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||1928: The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
||1928: The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1934: Author and alleged time-traveller [[John Brunner]] uses [[Scrying engine|Lee and Turner scrying engine]] to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1935: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1935: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.

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  • 1126: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) born. He will write on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, politics, music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.

    1126: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) born. He will write on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, politics, music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.

  • 1527: Cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius born. Ortelius will create the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. He will also be one of the first to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions.

    1527: Cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius born. Ortelius will create the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. He will also be one of the first to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions.

  • 1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens born. He will be a leading scientist of his time.

    1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens born. He will be a leading scientist of his time.

  • 1659: Proposals to flood the Sistine chapel "are equally useless to Science and Art alike," writes Christiaan Huygens in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII.

    1659: Proposals to flood the Sistine chapel "are equally useless to Science and Art alike," writes Christiaan Huygens in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII.

  • 1882: Physicist and philosopher Moritz Schlick born.

    1882: Physicist and philosopher Moritz Schlick born.

  • 1894: The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.

    1894: The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.

  • 1899: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan born. He will discover the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.

    1899: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan born. He will discover the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.

  • 1900: The Exposition Universelle begins in Paris, France.

    1900: The Exposition Universelle begins in Paris, France.

  • 1935: Mathematician Emmy Noether dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.

    1935: Mathematician Emmy Noether dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.

  • 1964: Mathematician and theorist Tatyana Afanasyeva dies. She contributed to statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics, and to mathematical education in the Netherlands.

    1964: Mathematician and theorist Tatyana Afanasyeva dies. She contributed to statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics, and to mathematical education in the Netherlands.

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