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File:Wilhelm_Schickard_1632.jpg|link=Wilhelm Schickard (nonfiction)|1592: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor [[Wilhelm Schickard (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Schickard]] born. He will design and build calculating machines, and invent techniques for producing improved maps. | File:Wilhelm_Schickard_1632.jpg|link=Wilhelm Schickard (nonfiction)|1592: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor [[Wilhelm Schickard (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Schickard]] born. He will design and build calculating machines, and invent techniques for producing improved maps. | ||
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File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|1904: American physicist and academic [[J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|J. Robert Oppenheimer]] born. His achievements in physics will include the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling. Oppenheimer will be called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project. | File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|1904: American physicist and academic [[J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|J. Robert Oppenheimer]] born. His achievements in physics will include the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling. Oppenheimer will be called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project. | ||
||1906: Stanisław Jaśkowski born ... logician who made important contributions to proof theory and formal semantics. Jaśkowski is considered to be one of the founders of natural deduction, which he discovered independently of Gerhard Gentzen in the 1930s. | ||1906: Stanisław Jaśkowski born ... logician who made important contributions to proof theory and formal semantics. Jaśkowski is considered to be one of the founders of natural deduction, which he discovered independently of Gerhard Gentzen in the 1930s. Pic. | ||
||1910: Norman Earl Steenrod born ... mathematician most widely known for his contributions to the field of algebraic topology. | ||1910: Norman Earl Steenrod born ... mathematician most widely known for his contributions to the field of algebraic topology. Pic. | ||
||1915: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres. See: Battle of Gravenstafel Ridge | ||1915: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres. See: Battle of Gravenstafel Ridge | ||
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||1916: Hanfried Lenz born ... mathematician and academic ... known for his work in geometry and combinatorics. Pic. | ||1916: Hanfried Lenz born ... mathematician and academic ... known for his work in geometry and combinatorics. Pic. | ||
||1919: Donald J. Cram born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1919: Donald J. Cram born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=donald+j.+cram&oq=Donald+J.+Cram | ||
||1922: Wolf V. Vishniac born ... microbiologist and academic. Mars. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Wolf+V.+Vishniac | ||1922: Wolf V. Vishniac born ... microbiologist and academic. Mars. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Wolf+V.+Vishniac | ||
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||1930: The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding. | ||1930: The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding. | ||
||1941: Amir Pnueli born ... computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient. He worked on temporal logic and model checking, particularly regarding fairness properties of concurrent systems. Pic. | ||1941: Amir Pnueli born ... computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient. He worked on temporal logic and model checking, particularly regarding fairness properties of concurrent systems. Pic. | ||
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||1980: Fritz Strassmann dies ... chemist who, with Otto Hahn, identified barium in the residue after bombarding uranium with neutrons, results which, when confirmed, demonstrated the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission.. Pic: https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/fritz-strassmann | ||1980: Fritz Strassmann dies ... chemist who, with Otto Hahn, identified barium in the residue after bombarding uranium with neutrons, results which, when confirmed, demonstrated the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission.. Pic: https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/fritz-strassmann | ||
||1985: Paul Hugh Emmett dies ... chemist and academic. | ||1985: Paul Hugh Emmett dies ... chemist and academic. Manhattan Project. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Paul+Hugh+Emmett&oq=Paul+Hugh+Emmett | ||
||1989: Emilio G. Segrè dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1989: Emilio G. Segrè dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||1996: Nobuo Yoneda dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. The Yoneda lemma in category theory and the Yoneda product in homological algebra are named after him. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=nobuo+yoneda | ||1996: Nobuo Yoneda dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. The Yoneda lemma in category theory and the Yoneda product in homological algebra are named after him. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=nobuo+yoneda | ||
||1999: Munir Ahmad Khan dies ... physicist and engineer. | ||1999: Munir Ahmad Khan dies ... nuclear physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||
||2002: Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf dies ... theoretical physicist. During World War II he was Group Leader of the Theoretical Division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Pic. | ||2002: Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf dies ... theoretical physicist. During World War II he was Group Leader of the Theoretical Division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Pic. | ||
||2003: James H. Critchfield dies ... American CIA officer. | ||2003: James H. Critchfield dies ... American CIA officer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=James+H.+Critchfield | ||
||2005: Philip Morrison dies ... professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear physics and high energy astrophysics. Pic. | ||2005: Philip Morrison dies ... professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear physics and high energy astrophysics. Pic. | ||
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||2011: Patrick Paul Billingsley dies ... mathematician and stage and screen actor, noted for his books in advanced probability theory and statistics. Pic. | ||2011: Patrick Paul Billingsley dies ... mathematician and stage and screen actor, noted for his books in advanced probability theory and statistics. Pic. | ||
File:Giant Red Ball in Toledo Ohio.jpg|link=Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)|2015: New study of the [[Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)|Toledo giant red ball incident]] blames the [[Red (nonfiction)|color red]]: "Of all the colors of the visible spectrum, red is the most likely to spontaneously generate [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]], which can quickly manifest itself as breaking away and rolling down the street." | File:Giant Red Ball in Toledo Ohio.jpg|link=Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)|2015: New study of the [[Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)|Toledo giant red ball incident]] blames the [[Red (nonfiction)|color red]]: "Of all the colors of the visible spectrum, red is the most likely to spontaneously generate [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]], which can quickly manifest itself as breaking away and rolling down the street." | ||
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1592: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard born. He will design and build calculating machines, and invent techniques for producing improved maps.
1779: Steganographic analysis of The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters unexpectedly releases the Forbidden Ratio, which immediately begins to recruit a criminal gang made up of degenerate cases.
1833: Engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick dies. He was an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.
1880: Actor, cryptographer, and alleged time-traveller Niles Cartouchian uses time crystals to track down and decompute the Forbidden Ratio.
1904: American physicist and academic J. Robert Oppenheimer born. His achievements in physics will include the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling. Oppenheimer will be called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project.
1953: Singer-physicist J. R. Oppenheimer performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
1954: Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
1954: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes testifies before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations during the Army–McCarthy hearings. Origenes adamantly refuses to name other "alleged trolls", insisting that "there is nothing 'alleged' about trolls," and denouncing the investigation as "a witch-hunt, and not in a good way."
1970: The first Earth Day is celebrated.
1978: Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
1978: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller The Eel escapes from the Nacreum, a high-security transdimensional prison, by transmitting himself over the new optical fiber telephone network.
2006: Computer scientist and academic Henriette Avram dies. She developed the MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries.
2015: New study of the Toledo giant red ball incident blames the color red: "Of all the colors of the visible spectrum, red is the most likely to spontaneously generate artificial intelligence, which can quickly manifest itself as breaking away and rolling down the street."
2018: Signed first edition of Lend a Hand stolen from the Louvre by the Forbidden Ratio in a daring daytime robbery. Lend a Hand, which depicts an organic golem, had been in the Louvre for less than twenty-four hours.