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||1803: Nicolas Baudin dies ... explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer. Pic.
||1803: Nicolas Baudin dies ... explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer. Pic.
File:Orcagna scrying engine.jpg|link=Orcagna scrying engine|1838: The [[Orcagna scrying engine]], under contract to the [[House of Malevecchio]], downloads [[Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (nonfiction)|Abū Sahl al-Qūhī]]'s [[Perfect Compass]] protocol. [[House of Malevecchio|Malevecchio]] will attempt to monopolize the protocol, but five years later the French will announce ''Compas Parfait''; within fifty years, all of Christendom will have similar systems.


||1846: Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. born ... astronomer. He is best remembered for his research on what is today known as the Chandler wobble. His research on this spanned nearly three decades. Pic.
||1846: Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. born ... astronomer. He is best remembered for his research on what is today known as the Chandler wobble. His research on this spanned nearly three decades. Pic.


||1857: Harold Pitney Brown born ... electrical engineer and inventor known for his activism in the late 1880s against the use of alternating current for electric lighting in New York City and around the country (during the "War of Currents"). No DOD. Pic.
||1857: Harold P. Brown born ... electrical engineer and inventor known for his activism in the late 1880s against the use of alternating current for electric lighting in New York City and around the country (during the "War of Currents"). No DOD. Pic.


||1869: Thomas Graham dies ... chemist known for his pioneering work in dialysis and the diffusion of gases. He is regarded as one of the founders of colloid chemistry. Pic.
||1869: Thomas Graham dies ... chemist known for his pioneering work in dialysis and the diffusion of gases. He is regarded as one of the founders of colloid chemistry. Pic.


||1874: Heinrich Matthias Konen born ... physicist who specialized in spectroscopy. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?biw=1175&bih=668&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=FTCAW9PkLaufjwSgn6XoAg&q=Heinrich+Konen&oq=Heinrich+Konen&gs_l=img.3...3908464.3908464.0.3908896.1.1.0.0.0.0.290.290.2-1.1.0....0...1c.2.64.img..0.0.0....0.4KnrtIlysyg#imgrc=76oBzXZb-gljNM:
||1874: Heinrich Matthias Konen born ... physicist who specialized in spectroscopy. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?biw=1175&bih=668&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=FTCAW9PkLaufjwSgn6XoAg&q=Heinrich+Konen&oq=Heinrich+Konen&gs_l=img.3...3908464.3908464.0.3908896.1.1.0.0.0.0.290.290.2-1.1.0....0...1c.2.64.img..0.0.0....0.4KnrtIlysyg#imgrc=76oBzXZb-gljNM:
||1893: Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt born ... biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering many of the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle and the molecular basis of muscle contraction.


||1915: Rita Harriet Harradence born ... biochemist who pioneered the synthesis of penicillamine and steroids, and the stereochemistry of molecules involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Pic.
||1915: Rita Harriet Harradence born ... biochemist who pioneered the synthesis of penicillamine and steroids, and the stereochemistry of molecules involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Pic.
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||1925: Alexander Friedmann born ... physicist and mathematician. Pic.
||1925: Alexander Friedmann born ... physicist and mathematician. Pic.
||1926: Robert Mortimer Ellis born - mathematician, specializing in topological dynamics. Pic search.
||1931: E. C. George Sudarshan born ... theoretical physicist and academic. Pic.


||1932: Ronald Ross dies ... physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1932: Ronald Ross dies ... physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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||1955: A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
||1955: A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
File:Karl Popper.jpg|link=Karl Popper (nonfiction)|1958: Philosopher, academic, and crime-fighter [[Karl Popper (nonfiction)|Karl Popper]] publishes new theory of empirical falsification based on experimental scrutinization using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques. Popper's theory receives accolades, influencing a generation of [[Mathematician|crime-fighting mathematicians]].


||1959: The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
||1959: The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.


File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|1964: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' sells for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
||1970: Mauro De Mauro disappears ...Italian investigative journalist. Originally a supporter of the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini he eventually became a journalist with the left-leaning newspaper L'Ora in Palermo. He disappeared in September 1970 and his body has not yet been found. Pic.


||1971: Agnes Meyer Driscoll dies ... cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II. Edwin T. Layton described her as "without peer as a cryptanalyst". Pic.
||1971: Agnes Meyer Driscoll dies ... cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II. Edwin T. Layton described her as "without peer as a cryptanalyst". Pic.
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File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|2005: Physicist and academic [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] dies. He invented and named the laser.
File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|2005: Physicist and academic [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] dies. He invented and named the laser.


File:Vladimir Arnold.jpg|link=Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|Vladimir Arnold]] uses the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||2016: Gabriele Amorth dies ... priest and exorcist. Pic search.
 
Spinning_Thistle.jpg|link=Spinning Thistle (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Spinning Thistle (nonfiction)|Spinning Thistle]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
 
||2016: Gabriele Amorth dies ... priest and exorcist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=gabriele+amorth


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  • 1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.

    1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.

  • 2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.

    2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.

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