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||1742: Philip Astley born ... equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus". The circus industry, as a presenter of an integrated entertainment experience that includes music, domesticated animals, acrobats, and clowns, traces its heritage to Astley's Amphitheatre, a riding school that Astley founded in London following the success of trick-riding displays given by him and his wife Patty Jones in 1768. PIc.
||1742: Philip Astley born ... equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus". The circus industry, as a presenter of an integrated entertainment experience that includes music, domesticated animals, acrobats, and clowns, traces its heritage to Astley's Amphitheatre, a riding school that Astley founded in London following the success of trick-riding displays given by him and his wife Patty Jones in 1768. PIc.
File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi engraving.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1774: Mathematician,  philosopher, theologian, and crime-fighter [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] uses a new synthesis of differential and integral calculus to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1775: John Baskerville dies ... printer and type designer.
||1775: John Baskerville dies ... printer and type designer.
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File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1889: [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1889: [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
File:Charles-Émile Reynaud.jpg|link=Charles-Émile Reynaud (nonfiction)|1890: Scientist, inventor, and [[APTO]] marketing director [[Charles-Émile Reynaud (nonfiction)|Charles-Émile Reynaud]] discovers a previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] function which causes a Praxinoscope to function as a simple [[scrying engine]].


||1891: Walther Bothe born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1891: Walther Bothe born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
File:Nostromo Cafe.jpg|link=Nostromo Cafe|The '''[[Nostromo Cafe]]''' opens.  It is the first known take-out restaurant aboard a spaceship.


||1980: John Mauchly dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Mauchly
||1980: John Mauchly dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Mauchly
File:Marhall Harvey Stone Zurich 1932.jpg|link=Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|1981: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|Marshall Harvey Stone]] publishes new class of  Boolean algebra structures which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1981: A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
||1981: A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
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||2002: Alexander Prokhorov dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||2002: Alexander Prokhorov dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:M._S._Bartlett.png|link=M. S. Bartlett (nonfiction)|2002: Statistician [[M. S. Bartlett (nonfiction)|Maurice Stevenson Bartlett dies. Bartlett made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns, and is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis.
File:M._S._Bartlett.png|link=M. S. Bartlett (nonfiction)|2002: Statistician [[M. S. Bartlett (nonfiction)|Maurice Stevenson Bartlett]] dies. Bartlett made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns, and is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis.


||2005: The nuclear sub ''USS San Francisco'' collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
||2005: The nuclear sub ''USS San Francisco'' collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
File:Pond At Dawn.jpg|link=Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|2010: ''[[Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|Pond At Dawn]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


||2012: Bernhard Schrader dies ... chemist and academic ... pioneer of experimental molecular spectroscopy in Germany, especially of Raman- and Infrared spectroscopy and its routine application in chemical analysis. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Bernhard+Schrader+chemist
||2012: Bernhard Schrader dies ... chemist and academic ... pioneer of experimental molecular spectroscopy in Germany, especially of Raman- and Infrared spectroscopy and its routine application in chemical analysis. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Bernhard+Schrader+chemist


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