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File:Henri Poincaré.jpg|link=Henri Poincaré (nonfiction)|1854: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer [[Henri Poincaré (nonfiction)|Henri Poincaré]] born. He will make many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics. | File:Henri Poincaré.jpg|link=Henri Poincaré (nonfiction)|1854: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer [[Henri Poincaré (nonfiction)|Henri Poincaré]] born. He will make many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics. | ||
||1872 – Forest Ray Moulton, American astronomer and academic (d. 1952) | ||1872 – Forest Ray Moulton, American astronomer and academic (d. 1952) | ||
||Paul Antoine Aristide Montel (b. 29 April 1876) was a French mathematician. He was born in Nice, France and died in Paris, France. He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis. | ||Paul Antoine Aristide Montel (b. 29 April 1876) was a French mathematician. He was born in Nice, France and died in Paris, France. He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis. | ||
File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1880: Signed first edition of ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' briefly stolen from the British Museum by the [[Forbidden Ratio]]. The high-speedy robbery, which lasted approximately six hundred milliseconds, failed when one of [[Forbidden Ratio]]'s subsystems tripped and fell on the front steps of the museum. | |||
||1882 – Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch printer, typographer, and Nazi resister (d. 1945) | ||1882 – Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch printer, typographer, and Nazi resister (d. 1945) | ||
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1667: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot born. He will invent the figure of John Bull.
1756: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse constructs an exceptionally accurate orrery, which he will later use to create an early form of time crystals (nonfiction).
1854: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer Henri Poincaré born. He will make many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
1880: Signed first edition of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess briefly stolen from the British Museum by the Forbidden Ratio. The high-speedy robbery, which lasted approximately six hundred milliseconds, failed when one of Forbidden Ratio's subsystems tripped and fell on the front steps of the museum.
1974: Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
1985: Asclepius Myrmidon discovers an unlicensed halting problem "which will almost certainly result in a major radiation release event within a year."
1986: Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
1987: Steganographic analysis of The Shovel unexptedly reveals "at least a terabyte" of encrypted data, apparently a transdimensional contract requiring Egon Rhodomunde and Baron Zersetzung to "blow up a nuclear, and this time do it right".