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File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1685: Mathematician [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] dies. He expanded the scope of algebra in the theory of equations. | File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1685: Mathematician [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] dies. He expanded the scope of algebra in the theory of equations. | ||
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s | File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]]. | ||
||1832: Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow born ... mathematician who proved foundational results in group theory. | ||1832: Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow born ... mathematician who proved foundational results in group theory. Pic. | ||
||1843: Marcel Deprez born ... electrical engineer. Pic. | ||1843: Marcel Deprez born ... electrical engineer. Pic. | ||
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||1888: Theodore Willard Case born ... chemist, physicist, and inventor known for the invention of the Movietone sound-on-film sound film system. Pic. | ||1888: Theodore Willard Case born ... chemist, physicist, and inventor known for the invention of the Movietone sound-on-film sound film system. Pic. | ||
||1889: Viktor Bunyakovsky dies ... mathematician and theorist. | ||1889: Viktor Bunyakovsky dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic, also pics: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Bunyakovsky.html | ||
||1897: Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, is founded. | ||1897: Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, is founded. | ||
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File:Peter Giblets.jpg|link=Peter Giblets|1973: Talk show host [[Peter Giblets]] films an episode of ''Peter Giblets Hour'' in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] his guests include [[Niles Cartouchian]] and Pierre Trudeau. | File:Peter Giblets.jpg|link=Peter Giblets|1973: Talk show host [[Peter Giblets]] films an episode of ''Peter Giblets Hour'' in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] his guests include [[Niles Cartouchian]] and Pierre Trudeau. | ||
File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1994: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] sell for 1.7 million dollars. | ||File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1994: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] sell for 1.7 million dollars. | ||
||1997: Evgenii Landis dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1997: Evgenii Landis dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||2012: North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using an Unha-3 carrier rocket. | ||2012: North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using an Unha-3 carrier rocket. | ||
||2014: Ivor Grattan-Guinness dies ... mathematician, historian, and academic. | ||2014: Ivor Grattan-Guinness dies ... mathematician, historian, and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Do_Not_Tease_Monster_by_Karl_Jones_800x600.jpg|link=Do Not Tease Monster (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Do Not Tease Monster]]'' declared Image of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Do_Not_Tease_Monster_by_Karl_Jones_800x600.jpg|link=Do Not Tease Monster (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Do Not Tease Monster]]'' declared Image of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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1204: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides dies.
1685: Mathematician John Pell dies. He expanded the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.
1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão's publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1862: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
![1901: Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.](/w/images/thumb/0/0d/Guglielmo_Marconi.jpg/90px-Guglielmo_Marconi.jpg)
1901: Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
1921: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt dies. She discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
1973: Talk show host Peter Giblets films an episode of Peter Giblets Hour in New Minneapolis, Canada his guests include Niles Cartouchian and Pierre Trudeau.
2016: Do Not Tease Monster declared Image of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.