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||1561: Thomas Walsingham born ... English spymaster.
||1561: Thomas Walsingham born ... English spymaster.
File:Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.jpg|link=Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|1671: Mathematician [[Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus]] removes intermediate terms from a given algebraic equation using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques.


File:Johann Bernoulli.jpg|link=|1748: Mathematician [[Johann Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Johann Bernouli]] dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
File:Johann Bernoulli.jpg|link=|1748: Mathematician [[Johann Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Johann Bernouli]] dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
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||1817: Martin Heinrich Klaproth dies ... chemist and academic ... discovered uranium (1789), zirconium (1789), and cerium (1803), and named titanium (1795) and tellurium (1798). Pic.
||1817: Martin Heinrich Klaproth dies ... chemist and academic ... discovered uranium (1789), zirconium (1789), and cerium (1803), and named titanium (1795) and tellurium (1798). Pic.
||1852: John George Children dies ... chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist. He invented a method to extract silver from ore without the need for mercury. Pic.


||1852: Eugène-Anatole Demarçay born ... chemist. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas. During an experiment, an explosion destroyed the sight in one of his eyes. He isolated the element europium in 1896; in 1898 he used his skills of spectroscopy to help Marie Curie confirm that she had discovered the element radium. Pic.
||1852: Eugène-Anatole Demarçay born ... chemist. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas. During an experiment, an explosion destroyed the sight in one of his eyes. He isolated the element europium in 1896; in 1898 he used his skills of spectroscopy to help Marie Curie confirm that she had discovered the element radium. Pic.


||1854: James George Frazer born ... anthropologist and academic.
||1854: James George Frazer born ... anthropologist and academic. Pic.


||1859: Michael Joseph Owens born ... inventor.
||1859: Michael Joseph Owens born ... inventor.
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File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada).
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada).


||1867: Mary Acworth Evershed born ... astronomer and Dante scholar. Pic search iffy: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mary+Acworth+Evershed
||1867: Mary Acworth Evershed born ... astronomer and Dante scholar. Pic search iffy.
 
||1870: Hermann Theodor Simon born ... physicist. With Eduard Riecke, he was editor of the physics journal ''Physikalische Zeitschrift''. Pic.


||1873: Mariano Azuela dies ... physician and author ... best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," and he influenced other Mexican novelists of social protest. Pic.
||1873: Mariano Azuela dies ... physician and author ... best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," and he influenced other Mexican novelists of social protest. Pic.
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||1885: Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones)
||1885: Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones)


||1888: John Garand born ... engineer, designed the M1 Garand rifle.
||1888: John Garand born ... engineer, designed the M1 Garand rifle. Pic.


||1891: Antonio Stoppani born ... geologist and scholar. Pic.
||1891: Antonio Stoppani born ... geologist and scholar. Pic.


File:Telephone exchange operator circa 1900.jpg|link=Telephone switchboard (nonfiction)|1893: [[Telephone switchboard (nonfiction)|telephone switchboard]] technology modified to send and receive [[Gnomon algorithm]] data.
||1895: J. Edgar Hoover born.  Pic.


File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.  
File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.  
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||1905: Stanisław Mazur born ... mathematician and theorist ... made important contributions to geometrical methods in linear and nonlinear functional analysis and to the study of Banach algebras. He was also interested in summability theory, infinite games and computable functions. Pic.
||1905: Stanisław Mazur born ... mathematician and theorist ... made important contributions to geometrical methods in linear and nonlinear functional analysis and to the study of Banach algebras. He was also interested in summability theory, infinite games and computable functions. Pic.


||1912: Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko dies ... mathematician and historian.
||1912: Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko born ... mathematician and historian ... known for his work with Kolmogorov, and his contributions to the study of probability theory, particularly extreme value theory, with such results as the Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko theorem. Pic search.


||1913: Karl Stein born ... mathematician. He is well known for complex analysis and cryptography. Stein manifolds and Stein factorization are named after him. Pic.
||1913: Karl Stein born ... mathematician. He is well known for complex analysis and cryptography. Stein manifolds and Stein factorization are named after him. Pic.
||1920: Heinz Zemanek dies ... computer scientist and academic ... computer pioneer who led the development, from 1954 to 1958, of one of the first complete transistorized computers on the European continent. Pic


||1923: Mathematician and academic Alexander Abian born. Abian gained a degree of international notoriety for his claim that blowing up the Moon would solve virtually every problem of human existence, stating that a Moonless Earth wouldn't wobble, eliminating both the seasons and its associated events like heat waves, snowstorms and hurricanes. Pic: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Abian_alex.jpg
||1923: Mathematician and academic Alexander Abian born. Abian gained a degree of international notoriety for his claim that blowing up the Moon would solve virtually every problem of human existence, stating that a Moonless Earth wouldn't wobble, eliminating both the seasons and its associated events like heat waves, snowstorms and hurricanes. Pic: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Abian_alex.jpg
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||1947: Walter Kaufmann dies ... physicist. He is best known for the first experimental proof of the velocity dependence of mass, which was an important contribution to the development of modern physics, including special relativity. Pic.
||1947: Walter Kaufmann dies ... physicist. He is best known for the first experimental proof of the velocity dependence of mass, which was an important contribution to the development of modern physics, including special relativity. Pic.
||1951: Frank Scott Hogg dies ... astronomer and academic, pioneered in the study of spectrophotometry of stars and of spectra of comets. Pic search.


||1955: Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar dies ... chemist and academic. Pic: postage stamp.
||1955: Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar dies ... chemist and academic. Pic: postage stamp.
File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1962: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series wins Pulitzer Prize.


||1971: Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
||1971: Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
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||2016: John Coleman Moore dies ... mathematician. The Borel−Moore homology and Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence are named after him. Pic: https://www.math.princeton.edu/people/john-c-moore
||2016: John Coleman Moore dies ... mathematician. The Borel−Moore homology and Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence are named after him. Pic: https://www.math.princeton.edu/people/john-c-moore


File:Golden Spiral.jpg|link=Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|Golden Spiral]]'' declared Picture of the Year by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1548: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno born. He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600).

    1548: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno born. He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600).

  • 1748: Mathematician Johann Bernouli dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.

    1748: Mathematician Johann Bernouli dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.

  • 1891: Astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered a "stellar object" that moved against the background of stars. At first he thought it was a fixed star, but once he noticed that it moved, he became convinced it was a planet, or as he called it, "a new star", now known as the dwarf planet Ceres.

    1891: Astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered a "stellar object" that moved against the background of stars. At first he thought it was a fixed star, but once he noticed that it moved, he became convinced it was a planet, or as he called it, "a new star", now known as the dwarf planet Ceres.

  • 1862: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada).

    1862: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada).

  • 1878: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang born. He will invent the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.

    1878: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang born. He will invent the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.

  • 1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

    1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

  • 1992: Computer scientist and Admiral Grace Hopper dies. She pioneered computer programming techniques, inventing one of the first compilers, and popularizing machine-independent programming languages (leading to the development of COBOL).

    1992: Computer scientist and Admiral Grace Hopper dies. She pioneered computer programming techniques, inventing one of the first compilers, and popularizing machine-independent programming languages (leading to the development of COBOL).

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