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||2005: Louis Leithold dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: http://chalkboardchampions.org/education/mathematics-teacher-louis-leithold-revolutionized-the-teaching-of-calculus/ | ||2005: Louis Leithold dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: http://chalkboardchampions.org/education/mathematics-teacher-louis-leithold-revolutionized-the-teaching-of-calculus/ | ||
||2008: Albert | File:Albert Hoffman.jpg|link=Albert Hoffman (nonfiction)|2008: Chemist and academic [[Albert Hoffman (nonfiction)|Albert Hoffman]] dies. Hoffman is famous for discovering LSD, which he called his "problem child". | ||
||2010: Sandy Douglas dies ... computer scientist and academic, designed OXO. Pic: https://www.computerhope.com/people/alexander_douglas.htm http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/sandy_douglas.htm | ||2010: Sandy Douglas dies ... computer scientist and academic, designed OXO. Pic: https://www.computerhope.com/people/alexander_douglas.htm http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/sandy_douglas.htm | ||
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1667: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot born. He will invent the figure of John Bull.
1854: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer Henri Poincaré born. He will make many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
1892: Mathematicians John Havelock and Henri Poincaré co-publish a pioneering paper on applications of Gnomon algorithm functions to the early detection of emergent catastrophic events, forecasting the Chernobyl disaster to within 98.37% accuracy.
1974: Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
1985: Asclepius Myrmidon discovers an unlicensed halting problem "which will almost certainly result in a major radiation release event within a year."
1986: Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
1987: Steganographic analysis of The Shovel unexptedly reveals "at least a terabyte" of encrypted data, apparently a transdimensional contract requiring Egon Rhodomunde and Baron Zersetzung to "blow up a nuclear power plant, and this time do it right".
2008: Chemist and academic Albert Hoffman dies. Hoffman is famous for discovering LSD, which he called his "problem child".
2018: The two creatures depicted in Two Creatures 3 officially petition the United Nations for political asylum.