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||2012: Fang Lizhi dies ... Chinese astrophysicist and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Pic. | ||2012: Fang Lizhi dies ... Chinese astrophysicist and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Pic. | ||
File:Robot 7.jpg|link=Robot 7 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Robot 7 (nonfiction)|Robot 7]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | |||
File:Dennis Paulson of Mars closeup.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: Reality television show [[Dennis Paulson of Mars]] wins Pulitzer Prize for "inspiring humanity to reach for the stars." | File:Dennis Paulson of Mars closeup.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: Reality television show [[Dennis Paulson of Mars]] wins Pulitzer Prize for "inspiring humanity to reach for the stars." | ||
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1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer dies. Dürer is regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist: his vast body of work will include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings.
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.
2016: Robot 7 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Reality television show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for "inspiring humanity to reach for the stars."