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||AD 41 – Roman Emperor Caligula, known for his eccentricity and sadistic despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. The Guard then proclaims Caligula's uncle Claudius as Emperor
||AD 41: Roman Emperor Caligula, known for his eccentricity and sadistic despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. The Guard then proclaims Caligula's uncle Claudius as Emperor


|File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1201: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] retrofitted with [[Gnomon algorithm]] routines.
||1679: Christian Wolff born ... philosopher and academic.
 
|File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1569: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] make improved astronomical observations.
 
||1679 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher and academic (d. 1754)


File:Karl Georg Christian von Staudt.jpg|link=Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|1798: Mathematician [[Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|Karl Georg Christian von Staudt]] born. He will use synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic.
File:Karl Georg Christian von Staudt.jpg|link=Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|1798: Mathematician [[Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|Karl Georg Christian von Staudt]] born. He will use synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic.


||1835 – Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
||1835: Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.


||1848 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
||1848: California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.


||Herman Haga (b. 24 January 1852) was a Dutch physicist. Pic.
||1852: Herman Haga born ... physicist. Pic.


||1872 – Morris Travers, English chemist and academic (d. 1961)
||1872: Morris Travers born ... chemist and academic.


||1877 – Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist (b. 1796)
||1877: Johann Christian Poggendorff dies ... physicist and journalist.


||Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler (d. 24 January 1879) was a skilled glassblower and physicist, famous for his invention of the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge tube.
||1879: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler dies ... glassblower and physicist, famous for his invention of the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge tube.


||1888 – Ernst Heinkel, German engineer and businessman, founded the Heinkel Aircraft Manufacturing Company (d. 1958)
||1888: Ernst Heinkel born ... engineer and businessman, founded the Heinkel Aircraft Manufacturing Company.


||Hans Heinrich von Halban (b. 1908) was a French physicist, of Austrian-Jewish descent.
||1908: Hans Heinrich von Halban born ... physicist.


||1931 – Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician and academic (d. 2012)
||1931: Lars Hörmander born ... mathematician and academic.


||1942 – World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand, then under Japanese control, to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.
||1942: World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand, then under Japanese control, to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.


||1946 – The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
||1946: The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission


File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1960: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises funds for new film about the upcoming [[1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Goldsboro B-52 crash]].
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1960: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises funds for new film about the upcoming [[1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Goldsboro B-52 crash]].
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File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he is "confident that the [[1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Goldsboro B-52 crash]] is a sound business investment."
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he is "confident that the [[1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Goldsboro B-52 crash]] is a sound business investment."


||1966 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1909)
||1966: Homi J. Bhabha dies ... physicist and academic.


|File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1972: New evidence suggests that ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' is based on actual events.
|File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1972: New evidence suggests that ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' is based on actual events.
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File:Cosmos-954 debris.png|link=Kosmos 954 (nonfiction)|1978: Soviet satellite [[Kosmos 954 (nonfiction)|Kosmos 954]], with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
File:Cosmos-954 debris.png|link=Kosmos 954 (nonfiction)|1978: Soviet satellite [[Kosmos 954 (nonfiction)|Kosmos 954]], with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.


||Karol Borsuk (d. January 24, 1982) was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was topology. Borsuk introduced the theory of absolute retracts (ARs) and absolute neighborhood retracts (ANRs), and the cohomotopy groups, later called Borsuk–Spanier cohomotopy groups. He also founded Shape theory. He has constructed various beautiful examples of topological spaces, e.g. an acyclic, 3-dimensional continuum which admits a fixed point free homeomorphism onto itself; also 2-dimensional, contractible polyhedra which have no free edge. His topological and geometric conjectures and themes stimulated research for more than half a century.
||1982: Karol Borsuk dies ... mathematician. His main interest was topology. Borsuk introduced the theory of absolute retracts (ARs) and absolute neighborhood retracts (ANRs), and the cohomotopy groups, later called Borsuk–Spanier cohomotopy groups. He also founded Shape theory. He has constructed various beautiful examples of topological spaces, e.g. an acyclic, 3-dimensional continuum which admits a fixed point free homeomorphism onto itself; also 2-dimensional, contractible polyhedra which have no free edge. His topological and geometric conjectures and themes stimulated research for more than half a century.


File:Werner Fenchel.jpg|link=Werner Fenchel (nonfiction)|1988: Mathematician and academic [[Werner Fenchel (nonfiction)|Werner Fenchel]] dies. He established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which would, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.
File:Werner Fenchel.jpg|link=Werner Fenchel (nonfiction)|1988: Mathematician and academic [[Werner Fenchel (nonfiction)|Werner Fenchel]] dies. He established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which would, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.


||1990 – Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
||1990: Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.


||Oscar Buneman (d. 24 January 1993) made advances in science, engineering, and mathematics. Buneman was a pioneer of computational plasma physics and plasma simulation.
||1993: Oscar Buneman dies ... made advances in science, engineering, and mathematics. Buneman was a pioneer of computational plasma physics and plasma simulation. Pic: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/icnsp/buneman.htm


||2000: Samut Prakan radiation accident: the part of the radiation therapy unit containing the radiation source was acquired by two scrap collectors, who claimed to have bought it from some strangers as scrap metal for resale. They took it home, planning to dismantle it later. On 1 February, the two, together with another two associates, attempted to dismantle the metal part (a 97-kilogram, 42-by-20-centimetre lead cylinder held in a stainless steel casing), which was the unit's source drawer. Using a hammer and chisel, they only managed to crack the welded seam. Two of the men then took the metal piece, along with other scrap metal, to a scrapyard on Soi Wat Mahawong in Phra Pradaeng District, Samut Prakan Province. There they asked a worker at the scrapyard to cut open the cylinder using an oxyacetylene torch. As the cylinder was cut open, two smaller cylindrical metal pieces, which had held the source capsule, fell out. The worker retrieved the two pieces and kept them in the scrapyard, but was unaware of the source capsule itself. The lead cylinder was returned to the scrap collectors for them to complete the disassembly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samut_Prakan_radiation_accident
||2000: Samut Prakan radiation accident: the part of the radiation therapy unit containing the radiation source was acquired by two scrap collectors, who claimed to have bought it from some strangers as scrap metal for resale. They took it home, planning to dismantle it later. On 1 February, the two, together with another two associates, attempted to dismantle the metal part (a 97-kilogram, 42-by-20-centimetre lead cylinder held in a stainless steel casing), which was the unit's source drawer. Using a hammer and chisel, they only managed to crack the welded seam. Two of the men then took the metal piece, along with other scrap metal, to a scrapyard on Soi Wat Mahawong in Phra Pradaeng District, Samut Prakan Province. There they asked a worker at the scrapyard to cut open the cylinder using an oxyacetylene torch. As the cylinder was cut open, two smaller cylindrical metal pieces, which had held the source capsule, fell out. The worker retrieved the two pieces and kept them in the scrapyard, but was unaware of the source capsule itself. The lead cylinder was returned to the scrap collectors for them to complete the disassembly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samut_Prakan_radiation_accident

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  • 1798: Mathematician Karl Georg Christian von Staudt born. He will use synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic.

    1798: Mathematician Karl Georg Christian von Staudt born. He will use synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic.

  • 1960: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises funds for new film about the upcoming Goldsboro B-52 crash.

    1960: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises funds for new film about the upcoming Goldsboro B-52 crash.

  • 1961: Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.

    1961: Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.

  • 1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he is "confident that the Goldsboro B-52 crash is a sound business investment."

    1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he is "confident that the Goldsboro B-52 crash is a sound business investment."

  • 1978: Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.

    1978: Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.

  • 1988: Mathematician and academic Werner Fenchel dies. He established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which would, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.

    1988: Mathematician and academic Werner Fenchel dies. He established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which would, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.

  • 2016: John Hoyland's Lebanon stolen in broad daylight by alleged supervillain Gnotilus.

    2016: John Hoyland's Lebanon stolen in broad daylight by alleged supervillain Gnotilus.

  • 2016: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky dies.

    2016: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky dies.

  • 2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.

    2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.

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