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File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1600:  Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] is burned at the stake.
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1600:  Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] is burned at the stake.
File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: Publication of ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' increases risk of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|2003: [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] publishes first in prize-winning series of articles on [[high-energy literature]].
File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' engages and sinks the Union warship USS ''Housatonic''. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship.
File:Nicolaas de Bruijn.jpg|link=Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|2012: Mathematician and theorist [[Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn]] dies. He made contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic.
 
File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1891: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]].
 
File:No Escape From Telephones.jpg|link=No Escape From Telephones|1953: Premiere of '''''[[No Escape From Telephones]]''''', an American science fiction thriller film about a police officer (Dick Tracy) who must bring a deranged computer (HAL 9000) to justice.
 
File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2009: The ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe makes its closest approach to Mars during a successful gravity assist toward Vesta. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.
 
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  • 1600: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake.

    1600: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake.

  • 1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley engages and sinks the Union warship USS Housatonic. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship.

    1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley engages and sinks the Union warship USS Housatonic. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship.

  • 1891: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of Georg Cantor.

    1891: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of Georg Cantor.

  • 1953: Premiere of No Escape From Telephones, an American science fiction thriller film about a police officer (Dick Tracy) who must bring a deranged computer (HAL 9000) to justice.

    1953: Premiere of No Escape From Telephones, an American science fiction thriller film about a police officer (Dick Tracy) who must bring a deranged computer (HAL 9000) to justice.

  • 2009: The Dawn space probe makes its closest approach to Mars during a successful gravity assist toward Vesta. Dawn will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.

    2009: The Dawn space probe makes its closest approach to Mars during a successful gravity assist toward Vesta. Dawn will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.

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