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||1135 – Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (April 6 also proposed, d. 1204)
||1135: Maimonides born ... rabbi and philosopher. (April 6 also proposed)


||1202 – Joachim of Fiore, Italian mystic and theologian (b. 1135)
||1202: Joachim of Fiore dies ... mystic and theologian.


File:Adam Ries.png|link=Adam Ries (nonfiction)|1599: Mathematician [[Adam Ries (nonfiction)|Adam Ries]] dies. He wrote textbooks for practical mathematics, promoting the advantages of Arabic/Indian numerals over Roman numerals.
File:Adam Ries.png|link=Adam Ries (nonfiction)|1599: Mathematician [[Adam Ries (nonfiction)|Adam Ries]] dies. He wrote textbooks for practical mathematics, promoting the advantages of Arabic/Indian numerals over Roman numerals.


||1606 – Vincentio Reinieri, Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. 1647)
||1606: Vincentio Reinieri born ... mathematician and astronomer.


||Kazimierz Łyszczyński (Polish pronunciation: [kaˈʑimjɛʂ wɨˈʂt͡ʂɨɲskʲi] (d. March 30, 1689 in Warsaw, Poland), also known in English as Casimir Liszinski, was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, landowner in Brest Litovsk Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, philosopher, and soldier in the ranks of the Sapieha family, who was accused, tried, and executed for atheism in 1689.
||1689: Kazimierz Łyszczyński dies ... Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, landowner in Brest Litovsk Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, philosopher, and soldier in the ranks of the Sapieha family, who was accused, tried, and executed for atheism in 1689.


||1707 – Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, French general and engineer (b. 1633)
||1707: Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban dies ... general and engineer.


||Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (b. 30 March 1754) was a French chemistry and physics teacher, and one of the first pioneers of aviation. He and the Marquis d'Arlandes made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon.
||1754: Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier born ... chemistry and physics teacher, and one of the first pioneers of aviation. He and the Marquis d'Arlandes made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon.


File:Robert Bunsen.jpg|link=Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|1811: Chemist and academic [[Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|Robert Bunsen]] born. He will investigate emission spectra of heated elements, and discover caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
File:Robert Bunsen.jpg|link=Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|1811: Chemist and academic [[Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|Robert Bunsen]] born. He will investigate emission spectra of heated elements, and discover caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.


||Stephen Groombridge FRS (d. 30 March 1832) was a British merchant and astronomer.
||1832: Stephen Groombridge dies ... merchant and astronomer.


||1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
||1842: Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.


||1857 – Léon Charles Thévenin, French engineer (d. 1926) no pic
||1857: Léon Charles Thévenin born ... engineer. no pic


File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|1862: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] uses the ideas of functions and probability to locate and apprehend [[math criminals]].
File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|1862: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] uses the ideas of functions and probability to locate and apprehend [[math criminals]].


||Auguste Bravais (d. 30 March 1863) was a French physicist known for his work in crystallography, the conception of Bravais lattices, and the formulation of Bravais law. Pic.
||1863: Auguste Bravais dies ... physicist known for his work in crystallography, the conception of Bravais lattices, and the formulation of Bravais law. Pic.


||Heinrich Rubens (b. 30 March 1865) was a German physicist. He is known for his measurements of the energy of black-body radiation which led Max Planck to the discovery of his radiation law. This was the genesis of quantum theory. Pic.
||1865: Heinrich Rubens born ... physicist. He is known for his measurements of the energy of black-body radiation which led Max Planck to the discovery of his radiation law. This was the genesis of quantum theory. Pic.


||1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
||1867: Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.


File:Stanisław Leśniewski.jpg|link=Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|1886: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician [[Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|Stanisław Leśniewski]] born. He will posit three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.
File:Stanisław Leśniewski.jpg|link=Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|1886: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician [[Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|Stanisław Leśniewski]] born. He will posit three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.


||1888 – J. R. Williams, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1957)
||1888: J. R. Williams born ... cartoonist.


File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=On Halting Problems|1891: [[On Halting Problems|Asclepius Myrmidon discovers unregistered halting problem]], predicts new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=On Halting Problems|1891: [[On Halting Problems|Asclepius Myrmidon discovers unregistered halting problem]], predicts new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1892: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] born. He will be one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1892: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] born. He will be one of the founders of modern functional analysis.


||Erwin Panofsky (b. March 30, 1892) was a German-Jewish art historian, whose academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime. Panofsky's work represents a high point in the modern academic study of iconography, which he used in hugely influential works like his "little book" Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art and his masterpiece, Early Netherlandish Painting.
||1892: Erwin Panofsky born ... art historian, whose academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime. Panofsky's work represents a high point in the modern academic study of iconography, which he used in hugely influential works like his "little book" Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art and his masterpiece, Early Netherlandish Painting.


||1894 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer, founded Ilyushin Aircraft Company (d. 1977)
||1894: Sergey Ilyushin born ... engineer, founded Ilyushin Aircraft Company.


||1899 – German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
||1899: German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.


||1905 – Albert Pierrepoint, English hangman (d. 1992)
||1905: Albert Pierrepoint born ... hangman.


||1910 – Józef Marcinkiewicz, Polish soldier, mathematician, and academic (d. 1940)
||1910: Józef Marcinkiewicz born ... soldier, mathematician, and academic.


||Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (d. March 30, 1911) was an industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition. Pic.
||1911: Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards dies ... industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition. Pic.


||John Henry Poynting (d. 30 March 1914) was an English physicist. He was the developer and eponym of the Poynting vector, which describes the direction and magnitude of electromagnetic energy flow and is used in the Poynting theorem, a statement about energy conservation for electric and magnetic fields. Pic.
||1914: John Henry Poynting dies ... physicist. He was the developer and eponym of the Poynting vector, which describes the direction and magnitude of electromagnetic energy flow and is used in the Poynting theorem, a statement about energy conservation for electric and magnetic fields. Pic.


||1919 – McGeorge Bundy, American intelligence officer and diplomat, 6th United States National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
||1919: McGeorge Bundy born ... American intelligence officer and diplomat ....


||1919 – Robin M. Williams, New Zealand mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
||1919: Robin M. Williams born ... mathematician and academic.


||1922 – Arthur Wightman, American physicist and academic (d. 2013)
||1922: Arthur Wightman born ... mathematical physicist. He was one of the founders of the axiomatic approach to quantum field theory, and originated the set of Wightman axioms. Pic: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/01/30/esteemed-princeton-mathematical-physicist-and-mentor-arthur-wightman-dies


||Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (b. 30 March 1929) was a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician. During a career that spanned 60 years he made major contributions to applied science as well as pure mathematics. In the last forty years his research focused on pure mathematics; in particular, analytic number theory, group representations and algebraic geometry. His main contribution and impact was in the area of automorphic forms and L-functions. Pic.
||1929: Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro born ... mathematician. During a career that spanned 60 years he made major contributions to applied science as well as pure mathematics. In the last forty years his research focused on pure mathematics; in particular, analytic number theory, group representations and algebraic geometry. His main contribution and impact was in the area of automorphic forms and L-functions. Pic.


||Sir Charles Vernon Boys, FRS (d. 30 March 1944) was a British physicist, known for his careful and innovative experimental work.
||1944: Charles Vernon Boys dies ... physicist, known for his careful and innovative experimental work.


||Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius (d. 30 March 1949) was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1931, together with Carl Bosch) in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods. Pic.
||1949: Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius dies ... chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1931, together with Carl Bosch) in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods. Pic.


||1954: Physicist and academic Fritz Wolfgang London dies. He made fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces (London dispersion forces). With his brother Heinz London, he made a significant contribution to understanding electromagnetic properties of superconductors with the London equations.  
||1954: Physicist and academic Fritz Wolfgang London dies. He made fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces (London dispersion forces). With his brother Heinz London, he made a significant contribution to understanding electromagnetic properties of superconductors with the London equations.  


||1961 – Philibert Jacques Melotte, English astronomer (b. 1880)
||1961: Philibert Jacques Melotte dies ... astronomer.


File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|1979: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]] uses the neutron scattering technique to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].
File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|1979: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]] uses the neutron scattering technique to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].


||Cornelis Jacobus (Cor) Gorter (b. 30 March 1980) was a Dutch experimental and theoretical physicist. Among other work, he discovered paramagnetic relaxation and was a pioneer in low temperature physics.
||1980: Cornelis Jacobus (Cor) Gorter dies ... experimental and theoretical physicist. Among other work, he discovered paramagnetic relaxation and was a pioneer in low temperature physics. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/prof-dr-Cornelis-Jacobus-Gorter/6000000070153909853


||1982 – Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
||1982: Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.


||John Lighton Synge (d. 30 March 1995) was an Irish mathematician and physicist, whose seven decade career included significant periods in Ireland, Canada, and the USA. He was a prolific author and influential mentor, and is credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity.
||1995: John Lighton Synge dies ... mathematician and physicist, whose seven decade career included significant periods in Ireland, Canada, and the USA. He was a prolific author and influential mentor, and is credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity.


File:Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.jpg|link=Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|1996: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] uses his [[Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles (nonfiction)|loxodromic sequence of tangent circles]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.jpg|link=Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|1996: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] uses his [[Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles (nonfiction)|loxodromic sequence of tangent circles]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||2008 – Roland Fraïssé, French mathematical logician (b. 1920)
||2008: Roland Fraïssé dies ... mathematical logician.


||2010 – Morris R. Jeppson, American lieutenant and physicist (b. 1922)
||2010: Morris R. Jeppson dies ... American lieutenant and physicist.


 
||2017: SpaceX conducts the world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket.
||2017 – SpaceX conducts the world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket.


File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2018: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] attends Minicon 53, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 52 and 54.
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2018: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] attends Minicon 53, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 52 and 54.


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