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File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1928: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] born. He will be a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement. | File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1928: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] born. He will be a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement. | ||
File:Herbert Osborn Yardley.jpg|link=Herbert Yardley (nonfiction)|1928: Cryptologist and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Herbert Yardley (nonfiction)|Herbert Yardley]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions which use [[cryptographic numina]] to detect and prevent [[Crimes against mathematical functions|crimes against computational constants]]. | |||
||1929: Emil Hilb dies ... mathematician who worked in the fields of special functions, differential equations, and difference equations. Pic. | ||1929: Emil Hilb dies ... mathematician who worked in the fields of special functions, differential equations, and difference equations. Pic. | ||
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1638: Priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche born. He will be instrumental in introducing and disseminating the work of René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in France.
1667: Mathematician Johann Bernouli born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
1928: Artist Andy Warhol born. He will be a leading figure in the Pop art movement.
1928: Cryptologist and APTO field engineer Herbert Yardley discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use cryptographic numina to detect and prevent crimes against computational constants.
1969: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight purchased by Andy Warhol for an undisclosed sum.
1991: Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1996: NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
2012: NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates twenty-first anniversary of the NASA announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Green Spiral reveals "at least two, probably three, possibly four" previously unknown shades of green.