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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).
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.


||1811: Alexander Bain born ... clockmaker, engineerm and inventor who was first to invent and patent the electric clock. Pic.
||1811: Alexander Bain born ... clockmaker, engineerm and inventor who was first to invent and patent the electric clock. Pic.
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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).
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: Clinton Davisson born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
||1881: Clinton Davisson born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson-Germer experiment. Pic.


||1881: Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz born ... geophysicist and seismologist. Pic.
||1881: Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz born ... geophysicist and seismologist. Pic.


||1882: Edmund Dulac born ... illustrator (d. 1953)
||1882: Edmund Dulac born ... illustrator.


||1882: N. C. Wyeth born ... painter and illustrator (d. 1945)
||1882: N. C. Wyeth born ... painter and illustrator.


||1884: The Royal Observatory in Britain is adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference.
||1884: The Royal Observatory in Britain is adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference.


||1893: Ernst Öpik born ... astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985)
||1893: Ernst Öpik born ... astronomer and astrophysicist. Pic.


||1893: Captain, U.S.N. Laurance Frye Safford bonr ... U.S. Navy cryptologist. He established the Naval cryptologic organization after World War I, and headed the effort more or less constantly until shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His identification with the Naval effort was so close that he was the Friedman of the Navy.
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.
||1895: Rolf Herman Nevanlinna born ... mathematician who made significant contributions to complex analysis. Pic.


||1896: Charles Glen King born ... biochemist and academic.
||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.
||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: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: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.
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||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: 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


||1921: Alexander Kronrod born ... mathematician and computer scientist.
||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.


||1922: Marvin Leonard "Murph" Goldberger born ... theoretical physicist.
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.
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.
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||1975: The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
||1975: The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.


||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.
||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.
 
||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.
 
||2002: Irene Fischer dies ... geodesist and mathematician. Pic search.


||2002: Richard Helms dies ... American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence.
||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 dies ... illustrator ... DC Comics.


File:Dragons_Fighting.jpg|link=Dragons Fighting (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Dragons Fighting (nonfiction)|Dragons Fighting]]'' sells for undisclosed amount to "a well-known [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist" in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against physical constants]].


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