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||1005: Abe no Seimei dies ... Japanese astrologer. In addition to his prominence in history, he is a legendary figure in Japanese folklore. Pic.
||1740: Philip James de Loutherbourg born ... painter who became known for his large naval works, his elaborate set designs for London theatres, and his invention of a mechanical theatre called the "Eidophusikon". Pic.
||1783: Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner born ... chemist, natural scientist, and a professor of physics and chemistry. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Karl+Wilhelm+Gottlob+Kastner
||1802: Benoît Fourneyron born ... engineer born ... He made significant contributions to the development of water turbines. Pic.


File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and academic [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] born. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".  
File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and academic [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] born. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".  


File:The_Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|1816: Art critic and alleged math criminal [[The Eel]] escapes from [[Nacreum]], spending less than a day in prison.
File:The_Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|1816: Art critic and alleged math criminal [[The Eel]] escapes from [[Nacreum]], spending less than a day in the famed transdimensional prison.


||1831 – Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist, physiologist, and anthropologist (d. 1910) coca
||1831: Paolo Mantegazza born ... neurologist, physiologist, and anthropologist ... coca. Pic.


||1835 – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
||1834: Éleuthère Irénée du Pont dies ... chemist and businessman, founded DuPont. Pic.
 
||1835: Adolf von Baeyer born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... synthesised indigo, developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC organic nomenclature).


File:Galileo Ferraris.jpg|link=Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|1847: Physicist and electrical engineer [[Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|Galileo Ferraris]] born. He will be a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
File:Galileo Ferraris.jpg|link=Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|1847: Physicist and electrical engineer [[Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|Galileo Ferraris]] born. He will be a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.


||1856 – Charles Leroux, American balloonist and skydiver (d. 1889)
||1856: Charles Leroux born ... balloonist and skydiver. Pic.
 
||1883: David Gibb born ... mathematician and astronomer. He was the first person to use the term numerical integration. Pic: http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gibb.html
 
||1902: Abraham Wald born ... mathematician and economist. Pic.
 
||1911: Aleksander Ilyich Akhiezer born ... theoretical physicist, known for contributions to numerous branches of theoretical physics, including quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, solid state physics, quantum field theory, and the theory of plasma. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Aleksander+Ilyich+Akhiezer
 
||1914: John Hugenholtz born ... engineer and designer of racetracks and cars. Pic.
 
||1919: Magnus Wenninger born ... mathematician who worked on constructing polyhedron models, and wrote the first book on their construction. Pic.
 
||1925: John Pople born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
Harry_Houdini_1899.jpg|link=Harry Houdini (nonfiction)|1926: Magician and stuntman [[Harry Houdini (nonfiction)|Harry Houdini]] dies. Houdini's grand illusions and daring, spectacular escape acts made him one of the most famous magicians of all time.
 
||1847: Charles Loring Jackson dies ... the first significant organic chemist in the United States. He brought organic chemistry to the United States from Germany and educated a generation of American organic chemists. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Charles+Loring+Jackson
 
||1935: Ronald Graham  born  ... mathematician and theorist.  (Alive.) Pic.
 
||1938: Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
 
||1952: Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Andronov dies ... physicist and academic. He worked extensively on the theory of stability of dynamical systems, introducing (together with Lev Pontryagin) the notion of structural stability. In that context, he also contributed to the mathematical theory of self-oscillation (a term that he coined) by establishing a link between the generation of oscillations and the theory of Lyapunov stability. Pic: https://www.amazon.com/Aleksandr-Aleksandrovich-1901-1952-Nauchno-biograficheskai%CD%A1a%EF%B8%A1-literatura/dp/5020060356
 
||1956: Francis Simon dies ... physical chemist and physicist who devised the gaseous diffusion method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a major contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb. Pic.
 
||1959: Jean Cabannes dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q="jean+cabannes"+physics
 
||1962: Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion dies ... astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Gabrielle+Renaudot+Flammarion


||1902 – Abraham Wald, Romanian mathematician and economist (d. 1950)
||1965: Jan Kowalewski dies ... Polish cryptologist, intelligence officer, engineer, journalist, military commander, and creator and first head of the Polish Cipher Bureau. He recruited a large staff of cryptologists who broke Soviet military codes and ciphers during the Polish-Soviet War, enabling Poland to weather the war and achieve victory in the 1920 Battle of Warsaw. Pic.


||1914 – John Hugenholtz, Dutch engineer and designer (d. 1995)
||1980: Elizebeth Smith Friedman dies ... cryptanalyst and author, and pioneer in U.S. cryptography. She has been called "America's first female cryptanalyst". Pic.


||1919 – Magnus Wenninger, American mathematician and author (d. 2017)
||1986: Robert S. Mulliken dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1925 – John Pople, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
||1987: Raj Chandra Bose dies ... mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory, finite geometry and the theory of error-correcting codes in which the class of BCH codes is partly named after him. He also invented the notions of partial geometry, strongly regular graph and started a systematic study of difference sets to construct symmetric block designs.  Pic.


||1926 – Harry Houdini, American magician and stuntman (b. 1874)
||1988: George Uhlenbeck dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic.


||1935 – Ronald Graham, American mathematician and theorist
||1988: Theodor Schneider dies ... mathematician, best known for providing proof of what is now known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem. Schneider studied from 1929 to 34 in Frankfurt; he solved Hilbert's 7th problem in his PhD thesis, which then came to be known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem. Pic.


||1938 – Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
||1992: The Vatican admitted erring for over 359 years in formally condemning Galileo Galilei for entertaining scientific truths such as the Earth revolves around the sun it, which the Roman Catholic Church long denounced as anti-scriptural heresy. After 13 years of inquiry, the Pope's commission of historic, scientific and theological scholars brought the pope a "not guilty" finding for Galileo. *TIS In 1822 the church lifted the ban on the works of Galileo and in 1979 Pope John Paul II selected a commission to investigate. On Mar 31 of 1984 the Vatican newspaper, L’Observatore Romano, stated, “The so-called heresy of Galileo does not seem to have any foundation, neither theologically nor under canon law.” It still took until Oct 31, 1992, before Pope John Paul II declared that the church may have been mistaken in condemning Galileo. *Wik


||1959 – Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic (b. 1885)
||1997: Sidney Darlington dies ... electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration in 1953, the Darlington pair. He advanced the state of network theory, developing the insertion-loss synthesis approach, and invented chirp radar, bombsights, and gun and rocket guidance. Pic.


||1962 – Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion, French astronomer (b. 1877)
||2002: A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.


||1986 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
||2005: Hal Anger dies ... biophysicist and engineer, known for his invention of the gamma camera. Pic.


||2002 – A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.
||2009: Qian Xuesen dies ... aerodynamicist and academic. Pic.


||2005 – Hal Anger, American biophysicist and engineer (b. 1920)
File:Karl_Werewolf_Jones.jpg|2009: Karl "Werewolf" Jones hosts "the greatest Halloween party ever."


||2009 – Qian Xuesen, Chinese aerodynamicist and academic (b. 1911)
||2010: John Selfridge dies ... mathematician who contributed to the fields of analytic number theory, computational number theory, and combinatorics. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Lewis+Selfridge


||2013 – Trevor Kletz, English chemist and author (b. 1922) safety chem hazmat
||2013: Trevor Kletz dies ... chemist and author ... safety chem hazmat. He is credited with introducing the concept of inherent safety, and was a major promoter of Hazop. No DOB. Pic.


File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' reveals fifteen terabytes of encrypted data.


|File:Gysin and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|Brion Gysin and William Burroughs distill [[Extract of Radium]], result said to be "best in town".
|File:Animal_cell_diagram.svg|link=Organelles of the Secretory Pathway|Supervillain [[Gnotilus]] visits [[Organelles of the Secretory Pathway]], secretes [[geometry solvent]].
|File:Fowler's_Practical_Phrenology_(1850).jpg|link=Phrenology|''Fowler's Guide for Citizens'' (circa 1850s) useful guideline for [[Phrenocracy]] management.
|File:Scene_from_The_Ensoilment.jpg|link=The Ensoilment|Ancient pottery fragment,  computed in [[diagramaceous soil]], depicts fight scene from ''[[The Ensoilment]]''.
|File:Lee and Turner color projector 1902.jpg|link=Computational Human Phantom|[[Computational Human Phantom]] "is an old friend who means well," says pirate captain [[Cinnamon Jack (pirate)|Cinnamon Jack]].  "But he is in over his head."
|File:800px-2005-06-27 - Smithsonian Scrimshaw Collection.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|[[Scrimshaw abuse]] binge leaves hazardous residue.
|File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|[[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] takes dim view of [[The Eel]]'s activities.
|File:Iridescent_Ammonite.jpg|link=Gold Ruster|Supervillians [[Gold Ruster]] and [[Gnotilus]] are mortal enemies, and have fought on many occasions, yet have formed [[crime team (nonfiction)|crime teams]].
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  • 1815: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass born. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".

    1815: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass born. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".

  • 1816: Art critic and alleged math criminal The Eel escapes from Nacreum, spending less than a day in the famed transdimensional prison.

    1816: Art critic and alleged math criminal The Eel escapes from Nacreum, spending less than a day in the famed transdimensional prison.

  • 1847: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris born. He will be a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.

    1847: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris born. He will be a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.

  • 1926: Magician and stuntman Harry Houdini dies. Houdini's grand illusions and daring, spectacular escape acts made him one of the most famous magicians of all time.

    1926: Magician and stuntman Harry Houdini dies. Houdini's grand illusions and daring, spectacular escape acts made him one of the most famous magicians of all time.

  • 2009: Karl "Werewolf" Jones hosts "the greatest Halloween party ever."

    2009: Karl "Werewolf" Jones hosts "the greatest Halloween party ever."

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