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File:Malady.jpg|link=Malady|1324: Alleged supernatural healer [[Malady]] saves patient from the Black Death, accidentally infects doctor. | File:Malady.jpg|link=Malady|1324: Alleged supernatural healer [[Malady]] saves patient from the Black Death, accidentally infects doctor. | ||
||1732 – Louis Feuillée, French astronomer, geographer, and botanist (b. 1660) | |||
File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1761: Mathematician [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]] which detects [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1761: Mathematician [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]] which detects [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||Johan Carl Wilcke (d. 18 April 1796) was a Swedish physicist. | |||
||1813 – James McCune Smith, African-American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author (d. 1865) | |||
||1838 – Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist and academic (d. 1912) | |||
||1892 – Eugene Houdry, French-American mechanical engineer and inventor (d. 1962) | |||
||1897 – Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001) | |||
||1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California. | |||
||1911 – Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian Jewish-American physicist and academic (d. 2011) | |||
||1936 – Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher (d. 1997) | |||
||1940 – Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1945: Electrical engineer and physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] dies. He invented the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube. | File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1945: Electrical engineer and physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] dies. He invented the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube. | ||
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1955: Physicist, engineer, and academic [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] dies. He developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). | |||
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1963: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] is front for [[clandestiphrine]] manufacturing operation, says crime-fighter [[John Brunner]]. | File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1963: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] is front for [[clandestiphrine]] manufacturing operation, says crime-fighter [[John Brunner]]. | ||
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Revision as of 15:41, 29 October 2017
1324: Alleged supernatural healer Malady saves patient from the Black Death, accidentally infects doctor.
1761: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi invents new type of scrying engine which detects crimes against mathematical constants.
1945: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming dies. He invented the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.
1955: Physicist, engineer, and academic Albert Einstein dies. He developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
1963: Vandal Savage Press is front for clandestiphrine manufacturing operation, says crime-fighter John Brunner.