Nikolai Luzin]] uses point-set topology to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1951: Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger. Pic.


||1951: Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger. Pic.
File:How to NFT a Millionaire.jpg|link=How to NFT a Millionaire|1953: Premiere of '''''[[How to NFT a Millionaire]]''''', an American romantic comedy-NFT film about a trio of money hungry gold diggers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, plan to use the apartment to attract rich non-fungible token investors and draw up contracts with them.


||1961: The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat. Pic: same class sub.
||1961: The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat. Pic: same class sub.
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File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1972: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] dies.  He co-wrote ''What is Mathematics?''.
File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1972: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] dies.  He co-wrote ''What is Mathematics?''.


File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1972: [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to counteract the effects of crimes against [[Poem|poetry]].
|*** TO DO FICTION: File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1988: Physicist [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs]] dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.


||1973: The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
||1973: The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
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||1990: Jessie MacWilliams dies ... mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=florence+jessie+macwilliams
||1990: Jessie MacWilliams dies ... mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=florence+jessie+macwilliams


||1993: Nils Aall Barricelli dies ... mathematician. His computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution are considered pioneering in artificial life research.  Pic.
|||File:Nils_Aall_Barricelli.jpg|link=Nils Aall Barricelli (nonfiction)|1993: Mathematician [[Nils Aall Barricelli (nonfiction)|Nils Aall Barricelli]] dies. Barricelli pioneered computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution (artificial life).


||1995: Raphael Mitchel Robinson dies ... mathematician. He will work on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Pic.
||1995: Raphael Mitchel Robinson dies ... mathematician. He will work on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Pic.
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||2015: Charles Hard Townes dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||2015: Charles Hard Townes dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:Ringmaster-img075-1.jpg|link=Ringmaster (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Ringmaster (nonfiction)|Ringmaster]]'' declared Picture of the Day by citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


||2017: Arthur H. Rosenfeld dies ... physicist. Pic.
||2017: Arthur H. Rosenfeld dies ... physicist. Pic.


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  • 1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.

    1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.

  • 1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

    1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

  • 1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

    1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

  • 1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.

    1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.

  • 1953: Premiere of How to NFT a Millionaire, an American romantic comedy-NFT film about a trio of money hungry gold diggers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, plan to use the apartment to attract rich non-fungible token investors and draw up contracts with them.

    1953: Premiere of How to NFT a Millionaire, an American romantic comedy-NFT film about a trio of money hungry gold diggers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, plan to use the apartment to attract rich non-fungible token investors and draw up contracts with them.

  • 1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.

    1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.

  • 2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

    2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

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