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1887: Physicist and academic Gustav Kirchhoff dies. He contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
1901: "Brainiac is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.
1942: John Hoyland's Lebanon stolen by supervillain Gnotilus; painting may hold key to abstract expressionist weapons.
1961: Nysa on the Maeander upgrading to full transdimensional corporation.
1963: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard dies. He made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
1965: Red-limned Sea Quetzalcoatl disguises itself as Tree of Life.
Crimes against mathematical constants on the rise, according to mathematical diagram.
2016: Retired Vostok 1 descent module calls for moment of silence to honor Rosetta's courageous self-sacrifice.
2016: Tiny spacecraft with alien "Happy Ending" software converts human sweat into Extract of Radium.

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+File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1887: Physicist and academic [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] dies. He contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
 File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|1901: "[[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] is planning to [[Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|kill us all]]," warns Lord Kelvin.
 File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|1942: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' stolen by supervillain [[Gnotilus]];  painting may hold key to [[Manhattan Project|abstract expressionist weapons]].