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File:The Joker circa 1940.jpg|link=The Joker (nonfiction)|[[The Joker (nonfiction)|The Joker]] makes surprise appearance at the [[Human Flea Circus]].
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File:Flea circus ticket.jpg|link=Human Flea Circus|[[Human Flea Circus]] breaks attendance record.
 
File:That Was the Week That Was opening title.jpg|link=That Was the Week That Was (nonfiction)|First broadcast of ''[[That Was the Week That Was (nonfiction)|That Was the Week That Was]]'' (1962).
||1248: In the middle of the night a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapsed, in one of the largest historical rockslope failures known in Europe.
File:Rosewater cannon deployment.jpg|link=Rosewater cannon|Invention of [[Rosewater cannon|smokeless rosewater cannon]].
 
File:Cat guarding geese c1120 BC Egypt.jpg|link=Satire (nonfiction)|[[Satire (nonfiction)|Cat uses geese]] to illustrate principles of [[On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|Natural selection]].
File:Baruch Spinoza.jpg|link=Baruch Spinoza (nonfiction)|1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder [[Baruch Spinoza (nonfiction)|Baruch Spinoza]] born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.
File:Origin of Species title page.jpg|link=On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|[[On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|On the Origin of Species]] published (1859).
 
File:Waking the Slate.jpg|link=The Waking of the Slate|[[The Waking of the Slate]] is louder than ever.
File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1639: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] observes the
 
||1840: John Alfred Brashear born ... scientist, telescope maker and educator. Pic.
 
File:Origin of Species title page.jpg|link=On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|1859: Charles Darwin publishes ''[[On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|On the Origin of Species]]''.
 
||1864: Benjamin Silliman dies ... chemist and science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science, at Yale College, the first person to distill petroleum in America, and a founder of the American Journal of Science, the oldest continuously published scientific journal in the United States. Pic.
 
||1879: Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville born ... mathematician and astronomer. He compiled a bibliography on non-Euclidean geometry and also wrote a leading textbook in that field. He also wrote Introduction to the Geometry of N Dimensions, advancing the study of polytopes. Pic.
 
||1892: Dmitri Skobeltsyn born - physicist, academician - paved the way for Carl David Anderson's discovery of the positron by two important contributions: by adding a magnetic field to his cloud chamber (in 1925) , and by discovering charged particle cosmic rays, for which he is credited in Anderson's Nobel lecture. Pic search.
 
||1909: Gerhard Gentzen born ... mathematician and logician. He made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics, proof theory, especially on natural deduction and sequent calculus. Pic.
 
||1916: Hiram Maxim dies ... engineer, invented the Maxim gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun. Pic.
 
||1921: Herbert Frank York born ... nuclear physicist. He held numerous research and administrative positions at various United States government and educational institutes. Pic.
 
||1922: Claus Moser born ... statistician and academic. Pic.
 
||1922: Stanford Robert Ovshinsky born ... was an American inventor and scientist who over a span of fifty years was granted well over 400 patents, mostly in the areas of energy and information. Many of his inventions have had wide ranging applications. Among the most prominent are: an environmentally friendly nickel-metal hydride battery, which has been widely used in laptop computers, digital cameras, cell phones, and electric and hybrid cars; flexible thin-film solar energy laminates and panels; flat screen liquid crystal displays; rewritable CD and DVD discs; hydrogen fuel cells; and nonvolatile phase-change memory. Pic.
 
||1925: Simon van der Meer born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1932: In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
 
||1943: John Park Finley dies ... American meteorologist and Army Signal Service officer who was the first person to study tornadoes intensively. He also wrote the first known book on the subject as well as many other manuals and booklets, collected vast climatological data, set up a nationwide weather observer network, started one of the first private weather enterprises, and opened an early aviation weather school. Pic.
 
File:Operation_Tooth_Club_membership_card.jpg|link=Baby Tooth Survey (nonfiction)|1961: [[Baby Tooth Survey (nonfiction)|Baby Tooth Survey]]: Preliminary results published by the team in the November 24, 1961, edition of the journal Science showed that levels of strontium 90 in children had risen steadily in children born in the 1950s, with those born later showing the most increased levels. The results of a more comprehensive study of the elements found in the teeth collected showed that children born after 1963 had levels of strontium 90 in their baby teeth that were 50 times higher than those found in children born before the advent of large-scale atomic testing. The findings helped convince U.S. President John F. Kennedy to sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the United Kingdom and Soviet Union, which ended the above-ground nuclear weapons testing that placed the greatest amounts of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere.
 
File:That Was the Week That Was opening title.jpg|link=That Was the Week That Was (nonfiction)|1962: First broadcast of ''[[That Was the Week That Was (nonfiction)|That Was the Week That Was]]''.
 
File:Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby as Oswald is being moved by police, 1963.jpg|link=Lee Harvey Oswald (nonfiction)|1963: In the first live, televised murder, [[Lee Harvey Oswald (nonfiction)|Lee Harvey Oswald]], the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by [[Jack Ruby (nonfiction)|Jack Ruby]], a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armored car to take him to the nearby county jail.
 
File:Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5.jpg|link=Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5|1966: "'''[[Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5]]'''", one of the so-called "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek, is voted "Television Show of the Day" by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
 
||1969: Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.
 
||1971: During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
 
||1979: Alfred Kneschke dies ... mathematician, engineer and university lecturer. During the World War II, Kneschke managed the Referat IV, Section II of the Wehrmacht Signals intelligence organization General der Nachrichtenaufklärung until November 1944, working on cryptanalysis and decoding of British, USA, French and Balkan cipher systems. From Nov 1944, he worked in the OKW/Chi cipher bureau as a cryptanalyst. Pic.
 
||2008: John Robert Stallings Jr. dies ... mathematician known for his seminal contributions to geometric group theory and 3-manifold topology. Pic.
 
||2012: Nicholas Turro dies ... chemist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=nicholas+turro
 
||2014: Rudolf Hoppe dies ... chemist, discovered the first covalent noble gas compounds. Pic (with cat!).
 
||2015: Heinz Oberhummer dies ... physicist, astronomer, and academic. Pic.
 
||2015: Pierre Gabriel dies ... mathematician and academic.  He worked on category theory, algebraic groups, and representation theory of algebras.  Pic: http://www.pierre-peter-gabriel-mathematics.ch/biography/
 
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  • 1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.

    1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.

  • 1639: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks observes the

    1639: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks observes the

  • 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.

    1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.

  • 1961: Baby Tooth Survey: Preliminary results published by the team in the November 24, 1961, edition of the journal Science showed that levels of strontium 90 in children had risen steadily in children born in the 1950s, with those born later showing the most increased levels. The results of a more comprehensive study of the elements found in the teeth collected showed that children born after 1963 had levels of strontium 90 in their baby teeth that were 50 times higher than those found in children born before the advent of large-scale atomic testing. The findings helped convince U.S. President John F. Kennedy to sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the United Kingdom and Soviet Union, which ended the above-ground nuclear weapons testing that placed the greatest amounts of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere.

    1961: Baby Tooth Survey: Preliminary results published by the team in the November 24, 1961, edition of the journal Science showed that levels of strontium 90 in children had risen steadily in children born in the 1950s, with those born later showing the most increased levels. The results of a more comprehensive study of the elements found in the teeth collected showed that children born after 1963 had levels of strontium 90 in their baby teeth that were 50 times higher than those found in children born before the advent of large-scale atomic testing. The findings helped convince U.S. President John F. Kennedy to sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the United Kingdom and Soviet Union, which ended the above-ground nuclear weapons testing that placed the greatest amounts of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere.

  • 1962: First broadcast of That Was the Week That Was.

    1962: First broadcast of That Was the Week That Was.

  • 1963: In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armored car to take him to the nearby county jail.

    1963: In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armored car to take him to the nearby county jail.

  • 1966: "Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5", one of the so-called "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek, is voted "Television Show of the Day" by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    1966: "Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5", one of the so-called "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek, is voted "Television Show of the Day" by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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