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File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1800s)|1887: Famed gem detective and crystallographer [[Niles Cartouchian (1800s)|Niles Cartouchian]] uses Schumann resonances to communicate with fellow crime-fighter [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]]. | File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1800s)|1887: Famed gem detective and crystallographer [[Niles Cartouchian (1800s)|Niles Cartouchian]] uses Schumann resonances to communicate with fellow crime-fighter [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]]. | ||
File:Winfried Otto Schumann.jpg|link=Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|1888: Physicist [[Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|Winfried Otto Schumann]] born. He will predict the existence of | File:Winfried Otto Schumann.jpg|link=Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|1888: Physicist [[Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|Winfried Otto Schumann]] born. He will predict the existence of a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere, now known as Schumann resonances. | ||
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1889: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] radio technology to intercept communications between [[math criminals]], providing information which will lead to the capture of [[Baron Zersetzung]]. | File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1889: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] radio technology to intercept communications between [[math criminals]], providing information which will lead to the capture of [[Baron Zersetzung]]. |
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1570: Cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
1806: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill born. He will be one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.
1887: Famed gem detective and crystallographer Niles Cartouchian uses Schumann resonances to communicate with fellow crime-fighter Nikola Tesla.
1888: Physicist Winfried Otto Schumann born. He will predict the existence of a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere, now known as Schumann resonances.
1889: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla radio technology to intercept communications between math criminals, providing information which will lead to the capture of Baron Zersetzung.
1891: History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1932: Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
1946: Logician, mathematician, and crime-fighter Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo uses the well-ordering theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2015: Pyramid of the Sun voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.