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||31: Roman Emperor Caligula born. Pic.
||31: Roman Emperor Caligula born. Pic.
File:Marin Mersenne.jpg|link=Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter [[Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|Marin Mersenne]] uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1649: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] uses [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1654: Ole Worm dies ... physician and historian. Pic.
||1654: Ole Worm dies ... physician and historian. Pic.
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||1944: Roger Dean born ... illustrator and publisher. (Alive August 2019.)
||1944: Roger Dean born ... illustrator and publisher. (Alive August 2019.)


File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] dies. Banach was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.


||1949: André-Louis Debierne dies ... chemist and is considered the discoverer of the element actinium. In 1910, he and Marie Curie prepared radium in metallic form in visible amounts. Pic.
||1949: André-Louis Debierne dies ... chemist and is considered the discoverer of the element actinium. In 1910, he and Marie Curie prepared radium in metallic form in visible amounts. Pic.
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||2005: Joseph Rotblat dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||2005: Joseph Rotblat dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
File:Flow Chart.jpg|link=Flow Chart (nonfiction)|2006: [[Flow Chart (nonfiction)|Flow Chart]] voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


||2006: Edvard Munch's famous painting ''The Scream'', stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
||2006: Edvard Munch's famous painting ''The Scream'', stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.


||2013: Jan Camiel Willems dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search.
||2013: Jan Camiel Willems dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search.
File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' sells for two and a half million dollars."


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  • 1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.

    1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.

  • 1899: Georg Cantor writes to Dedekind, remarking that his "diagonal process" could be used to show that the power set of a set has more elements than the set itself.

    1899: Georg Cantor writes to Dedekind, remarking that his "diagonal process" could be used to show that the power set of a set has more elements than the set itself.

  • 1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. Banach was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.

    1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. Banach was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.

  • 1950: Mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel addresses the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on his work in relativity theory.

    1950: Mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel addresses the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on his work in relativity theory.

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