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File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1752: Weaver and merchant [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] born. He will invent the [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]], an early type of programmable machine.
File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1752: Weaver and merchant [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] born. He will invent the [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]], an early type of programmable machine.


||Johann Rudolf Wolf (b. 7 July 1816) was a Swiss astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots.
||1816: Rudolf Wolf born ... astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots. Pic.
 
||1826: Charles Todd born ... worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1841–1847 and the Cambridge University observatory from 1847 to 1854. He then worked on telegraphy and undersea cables. Pic.
 
||1843: Camillo Golgi born ... physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||Sir Charles Todd (b. 7 July 1826) worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1841–1847 and the Cambridge University observatory from 1847 to 1854. He then worked on telegraphy and undersea cables. Pic.  
||1863: The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.


||1843 – Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
||1865: Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.


||1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
||1870: Lilian Vaughan Morgan born ... experimental biologist who made seminal contributions to the genetics of Drosophila melanogaster, which cemented its status as one of the most powerful model systems in biology. Pic.


||1865 – Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
||1905: Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin born ... mathematician ... an expert on fluid mechanics and abstract algebra. Pic search.


||1905 – Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, French mathematician (d. 1972)
||1906: William Feller born ... mathematician and academic ... probability. Pic search.


||1906 – William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1970)
||1907: László Tisza born ... physicist and academic ... initiated the two-fluid theory of liquid helium. Pic.


||1907 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (d. 1988)
||1907: Robert A. Heinlein born ... science fiction writer and screenwriter. Pic.


||Robert Alden Cornog (b. July 7, 1912), was a physicist and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb and missile systems from the Snark to the Minuteman. Pic.
||1912: Robert Alden Cornog born ... physicist and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb and missile systems from the Snark to the Minuteman. Pic.


||Magnus Gustaf (Gösta) Mittag-Leffler (d. 7 July 1927) was a Swedish mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions, which today is called complex analysis. Pic.
||2013: Chia-Chiao Lin dies ... mathematician and academic ... made contributions to the theory of hydrodynamic stability, turbulent flow, mathematics, and astrophysics. Pic search.


||1930 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (b. 1859)
||1918: George Mary Searle dies ... astronomer and Catholic priest. Pic.


||1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
||1927: Magnus Gustaf (Gösta) Mittag-Leffler dies ... mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions, which today is called complex analysis. Pic.


||Egbert Valentin Brieskorn (b. 7 July 1936) was a German mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution. Pic.
||1930: Arthur Conan Doyle dies ... writer. Pic.


||1937 – The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
||1930: Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). Pic.


||1941 – The American occupation of Iceland replaces the British occupation.
||1936: Egbert Valentin Brieskorn born ... mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution. Pic.
 
||1937: The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
 
||1941: The American occupation of Iceland replaces the British occupation. "Britain persuaded the Althing to approve an American occupation force, and TF 19 anchored off Reykjavík that evening." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Iceland#United_States_occupation Pic, footage (1941).


File:Bernoulli_wappen.png|link=Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|1945: Advances in [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|dynastic cellular automata theory]] reveal new members of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]].
File:Bernoulli_wappen.png|link=Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|1945: Advances in [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|dynastic cellular automata theory]] reveal new members of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]].
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File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1946: Aviator [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1946: Aviator [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.


File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1947: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] announces plan to sell shares in the career of Joseph McCarthy, calls it "a new day in political campaigning."
||1959: Ben Linder born ... engineer and activist ... Linder will be killed by Contras. Pic.
 
||1959: Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
 
||1975: William Vallance Douglas Hodge dies ... mathematician, specifically a geometer. His discovery of far-reaching topological relations between algebraic geometry and differential geometry—an area now called Hodge theory and pertaining more generally to Kähler manifolds—has been a major influence on subsequent work in geometry. Pic search.


||1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
||1997: Raghu Raj Bahadur dies ... statistician considered by peers to be "one of the architects of the modern theory of mathematical statistics". Pic.


||Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge FRS FRSE (d. 7 July 1975) was a British mathematician, specifically a geometer. His discovery of far-reaching topological relations between algebraic geometry and differential geometry—an area now called Hodge theory and pertaining more generally to Kähler manifolds—has been a major influence on subsequent work in geometry.
||1982: Raymond Louis Wilder dies ... mathematician, who specialized in topology and gradually acquired philosophical and anthropological interests. Pic.


||Raghu Raj Bahadur (d. 7 July 1997) was an Indian statistician considered by peers to be "one of the architects of the modern theory of mathematical statistics". Pic.
||1983: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle dies ... mathematician specializing in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name. Pic search yes.


||Raymond Louis Wilder (d. 7 July 1982) was an American mathematician, who specialized in topology and gradually acquired philosophical and anthropological interests. Pic.
||1983: Herman Kahn dies ... founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century ... founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation. He became known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability, making him one of three historical inspirations for the title character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove. Pic.


||Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle (died 7 July 1983) was an American mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name.
||1984: Richard E. Bellman dies ... applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics. Pic.


||Herman Kahn (d. July 7, 1983) was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 – July 7, 1983) was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation. He became known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability, making him one of three historical inspirations for the title character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove.
||1985: John Scarne dies ... magician and author. Pic (cool).


||Richard Ernest Bellman (d. March 19, 1984) was an American applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics.
||2003: NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.


||2003 – NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
||2017: Marina Ratner dies ... professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who worked in ergodic theory. She proved a group of major theorems concerning unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces, known as Ratner's theorems. Pic.


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