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File:Jean le Rond d'Alembert.jpg|link=Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Jean le Rond d'Alembert.jpg|link=Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1704 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher (b. 1632)
||1704: John Locke dies ... physician and philosopher.


||1718 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer (d. 1793)
||1718: Ignacije Szentmartony born ... priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer.


||1792 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (b. 1724)
||1792: John Smeaton dies ... engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge.


||Robert Liston (b. 28 October 1794) was a pioneering Scottish surgeon. Liston was noted for his skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival.
||1794: Robert Liston born ... surgeon. Liston was noted for his skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival.


||1804 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician and theorist (d. 1849)
||1804: Pierre François Verhulst born ... mathematician and theorist.


||1841 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1792)
||1841: Johan August Arfwedson dies ... chemist and academic.


||1845 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (d. 1888)
||1845: Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski born ... physicist and chemist.


||Quirino Majorana (b. 28 October 1871) was an Italian experimental physicist who investigated a wide range of phenomena  
||1871: Quirino Majorana born ... experimental physicist who investigated a wide range of phenomena  


||Josef Lense (b. October 28, 1890) was an Austrian physicist. Lense, together with Hans Thirring, is known as one of the two discoverers of the Lense-Thirring effect.
||1890: Josef Lense born ... physicist. Lense, together with Hans Thirring, is known as one of the two discoverers of the Lense-Thirring effect.
 
File:Theatre Optique.jpg|link=Charles-Émile Reynaud (nonfiction)|1892: [[Charles-Émile Reynaud (nonfiction)|Charles-Émile Reynaud]] performs the first of his ''Pantomimes Lumineuses'' shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.  


||1893: Christopher Kelk Ingold born ... chemist based in Leeds and London. His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was responsible for the introduction into mainstream chemistry of concepts such as nucleophile, electrophile, inductive and resonance effects, and such descriptors as SN1, SN2, E1, and E2.  Pic.
||1893: Christopher Kelk Ingold born ... chemist based in Leeds and London. His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was responsible for the introduction into mainstream chemistry of concepts such as nucleophile, electrophile, inductive and resonance effects, and such descriptors as SN1, SN2, E1, and E2.  Pic.


||1905 – Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician (d. 1984)
||1905: Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest dies ... mathematician.


||1914 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995)
||1914: Jonas Salk born ... biologist and physician. Pic.


||Richard Laurence Millington Synge (b. 28 October 1914) was a British biochemist, and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin. Pic.
||1014: Richard Laurence Millington Synge born ... biochemist, and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin. Pic.


||1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
||1916: Cleveland Abbe dies ... meteorologist and academic.


||1918 – Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845) Ulisse Dini (14 November 1845 – 28 October 1918) was an Italian mathematician and politician, born in Pisa. He is known for his contribution to real analysis,
||1918: Ulisse Dini dies ... mathematician and politician .... known for his contribution to real analysis.


||Gerhard Ringel (b. October 28, 1919) was a German mathematician. He was one of the pioneers in graph theory and contributed significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (now the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four Color Theorem. Pic.
||1919: Gerhard Ringel born ... mathematician. He was one of the pioneers in graph theory and contributed significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (now the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four Color Theorem. Pic.


||1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
||1919: The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.


||Edward P. Ney (b. October 28, 1920) was an American physicist who made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy. He was a discoverer of cosmic ray heavy nuclei and of solar proton events. He pioneered the use of high altitude balloons for scientific investigations and helped to develop procedures and equipment that underlie modern scientific ballooning. He was one of the first researchers to put experiments aboard spacecraft. Pic.  
||1920: Edward P. Ney born ... physicist who made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy. He was a discoverer of cosmic ray heavy nuclei and of solar proton events. He pioneered the use of high altitude balloons for scientific investigations and helped to develop procedures and equipment that underlie modern scientific ballooning. He was one of the first researchers to put experiments aboard spacecraft. Pic.  


||Joram Lindenstrauss (b. October 28, 1936) was an Israeli mathematician working in functional analysis and geometry, particularly Banach space theory, finite- and infinite-dimensional convexity, geometric nonlinear functional analysis and geometric measure theory. Among his results is the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma which concerns low-distortion embeddings of points from high-dimensional into low-dimensional Euclidean space. Pic.
||1936: Joram Lindenstrauss born ... mathematician working in functional analysis and geometry, particularly Banach space theory, finite- and infinite-dimensional convexity, geometric nonlinear functional analysis and geometric measure theory. Among his results is the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma which concerns low-distortion embeddings of points from high-dimensional into low-dimensional Euclidean space. Pic.


||1948 – Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
||1948: Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.


||1962 – End of Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
||1962: End of Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.


||1971 – Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, South Australia, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.
||1971: Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, South Australia, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.


||Lambros Demetrios Callimahos (d. October 28, 1977) was a US Army cryptologist.  
||1977: Lambros Demetrios Callimahos dies ... US Army cryptologist.  


||Hungarian Tivadar Millner (d. 28 October 1988) was an inventor who developed tungsten lamps. Working at Tungsram, Tivadar Millner, along with Pál Túry, co-developed large-crystal tungsten technology for the production of more reliable and longer-lasting coiled filament lamps. Pic.
||1988: Hungarian Tivadar Millner dies ... inventor who developed tungsten lamps. Working at Tungsram, Tivadar Millner, along with Pál Túry, co-developed large-crystal tungsten technology for the production of more reliable and longer-lasting coiled filament lamps. Pic.


||Calvin Souther Fuller (d. October 28, 1994) was a physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked for 37 years from 1930 to 1967. Fuller was part of a team in basic research that found answers to physical challenges. He helped develop synthetic rubber during World War II, he was involved in early experiments of zone melting, he is credited with devising the method of transistor production yielding diffusion transistors, he produced some of the first solar cells with high efficiency, and he researched polymers and their applications.
||1994: Calvin Souther Fuller dies ... physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked for 37 years from 1930 to 1967. Fuller was part of a team in basic research that found answers to physical challenges. He helped develop synthetic rubber during World War II, he was involved in early experiments of zone melting, he is credited with devising the method of transistor production yielding diffusion transistors, he produced some of the first solar cells with high efficiency, and he researched polymers and their applications.


||Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers, MBE (born 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.
||1998: Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers dies ... engineer with the British Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.


||2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
||2005: Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.


File:Richard Smalley.jpg|link=Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|2005: Chemist and academic [[Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|Richard Smalley]] dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
File:Richard Smalley.jpg|link=Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|2005: Chemist and academic [[Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|Richard Smalley]] dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.


||2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.
||2009: NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.


||2014 – An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.
||2014: An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.


File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|Illustration of [[Cantor Parabola]] contains "several terabytes of encrypted data," according to new steganographic analysis.
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|Illustration of [[Cantor Parabola]] contains "several terabytes of encrypted data," according to new steganographic analysis.
|File:Halobaena caerulea in flight - SE Tasmania.jpg|link=Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|[[Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|SOEP cartel]] patrols shipping lanes, vows to strafe [[Stomach oil (nonfiction)|stomach oil smugglers]].
|File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC ("[[Empty Noise Into Alien Communication]]") researchers visualize key section of "[[Wow! signal]]".
|File:Grievous Mitochondria pleasure barge.jpg|link=Grievous Mitochondria|[[Grievous Mitochondria]] pleasure barge accepting reservations.
|File:Hypercube.svg|link=The Boxes|[[The Boxes]] invest in [[Jekyll (perfume)|Jekyll]] because "sociopathy is good for capitalization of matter-based organisms."
|File:Orson Welles War of the Worlds 1938.jpg|link=Humanity and other non-essential services|Orson Welles tests positive for catch phrase ''[[Humanity and Other Non-Essential Services]]''.
|File:The_Carpet_Merchant_(c1887)_Jean-Léon_Gérôme.jpg|link=The Nested Radical|[[The Nested Radical]] seeking permission to display Jean-Léon Gérôme's painting [[:File:The Carpet Merchant (c1887) Jean-Léon Gérôme.jpg|The Carpet Merchant]] in upcoming art show.
|File:Madge_Palmolive.jpg|Consumer spokespersona says "[[geometry solvent]]" is nothing more than dish soap plus [[Extract of Radium]].
|File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|[[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyam]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] equations.
|File:Jekyll_Perfume.png|link=Jekyll (perfume)|2017: [[Jekyll (perfume)|New perfume "Jekyll" targets sociopaths]].


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  • 1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.

    1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.

  • 1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to crimes against mathematical constants.

    1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.

    1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.

  • 2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.

    2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.

  • Illustration of Cantor Parabola contains "several terabytes of encrypted data," according to new steganographic analysis.

    Illustration of Cantor Parabola contains "several terabytes of encrypted data," according to new steganographic analysis.

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