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| File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1678: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] publishes ''Historia Culvertica'', which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists. | | File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1678: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] publishes ''Historia Culvertica'', which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists. |
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| File:Peder Horrebow.jpg|link=Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|1679: Astronomer and mathematician [[Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|Peder Horrebow]] born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars. | | File:Peder Horrebow.jpg|link=Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|1679: Astronomer and mathematician [[Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|Peder Horrebow]] born. Horrebow will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars. |
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| File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1680: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to commit series of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1701: William Emerson born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
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| ||1761: Thomas Simpson dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: book cover.
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| ||1796: Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation. Pic.
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| ||1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
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| ||1814: Charles Beyer born ... engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock and Company
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| ||1832: Rudolf Lipschitz born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
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| File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. | | File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. |
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| ||1878: The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers. | | File:Ernst Kummer.jpg|link=Ernst Kummer (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician [[Ernst Kummer (nonfiction)|Ernst Kummer]] dies. Kummer contributed to abstract algebra; in ring theory, he introduced the term ''ideal''. |
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| ||1888: Archie Alexander born ... mathematician and engineer | | File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] born. Christy will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells. |
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| ||1893: Ernst Kummer dies ... mathematician and academic, trained German army officers in ballistics. Pic. | | File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system. |
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| ||1897: Ed Ricketts born ... biologist and ecologist
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| ||1899: Charlotte Auerbach born ... folklorist, geneticist, and zoologist.
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| ||1899: Pierre Victor Auger born ... physicist ... worked in the fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic ray physics. Pic.
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| ||1904: Hans Albert Einstein born ... engineer and educator. No pic.
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| ||1908: Joseph Lade Pawsey born ... scientist, radiophysicist and radio astronomer. Pic.
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| ||1916: William Stanley Jr. ... physicist born in Brooklyn, New York. In his career, he obtained 129 patents covering a variety of electric devices. In 1913, he patented an all-steel vacuum bottle, and formed the Stanley Bottle Company. Pic.
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| File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte|1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
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| ||1920: Ronald Montagu Burrows dies ... archaeologist who in 1895-96 conducted excavations in southwestern Greece at Pylos and the adjacent island of Sphacteria, revealing remains of Spartan fortifications. These confirmed the battle of 425 BC in the Peloponnesian War recorded by the ancient Athenian historian Thucydides. Burrows was by nature a classicist, whose primary purpose in seeking tangible evidence from the past was to verify ancient texts. At Rhitsona, in Boeotia (1905, 1907), his original goal was to find the temple of Delium, but without success. Instead he found and catalogued artifacts from Boeotian graves dating from the 7th and 6th century B.C. at the necropolis of Mykalessos, near Tanagra. In 1907, he published Recent Discoveries in Crete. Pic.
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| ||1925: Yuval Ne'eman born ... theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. Pic.
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| ||1928: Frederik H. Kreuger born ... engineer, author, and academic ... also a professional author of technical literature, nonfiction books, thrillers and a decisive biography of the master forger Han van Meegeren.
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| File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''.
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| ||1947: John Ray Sinnock dies ... the eighth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1925 to 1947. Roosevelt dime sculptor. Pic.
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| ||1960: Oliver Strachey dies cryptographer from World War I to World War II. Pic.
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| ||1961: The world's first nuclear ramjet engine, "Tory-IIA", mounted on a railroad car, roared to life for a few seconds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
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| ||1973: Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
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| ||1995: Christian B. Anfinsen dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||2006: Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk dies ... physicist, one of the founders of optical holography. He is known for his great contribution to holography, in particular for the so-called "Denisyuk hologram". Pic.
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| ||2006: Robert Bruce Merrifield dies ... was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis. Pic.
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| ||2015: Stanton J. Peale dies ... astrophysicist and academic.
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| ||2016: Darwyn Cooke dies ... comic book writer and artist.
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| File:Butterfly.jpg|link=Butterfly (image) (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Butterfly (image) (nonfiction)|Butterfly]]'' unexpectedly develops [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]] after exposure to Cherenkov radiation during an otherwise routine [[high-energy literature]] experiment.
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