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||1743: John Fitch born ... inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer. He was most famous for operating the first steamboat service in the United States. Pic.
||1743: John Fitch born ... inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer. He was most famous for operating the first steamboat service in the United States. Pic.
File:The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.jpg|link=The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|1780: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]'' unexpectedly reveals previously unknown templates for [[organic golems]].


||1793: After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
||1793: After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
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||1827: Mathematician and theorist Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin born. No reliable pic online: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ivan+Mikheevich+Pervushin
||1827: Mathematician and theorist Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin born. No reliable pic online: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ivan+Mikheevich+Pervushin
File:Joseph Ludwig Raabe.jpg|link=Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|1828: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|Joseph Ludwig Raabe]] publishes new version of Raabe's ratio test, which uses the convergence or divergence of an infinite series to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1846: Pieter Hendrik Schoute born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
||1846: Pieter Hendrik Schoute born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
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File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1869: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] born.  A  mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Emperor Nicholas II, Rasputin gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.
File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1869: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] born.  A  mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Emperor Nicholas II, Rasputin gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.


||1872: Mathematician Lucjan Böttcher born ... He will contribute to functional equations, theory of iterations, and the dynamics of holomorphic functions. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lucjan+Böttcher
||1872: Mathematician Lucjan Böttcher born ... He will contribute to functional equations, theory of iterations, and the dynamics of holomorphic functions. Pic search.


||1874: René-Louis Baire born ... mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. Pic.
||1874: René-Louis Baire born ... mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. Pic.
File:Firing_a_woman_from_a_cannon_-_Otago_Daily_Times_-_21_Jan_1887.png|1887: "Mrs Mary Steadman Aldis, has appealed to the City Council to stop the performances of Delo, the woman fired from a cannon at City Hall...."


||1882: Pavel Florensky born ... mathematician and theologian. Pic.
||1882: Pavel Florensky born ... mathematician and theologian. Pic.
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||1897: Alexander Weinstein born ... mathematician who worked on boundary value problems in fluid dynamics. Pic.
||1897: Alexander Weinstein born ... mathematician who worked on boundary value problems in fluid dynamics. Pic.


||1898: Eduard Zintl born ... chemist. He gained prominence for research on intermetallic compounds. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Eduard+Zintl
||1898: Eduard Zintl born ... chemist. He gained prominence for research on intermetallic compounds. Pic search.
 
File:Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer.jpg|link=Emil Erlenmeyer (nonfiction)|1899: Chemist and crime-fighter [[Emil Erlenmeyer (nonfiction)|Emil Erlenmeyer]] uses the Erlenmeyer rule to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]].


File:John Bodkin Adams 1940s.jpg|link=John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|1899: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer [[John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|John Bodkin Adams]] is born.
File:John Bodkin Adams 1940s.jpg|link=John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|1899: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer [[John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|John Bodkin Adams]] is born.


File:George Salmon.jpg|link=George Salmon (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician, theologian, and Anglican crime-fighter [[George Salmon (nonfiction)|George Salmon]] uses algebraic geometry detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Elisha Gray.jpg|link=Elisha Gray (nonfiction)|1901: Electrical engineer [[Elisha Gray (nonfiction)|Elisha Gray]] dies. Gray did pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the telephone.


File:Elisha Gray.jpg|link=|1901: Electrical engineer [[Elisha Gray (nonfiction)|Elisha Gray]] dies. He did pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the [[Telephone (nonfiction)|telephone]].
||1905: Karl Wallenda born ... acrobat and tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas. Pic.


||1912: Konrad Emil Bloch born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1912: Konrad Emil Bloch born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1913: Social activist and alleged superhero [[The Governess]] warns the Great Powers not to use nuclear weapons ahead of schedule.


File:André_Lichnerowicz.jpg|link=André Lichnerowicz (nonfiction)|1915: Physicist and mathematician [[André Lichnerowicz (nonfiction)|André Lichnerowicz]] born. He will work in differential geometry and mathematical physics.
File:André_Lichnerowicz.jpg|link=André Lichnerowicz (nonfiction)|1915: Physicist and mathematician [[André Lichnerowicz (nonfiction)|André Lichnerowicz]] born. He will work in differential geometry and mathematical physics.
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||1946: Harry Bateman dies ... mathematician. Pic.
||1946: Harry Bateman dies ... mathematician. Pic.
File:Numbered cake pops.jpg|link=Numbered cake algorithm|1951: [[Numbered cake algorithm]] used to manufacture new type of [[organic golems]].


||1954: The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS ''Nautilus'', is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
||1954: The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS ''Nautilus'', is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
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||1960: Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
||1960: Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.


File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "is confident that the upcoming [[1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Thule Air Base B-52 crash]] is a sound business investment."
File:Red Spot Travel Agency.jpg|link=Red Spot Travel Agency|1967: The '''[[Red Spot Travel Agency]]''' opens for business, providing travel and tourism-related services between Earth and Jupiter.


File:Boeing B-52G in flight.jpg|link=1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1968: A B-52 bomber [[1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash (nonfiction)|crashes near Thule Air Base]], contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
File:Boeing B-52G in flight.jpg|link=1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1968: A B-52 bomber [[1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash (nonfiction)|crashes near Thule Air Base]], contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.


File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1969: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] announces new film about the [[1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Thule Air Base B-52 crash]].
||1971: Leonard Isaac Schiff dies ... physicist best known for his book ''Quantum Mechanics''. Pic search.
 
||1971: Leonard Isaac Schiff dies ... physicist best known for his book ''Quantum Mechanics''. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Leonard+Isaac+Schiff


||1974: Mathematician Arnaud Denjoy dies. His contributions included work in harmonic analysis and differential equations; he was the first to define an integral which integrates all derivatives (now known as the Henstock–Kurzweil integral). Pic: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud_Denjoy
||1974: Mathematician Arnaud Denjoy dies. His contributions included work in harmonic analysis and differential equations; he was the first to define an integral which integrates all derivatives (now known as the Henstock–Kurzweil integral). Pic: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud_Denjoy
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||2004: NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
||2004: NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.


||2013: Donald Hornig dies ... chemist, explosives expert, teacher and presidential science advisor; Project Stormfury weather weather modification. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=donald+hornig
||2013: Donald Hornig dies ... chemist, explosives expert, teacher and presidential science advisor; Project Stormfury weather weather modification. Pic search.


||2015: Fabrizio de Miranda dies ... bridges and structural engineer and university professor. Pic.
||2015: Fabrizio de Miranda dies ... bridges and structural engineer and university professor. Pic.


File:Dragons_Fighting.jpg|link=Dragons Fighting (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Dragons Fighting (nonfiction)|Dragons Fighting]]'' purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist" in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against physical constants]].


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  • 1714: Anatomist and anatomical wax modeler Anna Morandi Manzolini born. Her collection of wax models will be known throughout Europe as Supellex Manzoliniana and be sought after to aid in the study of anatomy.

    1714: Anatomist and anatomical wax modeler Anna Morandi Manzolini born. Her collection of wax models will be known throughout Europe as Supellex Manzoliniana and be sought after to aid in the study of anatomy.

  • 1869: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin born. A mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Emperor Nicholas II, Rasputin gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.

    1869: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin born. A mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Emperor Nicholas II, Rasputin gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.

  • 1887: "Mrs Mary Steadman Aldis, has appealed to the City Council to stop the performances of Delo, the woman fired from a cannon at City Hall...."

    1887: "Mrs Mary Steadman Aldis, has appealed to the City Council to stop the performances of Delo, the woman fired from a cannon at City Hall...."

  • 1899: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is born.

    1899: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is born.

  • 1901: Electrical engineer Elisha Gray dies. Gray did pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the telephone.

    1901: Electrical engineer Elisha Gray dies. Gray did pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the telephone.

  • 1915: Physicist and mathematician André Lichnerowicz born. He will work in differential geometry and mathematical physics.

    1915: Physicist and mathematician André Lichnerowicz born. He will work in differential geometry and mathematical physics.

  • 1959: Project SCORE satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere.

    1959: Project SCORE satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere.

  • 1967: The Red Spot Travel Agency opens for business, providing travel and tourism-related services between Earth and Jupiter.

    1967: The Red Spot Travel Agency opens for business, providing travel and tourism-related services between Earth and Jupiter.

  • 1968: A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.

    1968: A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.

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