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|File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1969: [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to detect and expose [[Extract of Radium]] marketing campaign. | |File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1969: [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to detect and expose [[Extract of Radium]] marketing campaign. | ||
||1974: Sverre Petterssen dies ... meteorologist, prominent in the field of weather analysis and forecasting (D-Day). Pic. | |||
File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|1980: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory [[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] dies. He coined the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village". | File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|1980: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory [[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] dies. He coined the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village". | ||
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File:Woodward and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|1970: [[Extract of Radium]] wishes you a Happy New Year! | File:Woodward and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|1970: [[Extract of Radium]] wishes you a Happy New Year! | ||
||1982: Kurt Otto Friedrichs dies ... mathematician. | ||1982: Kurt Otto Friedrichs dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1983: The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government. | ||1983: The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government. | ||
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1610: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen dies. He spent a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.
1738: Mathematician and crime-fighter Johann Bernouli publishes new theory of infinitesimal calculus which has applications in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1853: Banquet held in the mould of the Crystal Palace Iguanodon.
1879: Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1894: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes dies. He worked on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, and was called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions."
1900: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin dies. He invented and patented rolled celluloid photographic film.
1969: Computer scientist and APTO liaison Grace Hopper visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse, where she delivers an impromptu lecture on applications of distributed computation in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1980: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan dies. He coined the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".
1970: Extract of Radium wishes you a Happy New Year!
2007: The Deep Impact spacecraft flies by Earth on an extended mission to study extrasolar planets and comet Hartley 2 (103P/Hartley).
2016: Reality television show Dennis Paulson of Mars fully funded by Kickstarter.
2017: Mad King voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.