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||1803: The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
||1803: The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
File:Joseph_Nicéphore_Niépce.jpg|link=Nicéphore Niépce (nonfiction)|1816: Inventor and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Nicéphore Niépce (nonfiction)|Nicéphore Niépce]] uses the heliograph to reveal the [[Forbidden ratio]], a pioneering step towards modern methods for detecting and preventing [[crimes against light]].


||1817: In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
||1817: In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
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||1901: Peter Tait dies ... mathematical physicist, best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. Pic.
||1901: Peter Tait dies ... mathematical physicist, best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. Pic.
||1902: Botanist and evolutionary biologist Thorvald (Thorwald) Julius Sørensen  born. He published the botanical research of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. Pic.


||1906: Vincent Schaefer born ... chemist and meteorologist who developed cloud seeding. On November 13, 1946, while a researcher at the General Electric Research Laboratory, Schaefer modified clouds in the Berkshire Mountains by seeding them with dry ice. Pic seach yes cool: https://www.google.com/search?q=vincent+schaefer
||1906: Vincent Schaefer born ... chemist and meteorologist who developed cloud seeding. On November 13, 1946, while a researcher at the General Electric Research Laboratory, Schaefer modified clouds in the Berkshire Mountains by seeding them with dry ice. Pic seach yes cool: https://www.google.com/search?q=vincent+schaefer
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||1932: Katharine Blodgett Gebbie born ... astrophysicist and civil servant. Pic.
||1932: Katharine Blodgett Gebbie born ... astrophysicist and civil servant. Pic.
File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1934: [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]], French-Polish physicist and chemist dies.  She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.


File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1934: [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb.
File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1934: [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb.
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||1977: The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit.
||1977: The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit.
File:Joseph Weizenbaum.jpg|link=Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|1982:  Computer scientist and crime-fighter [[Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|Joseph Weizenbaum]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:John Bodkin Adams 1940s.jpg|link=John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer [[John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|John Bodkin Adams]] dies.
File:John Bodkin Adams 1940s.jpg|link=John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer [[John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|John Bodkin Adams]] dies.
File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1962: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series publishes complete plans for nuclear-powered fireworks display.


||1986: Oscar Zariski dies ... was a Russian-born American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century. Pic.
||1986: Oscar Zariski dies ... was a Russian-born American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century. Pic.
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||2016: The arrival of the ''Juno'' probe to Jupiter.
||2016: The arrival of the ''Juno'' probe to Jupiter.
File:Crimson Blossom.jpg|link=Crimson Blossom (nonfiction)|2016: Fireworks in the shape of ''[[Crimson Blossom (nonfiction)|Crimson Blossom]]'' make their debut at the annual Accession Day fireworks display in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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