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File:Bauernrauferei beim Kartenspiel Adriaen Brouwer.jpg|link=Donnybrook (nonfiction)|[[Donnybrook (nonfiction)|Donnybrook]] breaks out, playing cards arrested and questioned.
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File:Thought camera.jpg|link=Scrying engine|Many [[Scrying engine|scrying engines]] would have been using in predicting [[Donnybrook (nonfiction)|Donnybrook]], say computational detectives.
|| THEMES: Unabomber, social disruption
File:Hopalong Perfidy.jpg|link=Hopalong Perfidy|Authorities declare that "[[Hopalong Perfidy]] is the personification of [[Perfidy (nonfiction)|perfidy]]."
 
File:Fortunes of a Street Waif.jpg|link=Waif (nonfiction)|[[Waif (nonfiction)Waif]] has good reason for stealing boots.
File:Albertus Magnus.jpg|link=Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher [[Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|Albertus Magnus]] dies. He was known during his lifetime as ''doctor universalis'' and ''doctor expertus'' and, late in his life, the term ''magnus'' was appended to his name.
 
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] born. He will discover laws of planetary motion.
 
File:William Herschel.jpg|link=William Herschel (nonfiction)|1738: Astronomer and composer [[William Herschel (nonfiction)|William Herschel]] born. Herschel discovered the planet Uranus and its two moons, formulated a theory of stellar evolution, and suggested that nebulae are composed of stars.
 
||1793: Michel Chasles born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
 
||1819: Daniel Rutherford dies ... chemist and physician. Pic.
 
||1839: William Murdock dies ... inventor who was the first to make extensive use of coal gas for illumination and a pioneer in the development of steam power. He joined James Watt and Matthew Boulton and in 1784 he was sent to supervise the installation of Boulton & Watt steam engines working pumping equipment in Cornish tin mines. While there, he tested his ideas to use the gas given off by burning coal. From an iron retort in the backyard of his home, he ran a metal tube into his living room. On 29 Jul 1792, Murdock achieved a gas flame inside the room. In 1802, Boulton installed two gas lamps outside his Soho factory. Next year, the foundry was entirely illuminated by gas. Shortly, Boulton & Watt began to sell lighting and heating equipment with Murdock as a partner in the business. Pic.
 
||1849: Mary E. Byrd born ... astronomer and educator.  Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mary+E.+Byrd
 
||1868: Emil Racoviță born ... biologist, zoologist, speleologist, academic, explorer of Antarctica and the first biologist study arctic life. Pic.
 
||1874: August Krogh born ... zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1885: Frederick Handley Page born ... industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber. Pic (charming).
 
||1888: Harald Sverdrup born ... meteorologist and oceanographer known for his studies of the physics, chemistry, and biology of the oceans. He explained the equatorial countercurrents and helped develop the method of predicting surf and breakers. As scientific director of Roald Amundsen's polar expedition on Maud (1918-1925), Sverdrup worked extensively on meteorology, magnetics, atmospheric electricity, physical oceanography, and tidal dynamics on the Siberian shelf, and even on the anthropology of Chukchi natives. In 1953, Sverdrup quantified the concept of "critical depth", explaining the onset of the spring phytoplankton bloom in newly stratified water columns. Pic.
 
||1894: Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin born ... mathematician who made major contributions to the fields of general topology and descriptive set theory. His name is especially associated to Suslin's problem, a question relating to totally ordered sets. Pic.
 
||1896: Horia Hulubei born ... nuclear physicist, known for his contributions to the development of X-ray spectroscopy. Pic.
 
||1907: Edward Marczewski born ... mathematician.  Pic.
 
||1915: Martin Nodell born ... cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. Pic.
 
||1919: Alfred Werner dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1922: Petros Protopapadakis executed ... mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece. DOB unknown. Pic.
 
||1922: Francis Brunn born ... juggler. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Francis+Brunn
 
||1935: Stephen Warshall born ... computer scientist. Pic.
 
||1938: André-Eugène Blondel dies ... engineer and physicist. He is the inventor of the electromechanical oscillograph and a system of photometric units of measurement. Pic.
 
|link=|1938: Carol Jo Crannell born ... a solar physicist known for her work on solar flares and on the astrophysical observation of x-rays and gamma rays.  Pic: https://ggstem.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/carol-jo-crannell/
 
||1939: Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde born ... physician and parapsychologist. She said that there was a secret exchange program between humans and aliens that was being deliberately suppressed by "powerful Western governments", particularly the United States. Pic.
 
||1959: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson dies ... physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1966: Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
 
||1967: The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
 
||1969: Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
 
||1969: Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
 
||1971: Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
 
||1979: A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
 
||1979: Art historian Anthony Blunt's wartime role as a Soviet spy is revealed in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Pic.
 
File:Walter_Heitler.jpg|link=Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|1981: Physicist and chemist [[Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|Walter Heinrich Heitler]] dies. He made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.
 
||1985: A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
 
||1988: In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
 
||1988: Collapse of the first Green Bank telescope, a 90.44 m paraboloid erected in 1962. The telescope collapsed due to the sudden loss of a gusset plate in the box girder assembly, which was a key component for the structural integrity of the telescope.
 
||1990: Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
 
||2010: Larry Evans born ... chess player and journalist. Pic.
 
||2015: Lauri Vaska dies ... chemist and academic. Vaska contributed to the coordination chemistry of transition metals, homogeneous catalysis, and both organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=lauri+vaska
 
File:Phagey the Extract of Radium mascot.png|link=Extract of Radium|2015: [[Extract of Radium]] installs transdimensional vending machines at all San Francisco Muni stations.
 
File:San Francisco Muni worm logo.png|link=San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|2016: [[San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|San Francisco Muni hack]] begins, data held hostage for ransom.
 
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  • 1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher Albertus Magnus dies. He was known during his lifetime as doctor universalis and doctor expertus and, late in his life, the term magnus was appended to his name.

    1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher Albertus Magnus dies. He was known during his lifetime as doctor universalis and doctor expertus and, late in his life, the term magnus was appended to his name.

  • 1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Kepler born. He will discover laws of planetary motion.

    1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Kepler born. He will discover laws of planetary motion.

  • 1738: Astronomer and composer William Herschel born. Herschel discovered the planet Uranus and its two moons, formulated a theory of stellar evolution, and suggested that nebulae are composed of stars.

    1738: Astronomer and composer William Herschel born. Herschel discovered the planet Uranus and its two moons, formulated a theory of stellar evolution, and suggested that nebulae are composed of stars.

  • 1981: Physicist and chemist Walter Heinrich Heitler dies. He made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.

    1981: Physicist and chemist Walter Heinrich Heitler dies. He made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.

  • 2015: Extract of Radium installs transdimensional vending machines at all San Francisco Muni stations.

    2015: Extract of Radium installs transdimensional vending machines at all San Francisco Muni stations.

  • 2016: San Francisco Muni hack begins, data held hostage for ransom.

    2016: San Francisco Muni hack begins, data held hostage for ransom.

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