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||1258 | ||1258: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. | ||
||1567 | ||1567: Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination. | ||
File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1575: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] promotes the geocentric system of the world, failing to understand the nature of [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1575: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] promotes the geocentric system of the world, failing to understand the nature of [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | ||
||Wilhelm Xylander | ||1576: Wilhelm Xylander dies ... classical scholar and humanist. Pic. | ||
File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1630: Mathematician and alleged time-traveller [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] publishes new theory of mind and reason which anticipates modern [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1630: Mathematician and alleged time-traveller [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] publishes new theory of mind and reason which anticipates modern [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1785 | ||1747: Aida Yasuaki born ... mathematician in the Edo period. He made significant contributions to the fields of number theory and geometry, and furthered methods for simplifying continued fractions. Pic. | ||
||1785: Claude-Louis Navier born ... physicist and engineer. | |||
||1814: François Coignet born ... industrialist of the nineteenth century. He was a pioneer in the development of structural prefabricated and reinforced concrete. Coignet was the first to use iron-reinforced concrete as a technique for constructing building structures. | ||1814: François Coignet born ... industrialist of the nineteenth century. He was a pioneer in the development of structural prefabricated and reinforced concrete. Coignet was the first to use iron-reinforced concrete as a technique for constructing building structures. | ||
||Per Teodor Cleve | ||1840: Per Teodor Cleve born ... chemist, biologist, mineralogist, oceanographer, and professor. He discovered the chemical elements holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from the uranium ore cleveite. | ||
||1842 | ||1842: Agnes Mary Clerke born ... astronomer and author. | ||
||1861 | ||1861: Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America. | ||
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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File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1845: Engineer and physicist [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays. | File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1845: Engineer and physicist [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays. | ||
||1846 | ||1846: Ira Remsen dies ... chemist and academic. | ||
||1865 | ||1865: Heinrich Lenz dies ... physicist and academic. | ||
||1883 | ||1883: Edith Clarke born ... electrical engineer. | ||
||1891 | ||1891: Sofia Kovalevskaya dies ... mathematician and physicist (b. 1850) ... made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was the first major Russian female mathematician and a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world. | ||
||Richard Dagobert Brauer | ||1901: Richard Dagobert Brauer born ... mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory. | ||
||1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) | ||1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) |
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1575: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Giovanni Antonio Magini promotes the geocentric system of the world, failing to understand the nature of crimes against astronomical constants.
1630: Mathematician and alleged time-traveller René Descartes publishes new theory of mind and reason which anticipates modern Gnomon algorithm techniques for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster dies.
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.
1912: Surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister dies. He pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.
1952: Inventor Edward Hugh Hebern dies. He was a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.
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.