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||490 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Athenians and their Plataean allies turned back the first Persian invasion of Greece in the Battle of Marathon.
||490 BC: Greco-Persian Wars: Athenians and their Plataean allies turned back the first Persian invasion of Greece in the Battle of Marathon.


||1725 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792)
||1725: Guillaume Le Gentil born ... astronomer.


||1812 – Richard March Hoe, American engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press (d. 1886)
||1812: Richard March Hoe born ... engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press.


||1818 – Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun (d. 1903)
||1818: Richard Jordan Gatling born ... inventor, invented the Gatling gun.


||Sir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster (b. 12 September 1851) was a German-born British physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Pic.
||1851: Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster born ... physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Pic.


||Peter Mark Roget (b. 18 January 1779 – 12 September 1869) was a British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Roget's Thesaurus), a classified collection of related words. Pic.
||1869: Peter Mark Roget born ... physician, natural theologian and lexicographer. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Roget's Thesaurus), a classified collection of related words. Pic.


||1894 – Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Argentinian-English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher (d. 1976)
||1894: Dorothy Maud Wrinch born ... mathematician, biochemist and philosopher.


||Frans Michel Penning (b. 12 September 1894) was a Dutch experimental physicist. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1923, and studied low pressure gas discharges at the Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, developing new electron tubes during World War II. Pic.
||1894: Frans Michel Penning born ... experimental physicist. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1923, and studied low pressure gas discharges at the Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, developing new electron tubes during World War II. Pic.


||1897 – Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)
||1897: Irène Joliot-Curie born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel (b. 12 September 1877) was a German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device.
||1877: Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel born ... mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device.


File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.
File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.


||Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa (d. September 12, 1900) was an American physician.
||1900: Jacob Mendes Da Costa dies ... physician.


||Ernesto Cesàro (d. 12 September 1906) was an Italian mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. pic
||1906: Ernesto Cesàro dies ... mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. pic


||Désiré André (d. September 12, 1917) was a French mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations.
||1917: Désiré André dies ... mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations.


||Maxime Bôcher (d. September 12, 1918) was an American mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him.
||1918: Maxime Bôcher dies ... mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him.


||1923 – Jules Violle, French physicist and academic (b. 1841)
||1923: Jules Violle dies ... physicist and academic.


||1927 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
||1927: Sarah Frances Whiting dies ... physicist and astronomer.


File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|link=Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|1932:  American physicist and crime-fighter [[Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|Arthur Compton]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], based on the Compton effect, use the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|link=Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|1932:  American physicist and crime-fighter [[Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|Arthur Compton]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], based on the Compton effect, use the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1933: [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leó Szilárd]], waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1933: [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leó Szilárd]], waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.


||1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
||1940: Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.


||1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
||1952: Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.


||1959 – The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
||1959: The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.


||1961 – Carl Hermann, German physicist and academic (b. 1898)
||1961: Carl Hermann dies ... physicist and academic.


||1962 – President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
||1962: President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.


||1966 – Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
||1966: Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)


||1992 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
||1992: NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.


||2005 – Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (b. 1927)
||2005: Serge Lang dies ... mathematician, author and academic.


||Ali Javan (d. September 12, 2016) was an Iranian-American physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Pic.
||2009: Erich Leo Lehmann born ... statistician, who made a major contribution to nonparametric hypothesis testing. He is one of the eponyms of the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and of the Hodges–Lehmann estimator of the median of a population. Pic.
 
||2016: Ali Javan dies ... physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Pic.


File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2017: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize.  
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2017: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize.  


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