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||362 The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
||362: The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.


||1511 Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
||1511: Erasmus Reinhold born ... astronomer and mathematician, considered to be the most influential astronomical pedagogue of his generation. Pic: https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Reinhold


File:Georg Ernst Stahl.png|link=Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|1659: Chemist and physician [[Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|Georg Ernst Stahl]] born. His works on phlogiston will be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.
File:Georg Ernst Stahl.png|link=Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|1659: Chemist and physician [[Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|Georg Ernst Stahl]] born. His works on phlogiston will be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.


|| The Scilly naval disaster of 1707 was the loss of four warships of a Royal Navy fleet off the Isles of Scilly in severe weather on 22 October 1707. 1550 sailors lost their lives aboard the wrecked vessels, making the incident one of the worst maritime disasters in British naval history. The disaster has been attributed to the navigators' inability to accurately calculate their positions, to errors in the available charts and pilot books, to inadequate compasses, or to a combination of these factors.
||1707: The Scilly naval disaster of 1707 was the loss of four warships of a Royal Navy fleet off the Isles of Scilly in severe weather on 22 October 1707. 1550 sailors lost their lives aboard the wrecked vessels, making the incident one of the worst maritime disasters in British naval history. The disaster has been attributed to the navigators' inability to accurately calculate their positions, to errors in the available charts and pilot books, to inadequate compasses, or to a combination of these factors.


||1792 Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
File:Nebula orionis as depicted by Guillaume Le Gentil in 1758.jpg|link=Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|1792: Astronomer [[Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|Guillaume Le Gentil]] dies. He discovered what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).


||1797 André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris.
||1797: André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris. Pic.


||1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
||1811: Alexander Bain born ... clockmaker, engineerm and inventor who was first to invent and patent the electric clock. Pic.


||1881 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1879: Using a filament of carbonized thread, [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).


||1881 – Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (d. 1908)
||1881: Clinton Davisson born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson-Germer experiment. Pic.


||1882 – Edmund Dulac, French-English illustrator (d. 1953)
||1881: Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz born ... geophysicist and seismologist. Pic.


||1882 – N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator (d. 1945)
||1882: Edmund Dulac born ... illustrator.


||1884 – The Royal Observatory in Britain is adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference.
||1882: N. C. Wyeth born ... painter and illustrator.


||1893 – Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985)
||1884: The Royal Observatory in Britain is adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference.


||1896 – Charles Glen King, American biochemist and academic (d. 1988)
||1893: Ernst Öpik born ... astronomer and astrophysicist. Pic.


File:The_Eel_Fighting_Neptune_Slaughter.jpg|link=The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|1904: Illustration of [[The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|The Eel fighting Neptune Slaughter]] awarded Pulitzer Award for Best Investigative Reporting.
File:Laurance Safford.jpg|link=Laurance Safford (nonfiction)|1893: Cryptologist [[Laurance Safford (nonfiction)|Laurance Safford]] born. Safford will establish the Naval cryptologic organization after World War I, and head the effort more or less constantly until shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
 
||1895: Rolf Herman Nevanlinna born ... mathematician who made significant contributions to complex analysis. Pic.
 
||1896: Charles Glen King born ... biochemist and academic  ... vitamin C. Pic.
 
||1902: Frank Spedding born ... chemist. He was a renowned expert on rare earth elements, and on extraction of metals from minerals. The uranium extraction process helped make it possible for the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bombs.
 
||1903: George Wells Beadle born ... scientist in the field of genetics, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate who with Edward Tatum discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells in 1958. Pic.


File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1905: Physicist and engineer [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]] born. He will be one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1905: Physicist and engineer [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]] born. He will be one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.


||1921 Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1986)
||1907: Sarvadaman D. S. Chowla born ... mathematician, specializing in number theory. Among his contributions are a number of results which bear his name: the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem, the Ankeny–Artin–Chowla congruence, the Chowla–Mordell theorem, and the Chowla–Selberg formula, and the Mian–Chowla sequence. Pic: http://www3.canisius.edu/~huard/chowla.html
 
||1914: Jacques Feldbau born ... mathematician ... died on 22 April 1945 at the Ganacker Camp, annex of the concentration camp of Flossenbürg in Germany. He worked on differential geometry and topology ... one of the founders of the theory of fiber bundles. He is the one who first proved that a fiber bundle over a simplex is trivializable and who used this to classify bundles over spheres. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Feldbau.html
 
||1916: Nathan Jacob Fine born ... mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series. He solved the Jeep problem in 1946. Pic: http://www.ams.org/notices/199506/fine.pdf
 
||1916: Microbiologist  and academic Roger Stanier born. Stanier will be influential in the development of modern microbiology, making important contributions to the taxonomy of bacteria, including the classification of blue-green algae as cyanobacteria. Pic.
 
||1920: Timothy Leary born ... psychologist and writer known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Pic. 
 
||1921: Alexander Kronrod born ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic.
 
||1922: Marvin Leonard Goldberger born ... theoretical physicist. Pic.
 
File:Marc_Julia.jpg|link=Marc Julia (nonfiction)|1922: Chemist [[Marc Julia (nonfiction)|Marc Julia]] born.  Julia (along with his colleague Jean-Marc Paris) will discover the Julia olefination reaction in 1973.
 
File:Nikola Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1927: Physicist, engineer, and inventor [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power.
 
||1938: In the back of a beauty shop in the Astoria section of Queens New York, Chester A. Carlson and his assistant Otto Kornei, conducted the first successful experiment in electrophotography. The message, “10.-22.-38 ASTORIA,” was even less inspiring than Alexander Graham Bell’s first phone conversation, but the effect was just as great. In 1949 Haloid Corporation marketed the Xerox Model A, a crude machine that required fourteen manual operations. Today five million copiers churn out 2,000 copies each year for every American citizen.
 
||1962: Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
 
||1966: The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.


||1927 – Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power.
||1968: Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.


||1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
||1975: The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.


||1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
||1979: Reinhold Baer dies ... mathematician, known for his work in algebra. He introduced injective modules in 1940. He is the eponym of Baer rings and Baer groups. Pic.


||1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
||1986: Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt dies ... 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.


||1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
||2002: Irene Fischer dies ... geodesist and mathematician. Pic search.


||2002 Richard Helms, American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1913)
||2002: Richard Helms dies ... American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence.


File:Venus Express in orbit.jpg|link=Venus Express (nonfiction)|2005: The [[Venus Express (nonfiction)|Venus Express]] detects evidence of electrical artificial intelligence [[AESOP]] in orbit around the planet Venus.
||2008: India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.


||2008 – India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
||2015: Murphy Anderson dies ... illustrator ... DC Comics.


||2015 – Murphy Anderson, American illustrator (b. 1926) DC Comics


|File:Green_Spacecraft_img092_800x600.jpg|link=Green Spacecraft (nonfiction)|''[[Green Spacecraft]]'' sighted.
|File:Alistair Treadgold 1916.jpg|link=Alistair Treadgold|[[Alistair Treadgold]]'s research into electrolysis influenced a generation of [[musical electroplating ensembles]], including [[Chrome Plover]].
|File:Cryptographic numen modelled as nano-wire.jpg|link=Cryptographic numen|[[Cryptographic numen]] modeled in nanowire, generates micro-epiphanies.
|File:Bacon's_Drama_Dial.jpg|link=Shakespeare-Magellan Expedition|Bacon's Drama Dial is key to [[Shakespeare-Magellan Expedition]], according to new cryptographic analysis.
|File:Draw Doug genetic algorithm.jpg|link=Genetic algorithm (nonfiction)|"How to Draw Doug" cartoon by Ruben Bolling explains [[Genetic algorithm (nonfiction)|genetic algorithms]].
|File:Jason Nelson.jpg|link=Jason Nelson (nonfiction)|[[Jason Nelson (nonfiction)|Jason Nelson]] does not know [[This is how you will die (nonfiction)|how you will die (nonfiction)|how you will die]], so please stop asking.
|File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|"[[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|Leipzig University]] should include me in seal," says [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]].
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