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File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1619: [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] writes to [[John Napier (nonfiction)|Napier]] expressing his enthusiasm for Napier's invention of logarithms.
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1619: Astronomer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] writes to [[John Napier (nonfiction)|Napier]] expressing his enthusiasm for Napier's invention of logarithms.


||1635 – Robert Hooke, English physicist and chemist (d. 1703)
||1635: Robert Hooke born ... physicist and chemist.


||1804 – Ludwig Feuerbach, German anthropologist and philosopher (d. 1872)
||1804: Ludwig Feuerbach born ... anthropologist and philosopher.


File:Gaspard Monge.jpg|link=Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|1818: Mathematician and engineer [[Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|Gaspard Monge]] dies. He invented descriptive geometry, and did pioneering work in differential geometry.
File:Gaspard Monge.jpg|link=Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|1818: Mathematician and engineer [[Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|Gaspard Monge]] dies. He invented descriptive geometry, and did pioneering work in differential geometry.


||John Gough (d. 28 July 1825) was a blind English natural and experimental philosopher who is known for his own investigations as well as the influence he had on both John Dalton and William Whewell.
||1825: John Gough dies ... natural and experimental philosopher who is known for his own investigations as well as the influence he had on both John Dalton and William Whewell.


||1866: Metric system approved in the U.S. The first Act of Congress legalizing the employment of the metric system was approved (14 Stat. L. 339). The act provided that it "shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the metric system."
||1866: Metric system approved in the U.S. The first Act of Congress legalizing the employment of the metric system was approved (14 Stat. L. 339). The act provided that it "shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the metric system."


||Jan Evangelista Purkyně (d. 28 July 1869) was a Czech anatomist and physiologist. In 1839, he coined the term 'protoplasm' for the fluid substance of a cell. He was one of the best known scientists of his time. Pic.
||1867: Charles Dillon Perrine born ... astronomer living in Argentina. Pic.


||Ernst Cassirer (b. July 28, 1874) was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science. Pic.
||1869: Jan Evangelista Purkyně dies ... anatomist and physiologist. In 1839, he coined the term 'protoplasm' for the fluid substance of a cell. He was one of the best known scientists of his time. Pic.


||1887 – Marcel Duchamp, French-American painter and sculptor (d. 1968)
||1874: Ernst Cassirer born ... philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science. Pic.


||John Torrence Tate Sr. (b. July 28, 1889) was an American physicist noted for his editorship of Physical Review between 1926 and 1950. He is the father of mathematician John Torrence Tate Jr.
||1887: Marcel Duchamp, French-American painter and sculptor (d. 1968)
 
||1889: John Torrence Tate Sr. born ... physicist noted for his editorship of Physical Review between 1926 and 1950. He is the father of mathematician John Torrence Tate Jr.


File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1899: [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] asked [[Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|Richard Dedekind]] whether the set of all cardinal numbers is itself a set, because, if it is, it would have a cardinal number larger than any other cardinal.
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1899: [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] asked [[Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|Richard Dedekind]] whether the set of all cardinal numbers is itself a set, because, if it is, it would have a cardinal number larger than any other cardinal.
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File:Karl Popper.jpg|link=Karl Popper (nonfiction)|1902: Philosopher and academic [[Karl Popper (nonfiction)|Karl Popper]] born. He will be known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.  
File:Karl Popper.jpg|link=Karl Popper (nonfiction)|1902: Philosopher and academic [[Karl Popper (nonfiction)|Karl Popper]] born. He will be known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.  


||Arthur Sard (b. 28 July 1909) was an American mathematician, famous for his work in differential topology and in spline interpolation. His fame stems primarily from Sard's theorem, which says that the set of critical values of a differential function which has sufficiently many derivatives has measure zero.
||1909: Arthur Sard born ... mathematician, famous for his work in differential topology and in spline interpolation. His fame stems primarily from Sard's theorem, which says that the set of critical values of a differential function which has sufficiently many derivatives has measure zero.


||1915 – Charles Hard Townes, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015) Charles Hard Townes (b. July 28, 1915) was an American physicist and inventor of the maser and laser. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics during 1964 with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov.
||1912: Ugo Fano born ... physicist. He will have a major impact in sustained work over six decades on atomic physics and molecular physics, and earlier on radiological physics. Phenomena named after him will include the Fano resonance profile, the Fano factor, the Fano effect. Pic.


||Ugo Fano (b. July 28, 1912) was an Italian American physicist. He will have a major impact in sustained work over six decades on atomic physics and molecular physics, and earlier on radiological physics. Phenomena named after him will include the Fano resonance profile, the Fano factor, the Fano effect. Pic.
||1915: Charles Hard Townes born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... inventor of the maser and laser. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics during 1964 with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov.


||1922 – Jacques Piccard, Belgian-Swiss oceanographer and engineer (d. 2008)
||1922: Jacques Piccard born ... oceanographer and engineer.


||Herbert John Ryser (b. July 28, 1923) was a professor of mathematics, widely regarded as one of the major figures in combinatorics in the 20th century. He is the namesake of the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem and Ryser's formula for the computation of the permanent of a matrix. Pic.
||1923: Herbert John Ryser born ... professor of mathematics, widely regarded as one of the major figures in combinatorics in the 20th century. He is the namesake of the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem and Ryser's formula for the computation of the permanent of a matrix. Pic.


||1925 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
||1925: Baruch Samuel Blumberg born ... physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)


||Emil Gabriel Warburg (d. 28 July 1931) was a German physicist. He carried out research in the areas of kinetic theory of gases, electrical conductivity, gas discharges, heat radiation, ferromagnetism and photochemistry.
||1931: Emil Gabriel Warburg dies ... physicist. He carried out research in the areas of kinetic theory of gases, electrical conductivity, gas discharges, heat radiation, ferromagnetism and photochemistry.


File:Bonus marchers.gif|link=Bonus Army (nonfiction)|1932: U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the [[Bonus Army (nonfiction)|Bonus Army]].  
File:Bonus marchers.gif|link=Bonus Army (nonfiction)|1932: U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the [[Bonus Army (nonfiction)|Bonus Army]].  


||1939 – The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered.
||1939: The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered.


||Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS, FBA (d. 28 July 1942), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts.  
||1942:  William Matthew Flinders Petrie dies ... Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts.  


||Sir Ralph Howard Fowler OBE FRS (d. 28 July 1944) was a British physicist and astronomer.
||1944: Ralph Howard Fowler dies ... physicist and astronomer.


||Luigi Fantappiè (d. 28 July 1956) was an Italian mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and for creating the theory of analytic functionals. Pic.
||1956: Luigi Fantappiè dies ... mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and for creating the theory of analytic functionals. Pic.


File:Kodaira Kunihiko.jpg|link=Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|Kunihiko Kodaira]] uses algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Kodaira Kunihiko.jpg|link=Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|Kunihiko Kodaira]] uses algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Otto Hahn 1970.jpg|link=Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|1968: Chemist and academic [[Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|Otto Hahn]] dies. He pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission.  
File:Otto Hahn 1970.jpg|link=Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|1968: Chemist and academic [[Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|Otto Hahn]] dies. He pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission.  
|File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|1974: New form of [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] discovered, causing wave of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
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File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "advised President Nixon to have one of the House Judiciary Committee members murdered, as a lesson to the others."
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "advised President Nixon to have one of the House Judiciary Committee members murdered, as a lesson to the others."


||1980 – Rose Rand, Austrian-born American logician and philosopher (b. 1903)
||1980: Rose Rand dies ... logician and philosopher.


||1983: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Starbird dies
||1983: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Starbird dies


||1996 – The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
||1996: The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
 
||1999 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)


||2000 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
||1999: Trygve Haavelmo dies ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2002 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
||2000: Abraham Pais dies ... physicist and historian.


||2004 – Francis Crick, English biologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
||2002: Archer John Porter Martin dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2004: Francis Crick dies ... biologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate.


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  • 1619: Astronomer Johannes Kepler writes to Napier expressing his enthusiasm for Napier's invention of logarithms.

    1619: Astronomer Johannes Kepler writes to Napier expressing his enthusiasm for Napier's invention of logarithms.

  • 1818: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge dies. He invented descriptive geometry, and did pioneering work in differential geometry.

    1818: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge dies. He invented descriptive geometry, and did pioneering work in differential geometry.

  • 1899: Georg Cantor asked Richard Dedekind whether the set of all cardinal numbers is itself a set, because, if it is, it would have a cardinal number larger than any other cardinal.

    1899: Georg Cantor asked Richard Dedekind whether the set of all cardinal numbers is itself a set, because, if it is, it would have a cardinal number larger than any other cardinal.

  • 1902: Philosopher and academic Karl Popper born. He will be known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.

    1902: Philosopher and academic Karl Popper born. He will be known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.

  • 1932: U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the Bonus Army.

    1932: U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the Bonus Army.

  • 1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter Kunihiko Kodaira uses algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter Kunihiko Kodaira uses algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1968: Chemist and academic Otto Hahn dies. He pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission.

    1968: Chemist and academic Otto Hahn dies. He pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission.

  • 1974: Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.

    1974: Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.

  • 1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "advised President Nixon to have one of the House Judiciary Committee members murdered, as a lesson to the others."

    1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "advised President Nixon to have one of the House Judiciary Committee members murdered, as a lesson to the others."

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