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File:Aleister Crowley.jpg|link=Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|1875: Magician and author [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]] born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist. | File:Aleister Crowley.jpg|link=Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|1875: Magician and author [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]] born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist. | ||
||1910: Malcolm Renfrew born ... chemist and academic. | ||1910: Malcolm Renfrew born ... chemist and academic ... polymers, Teflon. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=malcolm+renfrew+chemist | ||
||1914: Margaret E. Knight dies ... inventor. | ||1914: Margaret E. Knight dies ... inventor, flat-bottomed paper bag. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=margaret+e.+knight | ||
||1918: A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Cloquet, Minnesota. | ||1918: A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Cloquet, Minnesota. | ||
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||1928: An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston. | ||1928: An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston. | ||
||1931: Ole-Johan Dahl born ... computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula. | ||1931: Ole-Johan Dahl born ... computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ole-Johan+Dahl | ||
||1933: The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. | ||1933: The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. | ||
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||2013: George Herbig dies ... astronomer. He is perhaps best known for the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Herbig | ||2013: George Herbig dies ... astronomer. He is perhaps best known for the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Herbig | ||
File:Golden Spiral.jpg|link=Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|Golden Spiral]]'' reveals [[:File:Klondike Kittens.jpg|cartoon about cats that excrete gold]]. | File:Golden Spiral.jpg|link=Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|Golden Spiral]]'' reveals [[:File:Klondike Kittens.jpg|cartoon about cats that excrete gold]]. | ||
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322 BC: Athenian politician and orator Demosthenes takes his own life, to avoid being arrested by the agents of his enemies.
1667: Astronomer, lens-maker, and APTO field engineer Geminiano Montanari uses the variable brightness of Algol in the constellation of Perseus to detect and prevent crimes against astronomy.
1705: Priest, philosopher, and crime-fighter Nicolas Malebranche synthesizes the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, demonstrating the active role of crimes against mathematical constants in every aspect of the world.
1875: Magician and author Aleister Crowley born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.
1939: Physicist, academic, and APTO field engineer Walter Houser Brattain discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use the photo-effect at the free surface of a semiconductor to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Golden Spiral reveals cartoon about cats that excrete gold.
