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File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1843: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on his study of the optical effects of color.  He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1843: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on his study of the optical effects of color.  He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1848: Margaret Lindsay Huggins born ... astronomer and author.
||1848: Margaret Lindsay Huggins born ... astronomer and author. With her husband William Huggins she was a pioneer in the field of spectroscopy and co-authored the Atlas of Representative Stellar Spectra (1899). Pic.


|link=W. W. Rouse Ball (nonfiction)|Walter William Rouse Ball, known as W. W. Rouse Ball (b. 14 August 1850), was a British mathematician, lawyer, and fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1878 to 1905. He was also a keen amateur magician, and the founding president of the Cambridge Pentacle Club in 1919, one of the world's oldest magic societies.
|link=W. W. Rouse Ball (nonfiction)|Walter William Rouse Ball, known as W. W. Rouse Ball (b. 14 August 1850), was a British mathematician, lawyer, and fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1878 to 1905. He was also a keen amateur magician, and the founding president of the Cambridge Pentacle Club in 1919, one of the world's oldest magic societies.
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||1935: Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
||1935: Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.


||1941: Paul Sabatier dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1941: Paul Sabatier dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1941: World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
||1941: World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.

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  • 1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian Paolo Sarpi born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.

    1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian Paolo Sarpi born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.

  • 1738: Mathematician, geophysicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pierre Bouguer uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against geology.

    1738: Mathematician, geophysicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pierre Bouguer uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against geology.

  • 1777: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.

    1777: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.

  • 1843: Artist Eugène Delacroix publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on his study of the optical effects of color. He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related crimes against mathematical constants.

    1843: Artist Eugène Delacroix publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on his study of the optical effects of color. He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1888: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird born. He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.

    1888: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird born. He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.

  • 1889: Signed first edition of The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity benefit auction in Periphery.

    1889: Signed first edition of The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity benefit auction in Periphery.

  • 1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley dies. He designed and manufactured precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.

    1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley dies. He designed and manufactured precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.

  • 1910: "The Safe-Cracker does not show me committing a math crime," says art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it."

    1910: "The Safe-Cracker does not show me committing a math crime," says art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it."

  • 2014: Scientists announce the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the Stardust capsule, which returned to Earth in 2006.

    2014: Scientists announce the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the Stardust capsule, which returned to Earth in 2006.

  • 2018: Chromatographic analysis of Green Tangle 4 reveals "five, possibly six" previously unknown shades of green.

    2018: Chromatographic analysis of Green Tangle 4 reveals "five, possibly six" previously unknown shades of green.

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