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||1552 – Sebastian Münster, German cartographer and cosmographer (b. 1488) | |||
File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1667: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] born. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', will be prized by gamblers. | File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1667: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] born. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', will be prized by gamblers. | ||
||Henri Farman (b. 26 May 1874) was an Anglo-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman. | |||
||1897 – Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published. | |||
File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|2016: New autobiography by [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] accuses [[Baron Zersetzung]] of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|2016: New autobiography by [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] accuses [[Baron Zersetzung]] of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Dorothea Lange 1936.jpg|link=Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|1895: Documentary photography and photojournalist [[Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|Dorothea Lange]] born. | File:Dorothea Lange 1936.jpg|link=Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|1895: Documentary photography and photojournalist [[Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|Dorothea Lange]] born. | ||
File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|[[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French physician and neurologist (b. 1857) | |||
||1929 – Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer (d. 2008) | |||
File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1936: [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:Chairman Dies of House Committee investigating Un-American activities.jpg|link=House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|1938: In the United States, the [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]] begins its first session. | |||
||1969 – Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889) | |||
||1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing. | |||
||1981 – Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due). | |||
||1999 – Waldo Semon, American chemist and engineer (b. 1898) | |||
||2004 – Nikolai Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931) | |||
||2015 – Robert Kraft, American astronomer and academic (b. 1927) | |||
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Revision as of 10:00, 29 October 2017
1667: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre born. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, will be prized by gamblers.
2016: New autobiography by Didacus automaton accuses Baron Zersetzung of crimes against mathematical constants.
1895: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange born.
1936: Enrico Fermi publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1938: In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.