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| ||1455: Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
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| File:Johannes Weyer.jpg|link=Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|1580: Physician, occultist, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|Johann Weyer]] publicly accuses the [[House of Malevecchio]] of secretly distributing [[clandestiphrine]] and other illegal drugs.
| | File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] dies. Gauss had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians. |
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| File:Jean-Baptiste Morin.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|1583: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]] born.
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| ||1592: Balthazar Gerbier born ... courtier, diplomat, art advisor, miniaturist and architectural designer, in his own words fluent in "several languages" with "a good hand in writing, skill in sciences as mathematics, architecture, drawing, painting,[2] contriving of scenes, masques, shows and entertainments for great Princes... as likewise for making of engines useful in war." No death date. Pic.
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| ||1603: Andrea Cesalpino dies ... philosopher, physician, and botanist.
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| ||1603: François Viète, French mathematician dies. His work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra, due to its innovative use of letters as parameters in equations.
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| ||1739: At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer.
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| File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1742: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to translate Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy into Italian.
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| File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] dies. He had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians. | |
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| ||1886: Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
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| File:Émile Zola.jpg|link=Émile Zola (nonfiction)|1898: [[Émile Zola (nonfiction)|Émile Zola]] is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus]]. | | File:Émile Zola.jpg|link=Émile Zola (nonfiction)|1898: [[Émile Zola (nonfiction)|Émile Zola]] is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus]]. |
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| ||1905: Derrick Henry Lehmer born ... mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing. Pic.
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| ||1914: George Michael Volkoff born ... physicist and academic who helped, with J. Robert Oppenheimer, predict the existence of neutron stars before they were discovered. Pic.
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| ||1914: Robert Joseph Huebner born ... virologist whose theory that certain genes, which he called oncogenes, are involved in cancer focused researchers' attention on finding them. His investigations paved the way for the discovery of viral causes of cancers and several other serious diseases and for the development of a number of vaccines and treatments. Pic: http://www.edubilla.com/award/national-medal-of-science/robert-huebner/
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| ||1917: Jean Gaston (Jean-Gaston) Darboux dies ... mathematician. Pic.
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| ||1924 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||1927: U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
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| File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1927: German theoretical physicist [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time. | | File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1927: German theoretical physicist [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time. |
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| File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|1940: [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]] program accidentally generates new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | | File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|1940: The '''[[ENIAC (SETI)]]''' program accidentally generates new class of crimes against mathematical constants. |
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| File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1941: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] is first produced and isolated by [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg]]. | | File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1941: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] is first produced and isolated by [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg]]. |
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| ||1942: World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the coastline near Santa Barbara, California.
| | File:Self portrait (25 February 2023) 20230225 171906.jpg|link=Self portrait (25 February 2023)|2023: '''[[Self portrait (25 February 2023)]]'''. |
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| ||1944: Leo Baekeland dies ... chemist and engineer. Pic.
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| ||1947: Robert Edward "Rufus" Bowen born. He will specialize in dynamical systems theory. Bowen's work dealt primarily with axiom A systems, but the methods he used while exploring topological entropy, symbolic dynamics, ergodic theory, Markov partitions, and invariant measures "have application far beyond the axiom A systems for which they were invented." Pic.
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| ||1963: Antonio Signorini dies ... mathematical physicist and civil engineer of the 20th century. He is known for his work in finite elasticity, thermoelasticity and for formulating the Signorini problem. Pic.
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| File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|1963: Mathematician, information engineer, and crime-fighter [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] publishes new theory of entropy which reveals new approaches to the detection and prevent of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |
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| |File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1964: ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] republished using latest [[high-energy literature]] techniques.
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| ||1974: Hans Bernd Gisevius dies ... German diplomat and intelligence officer during the Second World War. A covert opponent of the Nazi regime and radical communist, he served as a liaison in Zürich between Allen Dulles, station chief for the American OSS and the German Resistance forces in Germany. Pic.
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| ||1987: Edward Lansdale dies ... American general and CIA agent. Pic.
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| ||1987: Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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| ||2012: David Sayre dies ... physicist and mathematician ... No pic.
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| File:Crimson Blossom 2.jpg|link=Crimson Blossom 2 (nonfiction)|2017: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Crimson Blossom 2 (nonfiction)|Crimson Blossom 2]]'' reveals previously unknown [[Color (nonfiction)|color]] which is "midway between [[Red (nonfiction)|red]] and [[Violet (nonfiction)|violet]]."
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