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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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||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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  • 1868: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt born. She will discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.

    1868: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt born. She will discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.

  • 1900: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.

    1900: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.

  • 1934: Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist dies. She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.

    1934: Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist dies. She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.

  • 1934: Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb.

    1934: Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb.

  • 1935: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1935: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1951: Physicist and engineer William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.

    1951: Physicist and engineer William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.

  • 1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams dies.

    1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams dies.

  • 2005: The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.

    2005: The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.

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