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File:Baruch Spinoza.jpg|link=Baruch Spinoza (nonfiction)|1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder [[Baruch Spinoza (nonfiction)|Baruch Spinoza]] born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe. | |||
File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1639: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] observes the transit of Venus. | File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1639: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] observes the transit of Venus. | ||
File:Origin of Species title page.jpg|link=On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|1859: [[On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|On the Origin of Species]] published. | File:Origin of Species title page.jpg|link=On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|1859: [[On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|On the Origin of Species]] published. | ||
File:Cat guarding geese c1120 BC Egypt.jpg|link=Satire (nonfiction)|[[Satire (nonfiction)|Cat uses geese]] to illustrate principles of [[On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|natural selection]]. | |||
File:The Joker circa 1940.jpg|link=The Joker (nonfiction)|[[The Joker (nonfiction)|The Joker]] informs on former Communists, incites Congress against the [[Hollywood Ten (nonfiction)|Hollywood Ten]]. | ||1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. | ||
File:Hollywood Ten await fingerprinting.jpg|link=Hollywood Ten (nonfiction)|The [[Hollywood Ten (nonfiction)|Hollywood Ten]] are cited for contempt of Congress (1947). | |||
File:Ernst Schroeder.jpg|link=Ernst Schröder (nonfiction)|[[Ernst Schröder (nonfiction)|Ernst Schröder]] has insights into the work of [[Charles Sanders Peirce (nonfiction)|Charles Sanders Peirce]]. | File:That Was the Week That Was opening title.jpg|link=That Was the Week That Was (nonfiction)|1962: First broadcast of ''[[That Was the Week That Was (nonfiction)|That Was the Week That Was]]''. | ||
File:Slate.jpg|link=Slate (nonfiction)|[[Slate (nonfiction)|Slate]] is awake, ready for the chisel. | |||
File:Companion of Asclepius Myrmidon.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|[[Asclepius Myrmidon]] provides meals to the homeless on Thanksgiving. | ||1963 – In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armoured car to take him to the nearby county jail. | ||
File:Waking the Slate.jpg|link=The Waking of the Slate|[[The Waking of the Slate]] is louder than ever. | |||
File:Dick Cavett.jpg|link=Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|[[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving | ||1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon. | ||
||1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found. | |||
|File:Cat guarding geese c1120 BC Egypt.jpg|link=Satire (nonfiction)|[[Satire (nonfiction)|Cat uses geese]] to illustrate principles of [[On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|natural selection]]. | |||
|File:The Joker circa 1940.jpg|link=The Joker (nonfiction)|[[The Joker (nonfiction)|The Joker]] informs on former Communists, incites Congress against the [[Hollywood Ten (nonfiction)|Hollywood Ten]]. | |||
|File:Hollywood Ten await fingerprinting.jpg|link=Hollywood Ten (nonfiction)|The [[Hollywood Ten (nonfiction)|Hollywood Ten]] are cited for contempt of Congress (1947). | |||
|File:Ernst Schroeder.jpg|link=Ernst Schröder (nonfiction)|[[Ernst Schröder (nonfiction)|Ernst Schröder]] has insights into the work of [[Charles Sanders Peirce (nonfiction)|Charles Sanders Peirce]]. | |||
|File:Slate.jpg|link=Slate (nonfiction)|[[Slate (nonfiction)|Slate]] is awake, ready for the chisel. | |||
|File:Companion of Asclepius Myrmidon.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|[[Asclepius Myrmidon]] provides meals to the homeless on Thanksgiving. | |||
|File:Waking the Slate.jpg|link=The Waking of the Slate|[[The Waking of the Slate]] is louder than ever. | |||
|File:Dick Cavett.jpg|link=Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|[[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving. | |||
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Revision as of 13:07, 6 August 2017
1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.
1639: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus.
1859: On the Origin of Species published.
1962: First broadcast of That Was the Week That Was.