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498 BC: Dionysus gives speech which anticipates the coming of Saturnalia.
497 BC: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome.
1706: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet born. She will translate and comment upon on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.
1842: Mathematician and academic Marius Sophus Lie born. He will largely create the theory of continuous symmetry and apply it to the study of geometry and differential equations.
1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn devotes himself to fighting crimes against mathematical constants.
1900: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright born. She will do pioneering work in what will later be called chaos theory.
1907: Lord Kelvin dies. He did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1938: Physicist Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
1963: Physicist and crime-fighter Nathan Rosen discovers a new form of Einstein–Rosen bridge which detects and prevents crimes against physical constants.
2016: Green Ring 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.
-||1999: Jürgen Kurt Moser dies ... mathematician, honored for work spanning over 4 decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations.
+||1999: Jürgen Kurt Moser dies ... mathematician, honored for work spanning over 4 decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations. Pic.
 ||2003: SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight.