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||1082: Nizam al-Mulk dies ... scholar and vizier. He wrote Siyasatnama ("Book of Government"), a political treatise that uses historical examples to discuss justice, effective rule, and the role of government in Islamic society. Pic search sculpture: https://www.google.com/search?q=nizam+al-mulk
File:Be Gay Do Crime.jpg|link=Be Gay Do Crime|At the Battle of Hastings, alleged supervillain 1613911531218 shouts a new battle cry:  "'''[[Be Gay Do Crime (nonfiction)|Be Gay Do Crime!]]'''"
 
||1082: Nizam al-Mulk dies ... scholar and vizier. He wrote Siyasatnama ("Book of Government"), a political treatise that uses historical examples to discuss justice, effective rule, and the role of government in Islamic society. Pic search.


||1563: Jodocus Hondius born ... engraver and cartographer. Pic.
||1563: Jodocus Hondius born ... engraver and cartographer. Pic.


||1641: Joachim Tielke born ... instrument maker. Pic search instruments: https://www.google.com/search?q=joachim+tielke
||1641: Joachim Tielke born ... instrument maker. Pic search.


||1687: Robert Simson born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
||1687: Robert Simson born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
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||1868: Alessandro Padoa born ... mathematician and logician, a contributor to the school of Giuseppe Peano. He is remembered for a method for deciding whether, given some formal theory, a new primitive notion is truly independent of the other primitive notions. Pic.
||1868: Alessandro Padoa born ... mathematician and logician, a contributor to the school of Giuseppe Peano. He is remembered for a method for deciding whether, given some formal theory, a new primitive notion is truly independent of the other primitive notions. Pic.
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1881: Writer and alleged troll [[Culvert Origenes]] calls [[Extract of Radium]] "a plague on all living things, and a curse on civilization."


File:George Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1884: Inventor [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
File:George Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1884: Inventor [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
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||1914: Raymond Davis Jr. born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1914: Raymond Davis Jr. born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1918: Marcel Chaput born ... biochemist, journalist, and a militant for the independence of Quebec from Canada. Along with some 20 other people including André D'Allemagne and Jacques Bellemare, he was a founding member of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (RIN). Pic search.


||1932: Anatoly Larkin born ... physicist and academic. Pic.
||1932: Anatoly Larkin born ... physicist and academic. Pic.
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||1947: Captain Chuck Yeager of the United States Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound at Mach 1.06 (700 miles per hour (1,100 km/h; 610 kn) over the high desert of Southern California and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight. Pic .
||1947: Captain Chuck Yeager of the United States Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound at Mach 1.06 (700 miles per hour (1,100 km/h; 610 kn) over the high desert of Southern California and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight. Pic .
File:J._R._Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. R. Oppenheimer|1948: Musician and physicist [[J. R. Oppenheimer]] performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]].


||1960: Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic dies ... an expert in electromagnetism, radiology, crystals, high-impact physics, thermoelectricity and photoelectricity. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics. Pic.
||1960: Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic dies ... an expert in electromagnetism, radiology, crystals, high-impact physics, thermoelectricity and photoelectricity. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics. Pic.
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||1991: Walter Maurice Elsasser dies ... physicist considered a "father" of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism. He proposed that this magnetic field resulted from electric currents induced in the fluid outer core of the Earth. Pic.
||1991: Walter Maurice Elsasser dies ... physicist considered a "father" of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism. He proposed that this magnetic field resulted from electric currents induced in the fluid outer core of the Earth. Pic.


||2008: Robert Furman dies ... engineer and intelligence officer ... chief of foreign intelligence for the Manhattan Engineer District directing espionage against the German nuclear energy project. He participated in the Alsos Mission, which conducted a series of operations with the intent to place all uranium in Europe into Allied hands, and at the end of the war rounded up German atomic scientists to keep them out of the Soviet Union. He personally escorted half of the uranium-235 necessary for the Little Boy atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian. He was also a key figure overseeing the construction of The Pentagon building. Pic.
File:Robert_Furman.jpg|link=Robert Furman (nonfiction)|2008: Engineer and American intelligence officer [[Robert Furman (nonfiction)|Robert Furman]] dies. Furman was chief of foreign intelligence for the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]], directing espionage against the German nuclear energy project, and, near the end of the war, rounding up German atomic scientists.


File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] dies.
File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] dies. Mandelbrot was a pioneer of fractal geometry: he coined the word "fractal" and discovered the Mandelbrot set.


||2010: Mathematician and academic Wilhelm Paul Albert Klingenberg dies. He worked on differential geometry, in particular on closed geodesics. Pic.
||2010: Mathematician and academic Wilhelm Paul Albert Klingenberg dies. He worked on differential geometry, in particular on closed geodesics. Pic.
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||2012: Gart Westerhout dies ... astronomer and academic ... Westerhout specialized in studies of radio sources and the Milky Way Galaxy based on observations of radio continuum emissions and 21-cm spectral line radiation that originates in interstellar hydrogen. Pic.
||2012: Gart Westerhout dies ... astronomer and academic ... Westerhout specialized in studies of radio sources and the Milky Way Galaxy based on observations of radio continuum emissions and 21-cm spectral line radiation that originates in interstellar hydrogen. Pic.


File:Blue City Sunset.jpg|link=Blue City Sunset (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Blue City Sunset (nonfiction)|Blue City Sunset]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
File:Mandelbrot-AI-interview.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot|2019: An [[Benoit Mandelbrot|artificial intelligence based on the mind of Benoit Mandelbrot]] gives an impromptu lecture at the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • At the Battle of Hastings, alleged supervillain 1613911531218 shouts a new battle cry: "Be Gay Do Crime!"

    At the Battle of Hastings, alleged supervillain 1613911531218 shouts a new battle cry: "Be Gay Do Crime!"

  • 1831: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons dies. He was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.

    1831: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons dies. He was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.

  • 1884: Inventor George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

    1884: Inventor George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

  • 2008: Engineer and American intelligence officer Robert Furman dies. Furman was chief of foreign intelligence for the Manhattan Project, directing espionage against the German nuclear energy project, and, near the end of the war, rounding up German atomic scientists.

    2008: Engineer and American intelligence officer Robert Furman dies. Furman was chief of foreign intelligence for the Manhattan Project, directing espionage against the German nuclear energy project, and, near the end of the war, rounding up German atomic scientists.

  • 2010: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies. Mandelbrot was a pioneer of fractal geometry: he coined the word "fractal" and discovered the Mandelbrot set.

    2010: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies. Mandelbrot was a pioneer of fractal geometry: he coined the word "fractal" and discovered the Mandelbrot set.

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