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File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1590: Astronomer and crime analyst [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] publicly accuses rogue astronomers associated with the [[House of Malevecchio]] of committing a series of high-profile [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
||1581: Michael Neander dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=michael+neander


File:Wilhelm_Schickard_1632.jpg|link=Wilhelm Schickard (nonfiction)|1634: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Wilhelm Schickard (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Schickard]] writes two letters, each describing a new technique for detecting and preventing [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
||1760: Surgeon Hanaoka Seishū born ... with a knowledge of Chinese herbal medicine, as well as Western surgical techniques he had learned through Rangaku (literally "Dutch learning", and by extension "Western learning"). Hanaoka is said to have been the first to perform surgery using general anesthesia. Pic.


||1762: Samuel Morey born ... inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents.
||1762: Samuel Morey born ... inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=samuel+morey


||1774: Michel Benoist dies ... missionary and astronomer.
||1774: Michel Benoist dies ... missionary and astronomer. No pic online.


||1842: Henry Harrison Chase Dunwoody born. Known in his own time for his work with the Army’s Weather Bureau, Dunwoody invented the carborundum radio detector in 1906. It was the first practical mineral radio wave detector and the first commercial semiconductor device. Pic.
||1842: Henry Harrison Chase Dunwoody born. Known in his own time for his work with the Army’s Weather Bureau, Dunwoody invented the carborundum radio detector in 1906. It was the first practical mineral radio wave detector and the first commercial semiconductor device. Pic.
||1844: Édouard Branly born ... physicist and academic, early involvement in wireless telegraphy and his invention of the Branly coherer around 1890. Pic.
||1852: De Morgan conveyed Four Color Problem to Hamilton, writing, "A student of mine asked me today to give him a reason for a fact which I did not know was a fact—and do not yet. He says that if a figure be anyhow divided and the compartments differently coloured so that the figures with any portion of common boundary line are differently coloured—four colours may be wanted, but not more… Query cannot a necessity for five or more be invented." Pic.
||1865: Piers Bohl born ... mathematician, who worked in differential equations, topology and quasi-periodic functions. Pic: https://timenote.info/en/Piers-Bohl
||1868: Frederick William Lanchester born ... polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and co-invented the topic of operations research. Pic.


File:William_D._Coolidge.jpg|link=William D. Coolidge (nonfiction)|1873: Physicist and engineer [[William D. Coolidge (nonfiction)|William D. Coolidge]] born. He will make major contributions to X-ray machines, and develop ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs.
File:William_D._Coolidge.jpg|link=William D. Coolidge (nonfiction)|1873: Physicist and engineer [[William D. Coolidge (nonfiction)|William D. Coolidge]] born. He will make major contributions to X-ray machines, and develop ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs.


||1875: Gilbert N. Lewis born ... chemist and academic.
||1875: Gilbert N. Lewis born ... chemist and academic.
||1884: Ludwig Hopf born ... theoretical physicist who made contributions to mathematics, special relativity, hydrodynamics, and aerodynamics.  Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Prof-Dr-Ludwig-Hopf/6000000003495136149
||1885: Jan Czochralski born ... was a Polish chemist ... pioneer in semi conductor industry. He discovered the Czochralski method in 1916, when he accidentally dipped his pen into a crucible of molten tin rather than his inkwell. He immediately pulled his pen out to discover that a thin thread of solidified metal was hanging from the nib. The nib was replaced by a capillary, and Czochralski verified that the crystallized metal was a single crystal. Pic.


||1892: Lt. Col. Jan Kowalewski born ... 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.
||1892: Lt. Col. Jan Kowalewski born ... 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.
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||1894: Emma Vyssotsky born ... astronomer and academic (d. 1975)
||1894: Emma Vyssotsky born ... astronomer and academic (d. 1975)


||1905: Felix Bloch born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1905: Felix Bloch born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
1906: Darol Froman born ... Deputy Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1951 to 1962. He served as a group leader from 1943 to 1945, and a division head from 1945 to 1948. He was the scientific director of the Operation Sandstone nuclear tests at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific in 1948, and Assistant Director for Weapons Development from 1949 to 1951. Pic.


||1906: Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
||1906: Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
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||1911: First use of aircraft in war: Italo-Turkish War: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines.
||1911: First use of aircraft in war: Italo-Turkish War: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines.
||1920: Ted Fujita born ... meteorologist (storms researcher) and academic. Pic.


||1944: Charles Glover Barkla dies... physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his work in X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of X-rays (Roentgen rays). Pic.
||1944: Charles Glover Barkla dies... physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his work in X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of X-rays (Roentgen rays). Pic.
||1960: Randy Pausch dies ... computer scientist and educator ... interface design. Pic.


||1973: Carl Henry Eckart dies ... physicist, physical oceanographer, geophysicist, and administrator. He co-developed the Wigner–Eckart theorem and is also known for the Eckart conditions in quantum mechanics,and the Eckart–Young theorem in linear algebra. Pic.
||1973: Carl Henry Eckart dies ... physicist, physical oceanographer, geophysicist, and administrator. He co-developed the Wigner–Eckart theorem and is also known for the Eckart conditions in quantum mechanics,and the Eckart–Young theorem in linear algebra. Pic.
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File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.


||1986: Edward Adelbert Doisy dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1986: Edward Adelbert Doisy dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||2007: David George Kendall dies ... statistician and mathematician, known for his work on probability, statistical shape analysis, ley lines and queueing theory.  Pic.


||2011: Herbert A. Hauptman dies ... chemist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate.
||2009: George John Maltese dies ... mathematician whose main field of research was functional analysis. Pic.
 
||2011: Herbert A. Hauptman dies ... chemist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:Tullio Regge.jpg|link=Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|2014: Physicist and academic [[Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|Tullio Regge]] dies.  In 1968 he and G. Ponzano developed a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this was the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.
File:Tullio Regge.jpg|link=Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|2014: Physicist and academic [[Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|Tullio Regge]] dies.  In 1968 he and G. Ponzano developed a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this was the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.
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||2016: Jack Chick dies ... cartoonist and publisher.
||2016: Jack Chick dies ... cartoonist and publisher.


|File:Hazmatterhorn.jpg|link=Hazmatterhorn|Matterhorn encapsulated in gigantic glass vial, converted to copper sulfate pentahydrate crystals. See [[Hazmatterhorn]].
||2017: Corrado Böhm dies ... computer scientist and academic known especially for his contributions to the theory of structured programming, constructive mathematics, combinatory logic, lambda calculus, and the semantics and implementation of functional programming languages. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Corrado+Böhm
|File:Fugitive Rubies and hand x-ray.jpg|link=Evil bit release|This photograph, if genuine, may show the moment following the [[Evil bit release|release of an evil bit]] by supervillain [[Fugitive Rubies]].
 
|File:The Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|[[The Eel]], freshly incarcerated in the [[Nacreum]], remains defiant: "No prison can hold me!"
|File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|Inventor of [[Time travel (nonfiction)|time travel]] travels to distant past, [[Wild man (nonfiction)|goes insane, becomes own ancestor]] -- not necessarily in that order.
|File:Niente da Fare Antonio Rotta.jpg|link=Scarpomancy (nonfiction)|Cobbler admits inability to divine [[Scarpomancy (nonfiction)|future of old boots]].
|File:Mispent Youth.jpg|link=Mispent Youth|Taste sensation: [[Methylphenidate (nonfiction)|Methylphenidate]] + [[Extract of Radium]] = [[Mispent Youth]]. Shown here with vodka and olives.
|File:Alberta sulfur pyramids.jpg|link=Alberta sulphur pyramids (nonfiction)|Delicious aroma of [[Alberta sulphur pyramids (nonfiction)|sulfur pyramids]] attracts [[Comer's Midden Monster|Comer's Midden Monsters]] to Alberta.
|File:First computer bug.jpg|link=Software defect (nonfiction)|[[Software defect (nonfiction)|Computer bug]] demands rematch. "That relay sucker-punched me!" says moth.
|File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|[[Transdimensional corporation|Transdimensional corporation mascot]] spontaneously generates sales pitch for [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]].
|File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|[[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
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  • 1873: Physicist and engineer William D. Coolidge born. He will make major contributions to X-ray machines, and develop ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs.

    1873: Physicist and engineer William D. Coolidge born. He will make major contributions to X-ray machines, and develop ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs.

  • 1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.

    1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.

  • 2014: Physicist and academic Tullio Regge dies. In 1968 he and G. Ponzano developed a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this was the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.

    2014: Physicist and academic Tullio Regge dies. In 1968 he and G. Ponzano developed a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this was the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.

  • 2016: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing reveals quantum gravity control software based on spin foam models.

    2016: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing reveals quantum gravity control software based on spin foam models.

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