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||1091: London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London. No pic online.
||1552: Andreas Osiander born ... Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer. In 1543, Osiander oversaw the publication of the book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of the celestial spheres) by Copernicus. He added a preface suggesting that the model described in the book was not necessarily true, or even probable, but was useful for computational purposes. This was certainly not the opinion of Copernicus, who was probably unaware of the addition.  Pic.
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1604: Kepler's Supernova: German astronomer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.
||1757: René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur dies ... entomologist and writer who contributed to many different fields, especially the study of insects. He introduced the Réaumur temperature scale. Pic.
File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1776: [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] reads a paper to the St. Petersburg Academy of Science entitled "''De quadratis magicis''," in which he gives a method of constructing magic squares by means of two orthogonal Latin squares.
||1814: Eight people die in the London Beer Flood. Pic.
||1831: After discovering induced current on October 1st using two electrified coils,  on the 17th of October Michael Faraday  observers the same effect on the galvanometer when he inserts a permanent steel magnet into the electrified coil. Pic.
||1879: Uriah Atherton Boyden dies ... civil and mechanical engineer and inventor from Foxborough, Massachusetts best known for the development of the Boyden Turbine around 1844, while working for the Appleton Company in Lowell, Massachusetts. Boyden improved upon the water turbine developed by French engineer Fourneyron by adding a conical approach passage for the incoming water—submerged diffusers, guide vanes and a diverting exit passage. Pic.
File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1887: Physicist and academic [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] dies. He contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
||link=Paul Bernays (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician and philosopher [[Paul Bernays (nonfiction)|Paul Bernays]] born. Pic.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1888: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
||1893: Raffaele Bendandi born ... clockmaker known for his predictions of earthquakes. Bendandi was self-taught and never published a verifiable scientific exposition of his theory. Pic.
File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|1901: "[[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] is planning to [[Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|kill us all]]," warns Lord Kelvin.
File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1907: [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]]'s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
||1927: Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch born ... mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. Pic.
||1930: Ismail Akbay born ... physicist and engineer. Pic search.
||1931: Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion. Pic.
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1933: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
||1934: Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster dies ... physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Pic.
||1937: Frank Morley dies ... mathematician, known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields of algebra and geometry. Pic.
||1940: The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery. Pic.
||1944: Alain Lascoux born ... mathematician at the University of Marne la Vallée and Nankai University. His research was primarily in algebraic combinatorics, particularly Hecke algebras and Young tableaux.  Pic: http://www.cnrs.fr/ins2i/spip.php?article611
||1952: Ernest Vessiot dies ... mathematician. Vessiot's work on Picard–Vessiot theory dealt with the integrability of ordinary differential equations. Pic.
||1956: The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, in Cumbria, England.
||1956: Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer play a famous chess game called The Game of the Century. Fischer beat Byrne and wins a Brilliancy prize.
File:Jacques Hadamard.jpg|link=Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|1963: Mathematician [[Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|Jacques Hadamard]] dies.  He made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
||1963: The Vela series began with the launch of Vela 1/2 on October 17, 1963, a flight also marking the maiden voyage of the Atlas-Agena SLV-3 vehicle.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_(satellite)
File:Humpty Dumpty At Bat.jpg|link=Humpty Dumpty At Bat|1964: Signed first edition of ''[[Humpty Dumpty At Bat]]'' sell for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Flag of OPEC.svg|link=Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|1973: [[Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|OPEC]] imposes an oil embargo against a number of Western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria.
||1976: Edward Marczewski dies ... mathematician. Pic.
||1992: Herman Johannes dies ... scientist, academic, and politician. Pic.
||1994: Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces. Pic.
||1997: Larry Jennings dies ... magician and author. Pic.
||1998: Boris Floricic, better known by his pseudonym Tron dies ... hacker and phreaker whose death in unclear circumstances has led to various conspiracy theories. He is also known for his Diplom thesis presenting one of the first public implementations of a telephone with built-in voice encryption, the "Cryptophon". Pic search.
File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1999: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] dies. He led the team of researchers which developed the Monte Carlo method.
||2008: Andrew M. Gleason dies ... mathematician who as a young World War II naval officer broke German and Japanese military codes, then over the succeeding sixty years made fundamental contributions to widely varied areas of mathematics, including the solution of Hilbert's fifth problem, and was a leader in reform and innovation in math­e­mat­ics teaching at all levels. Pic.
||2012: Stanford R. Ovshinsky dies ... scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices.
||2017: Jeremy was a left-coiled garden snail died, aged two years. The snail had a rare genetic mutation which caused its shell to coil counterclockwise; in most snails the shell coils clockwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(snail)


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File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|[[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' stolen by supervillain [[Gnotilus]];  painting may hold key to [[Manhattan Project|abstract expressionist weapons]].
File:Queen Anne's War and Paddington Bear.png|link=Queen Anne's War (nonfiction)|[[Queen Anne's War (nonfiction)|Queen Anne's War]] is over, Paddington Bear negotiates peace treaty.
File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|[[Crimes against mathematical constants]] on the rise, according to [[Mathematical diagram (nonfiction)|mathematical diagram]].
File:Vostok1 descent module.jpg|link=Spacecraft (nonfiction)|Retired [[Spacecraft (nonfiction)|Vostok 1 descent module]] calls for moment of silence to honor [[Rosetta spacecraft (nonfiction)|Rosetta]]'s courageous self-sacrifice.
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[[File:Orgasmatron from Sleeper.png|300px|left|thumb|link=Artificial hedonism (nonfiction)|Tiny [[Spacecraft (nonfiction)|spacecraft]] with [[Artificial hedonism (nonfiction)|alien "Happy Ending" software]] converts human sweat into [[Extract of Radium]].]]
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[[File:Red-Limned Sea Quetzalcoatl.jpg|300px|left|thumb|link=Sea Quetzalcoatl|Red-limned [[Sea Quetzalcoatl]] disguised as Tree of Life.]]
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[[File:Confiserie orientale berlin lokum cream lemon, lokum.jpg|300px|left|thumb|link=Crime team (nonfiction)|[[Forbidden Ratio]] and [[Gnotilus]] use [[Turkish delight]] as symbol of [[crime team]].]]
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  • 1604: Kepler's Supernova: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.

    1604: Kepler's Supernova: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.

  • 1776: Leonhard Euler reads a paper to the St. Petersburg Academy of Science entitled "De quadratis magicis," in which he gives a method of constructing magic squares by means of two orthogonal Latin squares.

    1776: Leonhard Euler reads a paper to the St. Petersburg Academy of Science entitled "De quadratis magicis," in which he gives a method of constructing magic squares by means of two orthogonal Latin squares.

  • 1887: Physicist and academic Gustav Kirchhoff dies. He contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.

    1887: Physicist and academic Gustav Kirchhoff dies. He contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.

  • 1888: Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).

    1888: Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).

  • 1901: "Brainiac is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.

    1901: "Brainiac is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.

  • 1907: Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.

    1907: Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.

  • 1933: Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.

    1933: Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.

  • 1963: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard dies. He made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.

    1963: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard dies. He made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.

  • 1964: Signed first edition of Humpty Dumpty At Bat sell for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1964: Signed first edition of Humpty Dumpty At Bat sell for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1973: OPEC imposes an oil embargo against a number of Western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria.

    1973: OPEC imposes an oil embargo against a number of Western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria.

  • 1999: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis dies. He led the team of researchers which developed the Monte Carlo method.

    1999: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis dies. He led the team of researchers which developed the Monte Carlo method.

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