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||1914: Bernard Vonnegut born ... atmospheric scientist credited with discovering that silver iodide could be used effectively in cloud seeding to produce snow and rain. He was the older brother of American novelist Kurt Vonnegut. Pic: http://www.atmos.albany.edu/daes/bvonn/bvonnegut.html | ||1914: Bernard Vonnegut born ... atmospheric scientist credited with discovering that silver iodide could be used effectively in cloud seeding to produce snow and rain. He was the older brother of American novelist Kurt Vonnegut. Pic: http://www.atmos.albany.edu/daes/bvonn/bvonnegut.html | ||
||1915: US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident. | File:USS_F-4_1915.jpg|link=USS F-4 (nonfiction)|1915: US Navy salvage divers raise [[USS F-4 (nonfiction)|USS F-4]], the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident. | ||
File:J_J_Thomson.jpg|link=J. J. Thomson (nonfiction)|1929: Physicist, academic, and criminologist [[J. J. Thomson (nonfiction)|J. J. Thomson]] discovers the first evidence that isotopes the stable element neon are vulnerable to [[crimes against physical constants]]. | File:J_J_Thomson.jpg|link=J. J. Thomson (nonfiction)|1929: Physicist, academic, and criminologist [[J. J. Thomson (nonfiction)|J. J. Thomson]] discovers the first evidence that isotopes the stable element neon are vulnerable to [[crimes against physical constants]]. | ||
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1651: Scientist, inventor, and crime-fighter Christopher Polhem demonstrates water-powered automaton which detects and prevents crimes against geology.
1780: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres born. He will assume the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sinks during a test run, killing five members of her crew.
1915: US Navy salvage divers raise USS F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
1929: Physicist, academic, and criminologist J. J. Thomson discovers the first evidence that isotopes the stable element neon are vulnerable to crimes against physical constants.
2012: Mathematician and academic Shoshichi Kobayashi dies. He worked on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.
2017: Concentrated sample of carbon-14 accidentally exposed to unfiltered Extract of Radium, causing a wave of crimes against mathematical constants.