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File:Thomas_Bayes.gif|link=Thomas Bayes (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Thomas Bayes (nonfiction)|Thomas Bayes]] uses statistical methods to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Thomas_Bayes.gif|link=Thomas Bayes (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Thomas Bayes (nonfiction)|Thomas Bayes]] uses statistical methods to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Samuel Vince (b. 6 April 1749) was an English clergyman, mathematician and astronomer at the University of Cambridge.
||1749: Samuel Vince born ... clergyman, mathematician and astronomer at the University of Cambridge.


File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1793: During the [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]], the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1793: During the [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]], the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.


||1810 – Philip Henry Gosse, English biologist and academic (d. 1888) Aquaria
||1810: Philip Henry Gosse born ... biologist and academic ... Aquaria


||1829 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (b. 1802)
||1829: Niels Henrik Abel dies ... mathematician and theorist.


||1851 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (d. 1932)
||1851: Guillaume Bigourdan dies ... astronomer and academic.


||1864 – William Bate Hardy, English biologist and academic (d. 1934)
||1864: William Bate Hardy born ... biologist and academic.


File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1864: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] publishes new theory of thermodynamics which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] principles to explain how the monster known as [[Ultravore]] can eat anything without gaining weight.
File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1864: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] publishes new theory of thermodynamics which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] principles to explain how the monster known as [[Ultravore]] can eat anything without gaining weight.


||1869 – Celluloid is patented.
||1869: Celluloid is patented.


||1886 – Walter Dandy, American physician and neurosurgeon (d. 1946)
||1886: Walter Dandy born ... physician and neurosurgeon.


File:Pieter Rijke.jpg|link=Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|1889: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|Petrus Leonardus Rijke]] invents the Rijke tube, which neutralizes [[Crimes against physical constants|crimes against audio constants]] by creating a self-quantumizing standing wave.
File:Pieter Rijke.jpg|link=Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|1889: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|Petrus Leonardus Rijke]] invents the Rijke tube, which neutralizes [[Crimes against physical constants|crimes against audio constants]] by creating a self-quantumizing standing wave.


||1890 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch engineer and businessman, founded Fokker Aircraft Manufacturer (d. 1939)
||1890: Anthony Fokker born ... engineer and businessman, founded Fokker Aircraft Manufacturer.


||1903 – Harold Eugene Edgerton, American engineer and academic (d. 1990)
||1903: Harold Eugene Edgerton born ... engineer and academic.


||Valentine "Valya" Bargmann (b. April 6, 1908) was a German-American mathematician and theoretical physicist.
||1908: Valentine "Valya" Bargmann born ... mathematician and theoretical physicist.


||1911 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
||1911: Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1920 – Jack Cover, American pilot and physicist, invented the Taser gun (d. 2009)
||1920: Jack Cover born ... pilot and physicist, invented the Taser gun.
 
||1920 – Edmond H. Fischer, Chinese-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate


File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|1926: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] born.
File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|1926: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] born.


||1928 – James Watson, American biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate
||1930: Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire," beginning the Salt Satyagraha.


||1930 – Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire," beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
||1944: Rose O'Neill dies ... cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer.


||1944 – Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (b. 1874)
File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1946: [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1946: [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1952: Rudolf Walter Ladenburg dies ... atomic physicist.  


||Rudolf Walter Ladenburg (d. April 6, 1952) was a German atomic physicist.  
||1961: Jules Bordet dies ... microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1961 – Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
||1963: Otto Struve dies ... astronomer and academic.


||1963 – Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1897)
||1965: Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.


||1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
||1972: Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.


||1972 – Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
||1973: Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.


||1973 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
||1985: André Néron dies ... mathematician at the Université de Poitiers who worked on elliptic curves and Abelian varieties. He discovered the Néron minimal model of an elliptic curve or abelian variety, the Néron differential, the Néron–Severi group, the Néron–Ogg–Shafarevich criterion, the local height and Néron–Tate height of rational points on an Abelian variety over a discrete valuation ring or Dedekind domain. Pic: https://ceppp.ca/en/ceppp-andre-neron-1000x1000px/


File:Isaac Asimov.jpg|link=Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|1992: Writer [[Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|Isaac Asimov]] dies. He was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime.
File:Isaac Asimov.jpg|link=Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|1992: Writer [[Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|Isaac Asimov]] dies. He was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime.
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File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|1993: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] consumes "at least seven hundred and fifty pounds" of gold during a botched robbery.
File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|1993: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] consumes "at least seven hundred and fifty pounds" of gold during a botched robbery.


||1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
||1998: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.


File:Anita Borg.jpg|link=Anita Borg (nonfiction)|2003: Computer scientist [[Anita Borg (nonfiction)|Anita Borg]] dies.  She founded Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
File:Anita Borg.jpg|link=Anita Borg (nonfiction)|2003: Computer scientist [[Anita Borg (nonfiction)|Anita Borg]] dies.  She founded Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.


||2012 – Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist and academic (b. 1936)
||2012: Fang Lizhi dies ... astrophysicist and academic.


File:Dennis Paulson of Mars closeup.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: Reality television show [[Dennis Paulson of Mars]] wins Pulitzer Prize for "inspiring humanity to reach for the stars."
File:Dennis Paulson of Mars closeup.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: Reality television show [[Dennis Paulson of Mars]] wins Pulitzer Prize for "inspiring humanity to reach for the stars."


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