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File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1609: [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1609: [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
File:Anarchimedes measuring Galileo.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|1610: Rogue mathematician and alleged supervillain [[Anarchimedes]] steals [[Galileo Galilei]]'s plans for a telescope which detects [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
File:Denis Papin.jpg|link=Denis Papin (nonfiction)|1698: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor [[Denis Papin (nonfiction)|Denis Papin]] demonstrates new version of his steam digester which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] principles to generate [[gray light]] and [[cryptographic numina]].


File:Charles Camus - Cours de mathématique.jpg|link=Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|1699: Mathematician and mechanician [[Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|Charles Étienne Louis Camus]] born. He will be the author of ''Cours de mathématiques'' (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.
File:Charles Camus - Cours de mathématique.jpg|link=Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|1699: Mathematician and mechanician [[Charles Étienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)|Charles Étienne Louis Camus]] born. He will be the author of ''Cours de mathématiques'' (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.
File:Giuseppe Balsamo (Count Alessandro Cagliostro).jpg|link=Alessandro Cagliostro (nonfiction)|1795: Occultist and [[APTO]] stringer [[Alessandro Cagliostro (nonfiction)|Alessandro Cagliostro]] publishes evidence that the [[House of Malevecchio]] is covertly manufacturing and distributing unlicensed weapons-grade [[scrying engines]].


||1793: Martin Heinrich Rathke born ... physiologist and pathologist who was one of the founders of modern embryology. He was the first to describe the embryonic precursors of gill slits and gill arches in the embryos of higher animals - mammals and birds - which have none when fully grown. Rathke compared the development of the air sacs in birds and the larynx in birds and mammals. In 1839, he traced the origin of the anterior pituitary gland from a depression in the roof of the mouth, which embryonic structure is now known as Rathke's pouch. Rathke also did pioneering work in marine zoology, as being first to describe lancet fish. Pic.
||1793: Martin Heinrich Rathke born ... physiologist and pathologist who was one of the founders of modern embryology. He was the first to describe the embryonic precursors of gill slits and gill arches in the embryos of higher animals - mammals and birds - which have none when fully grown. Rathke compared the development of the air sacs in birds and the larynx in birds and mammals. In 1839, he traced the origin of the anterior pituitary gland from a depression in the roof of the mouth, which embryonic structure is now known as Rathke's pouch. Rathke also did pioneering work in marine zoology, as being first to describe lancet fish. Pic.
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||1812: Nikolay Zinin born ... organic chemist. Pic: Extreme Moustache!
||1812: Nikolay Zinin born ... organic chemist. Pic: Extreme Moustache!
File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|1818: Mechanical soldier [[Clock Head]] receives several patents for an improvements to steam engines.


File:James Watt.jpg|link=James Watt (nonfiction)|1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist [[James Watt (nonfiction)|James Watt]] dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.
File:James Watt.jpg|link=James Watt (nonfiction)|1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist [[James Watt (nonfiction)|James Watt]] dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.
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||1929: The airship Graf Zeppelin passed over San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, headed for Los Angeles after a trans-Pacific voyage from Tokyo. Graf Zeppelin, built in 1928, had a trial flight on 18 Sep1928. It left on 11 Oct 1928 for its first transatlantic trip from Germany to Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA. After other flights, the Graf Zeppelin was again at Lakehurst ready to begin a trip around the world. It left there with 40 crew and 22 passengers on 8 Aug 1929, reaching Friedrichshafen, Germany on 10 Aug. After 5 days stopover, it set off for Tokyo, Japan, arriving there on 18 Aug, leaving again on 23 Aug headed for Los Angeles on 26 Aug. Next day it left for Lakehurst, NJ arriving there on 29 Aug 1929 after 12 days in the air.«
||1929: The airship Graf Zeppelin passed over San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, headed for Los Angeles after a trans-Pacific voyage from Tokyo. Graf Zeppelin, built in 1928, had a trial flight on 18 Sep1928. It left on 11 Oct 1928 for its first transatlantic trip from Germany to Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA. After other flights, the Graf Zeppelin was again at Lakehurst ready to begin a trip around the world. It left there with 40 crew and 22 passengers on 8 Aug 1929, reaching Friedrichshafen, Germany on 10 Aug. After 5 days stopover, it set off for Tokyo, Japan, arriving there on 18 Aug, leaving again on 23 Aug headed for Los Angeles on 26 Aug. Next day it left for Lakehurst, NJ arriving there on 29 Aug 1929 after 12 days in the air.«
File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|1933: [[Clock Head 2]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1934: Inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] demonstrates his electronic television system to the public at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1934: Inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] demonstrates his electronic television system to the public at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
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||1961: Morris William Travers dies ... chemist who, while working with Sir William Ramsay in London, discovered the element krypton (30 May 1898). The name derives from the Greek word for “hidden.” It was a fraction separated from liquified air, which when placed in a Plücker tube connected to an induction coil yielded a spectrum with a bright yellow line with a greener tint than the known helium line and a brilliant green line that corresponded to nothing seen before. Pic search.
||1961: Morris William Travers dies ... chemist who, while working with Sir William Ramsay in London, discovered the element krypton (30 May 1898). The name derives from the Greek word for “hidden.” It was a fraction separated from liquified air, which when placed in a Plücker tube connected to an induction coil yielded a spectrum with a bright yellow line with a greener tint than the known helium line and a brilliant green line that corresponded to nothing seen before. Pic search.


File:Hedley_Ralph_Marston.jpg|link=Hedley Marston (nonfiction)|1965: Biochemist [[Hedley Marston (nonfiction)|Hedley Ralph Marston]] dies. Marston's research into fallout from the British nuclear tests at Maralinga brought him into bitter conflict with the government appointed Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee. He was vindicated posthumously by the McClelland Royal Commission, which found that significant radiation hazards existed at many of the Maralinga test sites long after the tests.
File:Hedley_Ralph_Marston.jpg|link=Hedley Marston (nonfiction)|1965: Biochemist [[Hedley Marston (nonfiction)|Hedley Ralph Marston]] dies. Marston's research into fallout from the British nuclear tests at Maralinga proved that significant radiation hazards existed at many of the Maralinga sites long after the tests.


||1969: Harry Hammond Hess dies ... geologist who made the first comprehensive attempt at explaining the phenomenon of seafloor spreading (1960). This revived Alfred Wegener's earlier theory of continental drift. Together, these provided an interpretation of the earth's crust in terms of plate tectonics. The surface of the globe is not continuous. Rather, it is broken into a number of huge plates that float on the molten rock under the crust, moved over eons of geologic time by convective currents driven by earth's internal heat. With this motion these plates rub against, collide with, or separate from other plates. Thus the nature of earthquakes and volcanoes could be explained, plus the existence of ridges of young rock mapped around the globe under the ocean where the sea floor was spreading. Pic.
||1969: Harry Hammond Hess dies ... geologist who made the first comprehensive attempt at explaining the phenomenon of seafloor spreading (1960). This revived Alfred Wegener's earlier theory of continental drift. Together, these provided an interpretation of the earth's crust in terms of plate tectonics. The surface of the globe is not continuous. Rather, it is broken into a number of huge plates that float on the molten rock under the crust, moved over eons of geologic time by convective currents driven by earth's internal heat. With this motion these plates rub against, collide with, or separate from other plates. Thus the nature of earthquakes and volcanoes could be explained, plus the existence of ridges of young rock mapped around the globe under the ocean where the sea floor was spreading. Pic.
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File:George Spencer-Brown.jpg|link=George Spencer-Brown (nonfiction)|2016: Polymath [[George Spencer-Brown (nonfiction)|George Spencer-Brown]] dies. Spencer-Brown wrote the unorthodox and influential ''Laws of Form'', calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".
File:George Spencer-Brown.jpg|link=George Spencer-Brown (nonfiction)|2016: Polymath [[George Spencer-Brown (nonfiction)|George Spencer-Brown]] dies. Spencer-Brown wrote the unorthodox and influential ''Laws of Form'', calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".
File:Blue Green Blossom.jpg|link=Blue Green Blossom (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Blue Green Blossom (nonfiction)|Blue Green Blossom]]'' reveals "at least five hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions relating to the colors [[Blue (nonfiction)|blue]] and [[Green (nonfiction)|green]].


||2016: James Watson Cronin dies ... particle physicist. Pic.
||2016: James Watson Cronin dies ... particle physicist. Pic.

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  • 1609: Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.

    1609: Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.

  • 1699: Mathematician and mechanician Charles Étienne Louis Camus born. He will be the author of Cours de mathématiques (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.

    1699: Mathematician and mechanician Charles Étienne Louis Camus born. He will be the author of Cours de mathématiques (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.

  • 1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.

    1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.

  • 1934: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the public at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

    1934: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the public at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

  • 1948: The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.

    1948: The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.

  • 1965: Biochemist Hedley Ralph Marston dies. Marston's research into fallout from the British nuclear tests at Maralinga proved that significant radiation hazards existed at many of the Maralinga sites long after the tests.

    1965: Biochemist Hedley Ralph Marston dies. Marston's research into fallout from the British nuclear tests at Maralinga proved that significant radiation hazards existed at many of the Maralinga sites long after the tests.

  • 2012: Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause to become the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space and study the interstellar medium.

    2012: Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause to become the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space and study the interstellar medium.

  • 2016: Polymath George Spencer-Brown dies. Spencer-Brown wrote the unorthodox and influential Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".

    2016: Polymath George Spencer-Brown dies. Spencer-Brown wrote the unorthodox and influential Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".

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