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||534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
||534 BC: Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.


||1553 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)
||1553: Prospero Alpini born ... physician and botanist.


|File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1569: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[scrying engine]] make improved astronomical observations.+
||1604: Francesco Barozzi dies ... mathematician, astronomer and humanist. Pic.


||Francesco Barozzi (d. 23 November 1604) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and humanist. Pic.
||1715: Pierre Charles Le Monnier born ... astronomer and author.
 
||1715 – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer and author (d. 1799)


File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)|1720: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)|Jean-André Lepaute]] born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.
File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)|1720: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)|Jean-André Lepaute]] born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.


||1820 born: Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884) is best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history.
||1820 Isaac Todhunter born ... mathematician and author ... best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history.


||Johann Elert Bode (d. 23 November 1826) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.
||1826: Johann Elert Bode dies ... astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.


File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|1836: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|1836: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg|link=Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|1837: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|Johannes Diderik van der Waals]] born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
File:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg|link=Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|1837: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|Johannes Diderik van der Waals]] born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.


||Thomas Henderson FRSE FRS FRAS (d. 23 November 1844) was a Scottish astronomer and mathematician noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, the first to determine the parallax of a fixed star
||1844: Thomas Henderson dies ... astronomer and mathematician noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, the first to determine the parallax of a fixed star


||Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (d. 23 November 1864) was a German-Russian astronomer and geodesist from the famous Struve family. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor.
||1864: Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve dies ... astronomer and geodesist from the famous Struve family. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor.


||Edgar Lee Hewett (b. November 23, 1865) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist whose focus was the Native American communities of New Mexico and the southwestern United States. He is best known for his role in gaining passage of the Antiquities Act, a pioneering piece of legislation for the conservation movement
||1865: Edgar Lee Hewett born ... archaeologist and anthropologist whose focus was the Native American communities of New Mexico and the southwestern United States. He is best known for his role in gaining passage of the Antiquities Act, a pioneering piece of legislation for the conservation movement


||1869 – Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942) wire recorder
||1869: Valdemar Poulsen born ... engineer ... wire recorder.


||Theodore Lyman (b. November 23, 1874) was a U.S. physicist and spectroscopist. He will make important studies in phenomena connected with diffraction gratings, on the wavelengths of vacuum ultraviolet light discovered by Victor Schumann and also on the properties of light of extremely short wavelength, on all of which he contributed valuable papers to the literature of physics in the proceedings of scientific societies. Pic.
||1874: Theodore Lyman born ... physicist and spectroscopist. He will make important studies in phenomena connected with diffraction gratings, on the wavelengths of vacuum ultraviolet light discovered by Victor Schumann and also on the properties of light of extremely short wavelength, on all of which he contributed valuable papers to the literature of physics in the proceedings of scientific societies. Pic.


||1882: born: Arnold Dresden was a Dutch-American mathematician in the first part of the twentieth century, known for his work in the calculus of variations and collegiate mathematics education. Pic.
||1882: born: Arnold Dresden was a Dutch-American mathematician in the first part of the twentieth century, known for his work in the calculus of variations and collegiate mathematics education. Pic.


||1887 – Henry Moseley, English physicist and chemist (d. 1915)
||1887: Henry Moseley born ... physicist and chemist.


||1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
||1889: The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.


||1897 – Karl Gebhardt, German physician and war criminal (d. 1948)
||1897: Karl Gebhardt born ... physician and war criminal.


||Otto Stolz (d. 23 November 1905) was an Austrian mathematician noted for his work on mathematical analysis and infinitesimals.
||1905: Otto Stolz born ... mathematician noted for his work on mathematical analysis and infinitesimals.


||1907 – Lars Leksell, Swedish physician and neurosurgeon (d. 1986) invented radiosurgery
||1907: Lars Leksell born ... physician and neurosurgeon ... invented radiosurgery


||1910 – Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862) telegraph
||1910: Hawley Harvey Crippen dies ... physician and murderer ... telegraph.


||Marshall Glecker Holloway (b. November 23, 1912) was an American physicist who worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory during and after World War II. He was its representative, and the deputy scientific director, at the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in July 1946. Holloway became the head of the Laboratory's W Division, responsible for new weapons development. In September 1952 he was charged with designing, building and testing a thermonuclear weapon, popularly known as a hydrogen bomb. This culminated in the Ivy Mike test in November of that year. Pic.
||1912: Marshall Glecker Holloway born ... physicist who worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory during and after World War II. He was its representative, and the deputy scientific director, at the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in July 1946. Holloway became the head of the Laboratory's W Division, responsible for new weapons development. In September 1952 he was charged with designing, building and testing a thermonuclear weapon, popularly known as a hydrogen bomb. This culminated in the Ivy Mike test in November of that year. Pic.


||Charles Bourseul (d. 23 November 1912) was a pioneer in development of the "make and break" telephone about 20 years before Bell made a practical telephone.
||1912: Charles Bourseul dies ... pioneer in development of the "make and break" telephone about 20 years before Bell made a practical telephone.


||1915 – Anne Burns, British aeronautical engineer and glider pilot (d. 2001)
||1915: Anne Burns born ... aeronautical engineer and glider pilot.


File:Edwin Hubble.jpg|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|1924: [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|Edwin Hubble]]'s discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
File:Edwin Hubble.jpg|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|1924: [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|Edwin Hubble]]'s discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.


||1935 – Vladislav Volkov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 1971)
||1935: Vladislav Volkov born ... engineer and astronaut.


||Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (d. 23 November 1937) was a polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist, and an early writer of science fiction.
||1937: Jagadish Chandra Bose dies ... polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist, and an early writer of science fiction.


||Stanisław Zaremba (d. 23 November 1942) was a Polish mathematician and engineer. His research in partial differential equations, applied mathematics and classical analysis, particularly on harmonic functions, gained him a wide recognition. Pic.
||1942: Stanisław Zaremba dies ... mathematician and engineer. His research in partial differential equations, applied mathematics and classical analysis, particularly on harmonic functions, gained him a wide recognition. Pic.


||Stanisław Saks (d. November 23, 1942) was a Polish mathematician and university tutor, a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics, known primarily for his membership in the Scottish Café circle, an extensive monograph on the theory of integrals, his works on measure theory and the Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem. Pic.
||1942: Stanisław Saks dies ... mathematician and university tutor, a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics, known primarily for his membership in the Scottish Café circle, an extensive monograph on the theory of integrals, his works on measure theory and the Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem. Pic.


||1953 – Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.
||1953: Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.


||1972 – The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket.
||1972: The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket.


||1981 – Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
||1981: Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.


||1992 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
||1992: The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.


||2006 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy and defector (b. 1962)
||2006: Alexander Litvinenko dies ... spy and defector.


||Jerzy Browkin (d. 23 November 2015) was a Polish mathematician, studying mainly algebraic number theory. He was a professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1994, together with Juliusz Brzeziński, he formulated the n-conjecture—a version of the abc conjecture involving n > 2 integers. Pic.
||2015: Jerzy Browkin dies ... mathematician, studying mainly algebraic number theory. He was a professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1994, together with Juliusz Brzeziński, he formulated the n-conjecture—a version of the abc conjecture involving n > 2 integers. Pic.


||2015 – Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.
||2015: Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.


Violet_Spiral_2.jpg|link=Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral 2]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment generates "at least four, perhaps as many as seven" previously unknown shades of the color [[Violet (nonfiction)]].
Violet_Spiral_2.jpg|link=Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral 2]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment generates "at least four, perhaps as many as seven" previously unknown shades of the color [[Violet (nonfiction)violet|]].


||Michel Marie Deza (d. 23 November 2016) was a Soviet and French mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. Pic.
||2016: Michel Marie Deza dies ... mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. Pic.


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  • 1720: Clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.

    1720: Clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.

  • 1836: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1836: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1837: Theoretical physicist and academic Johannes Diderik van der Waals born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.

    1837: Theoretical physicist and academic Johannes Diderik van der Waals born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.

  • 1924: Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

    1924: Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

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