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||1874: René-Louis Baire born ... mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. Pic. | ||1874: René-Louis Baire born ... mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. Pic. | ||
||1882: Pavel Florensky born ... mathematician and theologian. Pic | ||1882: Pavel Florensky born ... mathematician and theologian. Pic. | ||
||1885: Umberto Nobile born ... aviator, aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer. Nobile was a developer and promoter of semi-rigid airships during the period between the two World Wars. He is primarily remembered for designing and piloting the airship Norge, which may have been the first aircraft to reach the North Pole, and which was indisputably the first to fly across the polar ice cap from Europe to America. Pic. | ||1885: Umberto Nobile born ... aviator, aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer. Nobile was a developer and promoter of semi-rigid airships during the period between the two World Wars. He is primarily remembered for designing and piloting the airship Norge, which may have been the first aircraft to reach the North Pole, and which was indisputably the first to fly across the polar ice cap from Europe to America. Pic. | ||
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1714: Anatomist and anatomical wax modeler Anna Morandi Manzolini born. Her collection of wax models will be known throughout Europe as Supellex Manzoliniana and be sought after to aid in the study of anatomy.
1780: Steganographic analysis of The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters unexpectedly reveals previously unknown templates for organic golems.
1828: Mathematician and crime-fighter Joseph Ludwig Raabe publishes new version of Raabe's ratio test, which uses the convergence or divergence of an infinite series to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1869: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin born.
1899: Chemist and crime-fighter Emil Erlenmeyer uses the Erlenmeyer rule to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1899: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is born.
1900: Mathematician, theologian, and Anglican crime-fighter George Salmon uses algebraic geometry detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1901: Electrical engineer Elisha Gray dies. He did pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the telephone.
1913: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess warns the Great Powers not to use nuclear weapons ahead of schedule.
1915: Physicist and mathematician André Lichnerowicz born. He will work in differential geometry and mathematical physics.
1951: Numbered cake algorithm used to manufacture new type of organic golems.
1959: Project SCORE satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere.
1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "is confident that the upcoming Thule Air Base B-52 crash is a sound business investment."
1968: A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
1969: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde announces new film about the Thule Air Base B-52 crash.
2018: Signed first edition of Dragons Fighting purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known Gnomon algorithm theorist" in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against physical constants.