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File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1868: Inventor, physician, chemist [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1868: Inventor, physician, chemist [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.


File:Nietzsche.jpg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1869: [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]] uses his doctrine of eternal return to hunt down and capture [[math criminals]].
|File:Nietzsche.jpg|link=Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|1869: [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]] uses his doctrine of eternal return to hunt down and capture [[math criminals]].


||1892 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (b. 1818)
||1892 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (b. 1818)

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  • 1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

    1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

  • 1867: Pin Man escapes from the Carnevale Tenebre, finds sanctuary in the town of Periphery.

    1867: Pin Man escapes from the Carnevale Tenebre, finds sanctuary in the town of Periphery.

  • 1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.

    1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.

  • 1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by Karl Guthe Jansky.

    1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by Karl Guthe Jansky.

  • 2017: The Eel Time-Surfing wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most exciting illustration of the decade."

    2017: The Eel Time-Surfing wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most exciting illustration of the decade."

  • 2018: Creature 3, stolen last year by the Forbidden Ratio gang, is recovered with all of its data intact.

    2018: Creature 3, stolen last year by the Forbidden Ratio gang, is recovered with all of its data intact.

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