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||2007: United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base. | ||2007: United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base. | ||
File:Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research.jpg|link=Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|2011: Cryptographic analysis of ''[[Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research]]'' reveals five terabytes of previously unknown encrypted data. | ||File:Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research.jpg|link=Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|2011: Cryptographic analysis of ''[[Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research]]'' reveals five terabytes of previously unknown encrypted data. | ||
File:Shoshichi Kobayashi.jpg|link=Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|2012: Mathematician and academic [[Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|Shoshichi Kobayashi]] dies. He worked on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras. | File:Shoshichi Kobayashi.jpg|link=Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|2012: Mathematician and academic [[Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|Shoshichi Kobayashi]] dies. He worked on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras. | ||
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1651: Scientist, inventor, and crime-fighter Christopher Polhem demonstrates water-powered automaton which detects and prevents crimes against geology.
1780: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres born. He will assume the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sinks during a test run, killing five members of her crew.
1929: Physicist, academic, and criminologist J. J. Thomson discovers the first evidence that isotopes the stable element neon are vulnerable to crimes against physical constants.
Alpha, and the Wolfram Language.
2012: Mathematician and academic Shoshichi Kobayashi dies. He worked on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.
2017: Concentrated sample of carbon-14 accidentally exposed to unfiltered Extract of Radium, causing a wave of crimes against mathematical constants.