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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. | ||
||1831 – Michael Faraday (pictured) discovered electromagnetic induction, leading to the formation of his law of induction. | |||
File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' sinks during a test run, killing five members of her crew. | File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' sinks during a test run, killing five members of her crew. | ||
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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. | ||
||2007 – Six nuclear warheads were alleged to have been mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force heavy bomber that flew from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. | |||
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: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. | ||
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1780: Artist 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.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sinks during a test run, killing five members of her crew.
2011: Cryptographic analysis of Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research reveals five terabytes of previously unknown encrypted data.
2012: Mathematician and academic Shoshichi Kobayashi dies. He worked on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.
2017: Concentrated sample of carbon-14 accidentally exposed to unfiltered Extract of Radium, causing a wave of crimes against mathematical constants.