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||1865: Arthur Harden born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1865: Arthur Harden born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1868: Dr. William Bird dies ... surgeon and chemist known for his discovery of Herapathite. Pic search. | |||
File:Aleister Crowley.jpg|link=Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|1875: Magician and author [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]] born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist. | File:Aleister Crowley.jpg|link=Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|1875: Magician and author [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]] born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist. | ||
||1910: Malcolm Renfrew born ... chemist and academic ... polymers, Teflon. Pic search | ||1910: Malcolm Renfrew born ... chemist and academic ... polymers, Teflon. Pic search. | ||
||1914: Margaret E. Knight dies ... inventor, flat-bottomed paper bag. Pic search | ||1914: Margaret E. Knight dies ... inventor, flat-bottomed paper bag. Pic search/ | ||
||1918: A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Cloquet, Minnesota. | ||1918: A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Cloquet, Minnesota. | ||
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||1928: An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston. | ||1928: An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston. | ||
||1931: Ole-Johan Dahl born ... computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula. Pic search | ||1931: Ole-Johan Dahl born ... computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula. Pic search. | ||
||1933: The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. | ||1933: The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. | ||
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||2011: Pierre Lelong dies ... mathematician who introduced the Poincaré–Lelong equation, the Lelong number and the concept of plurisubharmonic function. Pic. | ||2011: Pierre Lelong dies ... mathematician who introduced the Poincaré–Lelong equation, the Lelong number and the concept of plurisubharmonic function. Pic. | ||
||2013: George Herbig dies ... astronomer. He is perhaps best known for the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic search | ||2013: George Herbig dies ... astronomer. He is perhaps best known for the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic search. | ||
File:Golden Spiral.jpg|link=Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|Golden Spiral]]'' reveals [[:File:Klondike Kittens.jpg|cartoon about cats that excrete gold]]. | File:Golden Spiral.jpg|link=Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|Golden Spiral]]'' reveals [[:File:Klondike Kittens.jpg|cartoon about cats that excrete gold]]. | ||
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322 BC: Athenian politician and orator Demosthenes takes his own life, to avoid being arrested by the agents of his enemies.
1667: Astronomer, lens-maker, and APTO field engineer Geminiano Montanari uses the variable brightness of Algol in the constellation of Perseus to detect and prevent crimes against astronomy.
1705: Priest, philosopher, and crime-fighter Nicolas Malebranche synthesizes the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, demonstrating the active role of crimes against mathematical constants in every aspect of the world.
1861: Mathematician Rikitarō Fujisawa born. During the Meiji era he will be instrumental in reforming mathematics education in Japan and establishing the ideas of European mathematics in Japan.
1875: Magician and author Aleister Crowley born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.
1939: Physicist, academic, and APTO field engineer Walter Houser Brattain discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use the photo-effect at the free surface of a semiconductor to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Golden Spiral reveals cartoon about cats that excrete gold.
