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| File:Toscanelli.jpg|link=Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (nonfiction)|1469: Mathematician, astronomer, and [[Gnomon (nonfiction)|gnomon]]-builder [[Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (nonfiction)|Paolo Toscanelli]] accuses the [[House of Malevecchio]] of secretly using the gnomon in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence to commit [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
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| File:Gaspard Monge.jpg|link=Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|1746: Mathematician and engineer [[Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|Gaspard Monge]] born. He will invent descriptive geometry, and do pioneering work in differential geometry. | | File:Gaspard Monge.jpg|link=Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|1746: Mathematician and engineer [[Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|Gaspard Monge]] born. He will invent descriptive geometry, and do pioneering work in differential geometry. |
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| ||1836: Ferdinand Monoyer born ... ophthalmologist, invented the Monoyer chart (d. 1912)
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| ||1845: Gustaf de Laval born ... engineer and businessman (d. 1913)
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| ||1850: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac dies ... chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
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| ||1850: Edward Weston born ... chemist noted for his achievements in electroplating and his development of the electrochemical cell, named the Weston cell, for the voltage standard. Pic.
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| ||1876: Gilbert Ames Bliss born ... mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations. Pic.
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| ||1882: Henry John Kaiser born ... industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding.
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| ||1887: Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
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| ||1898: Arend Heyting born ... mathematician and logician. He will give the first formal development of intuitionistic logic in order to codify Brouwer's way of doing mathematics. Pic.
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| ||1904: George Johnston Allman dies ... professor, mathematician, classical scholar, and historian of ancient Greek mathematics.
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| ||1904: The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
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| ||1906: Nicholas Ulrich Mayall born ... observational astronomer. After obtaining his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, Mayall worked at the Lick Observatory, where he remained from 1934 to 1960, except for a brief period at MIT's Radiation Laboratory during World War II. During his time at Lick, Mayall contributed to astronomical knowledge of nebulae, supernovae, spiral galaxy internal motions, the redshifts of galaxies, and the origin, age, and size of the Universe. He played a significant role in the planning and construction of Lick's 120-inch (3.0 m) reflector, which represented a major improvement over its earlier 36-inch (0.91 m) telescope. From 1960, Mayall spent 11 years as director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory until his retirement in 1971. Under his leadership KPNO, and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, developed into two of the world's top research observatories, equipped with premier telescopes. Mayall was responsible for the construction of the 4-meter (160 in) Kitt Peak reflector, which was named after him. Pic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Mayall
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| ||1909: Hilde Levi born ... physicist. She was a pioneer of the use of radioactive isotopes in biology and medicine, notably the techniques of radiocarbon dating and autoradiography. In later life she became a scientific historian. Pic.
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| ||1912: Géza Ottlik born ... mathematician and theorist.
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| File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."
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| ||1931: Albert Abraham Michelson dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| |File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1940: [[John Brunner]] uses a [[Scrying engine|Lee and Turner scrying engine]] to compute the "near certain probability" that the Royal Navy will succeed in capturing the [[German submarine U-110 (1940) (nonfiction)|German submarine U-110]].
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| File:U-110.jpg|link=German submarine U-110 (1940) (nonfiction)|1941: The [[German submarine U-110 (1940) (nonfiction)|German submarine U-110]] is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages. | | File:U-110.jpg|link=German submarine U-110 (1940) (nonfiction)|1941: The [[German submarine U-110 (1940) (nonfiction)|German submarine U-110]] is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages. |
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| ||1943: Colin Pillinger born ... astronomer, chemist, and academic.
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| ||1945: Hans Kammler dies ... civil engineer and SS commander during the Nazi era. He oversaw SS construction projects and towards the end of World War II was put in charge of the V-2 missile and jet programmes. Pic.
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| ||1950: Esteban Terradas i Illa dies ... mathematician and engineer ... researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the physical sciences
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| ||1951: U.S. nuclear test "George" of Operation Greenhouse test series. The "George" shot was a "science experiment" showing the feasibility of the Teller-Ulam design concept (which would itself be fully tested in "Ivy Mike").
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| File:West Ford needles and stamp.jpg|link=Project West Ford (nonfiction)|1963: [[Project West Ford (nonfiction)|Project West Ford]] launches, successfully deploying a ring of 480,000,000 copper needles in orbit, forming an artificial ionospheric radio communication system. | | File:West Ford needles and stamp.jpg|link=Project West Ford (nonfiction)|1963: [[Project West Ford (nonfiction)|Project West Ford]] launches, successfully deploying a ring of 480,000,000 copper needles in orbit, forming an artificial ionospheric radio communication system. |
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| ||1968: Harold Gray dies ... cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (b. 1894)
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| File:The_Custodian_2.jpg|link=The Custodian|1972: Public servant and alleged time-traveller [[The Custodian]] tells a funny story about how the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]] will play out.
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| File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1972: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon. | | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1972: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon. |
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| File:Skip Digits, Conductor.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1974: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] conducts debut performance of his new opera about [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon]].
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| ||1980: In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
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| ||1998: Bernard Morris Dwork dies ... mathematician, known for his application of p-adic analysis to local zeta functions, and in particular for a proof of the first part of the Weil conjectures: the rationality of the zeta-function of a variety over a finite field. For this proof he received, together with Kenkichi Iwasawa, the Cole Prize in 1962.[1] The general theme of Dwork's research was p-adic cohomology and p-adic differential equations. Pic: https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/98/0525/0525-2a.html
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| ||1999: Ivan Morton Niven dies ... mathematician, specializing in number theory. Pic.
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| |File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|2017: ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| Two_Bugs_Fighting.jpg|link=Two Bugs Fighting (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Two Bugs Fighting (nonfiction)|Two Bugs Fighting]]'' unexpectedly releases self-replicating computer virus which spontaneously generates [[Extract of Radium]].
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