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1703: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1839: Birth of Ivan Goremykin heralds new age of Extreme Moustaches.
1895: While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1974: Green Ring tells Dick Cavett a funny story about Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography.

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 ||1861 – American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
+File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1895: While experimenting with electricity, [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] discovers the X-ray.
 File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring|1974: [[Green Ring]] tells [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] a funny story about ''[[Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography (nonfiction)|Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography]]''.
-File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1895: While experimenting with electricity, [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] discovers the X-ray.
 |File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1900: "[[Crimes against mathematical constants]] are on the rise," warns Lord Kelvin.