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|File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1114: [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyam]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] equations.


File:Albertus Magnus.jpg|link=Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher [[Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|Albertus Magnus]] dies. He was known during his lifetime as ''doctor universalis'' and ''doctor expertus'' and, late in his life, the term ''magnus'' was appended to his name.
File:Albertus Magnus.jpg|link=Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher [[Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|Albertus Magnus]] dies. He was known during his lifetime as ''doctor universalis'' and ''doctor expertus'' and, late in his life, the term ''magnus'' was appended to his name.


||Michel Floréal Chasles (b. 15 November 1793) was a French mathematician.
||1793: Michel Floréal Chasles born ... mathematician.


File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes Fighting|1797: Philosopher and crime-fighter ''[[Red Eyes Fighting]]'' defeats gang of [[Crimes against mathematical constants|math criminals]] in close-quarters combat.
File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes Fighting|1797: Philosopher and crime-fighter ''[[Red Eyes Fighting]]'' defeats gang of [[Crimes against mathematical constants|math criminals]] in close-quarters combat.
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File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] born. He discovered laws of planetary motion.
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] born. He discovered laws of planetary motion.


||1688 Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1757)
||1688: Louis Bertrand Castel born ... mathematician and philosopher.


||1738 William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (d. 1822)
||1738: William Herschel born ... astronomer and composer.


||1793 Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (d. 1880)
||1793: Michel Chasles born ... mathematician and academic.


||1819 Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
||1819: Daniel Rutherford dies ... chemist and physician.


||1849 – Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and educator (d. 1934)
||1839: William Murdock dies ... inventor who was the first to make extensive use of coal gas for illumination and a pioneer in the development of steam power. He joined James Watt and Matthew Boulton and in 1784 he was sent to supervise the installation of Boulton & Watt steam engines working pumping equipment in Cornish tin mines. While there, he tested his ideas to use the gas given off by burning coal. From an iron retort in the backyard of his home, he ran a metal tube into his living room. On 29 Jul 1792, Murdock achieved a gas flame inside the room. In 1802, Boulton installed two gas lamps outside his Soho factory. Next year, the foundry was entirely illuminated by gas. Shortly, Boulton & Watt began to sell lighting and heating equipment with Murdock as a partner in the business. Pic.


||1868 – Emil Racoviță, Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer (d. 1947)
||1849: Mary E. Byrd born ... astronomer and educator.


||1874 – August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
||1868: Emil Racoviță born ... biologist, zoologist, and explorer.


||Sir Frederick Handley Page, CBE, FRAeS (b. 15 November 1885) was an English industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber.
||1874: August Krogh born ... zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1885: Frederick Handley Page born ... industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber.


File:Bauernrauferei beim Kartenspiel Adriaen Brouwer.jpg|link=Donnybrook (nonfiction)|1894: [[Donnybrook (nonfiction)|Donnybrook]] breaks out, [[Extract of Radium]] abuse suspected.
File:Bauernrauferei beim Kartenspiel Adriaen Brouwer.jpg|link=Donnybrook (nonfiction)|1894: [[Donnybrook (nonfiction)|Donnybrook]] breaks out, [[Extract of Radium]] abuse suspected.


||Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin (b. November 15, 1894) was a Russian mathematician who made major contributions to the fields of general topology and descriptive set theory. His name is especially associated to Suslin's problem, a question relating to totally ordered sets
||1894: Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin born ... mathematician who made major contributions to the fields of general topology and descriptive set theory. His name is especially associated to Suslin's problem, a question relating to totally ordered sets


||Edward Marczewski (b. 15 November 1907) was a Polish mathematician.  Pic.
||1907: Edward Marczewski born ... mathematician.  Pic.


||1908 Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth (d. 1979)
||1908: Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth.


||1912 Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (d. 2010)
||1912: Harald Keres born ... physicist and academic.


||Martin Nodell (b. November 15, 1915) was an American cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern.  
||1915: Martin Nodell born ... cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern.  


||1919 Alfred Werner, French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
||1919: Alfred Werner dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1922 Petros Protopapadakis, Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1854)
||1922: Petros Protopapadakis dies ... mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece.


||1922 Francis Brunn, German juggler (d. 2004)
||1922: Francis Brunn born ... juggler (d. 2004)


||1922 David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist and academic
||1922: David Sidney Feingold born ... biochemist and academic.


||Stephen Warshall (b. November 15, 1935) was an American computer scientist.
||1935: Stephen Warshall born ... computer scientist.


||1939 Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (d. 2015) She said that there was a secret exchange program between humans and aliens that was being deliberately suppressed by "powerful Western governments", particularly the United States.
||1939: Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde born ... physician and parapsychologist. She said that there was a secret exchange program between humans and aliens that was being deliberately suppressed by "powerful Western governments", particularly the United States.


||1959 Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
||1959: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson dies ... physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1966 Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
||1966: Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.


||1967 The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
||1967: The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.


||1969 Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
||1969: Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.


||1969 Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
||1969: Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".


||1971 Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
||1971: Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.


||1979 A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
||1979: A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.


File:Walter_Heitler.jpg|link=Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|1981: Physicist and chemist [[Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|Walter Heinrich Heitler]] dies. He made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.
File:Walter_Heitler.jpg|link=Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|1981: Physicist and chemist [[Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|Walter Heinrich Heitler]] dies. He made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.


||1985 A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
||1985: A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.


||1988 In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
||1988: In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.


||1990 Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
||1990: Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.


File:San Francisco Muni worm logo.png|link=San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|2016: [[San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|San Francisco Muni hack]] begins, data held hostage for ransom.
File:San Francisco Muni worm logo.png|link=San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|2016: [[San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|San Francisco Muni hack]] begins, data held hostage for ransom.

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