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||AD 98: Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.
||AD 98: Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.


||1302: Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence.
||1302: Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence. Pic.


||1343: Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull ''Unigenitus'' to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this.
||1343: Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull ''Unigenitus'' to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this.
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||1596: Francis Drake dies ... captain and explorer.
||1596: Francis Drake dies ... captain and explorer.


||1687: Johann Balthasar Neumann born ... engineer and architect, designed Würzburg Residence and Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
||1687: Johann Balthasar Neumann born ... engineer and architect, designed Würzburg Residence and Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=johann+balthasar+neumann


||1731: Bartolomeo Cristofori dies ... instrument maker, invented the Piano.
||1731: Bartolomeo Cristofori dies ... instrument maker, invented the Piano.
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||1973: The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
||1973: The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
||1993: Nils Aall Barricelli dies ... mathematician. His computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution are considered pioneering in artificial life research.  Pic.


||1995: Raphael Mitchel Robinson dies ... mathematician. He will work on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Pic.
||1995: Raphael Mitchel Robinson dies ... mathematician. He will work on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Pic.
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File:Howard Zinn 2009.jpg|link=Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist [[Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|Howard Zinn]] dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
File:Howard Zinn 2009.jpg|link=Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist [[Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|Howard Zinn]] dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.


||2015: Charles Hard Townes dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||2015: Charles Hard Townes dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:Ringmaster-img075-1.jpg|link=Ringmaster (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Ringmaster (nonfiction)|Ringmaster]]'' declared Picture of the Day by citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
File:Ringmaster-img075-1.jpg|link=Ringmaster (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Ringmaster (nonfiction)|Ringmaster]]'' declared Picture of the Day by citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].

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  • 1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.

    1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.

  • 1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

    1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

  • 1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

    1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

  • János Bolyai.jpg

    1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

  • 1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.

    1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.

  • 1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Nikolai Luzin uses point-set topology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Nikolai Luzin uses point-set topology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.

    1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.

  • 1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to counteract the effects of crimes against poetry.

    1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to counteract the effects of crimes against poetry.

  • 2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

    2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

  • 2016: Ringmaster declared Picture of the Day by citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2016: Ringmaster declared Picture of the Day by citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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