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File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1523: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] uses [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1777: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] born. He will have an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and be ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1777: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] born. He will have an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and be ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.


File:Gambling Den Fight.jpg|link=Gambling Den Fight|1874: Scene from ''[[Gambling Den Fight]]'' adapted for opera, performed at theaters across Europe to rave reviews.
File:J_J_Thomson.jpg|link=J. J. Thomson (nonfiction)|1897: [[J. J. Thomson (nonfiction)|J. J. Thomson]] of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.


||Orso Mario Corbino (d. 23 January 1937, Rome) was an Italian physicist and politician. Pic.
File:Genevieve_Grotjan_Feinstein.jpg|link=Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician and cryptanalyst [[Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (nonfiction)|Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein]] born. Feinstein will work for the Signals Intelligence Service throughout World War II, playing an important role in deciphering the Japanese cryptography machine Purple, and will later work on the Cold War-era Venona project.


File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] born.
File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] born. He will be  known as "the father of information theory".


||Gerda Hedwig Lerner (b. April 30, 1920) was an Austrian-born American historian and author.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate]]: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.


File:Glenn Seaborg.jpg|link=Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|1961: Chemist [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Glenn T. Seaborg]] discovers new hydrogen isotope with important applications in the diagnosis and treatment of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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||Edwin Thompson Jaynes (d. April 30, 1998) was the Wayman Crow Distinguished Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He wrote extensively on statistical mechanics and on foundations of probability and statistical inference, initiating in 1957 the MaxEnt interpretation of thermodynamics, as being a particular application of more general Bayesian/information theory techniques (although he argued this was already implicit in the works of Gibbs). Jaynes strongly promoted the interpretation of probability theory as an extension of logic.


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  • 1777: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss born. He will have an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and be ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.

    1777: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss born. He will have an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and be ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.

  • 1897: J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.

    1897: J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.

  • 1913: Mathematician and cryptanalyst Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein born. Feinstein will work for the Signals Intelligence Service throughout World War II, playing an important role in deciphering the Japanese cryptography machine Purple, and will later work on the Cold War-era Venona project.

    1913: Mathematician and cryptanalyst Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein born. Feinstein will work for the Signals Intelligence Service throughout World War II, playing an important role in deciphering the Japanese cryptography machine Purple, and will later work on the Cold War-era Venona project.

  • 1916: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon born. He will be known as "the father of information theory".

    1916: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon born. He will be known as "the father of information theory".

  • 1973: Watergate: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.

    1973: Watergate: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.

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