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File:Ingres self-portrait.jpg|link=Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|1780: Artist [[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]] born. He will assume the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
File:Ingres self-portrait.jpg|link=Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|1780: Artist [[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]] born. He will assume the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.


||1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
||1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
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||2007 – United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
||2007 – United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
File:Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research.jpg|link=Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|2011: Cryptographic analysis of ''[[Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research]]'' reveals five terabytes of previously unknown encrypted data.


File:Shoshichi Kobayashi.jpg|link=|2012: Mathematician and academic [[Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|Shoshichi Kobayashi]] dies. He worked on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.
File:Shoshichi Kobayashi.jpg|link=|2012: Mathematician and academic [[Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|Shoshichi Kobayashi]] dies. He worked on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.


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