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|File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1870: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] uses [[Time travel (nonfiction)|time travel device]] to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1870: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] uses [[Time travel (nonfiction)|time travel device]] to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
| | ||1879: Felix Ehrenhaft born ... physicist who contributed to atomic physics, to the measurement of electrical charges and to the optical properties of metal colloids. He was known for his maverick and controversial style. Pic. | ||
||1880: Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer and businessman, developed the zipper (d. 1954) | |||
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||1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West. | ||1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West. | ||
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File:Soyuz 1 patch.png|link=Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in [[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]] when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission. | File:Soyuz 1 patch.png|link=Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in [[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]] when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission. | ||
||1960: Harold Frederick Pitcairn dies ... aviation inventor and pioneer. He played a key role in the development of the autogyro and founded the Autogiro Company of America. He patented a number of innovations relating to rotary wing aircraft. Pic. | |||
||1960: Max von Laue dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1960: Max von Laue dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1656: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1746: Priest, physicist, and practical joker Jean-Antoine Nollet discharges a battery of Leyden jars through a human chain, unexpectedly generating gray light, although the causes of gray light (in this case, electrical stimulation of a group of mathematicians) are poorly understood at the time.
1863: Printer, inventor, and crime-fighter Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville patents new type of phonoautograph, which records crimes against mathematical constants as photographic images.
1914: The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1915: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
2016: Signed first edition of Two Creatures 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops spontaneous artificial intelligence.