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File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1764: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] born. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
 
File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1764: Mathematician [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1764: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] born. His government will see the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|link=Francis Galton (nonfiction)|1887: Polymath [[Francis Galton (nonfiction)|Francis Galton]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]].
 
File:Jacquard loom with two children and a dog (circa 1877).jpg|link=Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|1877: Children reprogram [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]] to compute new family of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Myrtle_Bachelder_-_1942.jpg|link=Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|1908: Chemist and US military officer [[Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|Myrtle Bachelder]] born. Bachelder will be responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder will make pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.
File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] invents record number of witticisms.
 
File:Melvin Dresher.jpg|link=Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|1911: Mathematician [[Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Melvin Dresher]] (Dreszer) born. Dresher will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.
 
File:Armageddon Hard.jpg|link=Armageddon Hard|1998: Premiere of '''''[[Armageddon Hard]]''''',  an American planetary catastrophe heist film about a New York City detective (Bruce Willis) who must stop a rogue splinter asteroid (99942 Apophis-B) from destroying the earth.  
 
File:Hilary Putnam.jpg|link=Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist [[Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|Hilary Putnam]] dies. Putnam argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".
 
||2017: André Jagendorf botanist and academic dies ... notable for providing direct evidence that chloroplasts synthesize adenosine triphosphate (ATP) using the chemiosmotic mechanism proposed by Peter Mitchell. Pic.
 
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