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||1890: Anthony Fokker born ... engineer and businessman, founded Fokker Aircraft Manufacturer. | ||1890: Anthony Fokker born ... engineer and businessman, founded Fokker Aircraft Manufacturer. | ||
||1903: Harold Eugene Edgerton born ... engineer and academic. | ||1903: Harold Eugene Edgerton born ... engineer and academic. Pic. | ||
||1908: Valentine "Valya" Bargmann born ... mathematician and theoretical physicist. | ||1908: Valentine "Valya" Bargmann born ... mathematician and theoretical physicist. Pic. | ||
||1911: Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1911: Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1920: Jack Cover born ... pilot and physicist, invented the Taser gun. | ||1913: Adolf Slaby dies ... electronics pioneer. Pic. | ||
||1920: Jack Cover born ... pilot and physicist, invented the Taser gun. Pic. | |||
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. | ||
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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. | ||1952: Rudolf Walter Ladenburg dies ... atomic physicist. Pic. | ||
||1961: Jules Bordet dies ... microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1961: Jules Bordet dies ... microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer dies. He introduced classical motifs into Northern art through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists.
1749: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Thomas Bayes uses statistical methods to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1793: During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
1864: Physicist and crime-fighter 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.
1889: Physicist and crime-fighter Petrus Leonardus Rijke invents the Rijke tube, which neutralizes crimes against audio constants by creating a self-quantumizing standing wave.
1926: American comic book artist Gil Kane born.
1946: Enrico Fermi discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1992: Writer Isaac Asimov dies. He was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime.
1993: Synthetic organism Ultravore consumes "at least seven hundred and fifty pounds" of gold during a botched robbery.
2003: Computer scientist Anita Borg dies. She founded Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
2017: Reality television show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for "inspiring humanity to reach for the stars."