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||1504 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.
||1504: Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.


File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1522: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] uses [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]] to predict the birth of [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]].
||1600: Caspar Hennenberger dies pastor, historian and cartographer.


||1600 – Caspar Hennenberger, German pastor, historian and cartographer (b. 1529)
||1744: John Theophilus Desaguliers dies ... natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton. Pic.


||John Theophilus Desaguliers (d. 1744) was a French-born British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton.
||1764: Paul Erman born ... physicist and academic ... His work was mainly concerned with electricity and magnetism, though he also made some contributions to optics and physiology. Pic.


File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1860: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] born. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.
File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1860: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] born. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.


||1928 – Seymour Papert, South African mathematician and computer scientist, co-created the Logo programming language (d. 2016)
||1928: Seymour Papert born ... mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, who spent most of his career teaching and researching at MIT. He was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and of the constructionist movement in education. He was a co-inventor of the Logo programming language. Pic.


||1932 – Gene H. Golub, American mathematician and academic - Gene Howard Golub (b. February 29, 1932), Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science (and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering) at Stanford University, was one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation.
||1932: Gene H. Golub born ... mathematician and academic ... one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation. Pic.
 
||1932: Giuseppe Vitali dies ... mathematician who worked in several branches of mathematical analysis. He gives his name to several entities in mathematics, most notably the Vitali set with which he was the first to give an example of a non-measurable subset of real numbers. Pic.


|link=Ernest Lawrence (nonfiction)|1940: In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist [[Ernest Lawrence (nonfiction)|Ernest Lawrence]] receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.
|link=Ernest Lawrence (nonfiction)|1940: In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist [[Ernest Lawrence (nonfiction)|Ernest Lawrence]] receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.


File:Hellschreiber.jpg|link=Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|1964: [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber]] teleprinter system used to publish new biography of [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]].
||1903: Melvin Purvis takes his own life ... FBI agent. Pic.
 
||1972: Vietnam War: Vietnamization: South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam.


||1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam.
||2009: Andrew Donald Booth dies ... electrical engineer, physicist and computer scientist who was an early developer of the magnetic drum memory for computers and invented Booth's multiplication algorithm. Pic: https://www.i-programmer.info/history/people/1253-andrew-booth.html


|File:Vereinigte_Ostindische_Compagnie_bond.jpg|link=transdimensional corporation|2016: Bond, issued by Dutch East India Company in 1623, converted to [[transdimensional corporation]].
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  • 1860: Inventor Herman Hollerith born. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.

    1860: Inventor Herman Hollerith born. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.

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