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||2013: Hans Hass dies ... biologist and underwater diving pioneer. He was known mainly for being among the first scientists to popularise coral reefs, stingrays and sharks. He pioneered the making of documentaries filmed underwater. Pic.
||2013: Hans Hass dies ... biologist and underwater diving pioneer. He was known mainly for being among the first scientists to popularise coral reefs, stingrays and sharks. He pioneered the making of documentaries filmed underwater. Pic.
File:Do_Not_Tease_Monster_by_Karl_Jones_800x600.jpg|link=Do Not Tease Monster (nonfiction)|2017: The monster depicted in ''[[Do Not Tease Monster]]'' is voted Monster of the Year in a survey of 3200 [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]].
File:Electrical Storm.jpg|link=Electrical Storm (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Electrical Storm (nonfiction)|Electrical Storm]]'' unexpectedly reveals "five hundred to seven hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.


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  • 1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo born. He will write Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.

    1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo born. He will write Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.

  • 1640: Mathematician Jacques Ozanam born. Ozanam's Récréations mathématiques et physiques (1694) will later be translated into English and remain popular into the modern era.

    1640: Mathematician Jacques Ozanam born. Ozanam's Récréations mathématiques et physiques (1694) will later be translated into English and remain popular into the modern era.

  • 1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor Edward Davy born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.

    1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor Edward Davy born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.

  • 1839: Mathematician Julius Petersen born. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.

    1839: Mathematician Julius Petersen born. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.

  • 1915: Mathematician and academic John Tukey born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.

    1915: Mathematician and academic John Tukey born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.

  • 1971: Talk show host Peter Giblets is arrested for smoking cannabis while filming an episode of The Peter Giblets Hour before a live studio audience.

    1971: Talk show host Peter Giblets is arrested for smoking cannabis while filming an episode of The Peter Giblets Hour before a live studio audience.

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