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File:Giacomo Puccini.jpg|link=Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|1858: Composer [[Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|Giacomo Puccini]] born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi". | File:Giacomo Puccini.jpg|link=Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|1858: Composer [[Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|Giacomo Puccini]] born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi". | ||
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|1894: The [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]] begins in France, when [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] is wrongly convicted of treason. | File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|1894: The [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]] begins in France, when [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] is wrongly convicted of treason. | ||
||Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers, MBE (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages. | |||
File:Das Gespenst eines Flohs.jpg|link=Monster (nonfiction)|1920: Lecture by [[Monster (nonfiction)|monster]] ends in riot. | File:Das Gespenst eines Flohs.jpg|link=Monster (nonfiction)|1920: Lecture by [[Monster (nonfiction)|monster]] ends in riot. | ||
File:Der Reichsspritzenmeister.jpg|link=Der Reichsspritzenmeister|1943: [[Der Reichsspritzenmeister]] uses [[Clandestiphrine]] to increase fear of [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]]. | File:Der Reichsspritzenmeister.jpg|link=Der Reichsspritzenmeister|1943: [[Der Reichsspritzenmeister]] uses [[Clandestiphrine]] to increase fear of [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]]. | ||
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1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.
1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."
1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.
1943: Der Reichsspritzenmeister uses Clandestiphrine to increase fear of monsters.
1974: New theory of artificial intelligence accidentally releases monsters.
1979: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters produces actual monsters.
1980: New class of Crimes against mathematical constants affects space horror film Alien.
1981: Cast of Alien announces campaign to fight crimes against mathematical constants.