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||1753 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German engineer and architect, designed Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (b. 1687)
||1753 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German engineer and architect, designed Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (b. 1687)


||Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (d. 19 August 1765) was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist who discovered nickel in 1751 as a mining expert with the Bureau of Mines. Cronstedt is one of the founders of modern mineralogy. Pic.
File:Jean-Étienne Montucla.jpg|link=Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|1758: [[Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|Jean-Étienne Montucla]] received the censor's approbation for his ''Histoire des mathematiques'', which is justly famous as a history of the mathematical sciences.
 
||1765: Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt dies ... mineralogist and chemist who discovered nickel in 1751 as a mining expert with the Bureau of Mines. Cronstedt is one of the founders of modern mineralogy. Pic.


File:Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre.png|link=Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (nonfiction)|1822: Mathematician and astronomer [[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (nonfiction)|Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre]] dies.  He was one of the first astronomers to derive astronomical equations from analytical formulas.
File:Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre.png|link=Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (nonfiction)|1822: Mathematician and astronomer [[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (nonfiction)|Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre]] dies.  He was one of the first astronomers to derive astronomical equations from analytical formulas.
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File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes Fighting|1823: ''[[Red Eyes Fighting]]'' depicts martial artist and crime-fighter [[Red Eyes]] breaking up a [[math lab]].
File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes Fighting|1823: ''[[Red Eyes Fighting]]'' depicts martial artist and crime-fighter [[Red Eyes]] breaking up a [[math lab]].


||1854 – The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.
||1854: The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.


||Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (d. 19 August 1856) was a French chemist.
||1856: Charles Frédéric Gerhardt dies ... chemist.


||1871 – Orville Wright, American engineer and pilot, co-founded the Wright Company (d. 1948)
||1871: Orville Wright, American engineer and pilot, co-founded the Wright Company.


||Erik Edlund (d. August 19, 1888) was a Swedish physicist. His scientific research was confined chiefly to the theory of electricity. He helped secure the introduction of weather stations to Sweden.
||1888: Erik Edlund dies ... physicist. His scientific research was confined chiefly to the theory of electricity. He helped secure the introduction of weather stations to Sweden.


||Robert Brainard Corey (b. August 19, 1897) was an American biochemist, mostly known for his role in discovery of the α-helix and the β-sheet with Linus Pauling.  
||1897: Robert Brainard Corey born ... biochemist, mostly known for his role in discovery of the α-helix and the β-sheet with Linus Pauling.  


File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1906: Inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] born. He will make many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television.
File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1906: Inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] born. He will make many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television.


||1924 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
||1924: Willard Boyle born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||George Daniels (b. 19 August 1926) was a British horologist who was considered to be the best in the world during his lifetime. He was one of the few modern watchmakers who built complete watches by hand (including the case and dial). But it was his creation of the coaxial escapement for which he is most remembered. The movement, which removed the need to add a lubricant, has been used by Omega in their highest-grade watches since 1999. Pic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Daniels_(watchmaker)
||1926: George Daniels born ... horologist who was considered to be the best in the world during his lifetime. He was one of the few modern watchmakers who built complete watches by hand (including the case and dial). But it was his creation of the coaxial escapement for which he is most remembered. The movement, which removed the need to add a lubricant, has been used by Omega in their highest-grade watches since 1999. Pic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Daniels_(watchmaker)


||Alan Baker (b. 19 August 1939) was an English mathematician, known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular those arising from transcendental number theory. Pic.
||1939: Alan Baker born ... mathematician, known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular those arising from transcendental number theory. Pic.


||1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
||1940: First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.


||1950 – Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and engineer (b. 1871)
||1950: Giovanni Giorgi dies ... physicist and engineer.


||1953 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
||1953: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.


||1960 – Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
||1960: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.


||1960 – Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.
||1960: Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.


||1964 – Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, was launched.
||1964: Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, was launched.


||Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu (d. August 19, 1982) was an Indian astronomer. In 1957, he discovered the Wilson-Bappu effect jointly with American astronomer Olin Chaddock Wilson. He is regarded as the father of modern Indian astronomy. Pic.
||1982: Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu dies ... astronomer. In 1957, he discovered the Wilson-Bappu effect jointly with American astronomer Olin Chaddock Wilson. He is regarded as the father of modern Indian astronomy. Pic.


||Octav Onicescu (d. August 19, 1983) was a Romanian mathematician, member of the Romanian Academy, and founder of the Romanian school of probability theory and statistics. Pic.
||1983: Octav Onicescu dies ... mathematician, member of the Romanian Academy, and founder of the Romanian school of probability theory and statistics. Pic.


File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden detail.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1993: Actor-cryptographer [[Niles Cartouchian]] confirms that he personally designed the computational security protocols featured in the action-adventure film ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]''.  
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden detail.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1993: Actor-cryptographer [[Niles Cartouchian]] confirms that he personally designed the computational security protocols featured in the action-adventure film ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]''.  
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File:Linus Pauling.jpg|link=Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|1994: Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator [[Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|Linus Pauling]] dies.
File:Linus Pauling.jpg|link=Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|1994: Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator [[Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|Linus Pauling]] dies.


||Yuri Andreevich Yappa (d. August 19, 1998) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist. He is known for publications on particle physics, quantum field theory, General Relativity, philosophy of science, and for his graduate texts on classical electrodynamics and theory of spinors. Pic.
||1998: Yuri Andreevich Yappa dies ... theoretical physicist. He is known for publications on particle physics, quantum field theory, General Relativity, philosophy of science, and for his graduate texts on classical electrodynamics and theory of spinors. Pic.


||Kenneth N. Stevens (d. August 19, 2013) was the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. Stevens was head of the Speech Communication Group in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and was one of the world's leading scientists in acoustic phonetics. Pic.
||2013: Kenneth N. Stevens dies ... engineer and academic. Stevens was head of the Speech Communication Group in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and was one of the world's leading scientists in acoustic phonetics. Pic.


||Walter Thirring (d. 19 August 2014) was an Austrian physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named.
||2014: Walter Thirring dies ... physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named.


|File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2014: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] celebrates the life and work of [[Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|Linus Pauling]].
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  • 1662: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal dies. He did pioneering work on calculating machines.

    1662: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal dies. He did pioneering work on calculating machines.

  • 1758: Jean-Étienne Montucla received the censor's approbation for his Histoire des mathematiques, which is justly famous as a history of the mathematical sciences.

    1758: Jean-Étienne Montucla received the censor's approbation for his Histoire des mathematiques, which is justly famous as a history of the mathematical sciences.

  • 1822: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre dies. He was one of the first astronomers to derive astronomical equations from analytical formulas.

    1822: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre dies. He was one of the first astronomers to derive astronomical equations from analytical formulas.

  • 1823: Red Eyes Fighting depicts martial artist and crime-fighter Red Eyes breaking up a math lab.

    1823: Red Eyes Fighting depicts martial artist and crime-fighter Red Eyes breaking up a math lab.

  • 1906: Inventor Philo Farnsworth born. He will make many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television.

    1906: Inventor Philo Farnsworth born. He will make many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television.

  • 1993: Actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian confirms that he personally designed the computational security protocols featured in the action-adventure film Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.

    1993: Actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian confirms that he personally designed the computational security protocols featured in the action-adventure film Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.

  • 1994: Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator Linus Pauling dies.

    1994: Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator Linus Pauling dies.

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