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File:Nezahualcoyotl.jpg|link=Nezahualcoyotl (nonfiction)|1402: Aztec philosopher, warrior, architect, poet, and ruler [[Nezahualcoyotl (nonfiction)|Nezahualcoyotl]] born. He will have an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he will build an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind will be allowed.
||1503: The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1693: [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] writes to L'Hospital, announcing his discovery of determinants fifty years before Cramer, who was the real driving force in the development of determinants. Leibniz's work had little or no influence because it was not published until 1850 in his ''Mathematische Schriften''.
File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1693: [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] writes to L'Hospital, announcing his discovery of determinants fifty years before Cramer, who was the real driving force in the development of determinants. Leibniz's work had little or no influence because it was not published until 1850 in his ''Mathematische Schriften''.
||1765: Sylvestre François Lacroix born ... mathematician and academic.
||1773: Mathematician Robert Woodhouse born. He was interested in the "metaphysics of the calculus," including the proper theoretical foundations of calculus, the role of geometric and analytic methods, and the importance of notation. Pic: book cover.


File:Francis Baily.jpg|link=Francis Baily (nonfiction)|1774: Astronomer [[Francis Baily (nonfiction)|Francis Baily]] born.  He will observe "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836).
File:Francis Baily.jpg|link=Francis Baily (nonfiction)|1774: Astronomer [[Francis Baily (nonfiction)|Francis Baily]] born.  He will observe "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836).
||1789: Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.


File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1817: [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] writes to the astronomer H. W. M. Oblers, saying, "I am becoming more and more convinced that the necessity of our (Euclidean) geometry cannot be proved, at least not by human intellect nor for the human intellect."
File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1817: [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] writes to the astronomer H. W. M. Oblers, saying, "I am becoming more and more convinced that the necessity of our (Euclidean) geometry cannot be proved, at least not by human intellect nor for the human intellect."
||1829: Charles Bourseul born ... pioneer in development of the "make and break" telephone about 20 years before Bell made a practical telephone.
||1831: Peter Guthrie Tait born ... mathematical physicist, best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. Pic.
||1831: Félix Pisani born ... chemist and mineralogist.
||1838: Jenő Hunyady born ... mathematician noted for his work on conic sections and linear algebra, specifically on determinants. Pic.
File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1847: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] uses number theory to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1854: Hertha Marks Ayrton born ... engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor ... worked on electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.


File:Georgy Voronoy.jpg|link=Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|1868: Mathematician [[Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|Georgy Voronoy]] born. He will invent what are today called [[Voronoi diagram (nonfiction)|Voronoi diagrams]] or Voronoi tessellations.
File:Georgy Voronoy.jpg|link=Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|1868: Mathematician [[Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|Georgy Voronoy]] born. He will invent what are today called [[Voronoi diagram (nonfiction)|Voronoi diagrams]] or Voronoi tessellations.
||1892: Joseph Dunninger born ... known as "The Amazing Dunninger", was one of the most famous and proficient mentalists of all time. He was one of the pioneer performers of magic on radio and television. A debunker of fraudulent mediums, Dunninger claimed to replicate through trickery all spiritualist phenomena. Pic.
||1900: Jan Oort born ... astronomer and academic.
||1903: Josiah Willard Gibbs dies ... scientist who made important theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Pic.


File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1906: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Gödel]] born. His two incompleteness theorems will have an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.
File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1906: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Gödel]] born. His two incompleteness theorems will have an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.
||1906: Richard Rado born ... mathematician whose research concerned combinatorics and graph theory. In graph theory, the Rado graph, a countably infinite graph containing all countably infinite graphs as induced subgraphs, is named after Rado. He rediscovered it in 1964 after previous works on the same graph by Wilhelm Ackermann, Paul Erdős, and Alfréd Rényi. Pic.
||1912: Odette Hallowes born ... soldier and spy.
||1918: Frank Shuman dies ... inventor, engineer and solar energy pioneer known for his work on solar engines, especially those that used solar energy to heat water that would produce steam.


File:Eugene Shoemaker.jpg|link=Eugene Merle Shoemaker (nonfiction)|1928: Geologist and astronomer [[Eugene Merle Shoemaker (nonfiction)|Eugene Merle Shoemaker]] born. Shoemaker will be the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.
File:Eugene Shoemaker.jpg|link=Eugene Merle Shoemaker (nonfiction)|1928: Geologist and astronomer [[Eugene Merle Shoemaker (nonfiction)|Eugene Merle Shoemaker]] born. Shoemaker will be the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.
||1944: World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
||1946: Louis Bachelier dies ... mathematician and academic.
||1947: Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia. (... smashing into a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotus on August 7, 1947. The crew made successful landfall and all returned safely.)
||1950: BARK (Swedish: Binär Aritmetisk (Automatisk) Relä-Kalkylator, lit. 'Binary Arithmetic (Automatic) Relay Calculator') becomes operational.  BARK was an early electromechanical computer, built using standard telephone relays, implementing a 32-bit binary machine. Pic.
||1965: United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
||1967: Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.
||1974: Konrad Jörgens dies ... mathematician. He made important contributions to mathematical physics, in particular to the foundations of quantum mechanics, and to the theory of partial differential equations and integral operators.
||1975: Hans Heilbronn dies ... mathematician. He will prove that the class number of the number field {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} ({\sqrt {-d}})} \mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-d}) tends to plus infinity as {\displaystyle d} d does Pic: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/5965.html
File:Geometrical frustration icosahedron.jpg|link=Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|1985: A brief, transient outbreak of [[Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|Geometrical frustration]] affects nuclear reactors around the world.  The outbreak will last only a few microseconds, and there will be no signs of damage to any of the reactors.  The event will later be recognized as a precursor to the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]].


File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: High levels of radiation resulting from the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]] are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: High levels of radiation resulting from the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]] are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.


File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1986: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] visits the stricken [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl  reactor]], calls it "a waste of good fissionable material."
File:Rolf_Landauer.jpg|link=Rolf Landauer (nonfiction)|1999: Physicist and engineer [[Rolf Landauer (nonfiction)|Rolf Landauer]] dies.  Landauer discovered that in any logically irreversible operation that manipulates information, such as erasing a bit of memory, entropy increases and an associated amount of energy is dissipated as heat.  This phenomenon is now known as Landauer's principle.


||1986: R. H. Bing dies ... mathematician who worked mainly in the areas of geometric topology and continuum theory.  Pic: https://www.maa.org/about-maa/governance/maa-presidents/rh-bing-1963-1964-maa-president
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||1987: Ben Linder dies ... engineer and activist ... killed by Contras
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||1994: Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
 
||1996: Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
 
||1999: Rolf Landauer dies ... physicist and engineer.  He discovered Landauer's principle, that in any logically irreversible operation that manipulates information, such as erasing a bit of memory, entropy increases and an associated amount of energy is dissipated as heat. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=rolf+landauer
 
||1999: Arthur Leonard Schawlow dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... co-inventor of the laser with Charles Townes. His central insight, which Townes overlooked, was the use of two mirrors as the resonant cavity to take MASER action to visible wavelengths. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn for his work on lasers.
 
||2004: Alexander Randolph dies ... designer of board games and writer. Randolph's game creations include TwixT, Breakthru, Inkognito (with Leo Colovini), Raj, Ricochet Robot, and Enchanted Forest (with Michael Matschoss).
 
||2007: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker dies ... physicist and philosopher.
 
||2013: John C. Reynolds dies ... computer scientist and academic.
 
||2016: Ingram Olkin dies ... professor emeritus and chair of statistics and education at Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He is known for developing statistical analysis for evaluating policies, particularly in education, and for his contributions to meta-analysis, statistics education, multivariate analysis, and majorization theory. Pic.
 
File:Voronoi-diagram-color-commentators.jpg|link=Fantasy Voronoi diagram|2017: New survey shows that [[Fantasy Voronoi diagram]] is more popular than [[Fantasy football (American) (nonfiction)|Fantasy Football]].
 
File:Swirl.jpg|link=Swirl (nonfiction)|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Swirl (nonfiction)|Swirl]]'' is purchased for an undisclosed amount by "an eminent [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist living in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]."
 
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  • 1693: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz writes to L'Hospital, announcing his discovery of determinants fifty years before Cramer, who was the real driving force in the development of determinants. Leibniz's work had little or no influence because it was not published until 1850 in his Mathematische Schriften.

    1693: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz writes to L'Hospital, announcing his discovery of determinants fifty years before Cramer, who was the real driving force in the development of determinants. Leibniz's work had little or no influence because it was not published until 1850 in his Mathematische Schriften.

  • 1774: Astronomer Francis Baily born. He will observe "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836).

    1774: Astronomer Francis Baily born. He will observe "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836).

  • 1817: Carl Friedrich Gauss writes to the astronomer H. W. M. Oblers, saying, "I am becoming more and more convinced that the necessity of our (Euclidean) geometry cannot be proved, at least not by human intellect nor for the human intellect."

    1817: Carl Friedrich Gauss writes to the astronomer H. W. M. Oblers, saying, "I am becoming more and more convinced that the necessity of our (Euclidean) geometry cannot be proved, at least not by human intellect nor for the human intellect."

  • 1868: Mathematician Georgy Voronoy born. He will invent what are today called Voronoi diagrams or Voronoi tessellations.

    1868: Mathematician Georgy Voronoy born. He will invent what are today called Voronoi diagrams or Voronoi tessellations.

  • 1906: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Kurt Gödel born. His two incompleteness theorems will have an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.

    1906: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Kurt Gödel born. His two incompleteness theorems will have an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.

  • 1928: Geologist and astronomer Eugene Merle Shoemaker born. Shoemaker will be the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.

    1928: Geologist and astronomer Eugene Merle Shoemaker born. Shoemaker will be the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.

  • 1986: High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.

    1986: High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.

  • 1999: Physicist and engineer Rolf Landauer dies. Landauer discovered that in any logically irreversible operation that manipulates information, such as erasing a bit of memory, entropy increases and an associated amount of energy is dissipated as heat. This phenomenon is now known as Landauer's principle.

    1999: Physicist and engineer Rolf Landauer dies. Landauer discovered that in any logically irreversible operation that manipulates information, such as erasing a bit of memory, entropy increases and an associated amount of energy is dissipated as heat. This phenomenon is now known as Landauer's principle.

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