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||1845: Pierre René Jean Baptiste Henri Brocard born ... meteorologist and mathematician, in particular a geometer. His best-known achievement is the invention and discovery of the properties of the Brocard points, the Brocard circle, and the Brocard triangle, all bearing his name. Pic.
||1845: Pierre René Jean Baptiste Henri Brocard born ... meteorologist and mathematician, in particular a geometer. His best-known achievement is the invention and discovery of the properties of the Brocard points, the Brocard circle, and the Brocard triangle, all bearing his name. Pic.
File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1855: Mathematician, circus magician, and gentleman detective [[Jan Kochanowski]] uses [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Jacques Binet.jpg|link=Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|1856: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|Jacques Philippe Marie Binet]] dies. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.
File:Jacques Binet.jpg|link=Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|1856: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|Jacques Philippe Marie Binet]] dies. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.
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||1906: William Maurice "Doc" Ewing born ... geophysicist and oceanographer. Pic.
||1906: William Maurice "Doc" Ewing born ... geophysicist and oceanographer. Pic.
File:Stanisław Leśniewski.jpg|link=Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|1907: Mathematician, logician, and crime-fighter [[Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|Stanisław Leśniewski]] publishes his philosophy of three nested formal systems and their application to detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1910: Dorothy Hodgkin born ... biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1910: Dorothy Hodgkin born ... biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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||1920: Engineer and inventor Rudolph Vuilleumier dies. Vuilleumier is known for the Vuilleumier cycle, a thermodynamic cycle with applications in low-temperature cooling. No pics online.
||1920: Engineer and inventor Rudolph Vuilleumier dies. Vuilleumier is known for the Vuilleumier cycle, a thermodynamic cycle with applications in low-temperature cooling. No pics online.
|File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] uses proof that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant, to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1924: Alexander Esenin-Volpin born ... mathematician and poet. Pic search.
||1924: Alexander Esenin-Volpin born ... mathematician and poet. Pic search.
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||1926: The Italian-built airship ''Norge'' becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norge_(airship) Pic.
||1926: The Italian-built airship ''Norge'' becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norge_(airship) Pic.
File:Arthur Scherbius.jpg|link=Arthur Scherbius (nonfiction)|1929: Electrical engineer, inventor, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Arthur Scherbius (nonfiction)|Arthur Scherbius]] signs the [[APTO]] Accords, allowing his Enigma machine to be used for military purposes, while neutralizing their potential for use in [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1931: Alfred Lothar Wegener found dead of natural causes ... polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist. Pic.
||1931: Alfred Lothar Wegener found dead of natural causes ... polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist. Pic.
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||1942: World War II: The U.S. tanker SS ''Virginia'' is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507.
||1942: World War II: The U.S. tanker SS ''Virginia'' is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507.
File:Marguerite Perey.jpg|link=Marguerite Perey (nonfiction)|1956: Physicist and chemist [[Marguerite Perey (nonfiction)|Marguerite Perey]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions which use francium to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemical constants|crimes against lanthanum]].


||1965: The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
||1965: The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
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||2017: A ransomware attack attacks over 400 thousand computers worldwide, targeting computers of the UK'S National Health Services and Telefónica computers.
||2017: A ransomware attack attacks over 400 thousand computers worldwide, targeting computers of the UK'S National Health Services and Telefónica computers.


File:Pinwheel Diagram.jpg|link=Pinwheel Diagram (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Pinwheel Diagram (nonfiction)|Pinwheel Diagram]]'' sells for undisclosed amout in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 


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