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||1895 – Robert Dean Frisbie, American soldier and author (d. 1948) | ||1895 – Robert Dean Frisbie, American soldier and author (d. 1948) | ||
File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1901: Electrical engineer, physicist, and engineer [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use thermionic valves to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]]. | |||
||Eberhard Frederich Ferdinand Hopf (b. April 17, 1902) was a mathematician and astronomer, one of the founding fathers of ergodic theory and a pioneer of bifurcation theory who also made significant contributions to the subjects of partial differential equations and integral equations, fluid dynamics, and differential geometry. Pic. | ||Eberhard Frederich Ferdinand Hopf (b. April 17, 1902) was a mathematician and astronomer, one of the founding fathers of ergodic theory and a pioneer of bifurcation theory who also made significant contributions to the subjects of partial differential equations and integral equations, fluid dynamics, and differential geometry. Pic. | ||
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1915: Physicist, engineer, and alleged time-traveller [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] makes radio contact with orbital artificial intelligence [[AESOP]]. | |||
File:Kerry Wendell Thornley.jpg|link=Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|1938: Philosopher and author [[Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|Kerry Wendell Thornley]] born. In 1962 he will write a manuscript, ''The Idle Warriors'', about his aquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald. | File:Kerry Wendell Thornley.jpg|link=Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|1938: Philosopher and author [[Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|Kerry Wendell Thornley]] born. In 1962 he will write a manuscript, ''The Idle Warriors'', about his aquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald. | ||
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1598: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli born. He will experiment with pendulums and falling bodies, discuss arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduce the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
1627: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat writes a marginal note about a "Last Last Theorem" which will "surely solve all cases of crimes against mathematical constants, both past and future."
1901: Electrical engineer, physicist, and engineer John Ambrose Fleming publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use thermionic valves to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1915: Physicist, engineer, and alleged time-traveller Albert Einstein makes radio contact with orbital artificial intelligence AESOP.
1938: Philosopher and author Kerry Wendell Thornley born. In 1962 he will write a manuscript, The Idle Warriors, about his aquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald.
1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1968: Industrialist, motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Colonel Zersetzung takes possession of a large quantity of military-grade Clandestiphrine.
1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.