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||Johannes Bilberg (b. 17 November 1646) was a Swedish theologian, professor and bishop. As a professor he was involved in the controversy over Cartesianism. At the command of King Karl XI, Bilberg travelled to Torneå and Kengis along with Anders Spole to study the midnight sun. Pic.
||1646: Johannes Bilberg born ... theologian, professor and bishop. As a professor he was involved in the controversy over Cartesianism. At the command of King Karl XI, Bilberg travelled to Torneå and Kengis along with Anders Spole to study the midnight sun. Pic.


||Johannes Bilberg (d. 11 March 1717) was a Swedish theologian, professor and bishop. As a professor he was involved in the controversy over Cartesianism. At the command of King Karl XI, Bilberg travelled to Torneå and Kengis along with Anders Spole to study the midnight sun. Pic.
||1717: Johannes Bilberg dies ... theologian, professor and bishop. As a professor he was involved in the controversy over Cartesianism. At the command of King Karl XI, Bilberg travelled to Torneå and Kengis along with Anders Spole to study the midnight sun. Pic.


File:August Ferdinand Möbius.jpg|link=August Ferdinand Möbius (nonfiction)|1790: Mathematician and astronomer [[August Ferdinand Möbius (nonfiction)|August Ferdinand Möbius]] born. He will discover the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
File:August Ferdinand Möbius.jpg|link=August Ferdinand Möbius (nonfiction)|1790: Mathematician and astronomer [[August Ferdinand Möbius (nonfiction)|August Ferdinand Möbius]] born. He will discover the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.


||1749 – Nicolas Appert, French chef, invented canning (d. 1841)
||1749: Nicolas Appert born ... chef, invented canning.


||1776 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer and instrument maker (b. 1710)
||1776: James Ferguson dies ... astronomer and instrument maker.


||1884: Pál Selényi born.
||1884: Pál Selényi born.
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File:H. H. Holmes.jpg|link=H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|1894: [[H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|H. H. Holmes]], one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
File:H. H. Holmes.jpg|link=H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|1894: [[H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|H. H. Holmes]], one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.


||1902 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
||1902: Eugene Wigner born ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Ruth Aaronson Bari (b. November 17, 1917) was an American mathematician known for her work in graph theory and algebraic homomorphisms. Pic.
||1917: Ruth Aaronson Bari born ... mathematician known for her work in graph theory and algebraic homomorphisms. Pic.


File:Claire Kelly Schultz.jpg|link=Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|1924: Information scientist [[Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|Claire Kelly Schultz]] born.
File:Claire Kelly Schultz.jpg|link=Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|1924: Information scientist [[Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|Claire Kelly Schultz]] born.
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File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1925: Mathematician and social activist [[Alice Beta]] interviews famed inventor and data processing pioneer [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]].
File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1925: Mathematician and social activist [[Alice Beta]] interviews famed inventor and data processing pioneer [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]].


||Aristid Lindenmayer (b. 17 November 1925) was a Hungarian biologist. In 1968 he developed a type of formal languages that is today called L-systems or Lindenmayer Systems. Using those systems Lindenmayer modelled the behaviour of cells of plants. L-systems nowadays are also used to model whole plants. Lindenmayer worked with yeast and filamentous fungi and studied the growth patterns of various types of algae, such as the blue/green bacteria Anabaena catenula. Originally the L-systems were devised to provide a formal description of the development of such simple multicellular organisms, and to illustrate the neighbourhood relationships between plant cells. Later on, this system was extended to describe higher plants and complex branching structures. No pic, use diagram.
||1925: Aristid Lindenmayer born ... biologist. In 1968 he developed a type of formal languages that is today called L-systems or Lindenmayer Systems. Using those systems Lindenmayer modelled the behaviour of cells of plants. L-systems nowadays are also used to model whole plants. Lindenmayer worked with yeast and filamentous fungi and studied the growth patterns of various types of algae, such as the blue/green bacteria Anabaena catenula. Originally the L-systems were devised to provide a formal description of the development of such simple multicellular organisms, and to illustrate the neighbourhood relationships between plant cells. Later on, this system was extended to describe higher plants and complex branching structures. No pic, use diagram.


File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1929: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.
File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1929: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.


|File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|1931: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[Georg Cantor]] lectures on applications of [[Set theory (nonfiction)|Set theory]] to [[Venn diagram|anti-demon algorithms]].
||1940: Eric Gill dies ... sculptor and typeface designer ... erotica, incest.


||1940 – Eric Gill, English sculptor and typeface designer (b. 1882) - erotica, incest
||1940: Raymond Pearl dies ... biologist and academic ... eugenics, biostatistics.


||1940 – Raymond Pearl, American biologist and academic (b. 1879) - eugenics, biostatistics
||1947: American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
 
||1947 – American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.


File:Aleksandr Khinchin.gif|link=Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|1949: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Khinchin]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on modern probability theory which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Aleksandr Khinchin.gif|link=Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|1949: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Khinchin]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on modern probability theory which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Yutaka Taniyama (d. 17 November 1958) was a Japanese mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture. Pic.
||1958: Yutaka Taniyama dies ... mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture. Pic.


||1969 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
||1969: Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.


||1970 – Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
||1970: Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.


File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1972: Industrialist, military contractor, and alleged crime boss [[Colonel Zersetzung]] privately advises [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Richard Nixon]] to "tell the reporters that you are not a crook."
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1972: Industrialist, military contractor, and alleged crime boss [[Colonel Zersetzung]] privately advises [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Richard Nixon]] to "tell the reporters that you are not a crook."
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File:Skip Digits, Conductor.jpg|link=Skip Digits, Conductor|1973: In Washington, D.C., musician and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] tells 400 Associated Press managing editors that "[[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Richard Nixon is not a crook]]."
File:Skip Digits, Conductor.jpg|link=Skip Digits, Conductor|1973: In Washington, D.C., musician and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] tells 400 Associated Press managing editors that "[[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Richard Nixon is not a crook]]."


||1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
||1973: The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
 
||1990: Robert Hofstadter dies ... physicist and academic ... joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".


||1990 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) Robert Hofstadter (d. November 17, 1990) was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".
||2000: Louis Néel dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2000 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
File:Green Tangle 4.jpg|link=Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|Green Tangle 4]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiments spontaneously generates [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]].


|File:Cone-shaped supersonic shockwave.svg|link=Bonaparte's Gull|[[Bonaparte's Gull]] (''Chroicocephalus philadelphia'') announces new treaty with [[Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels]].
|File:SOEP attack bird Halobaena caerulea.jpg|link=Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|[[Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|SOEP]] representative confirms new treaty with [[Bonaparte's Gull]].
|File:Howard Zinn 2009.jpg|link=Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|[[Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|Howard Zinn]] shares his thoughts on making the world a better place.
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