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File:Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann.jpg|link=Bernhard Riemann (nonfiction)|1866: Mathematician and academic [[Bernhard Riemann (nonfiction)|Bernhard Riemann]] dies. He made contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.
File:Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann.jpg|link=Bernhard Riemann (nonfiction)|1866: Mathematician and academic [[Bernhard Riemann (nonfiction)|Bernhard Riemann]] dies. He made contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.
File:Riemann critical line.png|link=Riemann hypothesis (nonfiction)|1867: [[Riemann hypothesis (nonfiction)|Riemann hypothesis]]: The real part (red) and imaginary part (blue) of the Riemann zeta function along the critical line Re(s) = 1/2 pre-visualizes non-trivial [[crimes against mathematical constants]] at Im(s) = ±14.135, ±21.022 and ±25.011.


||1876: Mathematician and academic Otto Blumenthal dies in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Blumenthal made a fundamental, though often overlooked, contribution to aerodynamics by building on Joukowsky's work to extract the complex transformation that carries the latter's name. Pic.
||1876: Mathematician and academic Otto Blumenthal dies in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Blumenthal made a fundamental, though often overlooked, contribution to aerodynamics by building on Joukowsky's work to extract the complex transformation that carries the latter's name. Pic.
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||1938: The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
||1938: The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
File:Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann.jpg|link=Ferdinand von Lindemann (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Ferdinand von Lindemann (nonfiction)|Ferdinand von Lindemann]] uses the transcendental property of π (pi) to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1941: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrentiy Beria its chief.
||1941: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrentiy Beria its chief.


||1944: World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
||1944: World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
File:Officials of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency.jpg|link=Operation Paperclip (nonfiction)|1945: The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under [[Operation Paperclip (nonfiction)|Operation Paperclip]].


||1950: Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
||1950: Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
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||2007: Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn dies ... physicist. Pic.
||2007: Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn dies ... physicist. Pic.
Two_Creatures_2.jpg|link=Two Creatures 2 (nonfiction)|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Two Creatures 2 (nonfiction)|Two Creatures 2]]'' stolen from the Weisman Art Museum in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by [[Killer Poke]] and his gang of [[Crimes against mathematical constants|criminal mathematical functions]].


File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|2018: [[Pin Man]] says he "was an unwilling test subject in the [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)]]."
File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|2018: [[Pin Man]] says he "was an unwilling test subject in the [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)]]."


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  • 1597: Scholar, printer, and bookseller Franciscus Raphelengius dies. Raphelengius produced an Arabic-Latin dictionary, about 550 pages, which was published posthumously in 1613 at Leiden — the first publication by printing press of a book-length dictionary for the Arabic language in Latin.

    1597: Scholar, printer, and bookseller Franciscus Raphelengius dies. Raphelengius produced an Arabic-Latin dictionary, about 550 pages, which was published posthumously in 1613 at Leiden — the first publication by printing press of a book-length dictionary for the Arabic language in Latin.

  • 1866: Mathematician and academic Bernhard Riemann dies. He made contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.

    1866: Mathematician and academic Bernhard Riemann dies. He made contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.

  • 1932: In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans, part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, who attempt to march to the White House.

    1932: In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans, part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, who attempt to march to the White House.

  • 1937: Businessman and inventor Guglielmo Marconi dies. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

    1937: Businessman and inventor Guglielmo Marconi dies. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

  • 1945: The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip.

    1945: The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip.

  • 1977: Project MKUltra (nonfiction): The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.

    1977: Project MKUltra (nonfiction): The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.

  • 2018: Pin Man says he "was an unwilling test subject in the Project MKUltra (nonfiction)."

    2018: Pin Man says he "was an unwilling test subject in the Project MKUltra (nonfiction)."

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