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||1091 London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
||1091: London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.


|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1604: Kepler's Supernova: German astronomer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1604: Kepler's Supernova: German astronomer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.


||René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (d. 17 October 1757, Saint-Julien-du-Terroux) was a French entomologist and writer who contributed to many different fields, especially the study of insects. He introduced the Réaumur temperature scale.
||1757: René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur dies ... entomologist and writer who contributed to many different fields, especially the study of insects. He introduced the Réaumur temperature scale.


||1814 Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.
||1814: Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.


File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1851: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1851: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1887: Physicist and academic [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] dies. He contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1887: Physicist and academic [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] dies. He contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.


|link=Paul Bernays (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician and philosopher [[Paul Bernays (nonfiction)|Paul Bernays]] born.
||link=Paul Bernays (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician and philosopher [[Paul Bernays (nonfiction)|Paul Bernays]] born.


File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|George Biddell Airy]] measures mean density of the Earth using [[Gnomon algorithm]] technique. This data will later be adapted for use in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|George Biddell Airy]] measures mean density of the Earth using [[Gnomon algorithm]] technique. This data will later be adapted for use in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Flag of OPEC.svg|link=Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|1973: [[Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|OPEC]] imposes an oil embargo against a number of Western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria.
File:Flag of OPEC.svg|link=Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|1973: [[Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|OPEC]] imposes an oil embargo against a number of Western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria.


||Edward Marczewski (d. 17 October 1976) was a Polish mathematician. Pic.
||1976: Edward Marczewski dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1992 Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (b. 1912)
||1992: Herman Johannes dies ... scientist, academic, and politician.


||1994 Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
||1994: Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.


||1997 Larry Jennings, American magician and author (b. 1933)
||1997: Larry Jennings dies ... magician and author.


File:The Shovel.jpg|link=The Shovel|1998: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Shovel]]'' reveal two hundred petabytes of data relating to contract violations by [[Egon Rhodomunde]] and [[Baron Zersetzung]].
File:The Shovel.jpg|link=The Shovel|1998: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Shovel]]'' reveal two hundred petabytes of data relating to contract violations by [[Egon Rhodomunde]] and [[Baron Zersetzung]].
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File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1999: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] dies. He led the team of researchers which developed the Monte Carlo method.
File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1999: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] dies. He led the team of researchers which developed the Monte Carlo method.


||2012 Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (b. 1922)
||2012: Stanford R. Ovshinsky dies ... scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices.


||Jeremy was a left-coiled garden snail that died on 18 October 2017, aged two years. The snail had a rare genetic mutation which caused its shell to coil counterclockwise; in most snails the shell coils clockwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(snail)
File:Angry_Feller.jpg|link=Angry Feller (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Angry Feller (nonfiction)|Angry Feller]]'' voted Image of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
 
||2017: Jeremy was a left-coiled garden snail died, aged two years. The snail had a rare genetic mutation which caused its shell to coil counterclockwise; in most snails the shell coils clockwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(snail)


File:Angry_Feller.jpg|link=Angry Feller (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Angry Feller (nonfiction)|Angry Feller]]'' stolen from the Louvre in daytime raid by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.


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