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File:Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright.jpg|link=Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|1998: Mathematician and academic [[Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|Mary Cartwright]] dies. She did pioneering work in [[Chaos theory (nonfiction)|chaos theory]].
File:Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright.jpg|link=Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|1998: Mathematician and academic [[Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|Mary Cartwright]] dies. She did pioneering work in [[Chaos theory (nonfiction)|chaos theory]].
File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|2000: [[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts.


||2012: Mingote dies ... cartoonist and journalist. Pic.
||2012: Mingote dies ... cartoonist and journalist. Pic.
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||2016: The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
||2016: The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.


File:Crimson Blossom.jpg|link=Crimson Blossom (nonfiction)|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Crimson Blossom (nonfiction)|Crimson Blossom]]'' spontaneously develop and previously unknown shade of [[Red (nonfiction)|red]] after exposure to Cherenkov radiation during a [[high-energy literature]] experiment.
File:Crimson Blossom.jpg|link=Crimson Blossom (nonfiction)|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Crimson Blossom (nonfiction)|Crimson Blossom]]'' unexpected emits a previously unknown shade of [[Red (nonfiction)|red]] during a routine [[high-energy literature]] review.


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  • 1693: Carpenter and clockmaker John Harrison born. He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.

    1693: Carpenter and clockmaker John Harrison born. He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.

  • 1718: Mathematician Jacques Ozanam dies. Ozanam's Récréations mathématiques et physiques (1694) was later translated into English and is well known today.

    1718: Mathematician Jacques Ozanam dies. Ozanam's Récréations mathématiques et physiques (1694) was later translated into English and is well known today.

  • 1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.

    1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.

  • 1907: Cryptanalyst and mathematician Solomon Kullback born. Krullback will begin his career with the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s; when the National Security Agency (NSA) is formed in 1952, Rowlett will become chief of cryptanalysis, overseeing the research and development of computerized cryptanalysis.

    1907: Cryptanalyst and mathematician Solomon Kullback born. Krullback will begin his career with the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s; when the National Security Agency (NSA) is formed in 1952, Rowlett will become chief of cryptanalysis, overseeing the research and development of computerized cryptanalysis.

  • 1908: Chemist, physicist, and APTO field engineer William Crookes uses the famous Crookes tube to defeat the criminal mathematical function Killer Poke in single combat.

    1908: Chemist, physicist, and APTO field engineer William Crookes uses the famous Crookes tube to defeat the criminal mathematical function Killer Poke in single combat.

  • 1995: Mathematician and checkers player Marion Tinsley dies. Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music."

    1995: Mathematician and checkers player Marion Tinsley dies. Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music."

  • 1998: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright dies. She did pioneering work in chaos theory.

    1998: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright dies. She did pioneering work in chaos theory.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Crimson Blossom unexpected emits a previously unknown shade of red during a routine high-energy literature review.

    2017: Signed first edition of Crimson Blossom unexpected emits a previously unknown shade of red during a routine high-energy literature review.

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