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File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1773: The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]]. | File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1773: The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]]. | ||
File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|1774: [[The Custodian]] prevents the Whirlpool Galaxy Gang from committing | File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|1774: [[The Custodian]] prevents the Whirlpool Galaxy Gang from committing [[crimes against astronomical constants]], citing the gang's "expired transdimensional corporate license." | ||
||1820: John William Dawson born ... geologist and academic. | ||1820: John William Dawson born ... geologist and academic. | ||
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1597: Astronomer Johannes Kepler replied to Galileo's letter of 4 August, 1597, urging him to be bold and proceed openly in his advocacy of Copernicanism.
1687: Astronomer, lens-maker, and academic Geminiano Montanari dies. He made the observation that Algol in the constellation of Perseus varies in brightness.
1688: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Christiaan Huygens statistical analysis and games of chance to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1715: Priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche dies. He was instrumental in introducing and disseminating the work of René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in France.
1772: Using the San Pietro scrying engine, astronomer Charles Messier previews his discovery of a "galactic whirlpool" with a temporal accuracy of "within a year".
1773: The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
1774: The Custodian prevents the Whirlpool Galaxy Gang from committing crimes against astronomical constants, citing the gang's "expired transdimensional corporate license."
1890: Mathematician Georg Feigl born. He will work on the foundations of geometry and topology, studying fixed point theorems for n-dimensional manifolds. Feigl will be one of the initial authors of the Mathematisches Wörterbuch.
1989: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, experiences irrational fear of the number thirteen.
2018: Signed first edition of Red Spiral 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.