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File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]].
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]].
File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1881: Mathematicians Nikola Tesla and Judge Havelock use [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|new class of data transmission protocols]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1888: Charles Jordan born ... magician. Pic search.
||1888: Charles Jordan born ... magician. Pic search.
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||1990: John Stewart Bell dies ... physicist ... originator of Bell's theorem, an important theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden variable theories. Pic.
||1990: John Stewart Bell dies ... physicist ... originator of Bell's theorem, an important theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden variable theories. Pic.
File:Paul Halmos.jpg|link=Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|1992: Mathematician and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|Paul Halmos]] defeats the notorious criminal mathematical function [[Killer Poke]] using a novel synthesis of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (notably Hilbert spaces).
|File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=On Halting Problems|1993: Physician, mathematician, and alleged time-traveller Asclepius Myrmidon publishes ''[[On Halting Problems]]'', about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.


File:Paul Lorenzen.jpg|link=Paul Lorenzen (nonfiction)|1994: Mathematician and philosopher [[Paul Lorenzen (nonfiction)|Paul Lorenzen]] dies. He was the founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).
File:Paul Lorenzen.jpg|link=Paul Lorenzen (nonfiction)|1994: Mathematician and philosopher [[Paul Lorenzen (nonfiction)|Paul Lorenzen]] dies. He was the founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).
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||1999: Clement Markert dies ... biologist credited with the discovery of isozymes (different forms of enzymes that catalyze the same reaction). Refused to testify before HUAC. Pic: https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/0226899#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-2153.0367%2C1291.2491%2C7243.7893%2C4105.7099
||1999: Clement Markert dies ... biologist credited with the discovery of isozymes (different forms of enzymes that catalyze the same reaction). Refused to testify before HUAC. Pic: https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/0226899#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-2153.0367%2C1291.2491%2C7243.7893%2C4105.7099
File:Green Tangle.jpg|link=Green Tangle (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Green Tangle (nonfiction)|Green Tangle]]'' stolen from the Weisman Art Museum in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.


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  • 1499: Priest, humanist philosopher, and astrologer Marsilio Ficino dies. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.

    1499: Priest, humanist philosopher, and astrologer Marsilio Ficino dies. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.

  • 1842: Poet and inventor Charles Cros born. He will pioneer sound recording, inventing the Paleophone, and investigate the transmission of graphics by telegraph.

    1842: Poet and inventor Charles Cros born. He will pioneer sound recording, inventing the Paleophone, and investigate the transmission of graphics by telegraph.

  • 1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.

    1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.

  • 1940: Mathematician Chiungtze C. Tsen dies. He proved Tsen's theorem, which states that a function field K of an algebraic curve over an algebraically closed field is quasi-algebraically closed (i.e., C1).

    1940: Mathematician Chiungtze C. Tsen dies. He proved Tsen's theorem, which states that a function field K of an algebraic curve over an algebraically closed field is quasi-algebraically closed (i.e., C1).

  • 1947: Game designer Dave Arneson born. He will co-create the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Gary Gygax.

    1947: Game designer Dave Arneson born. He will co-create the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Gary Gygax.

  • 1994: Mathematician and philosopher Paul Lorenzen dies. He was the founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).

    1994: Mathematician and philosopher Paul Lorenzen dies. He was the founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).

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