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||AD 41 – Britannicus, Roman son of Claudius (d. 55)
||AD 41: Britannicus, Roman son of Claudius, born.


||1538 – Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, engraver, and architect (b. 1480)
||1538: Albrecht Altdorfer dies ... painter, engraver, and architect.


||1612 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartographer (b. 1563)
||1612: Jodocus Hondius dies ... cartographer.


||1624 – George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist, founded George Heriot's School (b. 1563)
||1624: George Heriot dies ... goldsmith and philanthropist, founded George Heriot's School.


||1665 – Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (d. 1721)
||1665: Rudolf Jakob Camerarius born ... botanist and physician.


File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1767: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent a cross-linked set of crimes against [[Crimes against physical constants|physics]], [[Crimes against astronomical constants|astronomy]], and [[Crimes against mathematical constants|mathematics]].
File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1767: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent a cross-linked set of crimes against [[Crimes against physical constants|physics]], [[Crimes against astronomical constants|astronomy]], and [[Crimes against mathematical constants|mathematics]].


||1785 – Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemist (d. 1838)
||1785: Pierre Louis Dulong born ... physicist and chemist.


||1788 – Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (d. 1869)
||1788: Carl Reichenbach born ... chemist and philosopher.


||1794 – Alexander Petrov, Russian chess player and composer (d. 1867)
||1794: Alexander Petrov born ... chess player and composer.


||1804 – Immanuel Kant, German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1724)
||1804: Immanuel Kant dies ... anthropologist, philosopher, and academic.


||1804 – Heinrich Lenz, German-Italian physicist and academic (d. 1865)
||1804: Heinrich Lenz born ... physicist and academic.


||1809 – Charles Darwin, English geologist and theorist (d. 1882)
||1809: Charles Darwin born ... geologist and theorist.


||James Dwight Dana FRS FRSE (b. February 12, 1813) was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans around the world. Pic.
||1813: James Dwight Dana born ... geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans around the world. Pic.


||1851 – Edward Hargraves announces he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rushes.
||1841: Astley Paston Cooper, 1st Baronet dies ... surgeon and anatomist, who made historical contributions to otology, vascular surgery, the anatomy and pathology of the mammary glands and testicles, and the pathology and surgery of hernia.


||1861 – Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-German psychoanalyst and author (d. 1937)
||1851: Edward Hargraves announces he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rushes.


||1877 – Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded Renault (d. 1944)
||1861: Lou Andreas-Salomé born ... psychoanalyst and author.


||Max Bergmann (b. 12 February 1886) was a Jewish-German biochemist. He was the first to use the Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides.
||1877: Louis Renault born ... engineer and businessman, co-founded Renault.


||Enrico Bompiani (b. 12 February 1889) was an Italian mathematician, specializing in differential geometry.
||1886: Max Bergmann born ... biochemist. He was the first to use the Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides.


||Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert (b. 12 February 1893) was a Dutch astronomer of Belgian origin. He will be a pioneer of solar research, specializing in spectroscopy and the study of stellar atmospheres. Minnaert was also interested in bubbles and musical nature of the sounds made by running water (see Minnaert resonance).  Pic.
||1889: Enrico Bompiani born ... mathematician, specializing in differential geometry.


||1897 – Lincoln LaPaz, American astronomer and academic (d. 1985)
||1893: Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert born ... astronomer of Belgian origin. He will be a pioneer of solar research, specializing in spectroscopy and the study of stellar atmospheres. Minnaert was also interested in bubbles and musical nature of the sounds made by running water (see Minnaert resonance).  Pic.


||1908 – Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (d. 1982)
||1897: Lincoln LaPaz born ... astronomer and academic.


||1908 – Jacques Herbrand, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1931)
||1908: Jean Effel born ... painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist.
 
||1908: Jacques Herbrand born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic.


File:Richard Dedekind.jpg|link=Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|Richard Dedekind]] dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
File:Richard Dedekind.jpg|link=Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|Richard Dedekind]] dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.


||1918 – Julian Schwinger, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994) Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was a Nobel Prize winning American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order.  
||1918: Julian Schwinger, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate born ... best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order.  


||1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
||1935: USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.


File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1946: [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the [[Tunguska event (nonfiction)|original event]].
File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1946: [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the [[Tunguska event (nonfiction)|original event]].


||1946 – World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
||1946: World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.


||1947 – Moses Gomberg, Ukrainian-American chemist and academic (b. 1866)
||1947: Moses Gomberg dies ... chemist and academic.


||1947 – The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
||1947: The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.


File:Moses Gomberg.jpg|link=Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|1947: Chemist [[Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|Moses Gomberg]] dies. He  identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.
File:Moses Gomberg.jpg|link=Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|1947: Chemist [[Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|Moses Gomberg]] dies. He  identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.


||Dirk Coster (d. February 12, 1950), was a Dutch physicist.
||1950: Dirk Coster dies ... physicist.


||1958 – Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1897)
||1958: Douglas Hartree dies ... mathematician and physicist.


File:Skip Digits.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1959: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged criminal mastermind [[Skip Digits]] uses [[high-energy literature]] techniques to record his hit song "[[Clepsydra]]".  
File:Skip Digits.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1959: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged criminal mastermind [[Skip Digits]] uses [[high-energy literature]] techniques to record his hit song "[[Clepsydra]]".  
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File:Venera 1.jpg|link=Venera 1 (nonfiction)|1961: Spacecraft [[Venera 1 (nonfiction)|Venera 1]] launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).
File:Venera 1.jpg|link=Venera 1 (nonfiction)|1961: Spacecraft [[Venera 1 (nonfiction)|Venera 1]] launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).


||1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
||1974: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.


||Ebenezer Cunningham (d. 12 February 1977) was a British mathematician who is remembered for his research and exposition at the dawn of special relativity.
||1977: Ebenezer Cunningham dies ... mathematician who is remembered for his research and exposition at the dawn of special relativity.


||Carl Einar Hille (12 February 1980) was an American mathematics professor and scholar. Hille authored or coauthored twelve books mathematical books and a number of mathematical papers  
||1980: Carl Einar Hille dies ... mathematics professor and scholar. Hille authored or coauthored twelve books mathematical books and a number of mathematical papers  


File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|1983: [[High-energy literature]] research project accidentally releases new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|1983: [[High-energy literature]] research project accidentally releases new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Charles Critchfield ID badge.gif|link=Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|1994: Mathematical physicist [[Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|Charles Critchfield]] dies. He worked on the Manhattan Project, designing and testing the "Urchin" neutron initiator which provided the burst of neutrons that kick-started the nuclear detonation of the Fat Man weapon.
File:Charles Critchfield ID badge.gif|link=Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|1994: Mathematical physicist [[Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|Charles Critchfield]] dies. He worked on the Manhattan Project, designing and testing the "Urchin" neutron initiator which provided the burst of neutrons that kick-started the nuclear detonation of the Fat Man weapon.


||1994 – Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
||1994: Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting ''The Scream''.


||2000 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist, created Peanuts (b. 1922)
||2000: Charles M. Schulz dies ... cartoonist, created Peanuts.


||Herbert Ellis Robbins (d. February 12, 2001) was an American mathematician and statistician. He did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a variety of other fields. The Robbins lemma, used in empirical Bayes methods, is named after him. Robbins algebras are named after him because of a conjecture (since proved) that he posed concerning Boolean algebras. The Robbins theorem, in graph theory, is also named after him, as is the Whitney–Robbins synthesis, a tool he introduced to prove this theorem.  Pic.
||2001: Herbert Ellis Robbins dies ... mathematician and statistician. He did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a variety of other fields. The Robbins lemma, used in empirical Bayes methods, is named after him. Robbins algebras are named after him because of a conjecture (since proved) that he posed concerning Boolean algebras. The Robbins theorem, in graph theory, is also named after him, as is the Whitney–Robbins synthesis, a tool he introduced to prove this theorem.  Pic.


||2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
||2001: NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.


File:Green Tangle.jpg|link=Green Tangle (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Green Tangle (nonfiction)|Green Tangle]]'' reveals "at least three terabytes" of encrypted data "probably related to [[high-energy literature]]."
File:Green Tangle.jpg|link=Green Tangle (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Green Tangle (nonfiction)|Green Tangle]]'' reveals "at least three terabytes" of encrypted data "probably related to [[high-energy literature]]."


||2017 – Ren Xinmin, Chinese rocket scientist (b. 1915)
||2017: Ren Xinmin dies ... rocket scientist.
 
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  • 1767: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent a cross-linked set of crimes against physics, astronomy, and mathematics.

    1767: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent a cross-linked set of crimes against physics, astronomy, and mathematics.

  • 1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.

    1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.

  • 1946: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the original event.

    1946: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the original event.

  • 1947: Chemist Moses Gomberg dies. He identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.

    1947: Chemist Moses Gomberg dies. He identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.

  • 1959: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged criminal mastermind Skip Digits uses high-energy literature techniques to record his hit song "Clepsydra".

    1959: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged criminal mastermind Skip Digits uses high-energy literature techniques to record his hit song "Clepsydra".

  • 1960: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson dies. He made important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.

    1960: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson dies. He made important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.

  • 1961: Spacecraft Venera 1 launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).

    1961: Spacecraft Venera 1 launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).

  • 1983: High-energy literature research project accidentally releases new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1983: High-energy literature research project accidentally releases new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • Charles Critchfield ID badge.gif

    1994: Mathematical physicist Charles Critchfield dies. He worked on the Manhattan Project, designing and testing the "Urchin" neutron initiator which provided the burst of neutrons that kick-started the nuclear detonation of the Fat Man weapon.

  • 2016: Steganographic analysis of Green Tangle reveals "at least three terabytes" of encrypted data "probably related to high-energy literature."

    2016: Steganographic analysis of Green Tangle reveals "at least three terabytes" of encrypted data "probably related to high-energy literature."

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