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||AD 41 – Roman Emperor Caligula, known for his eccentricity and sadistic despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. The Guard then proclaims Caligula's uncle Claudius as Emperor | ||AD 41 – Roman Emperor Caligula, known for his eccentricity and sadistic despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. The Guard then proclaims Caligula's uncle Claudius as Emperor | ||
File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1201: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] retrofitted with [[Gnomon algorithm]] routines. | |File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1201: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] retrofitted with [[Gnomon algorithm]] routines. | ||
File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1569: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] make improved astronomical observations. | |File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1569: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] make improved astronomical observations. | ||
||1679 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher and academic (d. 1754) | ||1679 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher and academic (d. 1754) | ||
||Karl Georg Christian von Staudt ( | File:Karl Georg Christian von Staudt.jpg|link=Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|1798: Mathematician [[Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|Karl Georg Christian von Staudt]] born. He will use synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic. | ||
||1835 – Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later. | ||1835 – Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later. | ||
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1798: Mathematician Karl Georg Christian von Staudt born. He will use synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic.
1961: Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
1972: New evidence suggests that The Eel Escapes Hydrolab is based on actual events.
1978: Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
1988: Mathematician and academic Werner Fenchel dies. He established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which would, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.
2016: John Hoyland's Lebanon stolen in broad daylight by supervillain Gnotilus.
2016: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky dies.
2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.