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File:Jean-Antoine Nollet.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|1700: Priest and physicist [[Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine Nollet]] born. In 1746 he will gather about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He will then discharge a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observe that each man reacts at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation is very high.
File:Jean-Antoine Nollet.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|1700: Priest and physicist [[Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine Nollet]] born. In 1746 he will gather about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He will then discharge a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observe that each man reacts at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation is very high.


||1703 – Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner dies.
||1703: Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner dies.


||1711 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer (d. 1765)
||1711: Mikhail Lomonosov born ... physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer.


||1822 – Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
||1822: Johann Georg Tralles dies ... mathematician and physicist.


File:André-Marie_Ampère.jpg|link=André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|1832: Physicist and mathematician [[André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|André-Marie Ampère]] uses principles of electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics", to communicate with [[AESOP]].
File:André-Marie_Ampère.jpg|link=André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|1832: Physicist and mathematician [[André-Marie Ampère (nonfiction)|André-Marie Ampère]] uses principles of electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics", to communicate with [[AESOP]].


||Wilhelm Dilthey (b. 19 November 1833) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher. Pic.
||1833: Wilhelm Dilthey born ... historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher. Pic.


File:Georg Hermann Quincke.jpg|link=|1834: Physicist and academic [[Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|Georg Hermann Quincke]] born. He will conduct prolonged research on the subject of the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.
File:Georg Hermann Quincke.jpg|link=|1834: Physicist and academic [[Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|Georg Hermann Quincke]] born. He will conduct prolonged research on the subject of the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.


||1845 – Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (d. 1939)
||1845: Agnes Giberne born ... astronomer and author.


||Gustave-Auguste Ferrié (b. 19 November 1868) was a French radio pioneer and army general. Pic.
||1868: Gustave-Auguste Ferrié born ... radio pioneer and army general. Pic.


||1876 – Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (d. 1964)
||1876: Tatyana Afanasyeva born ... mathematician and theorist.


||1883 – Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German-English engineer (b. 1823)
||1883: Carl Wilhelm Siemens dies ... engineer.


||1887 – James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
||1887: James B. Sumner born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Heinz Hopf (b. 1894) was a German mathematician who worked on the fields of topology and geometry.
||1894: Heinz Hopf born ... mathematician who worked on the fields of topology and geometry.


File:Georgy Voronoy.jpg|link=Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|Georgy Voronoy]] uses what are today called [[Voronoi diagram (nonfiction)|Voronoi diagrams]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Georgy Voronoy.jpg|link=Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|Georgy Voronoy]] uses what are today called [[Voronoi diagram (nonfiction)|Voronoi diagrams]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1898 – Arthur R. von Hippel, German-American physicist and academic (d. 2003)
||1898: Arthur R. von Hippel born ... physicist and academic.


||1900 – Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian mathematician and hydrodynamicist (d. 1980)
||1900: Mikhail Lavrentyev born ... mathematician and hydrodynamicist.


||1901 – Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (d. 1961)
||1901: Nina Bari born ... mathematician.


File:Willem de Sitter.jpg|link=Willem de Sitter (nonfiction)|1911: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Willem de Sitter (nonfiction)|Willem de Sitter]] publishes a paper in which he discusses the implications of cosmological data for the curvature of [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
File:Willem de Sitter.jpg|link=Willem de Sitter (nonfiction)|1911: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Willem de Sitter (nonfiction)|Willem de Sitter]] publishes a paper in which he discusses the implications of cosmological data for the curvature of [[crimes against astronomical constants]].


||Otto Wilhelm Fiedler (d. 19 November 1912 in Zurich) was a German-Swiss mathematician, known for his textbooks of geometry and his contributions to descriptive geometry.
||1912: Otto Wilhelm Fiedler dies ... mathematician, known for his textbooks of geometry and his contributions to descriptive geometry.


||1912 – George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
||1912: George Emil Palade born ... biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1912 – Robert Simpson, American meteorologist and author (d. 2014)
||1912: Robert Simpson born ... meteorologist and author.


||1915 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
||1915: Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. born ... pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Curt Meyer.jpg|link=Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|1919: Mathematician [[Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|Curt Meyer]] born. He will maKe notable contributions to number theory, including an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.
File:Curt Meyer.jpg|link=Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|1919: Mathematician [[Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|Curt Meyer]] born. He will maKe notable contributions to number theory, including an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.
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File:Dick Cavett.jpg|link=Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|1936: Television talk show host [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] born.
File:Dick Cavett.jpg|link=Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|1936: Television talk show host [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] born.


||1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
||1969: Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.


|File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring|1974: [[Green Ring]] tells [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] a funny story about ...
|File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring|1974: [[Green Ring]] tells [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] a funny story about ...


||1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
||1979: Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.


||Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov (d. 19 November 1990), was a Russian physicist who is known for his discovery of the spontaneous fission and his contribution towards the physics of thermal reactions.
||1990: Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov dies ... physicist who is known for his discovery of the spontaneous fission and his contribution towards the physics of thermal reactions.


||1998 – Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist and academic (b. 1920)
||1998: Ted Fujita dies ... meteorologist and academic.


||1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
||1999: Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.


||2004 – John Vane, English pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
||2004: John Vane dies ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Michel André Kervaire (d. 19 November 2007) was a French mathematician who made significant contributions to topology and algebra. He introduced the Kervaire semi-characteristic.  
||2007: Michel André Kervaire dies ... mathematician who made significant contributions to topology and algebra. He introduced the Kervaire semi-characteristic.  


||2013 – Frederick Sanger, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
||2013: Frederick Sanger dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|2014: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Safe-Cracker]]'' reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|2014: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Safe-Cracker]]'' reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.


|File:Seifenbläser (Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin).jpg|link=Soap bubble (nonfiction)|Young man has great plans for [[Soap bubble (nonfiction)|soap bubble]].
|File:Spirograph set.jpg|link=Spirograph (nonfiction)|[[Spirograph (nonfiction)|Spirograph]] adapted for use a [[scrying engine]], predicts discovery of [[Red Charter]].
|File:Red-Charter.jpg|link=Posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft|Discovery of "Red Charter" implicates The Rubrics in blood sacrifice of [[H. P. Lovecraft]];  see the [[Posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft]].
|File:Myoglobin John Kendrew.jpg|link=John Kendrew (nonfiction)|[[John Kendrew (nonfiction)|John Kendrew]] sets up a perimeter defense of myglobin spikes against [[The Rubrics]].
|File:Protein_crystals_600x800.jpg|link=Protein (nonfiction)|[[Protein (nonfiction)|Protein crystals]] offer assistance to [[John Kendrew (nonfiction)|John Kendrew]] in defense against [[The Rubrics]].
|File:Ernst von Possart as Mephistopheles.jpg|link=Villain (nonfiction)|The [[Villain (nonfiction)|villain Mephistopheles]] has plan to manipulate [[The Rubrics]] for his own ends.
|File:Fugitive_Rubies.jpg|link=Fugitive Rubies|Supervillain [[Fugitive Rubies]] captured by [[Niles Cartouchian]].
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Revision as of 20:45, 9 September 2018

  • 1700: Priest and physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet born. In 1746 he will gather about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He will then discharge a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observe that each man reacts at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation is very high.

    1700: Priest and physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet born. In 1746 he will gather about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He will then discharge a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observe that each man reacts at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation is very high.

  • 1832: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère uses principles of electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics", to communicate with AESOP.

    1832: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère uses principles of electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics", to communicate with AESOP.

  • 1834: Physicist and academic Georg Hermann Quincke born. He will conduct prolonged research on the subject of the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.

    1834: Physicist and academic Georg Hermann Quincke born. He will conduct prolonged research on the subject of the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.

  • 1897: Mathematician and crime-fighter Georgy Voronoy uses what are today called Voronoi diagrams to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1897: Mathematician and crime-fighter Georgy Voronoy uses what are today called Voronoi diagrams to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1911: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Willem de Sitter publishes a paper in which he discusses the implications of cosmological data for the curvature of crimes against astronomical constants.

    1911: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Willem de Sitter publishes a paper in which he discusses the implications of cosmological data for the curvature of crimes against astronomical constants.

  • 1919: Mathematician Curt Meyer born. He will maKe notable contributions to number theory, including an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.

    1919: Mathematician Curt Meyer born. He will maKe notable contributions to number theory, including an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.

  • 1936: Television talk show host Dick Cavett born.

    1936: Television talk show host Dick Cavett born.

  • 2014: Steganographic analysis of The Safe-Cracker reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.

    2014: Steganographic analysis of The Safe-Cracker reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.

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