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File:Constantinople_imperial_district.png|link=Nika riots (nonfiction)|524: The [[Nika riots (nonfiction)|Nika riots]] in Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed. | File:Constantinople_imperial_district.png|link=Nika riots (nonfiction)|524: The [[Nika riots (nonfiction)|Nika riots]] in Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed. | ||
File:Kells genealogy of Christ.jpg|link=Uncial script (nonfiction)|525: New version of [[Uncial script (nonfiction)|Uncial script]] includes proto-[[scrying engine]] symbols. | |||
|File:Kells genealogy of Christ.jpg|link=Uncial script (nonfiction)|525: New version of [[Uncial script (nonfiction)|Uncial script]] includes proto-[[scrying engine]] symbols. | |||
File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|526: [[The Eel's henchmen]] report that [[The Uncials]] are selling blackmarket [[scrying engines]]. | File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|526: [[The Eel's henchmen]] report that [[The Uncials]] are selling blackmarket [[scrying engines]]. | ||
||Erhard Schmidt ( | |||
File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and | ||1845 – Félix Tisserand, French astronomer and academic (d. 1896) | ||
||1858 – Oskar Minkowski, Lithuanian-German biologist and academic (d. 1931) | |||
||1864 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928) | |||
||1866 – George Gurdjieff, Russian-French mystic and philosopher (d. 1949) | |||
||1870 – Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist and anatomist (d. 1959) | |||
File:Erhard Schmidt.jpg|link=Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|1876: Mathematician [[Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|Erhard Schmidt]] born. He will make important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory. | |||
File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] uses advances in process philosophy to compute and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1882 – Wilhelm Mauser, German engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mauser Company (b. 1834) | |||
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|1898: Émile Zola's ''J'accuse…!'' exposes the [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]]. | |||
File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1902: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] born. He will work on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences. | File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1902: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] born. He will work on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences. | ||
File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1906 Jan. 13: Physicist and academic [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] dies. He did pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomena; in Russia and some eastern European, he is acclaimed as the inventor of radio. | File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1906 Jan. 13: Physicist and academic [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] dies. He did pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomena; in Russia and some eastern European, he is acclaimed as the inventor of radio. | ||
||1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. | |||
File:Georg Hermann Quincke.jpg|link=Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|1924: Physicist and academic [[Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|Georg Hermann Quincke]] dies. He conducted prolonged research on the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius. | File:Georg Hermann Quincke.jpg|link=Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|1924: Physicist and academic [[Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|Georg Hermann Quincke]] dies. He conducted prolonged research on the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius. | ||
File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2009: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] volunteer hotline answer questions, calm fears about the number thirteen. | |||
||1934 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist and chemist (b. 1860) | |||
||1937 – Guy Dodson, New Zealand-English biochemist and academic (d. 2012) | |||
||1938 – Cabu, French cartoonist (d. 2015) | |||
||1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car. | |||
||1942 – World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter. | |||
||1946 – Ordal Demokan, Turkish physicist and academic (d. 2004) | |||
||1953 – An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership. | |||
||1963 – Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio | |||
||1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison | |||
||1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center. | |||
|File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2009: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] volunteer hotline answer questions, calm fears about the number thirteen. | |||
||2012 – Guido Dessauer, German physicist and engineer (b. 1915) | |||
||2013 – Chia-Chiao Lin, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1916) | |||
||2017 – Magic Alex, Greek electronics engineer (b. 1942) | |||
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Revision as of 11:11, 22 October 2017
524: The Nika riots in Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed.
526: The Eel's henchmen report that The Uncials are selling blackmarket scrying engines.
1876: Mathematician Erhard Schmidt born. He will make important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.
1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred North Whitehead uses advances in process philosophy to compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1898: Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
1902: Mathematician Karl Menger born. He will work on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.
1906 Jan. 13: Physicist and academic Alexander Stepanovich Popov dies. He did pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomena; in Russia and some eastern European, he is acclaimed as the inventor of radio.
1924: Physicist and academic Georg Hermann Quincke dies. He conducted prolonged research on the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.