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||1602 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (d. 1686)
||1602: Otto von Guericke born ... physicist and politician.


||1695 – Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.
||1695: Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.


||1764 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician and theorist (b. 1690)
||1764: Christian Goldbach dies ... mathematician and theorist.


||1778 – Francesco Cetti, Italian priest, zoologist, and mathematician (b. 1726)
||1778: Francesco Cetti dies ... priest, zoologist, and mathematician.


||1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)
||1820: An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel ''Moby-Dick'' is in part inspired by this story.)


||1841 – Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (d. 1901)
||1841: Victor D'Hondt born ... mathematician, lawyer, and jurist.


||1856 – Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1775)
||1856: Farkas Bolyai dies ... mathematician and academic.


|File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship [[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]] attacked by [[Neptune Slaughter]] in mid-ocean.
||1885: Olive Dennis born ... engineer.


||1885 – Olive Dennis, American engineer (d. 1957)
||1885: Geertruida Luberta de Haas-Lorentz born ... physicist and the first to perform fluctuational analysis of electrons as Brownian particles. Consequently she is considered to be the first woman in electrical noise theory.
 
||Geertruida Luberta de Haas-Lorentz (b. 20 November 1885) was a female Dutch physicist and the first to perform fluctuational analysis of electrons as Brownian particles. Consequently she is considered to be the first woman in electrical noise theory.


File:Edwin Hubble.jpg|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|1889: Astronomer and cosmologist [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|Edwin Hubble]]. He will discover the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.
File:Edwin Hubble.jpg|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|1889: Astronomer and cosmologist [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|Edwin Hubble]]. He will discover the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.


||1892 – James Collip, Canadian biochemist and academic, co-discovered insulin (d. 1965)
||1892: James Collip born ... biochemist and academic, co-discovered insulin.


||1900 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist and author, created Dick Tracy (d. 1985)
||1900: Chester Gould born ... cartoonist and author, created Dick Tracy.


File:Georgy Voronoy.jpg|link=Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|1908: Mathematician [[Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|Georgy Voronoy]] dies. He invented what are today called [[Voronoi diagram (nonfiction)|Voronoi diagrams]] or Voronoi tessellations.
File:Georgy Voronoy.jpg|link=Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|1908: Mathematician [[Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|Georgy Voronoy]] dies. He invented what are today called [[Voronoi diagram (nonfiction)|Voronoi diagrams]] or Voronoi tessellations.


||1910 – Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician, pilot, and academic (d. 1944)
||1910: Willem Jacob van Stockum born ... mathematician, pilot, and academic.
 
||1917: 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.


File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] born.
File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] born.
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File:Fugitive_Rubies_interrogation_800x600.jpg|link=Fugitive Rubies|1924: Captive supervillain [[Fugitive Rubies]] gathering strength for escape attempt, says [[Niles Cartouchian]].
File:Fugitive_Rubies_interrogation_800x600.jpg|link=Fugitive Rubies|1924: Captive supervillain [[Fugitive Rubies]] gathering strength for escape attempt, says [[Niles Cartouchian]].


||1925 – George Barris, American engineer and car designer (d. 2015)
||1925: George Barris born ... engineer and car designer.


File:Willem de Sitter.jpg|link=Willem de Sitter (nonfiction)|1934: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[Willem de Sitter (nonfiction)|Willem de Sitter]] dies. He co-authored a paper with Albert Einstein in 1932 in which they discuss the implications of cosmological data for the curvature of the universe.
File:Willem de Sitter.jpg|link=Willem de Sitter (nonfiction)|1934: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[Willem de Sitter (nonfiction)|Willem de Sitter]] dies. He co-authored a paper with Albert Einstein in 1932 in which they discuss the implications of cosmological data for the curvature of the universe.


||1945 – Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
||1945: Francis William Aston dies ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
||1962: Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.


||1969 – Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.
||1969: Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.


||1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
||1974: The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.


||Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (d. 20 November 1976) was a Soviet agronomist and biologist. Lysenko was a strong proponent of soft inheritance and rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of pseudoscientific ideas termed Lysenkoism. Pic.
||1976: Trofim Denisovich Lysenko dies ... agronomist and biologist. Lysenko was a strong proponent of soft inheritance and rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of pseudoscientific ideas termed Lysenkoism. Pic.


File:Lake Peigneur waterfall.png|link=Lake Peigneur (nonfiction)|1980: [[Lake Peigneur (nonfiction)|Lake Peigneur]] drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
File:Lake Peigneur waterfall.png|link=Lake Peigneur (nonfiction)|1980: [[Lake Peigneur (nonfiction)|Lake Peigneur]] drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
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File:Geometrical frustration icosahedron.jpg|link=Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|1981: Outbreak of [[Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|Geometrical frustration]] releases previously unknown class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]], causing an outbreak of [[Scrimshaw abuse]].
File:Geometrical frustration icosahedron.jpg|link=Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|1981: Outbreak of [[Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|Geometrical frustration]] releases previously unknown class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]], causing an outbreak of [[Scrimshaw abuse]].


||Charles Cameron Conley (d. 20 November 1984) was an American mathematician who worked on dynamical systems.
||1984: Charles Cameron Conley dies ... mathematician who worked on dynamical systems.
 
||Arne Carl-August Beurling (d. 20 November 1986) was a Swedish mathematician and professor of mathematics at Uppsala University (1937–1954) and later at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Beurling worked extensively in harmonic analysis, complex analysis and potential theory. The "Beurling factorization" helped mathematical scientists to understand the Wold decomposition, and inspired further work on the invariant subspaces of linear operators and operator algebras, e.g. Håkan Hedenmalm's factorization theorem for Bergman spaces.


||Alexander Markowich Ostrowski (d. 20 November 1986) was a mathematician.
||1986: Arne Carl-August Beurling dies ... mathematician and professor of mathematics at Uppsala University (1937–1954) and later at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Beurling worked extensively in harmonic analysis, complex analysis and potential theory. The "Beurling factorization" helped mathematical scientists to understand the Wold decomposition, and inspired further work on the invariant subspaces of linear operators and operator algebras, e.g. Håkan Hedenmalm's factorization theorem for Bergman spaces.


||1998 – The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.
||1986: Alexander Markowich Ostrowski dies ... mathematician.


||2000 – Mike Muuss, American computer programmer, created Ping (b. 1958)
||1998: The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.


||2006 – Zoia Ceaușescu, Romanian mathematician and academic (b. 1950)
||2000: Mike Muuss dies ... computer programmer, created Ping.


||2006: Zoia Ceaușescu dies ... mathematician and academic.


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