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||120 – Vettius Valens, Greek astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer (d. 175)
||120: Vettius Valens born ... astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. No DOD. Search book cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=vettius+valens


||412 – Proclus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (d. 485)
||412: Proclus born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic search.


||1575 – Leiden University is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
||1575: Leiden University is founded, and given the motto ''Praesidium Libertatis''.


||1577 – Robert Burton, English priest, physician, and scholar (d. 1640)
||1577: Robert Burton born ... priest, physician, and scholar ... best known for the classic ''The Anatomy of Melancholy''.  Pic.


|File:Giulio Cesare Vanini.jpg|link=Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|1619: Physician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|Lucilio Vanini]] is put to death after being found guilty of atheism and blasphemy. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.
|File:Giulio Cesare Vanini.jpg|link=Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|1619: Physician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|Lucilio Vanini]] is put to death after being found guilty of atheism and blasphemy. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.


File:Daniel Bernoulli.jpg|link=Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1700: Mathematician and physicist [[Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Daniel Bernoulli]] born. He will be particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.
File:Daniel Bernoulli.jpg|link=Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1700: Mathematician and physicist [[Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Daniel Bernoulli]] born. Bernoulli will be particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.


||1777 – Bernard Courtois, French chemist and academic (d. 1838)
||1777: Bernard Courtois born ... chemist and academic ... first isolated iodine and morphine. Pic search.


||1825 – Henry Walter Bates, English geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1892) Mimicry
||1825: Henry Walter Bates born ... geographer, biologist, and explorer ... mimicry. Pic.


||1834 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (d. 1907)
||1825: Baptiste Jules Henri Jacques Giffard born ... engineer. In 1852 he invented the steam injector and the powered Giffard dirigible airship. Pic.


File:Moses Gomberg.jpg|link=Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|1866: Chemist [[Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|Moses Gomberg]] born. He  will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.
||1834: Dmitri Mendeleev born ... chemist and academic. Pic.


File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1867: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] develops self-awareness, invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Moses Gomberg.jpg|link=Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|1866: Chemist [[Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|Moses Gomberg]] born. Gomberg will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.


File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1879: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1879: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.


||1906 – Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer, invented Xerography (d. 1968)
||1888: Wilhelm Lenz born ... physicist, most notable for his invention of the Ising model and for his application of the Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector to the old quantum mechanical treatment of hydrogen-like atoms. Pic search.


||1907 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1854)
||1901: Walker Bleakney born ... physicist, one of inventors of mass spectrometers, and widely noted for his research in the fields of atomic physics, molecular physics, fluid dynamics,the ionization of gases, and blast waves. Pic.
 
||1906: Chester Carlson born ... physicist and lawyer, invented Xerography.
 
||1906: Isidor Pavlovich Natanson born ... mathematician known for contributions to real analysis and constructive function theory, in particular, for his textbooks on these subjects. Pic search.
 
||1907: Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom dies ... chemist and academic. Pic.


||1907: William Markowitz born ... astronomer, principally known for his work on the standardization of time. Pic: https://aas.org/obituaries/william-markowitz-1907-1998
||1907: William Markowitz born ... astronomer, principally known for his work on the standardization of time. Pic: https://aas.org/obituaries/william-markowitz-1907-1998


||1914 – Bill Finger, American author and screenwriter, co-created Batman (d. 1974)
||1909: Ralph Duncan James born ... was a Canadian mathematician working on number theory and mathematical analysis. Pic: https://cms.math.ca/Prizes/info/cj.html


||1915 – D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
||1914: Bill Finger born ... author and screenwriter, co-created Batman.


||Gaetano Fichera (b. 8 February 1922) was an Italian mathematician, working in mathematical analysis, linear elasticity, partial differential equations and several complex variables.  Pic.
||1915: D. W. Griffith's controversial film ''The Birth of a Nation'' premieres in Los Angeles.


||1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
||1922: Gaetano Fichera born ... mathematician, working in mathematical analysis, linear elasticity, partial differential equations and several complex variables.  Pic.


||1928 – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (b. 1857).
||1924: Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.


||Ennio De Giorgi (b. 8 February 1928) was an Italian mathematician, member of the House of Giorgi, who worked on partial differential equations and the foundations of mathematics. Pic.
||1928: Theodor Curtius dies ... chemist. Pic.


File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] found responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations.
||1928: Ennio De Giorgi born ... mathematician, member of the House of Giorgi, who worked on partial differential equations and the foundations of mathematics. Pic.


||Julius Wolff (d. 8 February 1945 in Bergen-Belsen) was a Dutch mathematician, known for the Denjoy–Wolff theorem and for his boundary version of the Schwarz lemma.
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] found not responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations. The so-called "carnivorous" digible (Dirigible horribilis) is in fact a grazing ruminant autonomous airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible.


||1945 -- Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111.
File:Emilie_Norton_Martin.jpg|link=Emilie Martin (nonfiction)|1936: Mathematician and academic [[Emilie Martin (nonfiction)|Emilie Martin]] dies. Martin researched primitive substitution groups of degree 15 and primitive substitution groups of degree 18.  


||Felix Hoffmann (d. 8 February 1946) was a German chemist notable for re-synthesizing diamorphine (independently from C.R. Alder Wright who synthesized it 23 years earlier), which was popularized under the Bayer trade name of "heroin".  
||1942: Fritz Todt dies ... engineer and politician ... German construction engineer, senior Nazi, who rose from "Inspector General for German Roadways" where he directed the construction of German Autobahnen (Reichsautobahnen) to Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition where he directed the entire war military economy. At the beginning of World War II he initiated what Hitler named Organisation Todt, a military engineering company, which supplied industry with forced labor and administered all constructions of concentration camps in the late phase of Nazi Germany.  Pic.


||1950 – The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
||1945: Julius Wolff dies ... mathematician, known for the Denjoy–Wolff theorem and for his boundary version of the Schwarz lemma. Pic.


File:John von Neumann.gif|link=John von Neumann (nonfiction)|1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist [[John von Neumann (nonfiction)|John von Neumann]] dies. He was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.  
||1945: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111.


||1957 – Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
||1946: Felix Hoffmann dies ... chemist notable for re-synthesizing diamorphine (independently from C.R. Alder Wright who synthesized it 23 years earlier), which was popularized under the Bayer trade name of "heroin". Pic.


||1960 – Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and engineer, designed the Red telephone box and Liverpool Cathedral (b. 1880)
||1950: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.


||1962 – Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
File:John von Neumann.gif|link=John von Neumann (nonfiction)|1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist [[John von Neumann (nonfiction)|John von Neumann]] dies. Von Neumann was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.  


||1968 – American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
||1957: Walther Bothe dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1971 – The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
||1960: Giles Gilbert Scott dies ... architect and engineer, designed the Red telephone box and Liverpool Cathedral.


||1974 – After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
||1962: Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.


||Fritz Zwicky (d. February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where he made many important contributions in theoretical and observational astronomy. In 1933, Zwicky was the first to use the virial theorem to infer the existence of unseen dark matter, describing it as "dunkle Materie".
||1968: American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.


||1975 – Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
||1969: Allende meteorite fall - largest carbonaceous chondrite ever found on Earth. Pic.


||1979 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
||1971: The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.


|File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|2012: The Eel receives [[The Eel's henchmen|news from informants]].
||1974: After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.


||2015 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (b. 1939)
||1974: Fritz Zwicky dies ... astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where he made many important contributions in theoretical and observational astronomy. In 1933, Zwicky was the first to use the virial theorem to infer the existence of unseen dark matter, describing it as "dunkle Materie". Pic.
 
||1975: Robert Robinson dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1990: Ernest William Titterton dies ... nuclear physicist. Pic.
 
||2008: Robert Jastrow dies ... astronomer and planetary physicist. He was a NASA scientist, popular author, and futurist. Pic search.
 
||2015: Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde dies ... physician and parapsychologist. She said that there was a secret exchange program between humans and aliens that was being deliberately suppressed by "powerful Western governments", particularly the United States. Pic.
 
||2017: Peter Mansfield dies ... physicist, Nobel laureate. Pic.


||2017 – Peter Mansfield, English physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1933)
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  • 1700: Mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli born. Bernoulli will be particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.

    1700: Mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli born. Bernoulli will be particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.

  • 1866: Chemist Moses Gomberg born. Gomberg will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.

    1866: Chemist Moses Gomberg born. Gomberg will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.

  • 1879: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.

    1879: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.

  • 1933: Carnivorous dirigibles found not responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations. The so-called "carnivorous" digible (Dirigible horribilis) is in fact a grazing ruminant autonomous airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible.

    1933: Carnivorous dirigibles found not responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations. The so-called "carnivorous" digible (Dirigible horribilis) is in fact a grazing ruminant autonomous airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible.

  • 1936: Mathematician and academic Emilie Martin dies. Martin researched primitive substitution groups of degree 15 and primitive substitution groups of degree 18.

    1936: Mathematician and academic Emilie Martin dies. Martin researched primitive substitution groups of degree 15 and primitive substitution groups of degree 18.

  • 1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist John von Neumann dies. Von Neumann was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.

    1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist John von Neumann dies. Von Neumann was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.

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