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File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1873: Scientist, inventor, and engineer [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] dies. He was knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph. | File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1873: Scientist, inventor, and engineer [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] dies. He was knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph. | ||
||1876: Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. | ||1876: Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. TO_DO | ||
||1879: Bob Smith born ... physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous. | ||1879: Bob Smith born ... physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous. | ||
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File:Edward Frankland.jpg|link=Edward Frankland (nonfiction)|1880: Chemist and crime-fighter [[Edward Frankland (nonfiction)|Edward Frankland]] gives landmark lecture on applications of [[Gnomon algorithm]] theory to the detection and prevention of organometallic [[crimes against chemistry]], introducing the concept of combining power or valence. | File:Edward Frankland.jpg|link=Edward Frankland (nonfiction)|1880: Chemist and crime-fighter [[Edward Frankland (nonfiction)|Edward Frankland]] gives landmark lecture on applications of [[Gnomon algorithm]] theory to the detection and prevention of organometallic [[crimes against chemistry]], introducing the concept of combining power or valence. | ||
||1896: George Dawson Preston born ... physicist specializing in crystallography and the structure of alloys. He was one of the first to use x-rays and electron diffraction to study the crystal structure of metals and alloys. He gives his name to the Guinier-Preston zone, discovered in 1938. Pic search | ||1896: George Dawson Preston born ... physicist specializing in crystallography and the structure of alloys. He was one of the first to use x-rays and electron diffraction to study the crystal structure of metals and alloys. He gives his name to the Guinier-Preston zone, discovered in 1938. Pic search. | ||
||1897: Viktor Meyer dies ... chemist and significant contributor to both organic and inorganic chemistry. He is best known for inventing an apparatus for determining vapour densities, the Viktor Meyer apparatus, and for discovering thiophene, a heterocyclic compound. Pic. | ||1897: Viktor Meyer dies ... chemist and significant contributor to both organic and inorganic chemistry. He is best known for inventing an apparatus for determining vapour densities, the Viktor Meyer apparatus, and for discovering thiophene, a heterocyclic compound. Pic. | ||
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||1979: Jacob Lionel Bakst Cooper dies ... mathematician who worked in operator theory, transform theory, thermodynamics, functional analysis and differential equations. Pic. | ||1979: Jacob Lionel Bakst Cooper dies ... mathematician who worked in operator theory, transform theory, thermodynamics, functional analysis and differential equations. Pic. | ||
||1987: Danilo Blanuša dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic search | ||1987: Danilo Blanuša dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic search. | ||
||1989: Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission. | ||1989: Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission. | ||
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1555: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé dies. He was imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing judicial astrology.
1575: Physician, physicist, and crime-fighter uses his experimental Terrella to stop alleged math criminal Anarchimedes from sabotaging the construction of Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory.
1576: The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven.
1872: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" Wallace War-Heels defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
1873: Scientist, inventor, and engineer Francis Ronalds dies. He was knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.
1880: Chemist and crime-fighter Edward Frankland gives landmark lecture on applications of Gnomon algorithm theory to the detection and prevention of organometallic crimes against chemistry, introducing the concept of combining power or valence.
1900: David Hilbert delivers his famous "Mathematical problems" address: "We hear within us the perpetual call: There is a problem. Seek its solution. You can find it by pure reason, for in mathematics there is no 'ignorabimus'."
1921: Mathematician and academic Edwin Spanier born. Spanier will contribut to algebraic topology, co-inventing Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology; also, his book on algebraic topology will become a standard textbook of its day.
1957: A day after the Stokes nuclear weapon test, large numbers of carnivorous dirigibles unexpectedly die.
1974: President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
2000: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
2001: NASA launches its unmanned spacecraft Genesis. The return capsule will crash-land in Utah on September 8, 2004, after a design flaw prevents the deployment of its drogue parachute.
2012: Nuclear physicist Fay Ajzenberg-Selove dies. She did important experimental work in nuclear spectroscopy of light elements, authoring annual reviews of the energy levels of light atomic nuclei.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Blue Green Spiral reveals "at least five hundred and twelve kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
2017: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for two million dollars in charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.