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|File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|1152: [[Anarchimedes]] casts horoscope in effort to predicts results of the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].


File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1409: The [[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|University of Leipzig]] opens. Famous future alumni will include [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Leibniz]], Goethe, Ranke, [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Nietzsche]], Wagner, Angela Merkel, Raila Odinga, and [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]].
File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1409: The [[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|University of Leipzig]] opens. Famous future alumni will include [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Leibniz]], Goethe, Ranke, [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Nietzsche]], Wagner, Angela Merkel, Raila Odinga, and [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]].


||1594 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (b. 1512)
||1594: Gerardus Mercator dies ... mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher.


||1759 – James Edward Smith, English botanist and mycologist, founded the Linnean Society (d. 1828)
||1759: James Edward Smith born ... botanist and mycologist, founded the Linnean Society.


||1823: Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James Monroe proclaims American neutrality in future European conflicts, and warns European powers not to interfere in the Americas.
||1823: Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James Monroe proclaims American neutrality in future European conflicts, and warns European powers not to interfere in the Americas.
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||1930: Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million (equivalent to $2,150,000,000 in 2016) public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
||1930: Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million (equivalent to $2,150,000,000 in 2016) public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.


||1939 – New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens.
||1939: New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens.


File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1939: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] publishes evidence that nuclear weapons will be vulnerable to [[crimes against chemistry]].
File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1939: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] publishes evidence that nuclear weapons will be vulnerable to [[crimes against chemistry]].
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File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1942: During the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]], a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1942: During the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]], a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.


||René de Saussure (d. 2 December 1943) was a Swiss Esperantist and professional mathematician (he defended in 1895 a doctoral thesis on a subject in geometry in Geneva), who composed important works about Esperanto and interlinguistics from a linguistic viewpoint. Pic.
||1943: René de Saussure dies ... Esperantist and professional mathematician (he defended in 1895 a doctoral thesis on a subject in geometry in Geneva), who composed important works about Esperanto and interlinguistics from a linguistic viewpoint. Pic.
 
||1949: The "Green Run" was a secret U.S. Government release of radioactive fission products on December 2–3, 1949, at the Hanford Site plutonium production facility, located in Eastern Washington. Radioisotopes released at that time were supposed to be detected by U.S. Air Force reconnaissance. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the U.S. Government have revealed some of the details of the experiment.[1] Sources cite 5,500 to 12,000 curies (200 to 440 TBq) of iodine-131 released,[1][2][3] and an even greater amount of xenon-133. The radiation was distributed over populated areas.


||1954 – Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
||1954: Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".


File:Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer.jpg|link=L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|1966: Mathematician and philosopher [[L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|L. E. J. Brouwer]] dies.  He made contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he founded the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
File:Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer.jpg|link=L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|1966: Mathematician and philosopher [[L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|L. E. J. Brouwer]] dies.  He made contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he founded the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.


||1970 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
||1970: The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.


||Georg Robert Döpel (d. 2 December 1982) was a German experimental nuclear physicist. Pic.
||1982: Georg Robert Döpel dies ... experimental nuclear physicist. Pic.


||1982 – At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
||1982: At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.


||1987 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentinian physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
||1987: Luis Federico Leloir dies ... physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich postage stamp.jpg|link=Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|1987: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist [[Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich]] dies. He played a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, associated closely in nuclear weapons testing to study the effects of nuclear explosion from 1943 until 1963.
File:Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich postage stamp.jpg|link=Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|1987: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist [[Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich]] dies. He played a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, associated closely in nuclear weapons testing to study the effects of nuclear explosion from 1943 until 1963.


||1993 – Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
||1993: Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
 
||1995 – Mária Telkes, Hungarian–American biophysicist and chemist (b. 1900)
 
||2001 – Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.


|File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|[[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] proposes joint venture with [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
||1995: Mária Telkes dies ... biophysicist and chemist.


|File:Gysin and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|1942: [[Extract of Radium]] gets "extra kick" from [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] nuclear chain-reaction.
||2001: Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.


File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2016: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].
File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2016: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].


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  • 1409: The University of Leipzig opens. Famous future alumni will include Leibniz, Goethe, Ranke, Nietzsche, Wagner, Angela Merkel, Raila Odinga, and Tycho Brahe.

    1409: The University of Leipzig opens. Famous future alumni will include Leibniz, Goethe, Ranke, Nietzsche, Wagner, Angela Merkel, Raila Odinga, and Tycho Brahe.

  • 1831: Mathematician Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond born. He will work on the theory of functions and in mathematical physics.

    1831: Mathematician Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond born. He will work on the theory of functions and in mathematical physics.

  • 1939: Physicist and crime-fighter Enrico Fermi publishes evidence that nuclear weapons will be vulnerable to crimes against chemistry.

    1939: Physicist and crime-fighter Enrico Fermi publishes evidence that nuclear weapons will be vulnerable to crimes against chemistry.

  • 1942: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

    1942: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

  • 1966: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer dies. He made contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he founded the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.

    1966: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer dies. He made contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he founded the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.

  • 1987: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich dies. He played a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, associated closely in nuclear weapons testing to study the effects of nuclear explosion from 1943 until 1963.

    1987: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich dies. He played a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, associated closely in nuclear weapons testing to study the effects of nuclear explosion from 1943 until 1963.

  • 2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.

    2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.

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