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||1567: François d'Aguilon born ... Jesuit mathematician (d. 1617) François d'Aguilon (also d'Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius) ... Jesuit mathematician, physicist and architect. Pic: book plate.
||1567: François d'Aguilon born ... Jesuit mathematician (d. 1617) François d'Aguilon (also d'Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius) ... Jesuit mathematician, physicist and architect. Pic: book plate.
File:Simon Marius.jpg|link=Simon Marius (nonfiction)|1616: Astronomer and criminal investigator [[Simon Marius (nonfiction)|Simon Marius]] discovers four [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions which use observations of the four largest moons of Jupiter to detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants|crimes against planet-moon orbital mechanics]].


File:Gabriel Cramer.jpg|link=Gabriel Cramer (nonfiction)|1752: Mathematician and physicist [[Gabriel Cramer (nonfiction)|Gabriel Cramer]] dies. He published Cramer's rule, giving a general formula for the solution for any unknown in a linear equation system having a unique solution, in terms of determinants implied by the system.
File:Gabriel Cramer.jpg|link=Gabriel Cramer (nonfiction)|1752: Mathematician and physicist [[Gabriel Cramer (nonfiction)|Gabriel Cramer]] dies. He published Cramer's rule, giving a general formula for the solution for any unknown in a linear equation system having a unique solution, in terms of determinants implied by the system.
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||1933: Marvin Isadore Knopp born ... mathematician who worked primarily in number theory. He made notable contributions to the theory of modular forms. Pic: https://news.temple.edu/news/2012-11-13/mathematics-conference-honors-late-temple-professor-marvin-knopp
||1933: Marvin Isadore Knopp born ... mathematician who worked primarily in number theory. He made notable contributions to the theory of modular forms. Pic: https://news.temple.edu/news/2012-11-13/mathematics-conference-honors-late-temple-professor-marvin-knopp
File:Dmitry_Mirimanoff.jpg|link=Dmitry Mirimanoff (nonfiction)|1934: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Dmitry Mirimanoff (nonfiction)|Dmitry Mirimanoff]] publishes new type of [[Gnomon algorithm function]] which uses non-well-founded set theory to predict that [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]] will fall to Earth "no later than January 1958."


File:Sputnik 1.jpg|link=Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|1958: [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]] falls to Earth from orbit.
File:Sputnik 1.jpg|link=Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|1958: [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]] falls to Earth from orbit.
File:Max Born.jpg|link=Max Born (nonfiction)|1958: Physicist, mathematician, and [[APTO]] field operative [[Max Born (nonfiction)|Max Born]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use the statistical interpretation of the wave function to detect and prevent [[Crimes against physical constants|crimes against physical]] and [[Crimes against mathematical constants|mathematical constants]].


File:Luna 1 (museum replica).jpg|link=Luna 1 (nonfiction)|1959: [[Luna 1 (nonfiction)|Luna 1]] becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
File:Luna 1 (museum replica).jpg|link=Luna 1 (nonfiction)|1959: [[Luna 1 (nonfiction)|Luna 1]] becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
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||1999: Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.
||1999: Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.


File:Exploded electrolytic capacitor.jpg|link=Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|2002: [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|Capacitor plague]] affects several brands of [[portable envy]] devices.
File:Zombie Doctor.jpg|link=Zombie Doctor|2003: Premiere of '''''[[Zombie Doctor]]''''', a medical horror film about a physician (Danny Nucci) who is forced by a crime lord (Paul Sorvino) to heal zombies.


||2004: Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
||2004: Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
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||2013: Mathematician and academic Robert Phelps dies.  Phelps made contributions to analysis, particularly to functional analysis and measure theory. Pic.
||2013: Mathematician and academic Robert Phelps dies.  Phelps made contributions to analysis, particularly to functional analysis and measure theory. Pic.
File:Red Spiral 2.jpg|link=Red Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Red Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Red Spiral 2]]'' accidentally release the notorious criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]].


||2017: Heinz Billing dies ... physicist and computer scientist, widely considered a pioneer in the construction of computer systems and computer data storage, who built a prototype laser interferometric gravitational wave detector. Pic.
||2017: Heinz Billing dies ... physicist and computer scientist, widely considered a pioneer in the construction of computer systems and computer data storage, who built a prototype laser interferometric gravitational wave detector. Pic.

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  • 1752: Mathematician and physicist Gabriel Cramer dies. He published Cramer's rule, giving a general formula for the solution for any unknown in a linear equation system having a unique solution, in terms of determinants implied by the system.

    1752: Mathematician and physicist Gabriel Cramer dies. He published Cramer's rule, giving a general formula for the solution for any unknown in a linear equation system having a unique solution, in terms of determinants implied by the system.

  • 1847: Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

    1847: Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

  • 1903: Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The event is documented in the film Electrocuting an Elephant.

    1903: Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The event is documented in the film Electrocuting an Elephant.

  • 1932: Mathematician and academic Shoshichi Kobayashi born. He will work on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.

    1932: Mathematician and academic Shoshichi Kobayashi born. He will work on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.

  • 1958: Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.

    1958: Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.

  • 1959: Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.

    1959: Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.

  • 1961: Physicist and academic Erwin Schrödinger dies. He was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for the formulation of the Schrödinger equation.

    1961: Physicist and academic Erwin Schrödinger dies. He was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for the formulation of the Schrödinger equation.

  • 1974: Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.

    1974: Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.

  • 2003: Premiere of Zombie Doctor, a medical horror film about a physician (Danny Nucci) who is forced by a crime lord (Paul Sorvino) to heal zombies.

    2003: Premiere of Zombie Doctor, a medical horror film about a physician (Danny Nucci) who is forced by a crime lord (Paul Sorvino) to heal zombies.

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