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1131: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám dies.
1131: Red Eyes delivers eulogy for Omar Khayyám.
1820: Physicist John Tyndall dies of chloral hydrate overdose. He studied diamagnetism, and made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
1899: Rabbi Lowe inspects traditional golem for organic toxins.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe makes its closest approach to the planet Jupiter, at a range of about 132,252 kilometers (82,178 mi).
2016: London Has Swollen wins Sundance Film Festival award.
2019: Spirograph repurposed as artificial intelligence, reveals new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2023: Bingo tokens harvested from diagramaceous soil.
2054: Cube invents geometry solvent, with disastrous results.

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 File:John Tyndall 1878.jpg|link=John Tyndall (nonfiction)|1820: Physicist [[John Tyndall (nonfiction)|John Tyndall]] dies of chloral hydrate overdose.  He studied diamagnetism, and made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
 File:Golem and Loew.jpg|link=Golem (nonfiction)|1899: Rabbi Lowe inspects [[Golem (nonfiction)|traditional golem]] for organic toxins.
+File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1973: The ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' space probe makes its closest approach to the planet Jupiter, at a range of about 132,252 kilometers (82,178 mi).
 File:London-Has-Swollen Double-Decker-2.jpg|link=London Has Swollen|2016: ''[[London Has Swollen]]'' wins Sundance Film Festival award.
 File:Spirograph set (UK Palitoy early 1980s) (perspective fixed).jpg|link=Spirograph (nonfiction)|2019: [[Spirograph (nonfiction)|Spirograph]] repurposed as [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]], reveals new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].