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File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1928: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] born. He will be a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement.
File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1928: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] born. He will be a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement.
File:Herbert Osborn Yardley.jpg|link=Herbert Yardley (nonfiction)|1928: Cryptologist and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Herbert Yardley (nonfiction)|Herbert Yardley]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions which use [[cryptographic numina]] to detect and prevent [[Crimes against mathematical constants|crimes against computational constants]].


||1929: Emil Hilb dies ... mathematician who worked in the fields of special functions, differential equations, and difference equations. Pic.
||1929: Emil Hilb dies ... mathematician who worked in the fields of special functions, differential equations, and difference equations. Pic.
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||1961: Earle C. Anthony dies ... businessman and philanthropist based in Los Angeles, California who worked in broadcasting and automobiles. He was also a songwriter, journalist and playwright. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Earle+C.+Anthony
||1961: Earle C. Anthony dies ... businessman and philanthropist based in Los Angeles, California who worked in broadcasting and automobiles. He was also a songwriter, journalist and playwright. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Earle+C.+Anthony
File:Gambling Den Fight.jpg|link=Gambling Den Fight|1969: Signed first edition of ''[[Gambling Den Fight]]'' purchased by [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] for an undisclosed sum.


||1987: Hans Motz dies ...  pioneering work at Stanford University on undulators which led to the development of the wiggler and the free-electron laser. Pic: https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/rse34067
||1987: Hans Motz dies ...  pioneering work at Stanford University on undulators which led to the development of the wiggler and the free-electron laser. Pic: https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/rse34067
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File:Dennis Paulson of Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars]] celebrates twenty-first anniversary of the NASA announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]], contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
File:Dennis Paulson of Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars]] celebrates twenty-first anniversary of the NASA announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]], contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
File:Green Spiral.jpg|link=Green Spiral (nonfiction)|2018: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Green Spiral (nonfiction)|Green Spiral]]'' reveals "at least two, probably four, possibly eight" previously unknown hues of the color green.


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  • 1638: Priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche born. He will be instrumental in introducing and disseminating the work of René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in France.

    1638: Priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche born. He will be instrumental in introducing and disseminating the work of René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in France.

  • 1667: Mathematician Johann Bernouli born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.

    1667: Mathematician Johann Bernouli born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.

  • 1881: Biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist Alexander Fleming born. Fleming will discover the enzyme lysozyme in 1923, and the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) in 1928, for which he will share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

    1881: Biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist Alexander Fleming born. Fleming will discover the enzyme lysozyme in 1923, and the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) in 1928, for which he will share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

  • 1928: Artist Andy Warhol born. He will be a leading figure in the Pop art movement.

    1928: Artist Andy Warhol born. He will be a leading figure in the Pop art movement.

  • 1991: Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

    1991: Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

  • 1996: NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

    1996: NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

  • 2012: NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

    2012: NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates twenty-first anniversary of the NASA announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates twenty-first anniversary of the NASA announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

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