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File:George Boole.jpg|link=George Boole (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and philosopher [[George Boole (nonfiction)|George Boole]] born.  He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
||1863 – Theodore Judah, American engineer (b. 1826) rail Sierra Nevada
||1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (d. 1972)
||1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German-American aerodynamicist and engineer (d. 1976)
File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1903: [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]] born.  He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.  
File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1903: [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]] born.  He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.  
File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|[[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] writes unit tests for [[Babbage simulator]].
 
File:Cinnamon_pirate_flag_800x600.jpg|link=Cinnamon Jack (pirate)|Pirate captain [[Cinnamon Jack (pirate)|Cinnamon Jack]] fails to capture [[Fort Babbage]], acknowledges superior intellect of [[Ada Lovelace]]. "We shall match wits again, I feel sure," say Jack.
1911 – Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, philosopher, and theorist (d. 1995)
File:Armada de capitaesanode.jpg|link=Simulada|[[Simulada|Simulated armada]] more dangerous than it appears, says [[Alan Turing]].
 
File:Giacomo Puccini.jpg|link=Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|[[Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|Giacomo Puccini]] has complete faith in opera, orders champagne with [[Extract of Radium]].
 
File:Brainiac Action Comics 242.png|link=Brainiac (nonfiction)|[[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] more dangerous than Action Comics realizes.
||1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920.
 
||1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
 
||1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
 
||1944 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889)  - Freon, CFC ... An instinct for the regrettable that is almost uncanny ...
 
||1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
 
||1966 – Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
 
||1988 – The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
 
||1990 – Eliot Porter, American photographer, chemist, and academic (b. 1901)
 
||2002 – Charles Sheffield, American physicist and author (b. 1935)
 
||2015 – Roy Dommett, English scientist and engineer (b. 1933) rockets
 
|File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|[[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] writes unit tests for [[Babbage simulator]].
|File:Cinnamon_pirate_flag_800x600.jpg|link=Cinnamon Jack (pirate)|Pirate captain [[Cinnamon Jack (pirate)|Cinnamon Jack]] fails to capture [[Fort Babbage]], acknowledges superior intellect of [[Ada Lovelace]]. "We shall match wits again, I feel sure," say Jack.
|File:Armada de capitaesanode.jpg|link=Simulada|[[Simulada|Simulated armada]] more dangerous than it appears, says [[Alan Turing]].
|File:Giacomo Puccini.jpg|link=Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|[[Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|Giacomo Puccini]] has complete faith in opera, orders champagne with [[Extract of Radium]].
|File:Brainiac Action Comics 242.png|link=Brainiac (nonfiction)|[[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] more dangerous than Action Comics realizes.
[[Time series (nonfiction)|time series analysis]].
[[Time series (nonfiction)|time series analysis]].
File:Time series diagram.png|link=Time series (nonfiction)|[[Time series (nonfiction)|Time series diagram]] indicates rise in [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Time series diagram.png|link=Time series (nonfiction)|[[Time series (nonfiction)|Time series diagram]] indicates rise in [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Thefixisin pharmaceutical laboratory.jpg|link=Thefixisin (drug)|[[Thefixisin (drug)|Thefixisin]] laboratory in violation of numerous workplace safety laws.
|File:Thefixisin pharmaceutical laboratory.jpg|link=Thefixisin (drug)|[[Thefixisin (drug)|Thefixisin]] laboratory in violation of numerous workplace safety laws.
File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|[[Georg Cantor]] and [[David Hilbert]] may form crime-fighting team in response to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|[[Georg Cantor]] and [[David Hilbert]] may form crime-fighting team in response to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Gladiator movie poster.jpg|link=What we do in life echoes in eternity (nonfiction)|[[What we do in life echoes in eternity (nonfiction)|What we do in life echoes in eternity]], according to new [[Computation (nonfiction)|computational analysis]].
|File:Gladiator movie poster.jpg|link=What we do in life echoes in eternity (nonfiction)|[[What we do in life echoes in eternity (nonfiction)|What we do in life echoes in eternity]], according to new [[Computation (nonfiction)|computational analysis]].
File:Mud_pot.jpg|Mud pot in northern California runs dry, may relocate to [[Devil's Mud Pie]] area.
|File:Mud_pot.jpg|Mud pot in northern California runs dry, may relocate to [[Devil's Mud Pie]] area.
File:Able Archer 83 After Action Report.jpg|link=Able Archer 83 (nonfiction)|1983:  
|File:Able Archer 83 After Action Report.jpg|link=Able Archer 83 (nonfiction)|1983:  
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  • 1815: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.

    1815: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.

  • 1903: George P. Metesky born. He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.

    1903: George P. Metesky born. He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.

  • 1911 – Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, philosopher, and theorist (d. 1995)
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