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||1937: Albert Heim dies ... geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz. Pic. | ||1937: Albert Heim dies ... geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz. Pic. | ||
File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and crimefighter [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants|crimes against combinatorial mathematics]]. | |||
||1939: Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe. | ||1939: Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe. | ||
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||1944: Roger Dean born ... illustrator and publisher. (Alive August 2019.) | ||1944: Roger Dean born ... illustrator and publisher. (Alive August 2019.) | ||
File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] dies. | File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] dies. Banach was one of the founders of modern functional analysis. | ||
||1949: André-Louis Debierne dies ... chemist and is considered the discoverer of the element actinium. In 1910, he and Marie Curie prepared radium in metallic form in visible amounts. Pic. | ||1949: André-Louis Debierne dies ... chemist and is considered the discoverer of the element actinium. In 1910, he and Marie Curie prepared radium in metallic form in visible amounts. Pic. | ||
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1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter Marin Mersenne uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1899: Georg Cantor writes to Dedekind, remarking that his "diagonal process" could be used to show that the power set of a set has more elements than the set itself.
1938: Mathematician and crimefighter Haskell Curry discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against combinatorial mathematics.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. Banach was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1950: Mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel addresses the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on his work in relativity theory.
2006: Flow Chart voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."