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||AD 37 Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
||AD 37: Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.


||193 Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
||193: Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.


||1793 Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist (d. 1864) native americans
||1793: Henry Schoolcraft born ... geographer, geologist, and ethnologist ... native americans.


File:Nicolas_de_Condorcet.png|link=Marquis de Condorcet (nonfiction)|1794: Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist [[Marquis de Condorcet (nonfiction)|Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet]] dies. His ideas and writings were said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and rationalism, and remain influential to this day.
File:Nicolas_de_Condorcet.png|link=Marquis de Condorcet (nonfiction)|1794: Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist [[Marquis de Condorcet (nonfiction)|Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet]] dies. His ideas and writings were said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and rationalism, and remain influential to this day.


||1802 Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.
||1802: Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.


||Sears Cook Walker (b. March 28, 1805) was an American astronomer.
||1805: Sears Cook Walker born ... astronomer.


||1847 Gyula Farkas, Jewish-Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1930)
||1847: Gyula Farkas born ... mathematician and physicist.


||1874 Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1795) Peter Andreas Hansen (born December 8, 1795  Tønder, Schleswig, Denmark – died March 28, 1874 Gotha, Thuringia, Germany) was a Danish German astronomer.
||1874: Peter Andreas Hansen dies ... astronomer and mathematician.


||1892 Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968) blood brain  
||1892: Corneille Heymans born ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... blood brain  


||1910 Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
||1910: Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.


||1913 Kazuo Taoka, Japanese crime boss (d. 1981)
||1913: Kazuo Taoka born ... Japanese crime boss.


||1921 Harold Agnew, American physicist and academic (d. 2013)
||1921: Harold Agnew born ... physicist and academic.


||1923 Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (d. 2014)
||1923: Paul C. Donnelly born ... scientist and engineer.


File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1926: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1926: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Alexander Grothendieck.jpg|link=Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|1928: Mathematician and theorist [[Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|Alexander Grothendieck]] born. He will become the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.
File:Alexander Grothendieck.jpg|link=Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|1928: Mathematician and theorist [[Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|Alexander Grothendieck]] born. He will become the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.


||1933 The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.
||1933: The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.


||Sir Archibald Edward Garrod (d. 28 March 1936) was an English physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism. He also discovered alkaptonuria, understanding its inheritance. Pic.
||1936:  Archibald Edward Garrod dies ... physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism. He also discovered alkaptonuria, understanding its inheritance. Pic.


File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1943: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' nominated for Nobel Anti-Peace Prize.
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1943: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' nominated for Nobel Anti-Peace Prize.


||1946 Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut (d. 2014)
||1946: Wubbo Ockels born ... physicist and astronaut.


||1946 Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
||1946: Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.


||1969 Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
||1969: Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.


||1979 – A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
||1975: Barry Goldwater wrote to Shlomo Arnon: "The subject of UFOs has interested me for some long time. About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where the information has been stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret."


||1982 William Giauque, Canadian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
||1979: A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
 
||1982: William Giauque dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:George E P Box.jpg|link=George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|2013: Statistician and educator [[George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|George E. P. Box]] dies. He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
File:George E P Box.jpg|link=George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|2013: Statistician and educator [[George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|George E. P. Box]] dies. He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".


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