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||1799: Karl Heinrich Gräffe born ... mathematician. He is known for having been the first to enunciate a method to approximate the roots of any polynomial, a method known today as the Dandelin-Gräffe method. No pics online.
||1799: Karl Heinrich Gräffe born ... mathematician. He is known for having been the first to enunciate a method to approximate the roots of any polynomial, a method known today as the Dandelin-Gräffe method. No pics online.
File:Pierre Alexandre Laurent Forfait.jpg|link=Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait (nonfiction)|1807: Engineer, hydrographer, and cryptid researcher [[Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait (nonfiction)|Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait]] develops new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and repel and repel the aquatic cryptid [[Neptune Slaughter]].


File:Emil du Bois-Reymond.jpg|link=Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|1818: Physician and physiologist [[Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|Emil du Bois-Reymond]] born. He will discover nerve action potential, and develop experimental electrophysiology.
File:Emil du Bois-Reymond.jpg|link=Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|1818: Physician and physiologist [[Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|Emil du Bois-Reymond]] born. He will discover nerve action potential, and develop experimental electrophysiology.
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||1929: In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
||1929: In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.


||1944: Max Bergmann born ... biochemist. He was the first to use the Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=max+bergmann+biochemist
||1944: Max Bergmann dies ... biochemist. He was the first to use the Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=max+bergmann+biochemist


||1944: Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring. Pic.
||1944: Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring. Pic.
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||1957: Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
||1957: Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1958: Astronomer and crime-fighter [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] analyzes the radial velocities for galaxies, reveals previously unknown [[crimes against astronomical constants]].


||1967: Wolfgang Karl Ernst Finkelnburg dies ... physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, atomic physics, the structure of matter, and high-temperature arc discharges. Pic: https://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenlichkeiten/wolfgang-finkelnburg-/DE-2086/lido/57c6ad4ac556e0.88918046
||1967: Wolfgang Karl Ernst Finkelnburg dies ... physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, atomic physics, the structure of matter, and high-temperature arc discharges. Pic: https://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenlichkeiten/wolfgang-finkelnburg-/DE-2086/lido/57c6ad4ac556e0.88918046


||1968: Alexander Gelfond dies ... mathematician and cryptographer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=alexander+gelfond
||1968: Alexander Gelfond dies ... mathematician and cryptographer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=alexander+gelfond
File:William C. Davidon.jpg|link=William C. Davidon (nonfiction)|1971: Physicist, mathematician, and [[APTO]] field agent [[William C. Davidon (nonfiction)|William C. Davidon]] leads a commando raid on the North American [[Extract of Radium]] regional distribution facility, exposing an illegal [[Clandestiphrine]] laboratory.


||File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1972: [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard Nixon]] is reelected President of the United States.
||File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1972: [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard Nixon]] is reelected President of the United States.
File:Pekka Myrberg.jpg|link=Pekka Myrberg (nonfiction)|1972: Mathematician and forensic iterationalist [[Pekka Myrberg (nonfiction)|Pekka Myrberg]] publishes landmark paper which extends the concept of period-doubling into [[Gnomon algorithm]] space. Myrberg's research revived interest in the results of John Havelock and Niles Cartouchian.


||File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1973: The United States Congress overrides President [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard M. Nixon]]'s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
||File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1973: The United States Congress overrides President [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard M. Nixon]]'s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
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||1998: Margaret Mary Gowing née Elliott dies ... was an English historian. She was involved with the production of several volumes of the officially sponsored History of the Second World War, but was better known for her books, commissioned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, covering the early history of Britain's nuclear weapons programs. Pic.
||1998: Margaret Mary Gowing née Elliott dies ... was an English historian. She was involved with the production of several volumes of the officially sponsored History of the Second World War, but was better known for her books, commissioned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, covering the early history of Britain's nuclear weapons programs. Pic.


||2000: Engineer Hans-Georg Münzberg dies ... specialized in airplane turbines and space flight. He taught at the TU Berlin, the TH Munich, and wrote textbooks. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hans-Georg+Münzberg
||2000: Engineer Hans-Georg Münzberg dies ... specialized in airplane turbines and space flight. He taught at the TU Berlin, the TH Munich, and wrote textbooks. Pic search.


||2000: Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.
||2000: Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.
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File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates the twenty-first anniversary of the launch of [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]].
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates the twenty-first anniversary of the launch of [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]].
File:Tequila Sunrise.jpg|link=Tequila Sunrise (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Tequila Sunrise (nonfiction)|Tequila Sunrise]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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