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File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1616: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1616: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
File:Luigi Galvani.jpg|link=Luigi Galvani (nonfiction)|1796: Physician and physicist [[Luigi Galvani (nonfiction)|Luigi Galvani]] uses principles of bioelectronics to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1838: Cleveland Abbe born ... meteorologist and academic. Pic.
||1838: Cleveland Abbe born ... meteorologist and academic. Pic.
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||1854: Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
||1854: Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
File:John Tyndall 1878.jpg|link=John Tyndall (nonfiction)|1878: Physicist [[John Tyndall (nonfiction)|John Tyndall]] uses a series of infra-red light devices to send a message from the White House to [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]] in less than seven minutes.


||1879: Donald Matheson Sutherland born ... physician and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of National Defence. Pic.
||1879: Donald Matheson Sutherland born ... physician and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of National Defence. Pic.
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||1904: The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory. Pic.
||1904: The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory. Pic.
File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1909: Electrical engineers John Havelock and Nikolai Tesla invent [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|new data transmission protocols]] based on the work of mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]].


File:Neon_lighting_Ne_symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1910: First public demonstration of modern [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|neon lighting]], by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
File:Neon_lighting_Ne_symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1910: First public demonstration of modern [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|neon lighting]], by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1911: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.


File:John Backus.jpg|link=John Backus (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician and computer scientist [[John Backus (nonfiction)|John Backus]] born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax.  
File:John Backus.jpg|link=John Backus (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician and computer scientist [[John Backus (nonfiction)|John Backus]] born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax.  
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||2014: The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to an asteroid to collect rock samples ... an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese space agency, JAXA. It follows on from Hayabusa and addresses weak points identified in that mission. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and arrived at near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in June 2018. It is intended to survey the asteroid for a year and a half, depart in December 2019, and return to Earth in December 2020. Hayabusa2 arrived at the target asteroid 162173 Ryugu (formerly designated 1999 JU3) on 27 June 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2
||2014: The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to an asteroid to collect rock samples ... an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese space agency, JAXA. It follows on from Hayabusa and addresses weak points identified in that mission. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and arrived at near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in June 2018. It is intended to survey the asteroid for a year and a half, depart in December 2019, and return to Earth in December 2020. Hayabusa2 arrived at the target asteroid 162173 Ryugu (formerly designated 1999 JU3) on 27 June 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2
File:Spiral 2.jpg|link=Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Spiral 2]]'' stolen from the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by agents of the criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]].


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