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File:Constantinople_imperial_district.png|link=Nika riots (nonfiction)|532: The [[Nika riots (nonfiction)|Nika riots]] begin in Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed over the next several days.
File:Constantinople_imperial_district.png|link=Nika riots (nonfiction)|532: The [[Nika riots (nonfiction)|Nika riots]] begin in Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed over the next several days.
|File:Kells genealogy of Christ.jpg|link=Uncial script (nonfiction)|525: New version of [[Uncial script (nonfiction)|Uncial script]] includes proto-[[scrying engine]] symbols.
|File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|526: [[The Eel's henchmen]] report that [[The Uncials]] are selling blackmarket [[scrying engines]].


File:Leonardo_da_Vinci_in_flight.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci|Artist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Leonardo da Vinci]] demonstrates his personal flying device. [[Mathematicians]] [who?] hail the device as "an unprecedented accomplishment, a singular work of genius, and a tribute to the power and versatility of [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques."
File:Leonardo_da_Vinci_in_flight.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci|Artist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Leonardo da Vinci]] demonstrates his personal flying device. [[Mathematicians]] [who?] hail the device as "an unprecedented accomplishment, a singular work of genius, and a tribute to the power and versatility of [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques."


||1786 Pierre-Dominique Bazaine born - scientist and engineer.  
||1786: Pierre-Dominique Bazaine born - scientist and engineer.  


||Zerah Colburn (b. January 13, 1832) was an American engineer specialising in steam locomotive design, technical journalist and publisher. Pic.
||1832: Zerah Colburn born ... engineer specializing in steam locomotive design, technical journalist and publisher. Pic.


||1845 – Félix Tisserand, French astronomer and academic (d. 1896)
||1845: Félix Tisserand born ... astronomer and academic.


||1858 – Oskar Minkowski, Lithuanian-German biologist and academic (d. 1931)
||1858: Oskar Minkowski born ... biologist and academic.


||1864 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928) Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (German: [ˈviːn]; 13 January 1864 – 30 August 1928) was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature.
||1864: Wilhelm Wien born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature.


||1866 – George Gurdjieff, Russian-French mystic and philosopher (d. 1949)
||1866: George Gurdjieff born ... mystic and philosopher.


||1870 – Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist and anatomist (d. 1959)
||1870: Ross Granville Harrison born ... biologist and anatomist.


File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1875: Writer, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] publishes new theory of [[Gnomon algorithm]] [[Paradox (nonfiction)|paradoxes]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1875: Writer, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] publishes new theory of [[Gnomon algorithm]] [[Paradox (nonfiction)|paradoxes]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] uses advances in process philosophy to compute and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] uses advances in process philosophy to compute and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1882 – Wilhelm Mauser, German engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mauser Company (b. 1834)
||1882: Wilhelm Mauser dies ... engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mauser Company.


||Johannes (Jan) Martinus Burgers (b. January 13, 1895) was a Dutch physicist. He will discover Burgers' equation, the Burgers vector in dislocation theory, and the Burgers material in viscoelasticity. Pic.
||1895: Johannes (Jan) Martinus Burgers born ... physicist. He will discover Burgers' equation, the Burgers vector in dislocation theory, and the Burgers material in viscoelasticity. Pic.


File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|1898: Émile Zola's ''J'accuse…!'' exposes the [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]].
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|1898: Émile Zola's ''J'accuse…!'' exposes the [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]].
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File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1899: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] publishes lemma to his proof that ''e'', the base of natural logarithms, is a transcendental number. Although he will not live to see it, this lemma will prove to be useful in solving entirely new classes of [[crimes against mathematical constants]], winning Hermite posthumous fame.
File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1899: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] publishes lemma to his proof that ''e'', the base of natural logarithms, is a transcendental number. Although he will not live to see it, this lemma will prove to be useful in solving entirely new classes of [[crimes against mathematical constants]], winning Hermite posthumous fame.


||Wilhelm Hanle (b. 13 January 1901) was a German experimental physicist. He is known for the Hanle effect. During World War II, he made contributions to the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club. Pic.
||1901: Wilhelm Hanle born ... experimental physicist. He is known for the Hanle effect. During World War II, he made contributions to the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club. Pic.


File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1902: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] born. He will work on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.
File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1902: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] born. He will work on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.
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File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1906 Jan. 13: Physicist and academic [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] dies. He did pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomena; in Russia and some eastern European, he is acclaimed as the inventor of radio.   
File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1906 Jan. 13: Physicist and academic [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] dies. He did pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomena; in Russia and some eastern European, he is acclaimed as the inventor of radio.   


||1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
||1910: The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
 
||1913: Johannes Benzing born ... German Turkic specialist and Diplomat in the era of National Socialism and in the Federal Republic of Germany. Benzing worked as a Linguist in Pers Z S, the signals intelligence agency of the German Foreign Office (German: Auswärtiges Amt). He was the youngest senior official (German:Beamter) and headed the section from October 1939 until September 1944. Pic.


||Johannes Benzing (b. 13 January 1913) was a German Turkic specialist and Diplomat in the era of National Socialism and in the Federal Republic of Germany. Benzing worked as a Linguist in Pers Z S, the signals intelligence agency of the German Foreign Office (German: Auswärtiges Amt). He was the youngest senior official (German:Beamter) and headed the section from October 1939 until September 1944. Pic.
||1919: Igor Gouzenko born ... a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945 – just three days after the end of World War II – with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West.  


File:Georg Hermann Quincke.jpg|link=Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|1924: Physicist and academic [[Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|Georg Hermann Quincke]] dies. He conducted prolonged research on 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=Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|1924: Physicist and academic [[Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|Georg Hermann Quincke]] dies. He conducted prolonged research on the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.


||1934 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist and chemist (b. 1860)
||1934: Paul Ulrich Villard dies ... physicist and chemist.


||1937 – Guy Dodson, New Zealand-English biochemist and academic (d. 2012)
||1937: Guy Dodson born ... biochemist and academic.


||1938 – Cabu, French cartoonist (d. 2015)
||1938: Cabu born ... cartoonist (d. 2015)


||1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
||1942: Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.


||1942 – World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
||1942: World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.


||1946 – Ordal Demokan, Turkish physicist and academic (d. 2004)
||1946: Ordal Demokan born ... physicist and academic.


||1953 – An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
||1953: An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.


File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1954: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Gödel]] uses his two incompleteness theorems to demonstrate that some classes of [[crimes against mathematical constants]] cannot be detected or prevented.
File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1954: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Gödel]] uses his two incompleteness theorems to demonstrate that some classes of [[crimes against mathematical constants]] cannot be detected or prevented.


||1963 – Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio
||1963: Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio
 
||1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison


||Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko (b. January 13, 1919) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945 – just three days after the end of World War II – with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West.
||1968: Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison


||1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
||1993: Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.


|File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2009: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] volunteer hotline answer questions, calm fears about the number thirteen.
||2012: Guido Dessauer dies ... physicist and engineer.


||2012 – Guido Dessauer, German physicist and engineer (b. 1915)
||2013: Arthur Strong Wightman dies ... mathematical physicist. He was one of the founders of the axiomatic approach to quantum field theory, and originated the set of Wightman axioms. Pic: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/01/30/esteemed-princeton-mathematical-physicist-and-mentor-arthur-wightman-dies


||2013 – Chia-Chiao Lin, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1916)
||2013: Chia-Chiao Lin dies ... mathematician and academic.


||2017 – Magic Alex, Greek electronics engineer (b. 1942)
||2017: Magic Alex dies ... electronics engineer.


File:Creature_4.jpg|link=Creature 4 (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Creature 4 (nonfiction)|Creature 4]]'' reveals "at least seven hundred and fifty kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorems.
File:Creature_4.jpg|link=Creature 4 (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Creature 4 (nonfiction)|Creature 4]]'' reveals "at least seven hundred and fifty kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorems.


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Revision as of 12:40, 22 October 2018

  • 532: The Nika riots begin in Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed over the next several days.

    532: The Nika riots begin in Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed over the next several days.

  • Artist, inventor, and crime-fighter Leonardo da Vinci demonstrates his personal flying device. Mathematicians [who?] hail the device as "an unprecedented accomplishment, a singular work of genius, and a tribute to the power and versatility of Gnomon algorithm techniques."

    Artist, inventor, and crime-fighter Leonardo da Vinci demonstrates his personal flying device. Mathematicians [who?] hail the device as "an unprecedented accomplishment, a singular work of genius, and a tribute to the power and versatility of Gnomon algorithm techniques."

  • 1875: Writer, mathematician, and crime-fighter Lewis Carroll publishes new theory of Gnomon algorithm paradoxes which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1875: Writer, mathematician, and crime-fighter Lewis Carroll publishes new theory of Gnomon algorithm paradoxes which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1876: Mathematician Erhard Schmidt born. He will make important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.

    1876: Mathematician Erhard Schmidt born. He will make important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.

  • 1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred North Whitehead uses advances in process philosophy to compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred North Whitehead uses advances in process philosophy to compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1898: Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.

    1898: Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.

  • 1899: Mathematician and crime-fighter Charles Hermite publishes lemma to his proof that e, the base of natural logarithms, is a transcendental number. Although he will not live to see it, this lemma will prove to be useful in solving entirely new classes of crimes against mathematical constants, winning Hermite posthumous fame.

    1899: Mathematician and crime-fighter Charles Hermite publishes lemma to his proof that e, the base of natural logarithms, is a transcendental number. Although he will not live to see it, this lemma will prove to be useful in solving entirely new classes of crimes against mathematical constants, winning Hermite posthumous fame.

  • 1902: Mathematician Karl Menger born. He will work on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.

    1902: Mathematician Karl Menger born. He will work on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.

  • 1906 Jan. 13: Physicist and academic Alexander Stepanovich Popov dies. He did pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomena; in Russia and some eastern European, he is acclaimed as the inventor of radio.

    1906 Jan. 13: Physicist and academic Alexander Stepanovich Popov dies. He did pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomena; in Russia and some eastern European, he is acclaimed as the inventor of radio.

  • 1924: Physicist and academic Georg Hermann Quincke dies. He conducted prolonged research on the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.

    1924: Physicist and academic Georg Hermann Quincke dies. He conducted prolonged research on the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.

  • 1954: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Kurt Gödel uses his two incompleteness theorems to demonstrate that some classes of crimes against mathematical constants cannot be detected or prevented.

    1954: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Kurt Gödel uses his two incompleteness theorems to demonstrate that some classes of crimes against mathematical constants cannot be detected or prevented.

  • 2018: Steganographic analysis of Creature 4 reveals "at least seven hundred and fifty kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm theorems.

    2018: Steganographic analysis of Creature 4 reveals "at least seven hundred and fifty kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm theorems.

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