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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: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. Pic.
||1786: Pierre-Dominique Bazaine born - scientist and engineer. Pic.
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||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.
||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.


||1845: Félix Tisserand born ... astronomer and academic.
||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.
 
||1858: Oskar Minkowski born ... biologist and academic.


||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.
||1858: Oskar Minkowski born ... biologist and academic ... research on diabetes. Pic.


||1866: George Gurdjieff born ... mystic and philosopher.
||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.


||1870: Ross Granville Harrison born ... biologist and anatomist. Tissue culture.  Pic.
||1870: Ross Granville Harrison born ... biologist and anatomist. Tissue culture.  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]].


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 dies ... engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mauser Company.


||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.
||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.
||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.
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||1938: Cabu born ... cartoonist. Pic.
||1938: Cabu born ... cartoonist. Pic.
||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.
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||1946: Ordal Demokan born ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=ordal+demokan
||1946: Ordal Demokan born ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=ordal+demokan
||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


||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: 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.


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.
||1968: Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison


||1963: Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio.
File:Steely Kubrick.jpg|link=Steely Kubrick|1977: American rock band and film production company '''[[Steely Kubrick]]''' begins world tour.  


||1968: Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison
||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


||2012: Guido Dessauer dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
||2012: Guido Dessauer dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
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||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: 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 dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=chia-chiao+lin
||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 dies ... electronics engineer. Pic.
||2017: Magic Alex dies ... electronics engineer. Pic.


File:Creature_4.jpg|link=Creature 4 (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Creature 4 (nonfiction)|Creature 4]]'' reveals "at least seven hundred and fifty kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorems.


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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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