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File:Dionysos kantharos.jpg|link=Dionysus (nonfiction)|500 BC: [[Dionysus (nonfiction)|Dionysus]] invites [[Chrome Plover]] to perform at symposium. | File:Dionysos kantharos.jpg|link=Dionysus (nonfiction)|500 BC: [[Dionysus (nonfiction)|Dionysus]] invites [[Chrome Plover]] to perform at symposium. | ||
File:David Brewster.jpg|link=David Brewster (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer [[David Brewster (nonfiction)|David Brewster]] dies. | File:David Brewster.jpg|link=David Brewster (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer [[David Brewster (nonfiction)|David Brewster]] dies. | ||
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500 BC: Dionysus invites Chrome Plover to perform at symposium.
1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster dies.
1899: Transdimensional corporation mascot spontaneously generates sales pitch for Mark Twain.
1900: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1957: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, performs new work based on Gnomon algorithm functions.
1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1967: New isotope of Plutonium discovered, revealing secret history of the Manhattan Project.