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File:Wilhelm_Schickard_1632.jpg|link=Wilhelm Schickard (nonfiction)|1635: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor [[Wilhelm Schickard (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Schickard]] dies.  Schickard designed and built calculating machines, and invented techniques for producing improved maps.
File:Wilhelm_Schickard_1632.jpg|link=Wilhelm Schickard (nonfiction)|1635: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor [[Wilhelm Schickard (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Schickard]] dies.  Schickard designed and built calculating machines, and invented techniques for producing improved maps.


File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]]'s astronomical observations to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]]'s observatory to detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
 
File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1646: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] his "barometer of the indivisibles", which uses quantum pressure to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].


File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] dies. Gassendi clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] dies. Gassendi clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
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||1960: Yevgeny Ostashev dies ... rocket test pilot ... participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences. Pic.
||1960: Yevgeny Ostashev dies ... rocket test pilot ... participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences. Pic.


||1960: Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.
File:Nedelin catastrophe.jpg|1960: Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.


||1963: The fire at the spaceport Baikonur in one of the martial mines missiles R-9. Seven people were killed.
||1963: The fire at the spaceport Baikonur in one of the martial mines missiles R-9. Seven people were killed.
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||2014: The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.
||2014: The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.


File:Wheel of Fire 2.jpg|link=Wheel of Fire 2 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Wheel of Fire 2 (nonfiction)|Wheel of Fire 2]]'' is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
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  • 1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. Brahe made astronomical observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.

    1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. Brahe made astronomical observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.

  • 1635: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard dies. Schickard designed and built calculating machines, and invented techniques for producing improved maps.

    1635: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard dies. Schickard designed and built calculating machines, and invented techniques for producing improved maps.

  • 1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's observatory to detect and prevent crimes against astronomical constants.

    1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's observatory to detect and prevent crimes against astronomical constants.

  • 1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. Gassendi clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.

    1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. Gassendi clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.

  • 1676: Isaac Newton summarized the state of development of his method of fluxions and power series in the "Epistola posterior," which he sent to Oldenburg to transmit to Leibniz.

    1676: Isaac Newton summarized the state of development of his method of fluxions and power series in the "Epistola posterior," which he sent to Oldenburg to transmit to Leibniz.

  • 1861: The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.

    1861: The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.

  • 1920: Mathematician and Doctor of Medicine Marcel-Paul Schützenberger born. Schützenberger will contribute to the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.

    1920: Mathematician and Doctor of Medicine Marcel-Paul Schützenberger born. Schützenberger will contribute to the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.

  • 1960: Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.

    1960: Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.

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