Template:Selected anniversaries/October 17
1887: Physicist and academic Gustav Kirchhoff dies. He contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
1901: "Brainiac is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.
1942: John Hoyland's Lebanon stolen by supervillain Gnotilus; painting may hold key to abstract expressionist weapons.
1961: Nysa on the Maeander upgrading to full transdimensional corporation.
1963: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard dies. He made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
1965: Red-limned Sea Quetzalcoatl disguises itself as Tree of Life.
Crimes against mathematical constants on the rise, according to mathematical diagram.
1999: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis dies. He led the team of researchers which developed the Monte Carlo method.
2016: Retired Vostok 1 descent module calls for moment of silence to honor Rosetta's courageous self-sacrifice.
2016: Tiny spacecraft with alien "Happy Ending" software converts human sweat into Extract of Radium.
