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||1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration. | |||
|File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1563: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] spontaneously generates new type of [[Gnomon algorithm function]]. | |File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1563: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] spontaneously generates new type of [[Gnomon algorithm function]]. | ||
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File:Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin.jpg|link=Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|1839: Birth of [[Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|Ivan Goremykin]] heralds new age of [[Extreme Moustaches]]. | File:Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin.jpg|link=Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|1839: Birth of [[Ivan Goremykin (nonfiction)|Ivan Goremykin]] heralds new age of [[Extreme Moustaches]]. | ||
File: | ||1861 – American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US. | ||
File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring|1974: [[Green Ring]] tells [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] a funny story about ''[[Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography (nonfiction)|Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography]]''. | |||
File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1895: While experimenting with electricity, [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] discovers the X-ray. | |||
File:Joseph_Schillinger_and_the_Rhythmicon.jpg|link=Drum machine (nonfiction)|1937: Music educator Joseph Schillinger inspects [[Drum machine (nonfiction)|Rhythmicon]], finds no evidence of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1900: "[[Crimes against mathematical constants]] are on the rise," warns Lord Kelvin. | ||
|File:Joseph_Schillinger_and_the_Rhythmicon.jpg|link=Drum machine (nonfiction)|1937: Music educator Joseph Schillinger inspects [[Drum machine (nonfiction)|Rhythmicon]], finds no evidence of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||Gino Fano (5 January 1871 – 8 November 1952) was an Italian mathematician, best known as the founder of the finite geometry. He was born in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy. | ||Gino Fano (5 January 1871 – 8 November 1952) was an Italian mathematician, best known as the founder of the finite geometry. He was born in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy. | ||
|File:Cryptographic numen modelled as nano-wire.jpg|link=Cryptographic numen|2001: [[Cryptographic numen]] modeled in nanowire, generates preview of ''[[Unexpectedly Hanging Chad]]''. | |File:Cryptographic numen modelled as nano-wire.jpg|link=Cryptographic numen|2001: [[Cryptographic numen]] modeled in nanowire, generates preview of ''[[Unexpectedly Hanging Chad]]''. | ||
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1703: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1839: Birth of Ivan Goremykin heralds new age of Extreme Moustaches.
1974: Green Ring tells Dick Cavett a funny story about Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography.
1895: While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.