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||1774: Friedrich Koenig born ... inventor best known for his high-speed steam-powered printing press, which he built together with watchmaker Andreas Friedrich Bauer. This new style of printing press could print up to 1,100 sheets per hour, printing on both sides of the paper at the same time. Pic.
||1774: Friedrich Koenig born ... inventor best known for his high-speed steam-powered printing press, which he built together with watchmaker Andreas Friedrich Bauer. This new style of printing press could print up to 1,100 sheets per hour, printing on both sides of the paper at the same time. Pic.
File:Johan Carl Wilcke.jpg|link=Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|1781: Physicist [[Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|Johan Carl Wilcke]] invents an electrophorus which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to calculate the latent heat of ice.


File:Benjamin_Franklin_Drawing_Electricity_from_the_Sky_(circa_1816)_by_Benjamin_West.jpg|link=Benjamin Franklin (nonfiction)|1790: Polymath [[Benjamin Franklin (nonfiction)|Benjamin Franklin]] dies. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
File:Benjamin_Franklin_Drawing_Electricity_from_the_Sky_(circa_1816)_by_Benjamin_West.jpg|link=Benjamin Franklin (nonfiction)|1790: Polymath [[Benjamin Franklin (nonfiction)|Benjamin Franklin]] dies. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
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||1843: Samuel Morey dies ... inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents. Pic search.
||1843: Samuel Morey dies ... inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents. Pic search.
File:Justus von Liebig circa 1866.jpg|link=Justus von Liebig (nonfiction)|1858: Chemist, academic, and [[APTO]] field chemist [[Justus von Liebig (nonfiction)|Justus von Liebig]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions which use the law of the minimum to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemical constants|crimes against agrochemical constants]].


||1863: Augustus Edward Hough Love born ... mathematician and theorist ... famous for his work on the mathematical theory of elasticity. He also worked on wave propagation and his work on the structure of the Earth in Some Problems of Geodynamics won for him the Adams prize in 1911 when he developed a mathematical model of surface waves known as Love waves. Love also contributed to the theory of tidal locking and introduced the parameters known as Love numbers, which are widely used today. These numbers are also used in problems related to the tidal deformation of the Earth due to the gravitational attraction of the Moon and Sun. Pic.
||1863: Augustus Edward Hough Love born ... mathematician and theorist ... famous for his work on the mathematical theory of elasticity. He also worked on wave propagation and his work on the structure of the Earth in Some Problems of Geodynamics won for him the Adams prize in 1911 when he developed a mathematical model of surface waves known as Love waves. Love also contributed to the theory of tidal locking and introduced the parameters known as Love numbers, which are widely used today. These numbers are also used in problems related to the tidal deformation of the Earth due to the gravitational attraction of the Moon and Sun. Pic.
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||1895: Robert Dean Frisbie born ... American soldier and author ... travel, Polynesia.  Pic search.
||1895: Robert Dean Frisbie born ... American soldier and author ... travel, Polynesia.  Pic search.
File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1901: Electrical engineer, physicist, and [[APTO]] field engineer [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use thermionic valves to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].


File:Eberhard_Hopf.jpg|link=Eberhard Hopf (nonfiction)|1902: Mathematician and astronomer [[Eberhard Hopf (nonfiction)|Eberhard Hopf]] born. Hopf will pioneer ergodic theory and bifurcation theory, and make contributions to partial differential equations, integral equations, fluid dynamics, and differential geometry.
File:Eberhard_Hopf.jpg|link=Eberhard Hopf (nonfiction)|1902: Mathematician and astronomer [[Eberhard Hopf (nonfiction)|Eberhard Hopf]] born. Hopf will pioneer ergodic theory and bifurcation theory, and make contributions to partial differential equations, integral equations, fluid dynamics, and differential geometry.
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||1977: Richard Dagobert Brauer dies ... mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory. Pic.
||1977: Richard Dagobert Brauer dies ... mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory. Pic.
File:Curt Meyer.jpg|link=Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|Curt Meyer]] publishes an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem which uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and erase the [[Forbidden Ratio]].


||1983: Philip Ivor Dee dies ... British nuclear physicist. He was responsible for the development of airborne radar during the Second World War. Pic: https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/image/?id=UGSP01005&o=&start=&max=&l=&biog=WH0266&type=P&p=2
||1983: Philip Ivor Dee dies ... British nuclear physicist. He was responsible for the development of airborne radar during the Second World War. Pic: https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/image/?id=UGSP01005&o=&start=&max=&l=&biog=WH0266&type=P&p=2

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  • 1598: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli born. Riccioli will experiment with pendulums and falling bodies, discuss arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduce the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.

    1598: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli born. Riccioli will experiment with pendulums and falling bodies, discuss arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduce the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.

  • 1790: Polymath Benjamin Franklin dies. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

    1790: Polymath Benjamin Franklin dies. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

  • 1902: Mathematician and astronomer Eberhard Hopf born. Hopf will pioneer ergodic theory and bifurcation theory, and make contributions to partial differential equations, integral equations, fluid dynamics, and differential geometry.

    1902: Mathematician and astronomer Eberhard Hopf born. Hopf will pioneer ergodic theory and bifurcation theory, and make contributions to partial differential equations, integral equations, fluid dynamics, and differential geometry.

  • 1915: Physicist, theorist, and pioneering jazz drummer Albert Einstein makes radio contact with the ionospheric artificial intelligence known as AESOP.

    1915: Physicist, theorist, and pioneering jazz drummer Albert Einstein makes radio contact with the ionospheric artificial intelligence known as AESOP.

  • 1938: Philosopher and author Kerry Wendell Thornley born. Thornley will write a manuscript, The Idle Warriors, about his acquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald.

    1938: Philosopher and author Kerry Wendell Thornley born. Thornley will write a manuscript, The Idle Warriors, about his acquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald.

  • 1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

    1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

  • 1968: Industrialist, motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Colonel Zersetzung calls the Bay of Pigs Invasion "a dark day for free-market economics", promises to supply Sirhan Sirhan with "all the Clandestiphrine he needs to get the job done right."

    1968: Industrialist, motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Colonel Zersetzung calls the Bay of Pigs Invasion "a dark day for free-market economics", promises to supply Sirhan Sirhan with "all the Clandestiphrine he needs to get the job done right."

  • 1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.

    1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.

  • 1996: Mathematician, author, and poet Piet Hein dies. Hein proposed the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses subsequently became the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.

    1996: Mathematician, author, and poet Piet Hein dies. Hein proposed the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses subsequently became the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.

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