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File:Constantinople_imperial_district.png|link=Nika riots (nonfiction)|532: The [[Nika riots (nonfiction)|Nika riots]] begin in Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed over the next several days.
File:Constantinople_imperial_district.png|link=Nika riots (nonfiction)|532: The [[Nika riots (nonfiction)|Nika riots]] begin in Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed over the next several days.


|File:Kells genealogy of Christ.jpg|link=Uncial script (nonfiction)|525: New version of [[Uncial script (nonfiction)|Uncial script]] includes proto-[[scrying engine]] symbols.
||1786: Pierre-Dominique Bazaine born - scientist and engineer. Pic.
 
|File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|526: [[The Eel's henchmen]] report that [[The Uncials]] are selling blackmarket [[scrying engines]].
 
File:Leonardo_da_Vinci_in_flight.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci|Artist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Leonardo da Vinci]] demonstrates his personal flying device. [[Mathematicians]] [who?] hail the device as "an unprecedented accomplishment, a singular work of genius, and a tribute to the power and versatility of [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques."
 
||1786 Pierre-Dominique Bazaine born - scientist and engineer.
 
||Zerah Colburn (b. January 13, 1832) was an American engineer specialising in steam locomotive design, technical journalist and publisher. Pic.


||1845 – Félix Tisserand, French astronomer and academic (d. 1896)
||1832: Zerah Colburn born ... engineer specializing in steam locomotive design, technical journalist and publisher. Pic.


||1858 – Oskar Minkowski, Lithuanian-German biologist and academic (d. 1931)
||1834: Armand Sabatier ... zoologist known for his studies of comparative anatomy of animals, and for his work in photography, discovering and publishing in 1860 the Sabattier effect, also known as pseudo-solarisation. Pic.


||1864 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928) Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (German: [ˈviːn]; 13 January 1864 – 30 August 1928) was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature.
||1845: Félix Tisserand born ... astronomer and academic. Tisserand's principal work, ''Traité de mécanique céleste'', documents the work of Laplace and other astronomers since his time. Pic.


||1866 – George Gurdjieff, Russian-French mystic and philosopher (d. 1949)
||1858: Oskar Minkowski born ... biologist and academic ... research on diabetes. Pic.


||1870 – Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist and anatomist (d. 1959)
||1864: Wilhelm Wien born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature. Pic.


File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1875: Writer, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] publishes new theory of [[Gnomon algorithm]] [[Paradox (nonfiction)|paradoxes]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1870: Ross Granville Harrison born ... biologist and anatomist. Tissue culture.  Pic.


File:Erhard Schmidt.jpg|link=Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|1876: Mathematician [[Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|Erhard Schmidt]] born. He will make important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.
File:Erhard Schmidt.jpg|link=Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|1876: Mathematician [[Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|Erhard Schmidt]] born. He will make important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.


File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] uses advances in process philosophy to compute and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1882: Wilhelm Mauser dies ... engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mauser Company. Pic.


||1882 – Wilhelm Mauser, German engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mauser Company (b. 1834)
||1895: Johannes (Jan) Martinus Burgers born ... physicist. He will discover Burgers' equation, the Burgers vector in dislocation theory, and the Burgers material in viscoelasticity. Pic.


File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|1898: Émile Zola's ''J'accuse…!'' exposes the [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]].
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|1898: Émile Zola's ''J'accuse…!'' exposes the [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]].


File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1899: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] publishes lemma to his proof that ''e'', the base of natural logarithms, is a transcendental number. Although he will not live to see it, this lemma will prove to be useful in solving entirely new classes of [[crimes against mathematical constants]], winning Hermite posthumous fame.
||1901: Wilhelm Hanle born ... experimental physicist. He is known for the Hanle effect. During World War II, he made contributions to the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club. Pic.
 
||Wilhelm Hanle (b. 13 January 1901) was a German experimental physicist. He is known for the Hanle effect. During World War II, he made contributions to the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club. Pic.


File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1902: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] born. He will work on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.
File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1902: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] born. He will work on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.
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File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1906 Jan. 13: Physicist and academic [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] dies. He did pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomena; in Russia and some eastern European, he is acclaimed as the inventor of radio.   
File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1906 Jan. 13: Physicist and academic [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] dies. He did pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomena; in Russia and some eastern European, he is acclaimed as the inventor of radio.   


||1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
||1910: The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.


||Johannes Benzing (b. 13 January 1913) was a German Turkic specialist and Diplomat in the era of National Socialism and in the Federal Republic of Germany. Benzing worked as a Linguist in Pers Z S, the signals intelligence agency of the German Foreign Office (German: Auswärtiges Amt). He was the youngest senior official (German:Beamter) and headed the section from October 1939 until September 1944. Pic.
||1913: Johannes Benzing born ... German Turkic specialist and Diplomat in the era of National Socialism and in the Federal Republic of Germany. Benzing worked as a Linguist in Pers Z S, the signals intelligence agency of the German Foreign Office (German: Auswärtiges Amt). He was the youngest senior official (German:Beamter) and headed the section from October 1939 until September 1944. Pic.
 
||1919: Igor Gouzenko born ... a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945 – just three days after the end of World War II – with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West. Pic (hood).


File:Georg Hermann Quincke.jpg|link=Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|1924: Physicist and academic [[Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|Georg Hermann Quincke]] dies. He conducted prolonged research on the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.
File:Georg Hermann Quincke.jpg|link=Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|1924: Physicist and academic [[Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|Georg Hermann Quincke]] dies. He conducted prolonged research on the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.


||1934 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist and chemist (b. 1860)
||1931: Elias Menachem Stein born ... mathematician, and a leading figure in the field of harmonic analysis.  Pic.
 
||1931: Jean Morlet born ... geophysicist who pioneered work in the field of wavelet analysis around the year 1975. He invented the term wavelet to describe the functions he was using. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=jean+morlet
 
||1934: Paul Ulrich Villard dies ... physicist and chemist. Pic.
 
||1937: Guy Dodson born ... biochemist and academic. Pic.


||1937 – Guy Dodson, New Zealand-English biochemist and academic (d. 2012)
||1938: Cabu born ... cartoonist. Pic.


||1938 – Cabu, French cartoonist (d. 2015)
||1941: Carleton Ellis dies ... inventor and pioneer in the field of organic chemistry. He is the forgotten father of margarine, polyester, anti-knock gasoline, paint and varnish remover Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Carleton+Ellis


||1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
||1942: Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.


||1942 – World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
||1942: World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.


||1946 – Ordal Demokan, Turkish physicist and academic (d. 2004)
||1946: Ordal Demokan born ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=ordal+demokan


||1953 – An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
||1953: Paul Niggli dies ... crystallographer who was a leader in the field of X-ray crystallography. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Paul+Niggli


File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1954: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Gödel]] uses his two incompleteness theorems to demonstrate that some classes of [[crimes against mathematical constants]] cannot be detected or prevented.
||1953: An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.


||1963 – Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio
||1968: Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison


||1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison
File:Steely Kubrick.jpg|link=Steely Kubrick|1977: American rock band and film production company '''[[Steely Kubrick]]''' begins world tour.


||Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko (b. January 13, 1919) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945 – just three days after the end of World War II – with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West.  
||1993: Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.


||1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
||2006: Richard Dalitz dies ... physicist known for his work in particle physics. Dalitz's thesis demonstrating that the electrically neutral pion could decay into a photon and an electron-positron pair, now known as a Dalitz pair. In addition, he is known for other key developments in particle physics: the Dalitz plot and the Castillejo–Dalitz–Dyson (CDD) poles. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=richard+dalitz


|File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2009: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] volunteer hotline answer questions, calm fears about the number thirteen.
||2012: Guido Dessauer dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.


||2012 – Guido Dessauer, German physicist and engineer (b. 1915)
||2013: Arthur Strong Wightman dies ... mathematical physicist. He was one of the founders of the axiomatic approach to quantum field theory, and originated the set of Wightman axioms. Pic: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/01/30/esteemed-princeton-mathematical-physicist-and-mentor-arthur-wightman-dies


||2013 – Chia-Chiao Lin, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1916)
||2013: Chia-Chiao Lin dies ... mathematician and academic ... made contributions to the theory of hydrodynamic stability, turbulent flow, mathematics, and astrophysics. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=chia-chiao+lin


||2017 – Magic Alex, Greek electronics engineer (b. 1942)
||2017: Magic Alex dies ... electronics engineer. Pic.




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Latest revision as of 19:02, 7 February 2022

  • 532: The Nika riots begin in Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed over the next several days.

    532: The Nika riots begin in Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed over the next several days.

  • 1876: Mathematician Erhard Schmidt born. He will make important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.

    1876: Mathematician Erhard Schmidt born. He will make important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.

  • 1898: Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.

    1898: Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.

  • 1902: Mathematician Karl Menger born. He will work on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.

    1902: Mathematician Karl Menger born. He will work on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.

  • 1906 Jan. 13: Physicist and academic Alexander Stepanovich Popov dies. He did pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomena; in Russia and some eastern European, he is acclaimed as the inventor of radio.

    1906 Jan. 13: Physicist and academic Alexander Stepanovich Popov dies. He did pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomena; in Russia and some eastern European, he is acclaimed as the inventor of radio.

  • 1924: Physicist and academic Georg Hermann Quincke dies. He conducted prolonged research on the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.

    1924: Physicist and academic Georg Hermann Quincke dies. He conducted prolonged research on the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.

  • 1977: American rock band and film production company Steely Kubrick begins world tour.

    1977: American rock band and film production company Steely Kubrick begins world tour.

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