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||1885: Olaf Holtedahl born ... geologist.
||1885: Olaf Holtedahl born ... geologist.


File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1886: ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time."
File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1886: ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as the "most entertaining illustration of our time."


||1888: Georges Darmois born ... mathematician and statistician. He pioneered in the theory of sufficiency, in stellar statistics, and in factor analysis. He is one of the eponyms of the Koopman–Pitman–Darmois theorem and sufficient statistics and exponential families. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Darmois.html
||1888: Georges Darmois born ... mathematician and statistician. He pioneered in the theory of sufficiency, in stellar statistics, and in factor analysis. He is one of the eponyms of the Koopman–Pitman–Darmois theorem and sufficient statistics and exponential families. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Darmois.html

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  • 1660: Priest, astromomer, and crime-fighter Giovanni Battista Riccioli publishes new scheme of lunar nomenclature which anticipates future developments in the detection and prevention of crimes against astronomical constants.

    1660: Priest, astromomer, and crime-fighter Giovanni Battista Riccioli publishes new scheme of lunar nomenclature which anticipates future developments in the detection and prevention of crimes against astronomical constants.

  • 1709: The public test of the "Passarola", a primitive airship devised by priest and inventor Bartolomeu de Gusmão, fails to take place.

    1709: The public test of the "Passarola", a primitive airship devised by priest and inventor Bartolomeu de Gusmão, fails to take place.

  • 1860: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.

    1860: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.

  • 1880: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.

    1880: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.

  • 1886: Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as the "most entertaining illustration of our time."

    1886: Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as the "most entertaining illustration of our time."

  • 2008: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel dies. Ringel was a pioneer of 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.

    2008: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel dies. Ringel was a pioneer of 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.

  • 2016: Steganographic analysis of Boxes unexpectedly reveals previously unknown type of cryptographic numen. APTO's department of Gnomon algorithm research calls it "a remarkable breakthrough."

    2016: Steganographic analysis of Boxes unexpectedly reveals previously unknown type of cryptographic numen. APTO's department of Gnomon algorithm research calls it "a remarkable breakthrough."

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