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||1857: Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China. Pic (battle painting).
||1857: Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China. Pic (battle painting).
File:Jacquard loom with two children and a dog (circa 1877).jpg|link=Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|1876: Children reprogram [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]] to compute new family of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].


||1879: William Kingdon Clifford dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honor. Clifford was the first to suggest that gravitation might be a manifestation of an underlying geometry. Pic.
||1879: William Kingdon Clifford dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honor. Clifford was the first to suggest that gravitation might be a manifestation of an underlying geometry. Pic.
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||1980: The USS ''Nautilus'' is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
||1980: The USS ''Nautilus'' is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|1987: While vacationing in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]], mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] visits the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse, where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem to the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1988: Sewall Wright dies ... geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. Pic.
||1988: Sewall Wright dies ... geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. Pic.
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||2015: Ernest Braun dies ... physicist and academic ... scholar in technology policy and technology assessment. Pic.
||2015: Ernest Braun dies ... physicist and academic ... scholar in technology policy and technology assessment. Pic.
File:Mad King.jpg|link=Mad King (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Mad King (nonfiction)|Mad King]]'' unexpectedly releases a contagious wave of [[math crimes]].


File:Peter Giblets.jpg|link=Peter Giblets|2017: Steganographic analysis of [[Peter Giblets]] illustration unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data, apparently a 'Best of Peter Giblets' compilation."
File:Peter Giblets.jpg|link=Peter Giblets|2017: Steganographic analysis of [[Peter Giblets]] illustration unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data, apparently a 'Best of Peter Giblets' compilation."


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  • 1703: Polymath Robert Hooke dies. Hooke ...

    1703: Polymath Robert Hooke dies. Hooke ...

  • 1845: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor born. He will invent set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.

    1845: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor born. He will invent set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.

  • 1847: Engineer, inventor, and academic Alexander Graham Bell born. He will patent the telephone in 1876.

    1847: Engineer, inventor, and academic Alexander Graham Bell born. He will patent the telephone in 1876.

  • 1849 – The Territory of Minnesota was created.

    1849 – The Territory of Minnesota was created.

  • 1898: Mathematician Emil Artin born. He will work on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.

    1898: Mathematician Emil Artin born. He will work on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.

  • 1916: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos born. He will make fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).

    1916: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos born. He will make fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).

  • 2017: Steganographic analysis of Peter Giblets illustration unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data, apparently a 'Best of Peter Giblets' compilation."

    2017: Steganographic analysis of Peter Giblets illustration unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data, apparently a 'Best of Peter Giblets' compilation."

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