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|File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1562: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] develops self-awareness, invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | |File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1562: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] develops self-awareness, invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
File:Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann.jpg|link=Bernhard Riemann (nonfiction)|1866: Mathematician and academic [[Bernhard Riemann (nonfiction)|Bernhard Riemann]] dies. He made contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry. | |||
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1889: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] alleges that [[Baron Zersetzung]] is "trafficking in [[Clandestiphrine]] and [[Extract of Radium]], to the detriment of clear and rational thought, relentless seeking to corrupt, usurp, and digest what remains of the Republic." | |||
File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1937: Businessman and inventor [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] dies. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy". | File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1937: Businessman and inventor [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] dies. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy". | ||
File:MKUltra proposal.jpg|link=Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|1977: [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)]]: The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments. | File:MKUltra proposal.jpg|link=Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|1977: [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)]]: The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments. | ||
Revision as of 07:45, 9 July 2017
1866: Mathematician and academic Bernhard Riemann dies. He made contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.
1889: Mark Twain alleges that Baron Zersetzung is "trafficking in Clandestiphrine and Extract of Radium, to the detriment of clear and rational thought, relentless seeking to corrupt, usurp, and digest what remains of the Republic."
1937: Businessman and inventor Guglielmo Marconi dies. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".
1977: Project MKUltra (nonfiction): The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.
2017: Pin Man says he "was involved with Project MKUltra (nonfiction)."