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File:Buzjani.jpg|link=Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (nonfiction)|987: Mathematician and astronomer [[Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (nonfiction)|Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī]] publishes limited edition of ''Almagest'' with a pioneering new chapter on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which will be widely read by medieval Arabic  [[Crimes against astronomical constants|crime-fighting astronomers]] in the centuries after his death.


||1671: Jacques d'Allonville born ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jacques+d%27Allonville
||1671: Jacques d'Allonville born ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jacques+d%27Allonville
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||1954: Thomas Wolff born ... mathematician, working primarily in the fields of harmonic analysis, complex analysis, and partial differential equations. Pic.
||1954: Thomas Wolff born ... mathematician, working primarily in the fields of harmonic analysis, complex analysis, and partial differential equations. Pic.
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1962: Soldier of fortune and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] steals the [[Small Boy (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon]].  The theft will soon be retroactively prevented by the [[The Custodian]].


File:Small Boy nuclear test 1962.jpg|link=Small Boy (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|1962: United States Army tests [[Small Boy (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon]], at the Nevada Test Site. Yield was 1.65 kt.
File:Small Boy nuclear test 1962.jpg|link=Small Boy (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|1962: United States Army tests [[Small Boy (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon]], at the Nevada Test Site. Yield was 1.65 kt.
File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|1962: [[The Custodian]] prevents attempt by [[Baron Zersetzung]] to steal the [[Small Boy (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Small Boy tactical nuclear weapon]].


File:Mars 23 aug 2003 hubble.jpg|link=Mars (nonfiction)|1965: The Mariner 4 flyby of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]] takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
File:Mars 23 aug 2003 hubble.jpg|link=Mars (nonfiction)|1965: The Mariner 4 flyby of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]] takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
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||1992: 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.
||1992: 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.
File:John Riedl.jpg|link=John T. Riedl (nonfiction)|1993: Computer scientist, [[Gnomon algorithm]] researcher, and poet [[John T. Riedl (nonfiction)|John T. Riedl]] gives an impromptu reading from his latest procedurally-generated poem "Why The Algorithm" at the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


||1996: Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge dies ... physicist at Harvard University who did work on cyclotron research. His precise measurements of mass differences between nuclear isotopes allowed him to confirm Albert Einstein's mass-energy equivalence concept. He was the Director of the Manhattan Project's Trinity nuclear test, which took place July 16, 1945. Bainbridge described the Trinity explosion as a "foul and awesome display". He remarked to J. Robert Oppenheimer immediately after the test, "Now we are all sons of bitches." Pic.
||1996: Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge dies ... physicist at Harvard University who did work on cyclotron research. His precise measurements of mass differences between nuclear isotopes allowed him to confirm Albert Einstein's mass-energy equivalence concept. He was the Director of the Manhattan Project's Trinity nuclear test, which took place July 16, 1945. Bainbridge described the Trinity explosion as a "foul and awesome display". He remarked to J. Robert Oppenheimer immediately after the test, "Now we are all sons of bitches." Pic.

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