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File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]]. He will be burned at the stake. | File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]]. He will be burned at the stake. | ||
||1596: Francis Drake dies ... captain and explorer. DOB uncertain. Pic. | ||1596: Francis Drake dies ... captain and explorer. DOB uncertain. Pic. | ||
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||1951: Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger. Pic. | ||1951: Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger. Pic. | ||
File:How to NFT a Millionaire.jpg|link=How to NFT a Millionaire|1953: Premiere of '''''[[How to NFT a Millionaire]]''''', an American romantic comedy-NFT film about a trio of money hungry gold diggers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, plan to use the apartment to attract rich non-fungible token investors and draw up contracts with them. | |||
||1961: The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat. Pic: same class sub. | ||1961: The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat. Pic: same class sub. | ||
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||1990: Jessie MacWilliams dies ... mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=florence+jessie+macwilliams | ||1990: Jessie MacWilliams dies ... mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=florence+jessie+macwilliams | ||
File:Nils_Aall_Barricelli.jpg|link=Nils Aall Barricelli (nonfiction)|1993: Mathematician [[Nils Aall Barricelli (nonfiction)|Nils Aall Barricelli]] dies. Barricelli pioneered computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution (artificial life). | |||File:Nils_Aall_Barricelli.jpg|link=Nils Aall Barricelli (nonfiction)|1993: Mathematician [[Nils Aall Barricelli (nonfiction)|Nils Aall Barricelli]] dies. Barricelli pioneered computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution (artificial life). | ||
||1995: Raphael Mitchel Robinson dies ... mathematician. He will work on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Pic. | ||1995: Raphael Mitchel Robinson dies ... mathematician. He will work on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Pic. | ||
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1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.
1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
1953: Premiere of How to NFT a Millionaire, an American romantic comedy-NFT film about a trio of money hungry gold diggers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, plan to use the apartment to attract rich non-fungible token investors and draw up contracts with them.
1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.
2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.