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File:Ernst Schroeder.jpg|link=Ernst Schröder (nonfiction)|[[Ernst Schröder (nonfiction)|Ernst Schröder]] has insights into the work of [[Charles Sanders Peirce (nonfiction)|Charles Sanders Peirce]].
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File:Phosphorus.jpg|link=Exxageratorium|Sample of phosphorus, growing weary, [[Exaggeratorium|dreams of setting fire to itself]].
 
File:Slate.jpg|link=Slate (nonfiction)|[[Slate (nonfiction)|Slate]] is awake, ready for the chisel.
||1621: Ralph Agas dies ... surveyor and cartographer. No DOB. Pic: map.
File:Waking the Slate.jpg|link=The Waking of the Slate|[[The Waking of the Slate]] is louder than usual.
 
File:Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan.png|link=Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|1678: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist [[Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]] born. His observations and experiments will inspire the beginning of what
 
||1810: William George Armstrong born ... industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery. Pic.
 
||1817: Charles Adolphe Wurtz born ... chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds. Pic.
 
||1832: Rudolph Koenig born ... physicist and academic.  He was a pioneer of acoustical physics and engineering; his Koenig sound analyzer revolutionized musical and scientific worlds by demonstrated visually that musical notes and voices were in fact made up of simple sounds. Pic.
 
||1836: John Loudon McAdam dies ... engineer and inventor of "macadamisation", an effective and economical method of constructing roads. Pic.
 
||1864: Auguste Charlois born ... astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Auguste+Charlois
 
||1876: Willis Carrier dies ... engineer, invented air conditioning. Pic.
 
||1885: Thomas Andrews dies ... chemist and physicist ... did important work on phase transitions between gases and liquids.  Pic.
 
||1894: Norbert Wiener born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic.
 
||1896: Benjamin Apthorp Gould dies ... astronomer. He is noted for founding the ''Astronomical Journal'', discovering the Gould Belt, and for founding of the Argentine National Observatory and the Argentine National Weather Service. Pic.
 
||1898: Karl Ziegler born ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
File:Rear Admiral Deak Parsons.jpg|link=William Sterling Parsons (nonfiction)|1901: [[William Sterling Parsons (nonfiction)|American naval officer William Sterling "Deak" Parsons]] born. Parsons will serve as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
 
File:Harry Hinsley.jpg|link=Harry Hinsley (nonfiction)|1918: Historian and cryptanalyst [[Harry Hinsley (nonfiction)|Francis Harry Hinsley]] born. Hinsley will work at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and write widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the war.
 
||1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
 
||1922: Charles M. Schulz born ... cartoonist, created Peanuts. Pic.
 
||1926: John Browning dies ... weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company. Pic.
 
||Yash Pal born ... scientist, educator and educationist. He was known for his contributions to the study of cosmic rays, as well as for being an institution-builder. In his later years, he became one of India's leading science communicators. Pic.
 
||1933: Tony Verna born ... director and producer, invented instant replay. Pic.
 
||1942: ''Casablanca'', the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City
 
||1943: Raoul Bricard dies ... engineer and a mathematician. He is best known for his work in geometry, especially descriptive geometry and scissors congruence, and kinematics, especially mechanical linkages. Pic: Bricard octahedron. No pic online: https://www.google.com/search?q=raoul+bricard
 
||1965: In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1, on board.
 
||1977: An unidentified hijacker named Vrillon, claiming to be the representative of the "Ashtar Galactic Command", takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes, starting at 5:12 pm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Television_broadcast_interruption Pic: transmitter.
 
||1977: Ruth Moufang dies ... mathematician. Pic.
 
||1981: Max Euwe dies ... chess player, mathematician, and author. Pic.
 
||1983: Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
 
||1986: Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
 
||1990: The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
 
||1991: Ed Heinemann dies ... military aircraft designer for the Douglas Aircraft Company. Pic.
 
||1996: Paul Rand dies ... art director and graphic designer. Pic.
 
||1999: John L. Kelley dies ... mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis. Pic.
 
File:Fermentation.jpg|link=Fermentation|Signed first edition of '''''[[Fermentation]]''''' stolen from the Louvre in a daring broad-daylight robbery by criminal mathematical generated by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.
 
File:Mars_Science_Laboratory.jpg|link=Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|2011: The [[Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|Mars Science Laboratory]] launches to Mars with the ''Curiosity'' Rover.
 
||2012: Joseph Murray dies ... surgeon and soldier ... performed the first successful human kidney transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick on December 23, 1954. Murray shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with E. Donnall Thomas for their discoveries concerning "organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease."
 
||2014: Marvin Leonard Goldberger dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic.
 
||2015: Amir Aczel dies ... mathematician, historian, and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=amir+aczel
 
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