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File:Michael Maestlin.jpg|link=Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|1550: Astronomer and mathematician [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]] born. He will be a mentor to [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]], and play a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.
File:Michael Maestlin.jpg|link=Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|1550: Astronomer and mathematician [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]] born. He will be a mentor to [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]], and play a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.


||1813 – John Rae, Scottish physician and explorer (d. 1893)
||1751: Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans born ... inventor of early (perhaps earliest) steamboat. Pic: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Claude_Fran%C3%A7ois_Doroth%C3%A9e_marquis_de_Jouffroy_d%27Abbans.png


||1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
||1813: John Rae born ... physician and explorer.
 
||1870: Jean Baptiste Perrin born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1881: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.  
File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1881: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.  


||Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger (b. 30 September 1882) was a German physicist. He is best known as the co-inventor of the detector component of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus. Pic.
||1882: Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger born ... physicist. He is best known as the co-inventor of the detector component of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus. Pic.


File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1882: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]]'s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1882: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]]'s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.


||Otto Yulyevich Schmidt (b. September 30 1891) was a Soviet scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, academician, Hero of the USSR (27 June 1937), and member of the Communist Party.
||1891: Otto Yulyevich Schmidt born ... scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, academician, Hero of the USSR (27 June 1937), and member of the Communist Party.


||Dirk Jan Struik (b. September 30, 1894) was a Dutch mathematician, historian of mathematics and Marxian theoretician. Pic.
||1894: Dirk Jan Struik born ... mathematician, historian of mathematics and Marxian theoretician. Pic.


||1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
||1905: Nevill Francis Mott born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1910 – Maurice Lévy, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1838)
||1910: Maurice Lévy dies ... mathematician and engineer.


File:Samuel Eilenberg 1970.jpg|link=Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician [[Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|Samuel Eilenberg]] born.  He will co-found category theory with Saunders Mac Lane, and propose the Eilenberg swindle (a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules).  
File:Samuel Eilenberg 1970.jpg|link=Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician [[Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|Samuel Eilenberg]] born.  He will co-found category theory with Saunders Mac Lane, and propose the Eilenberg swindle (a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules).  


||1925 – Arkady Ostashev, Russian engineer and educator (d. 1998)
||1925: Arkady Ostashev born ... engineer and educator.
 
||1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
 
||1939 – Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 
||1943 – Johann Deisenhofer, German-American biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate


||1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
||1935: The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.


||1977 – Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
||1954: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.


||1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
||1977: Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.


||Charles Francis Richter (d. September 30, 1985) was an American seismologist and physicist.
||1980: Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.


||1994 – André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
||1985: Charles Francis Richter dies ... seismologist and physicist.


||1999 – The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
||1994: André Michel Lwoff dies ... microbiologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


|File:Similar Golden Rectangles.png|link=Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Artificial intelligence based on the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]] develops genuine gratitude for [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]]'s approximation of the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]].
||1999: The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.


||Martin Lewis Perl (d. September 30, 2014) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Pic.
||2014: Martin Lewis Perl dies ... physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Pic.


||Bjarni Jónsson (d. September 30, 2016) was an Icelandic mathematician and logician working in universal algebra, lattice theory, model theory and set theory. Pic.
||2016: Bjarni Jónsson dies ... mathematician and logician working in universal algebra, lattice theory, model theory and set theory. Pic.


||Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky (d. 30 September 2017) was a Russian-American mathematician. His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to the award of a Fields Medal in 2002.  Pic.
||2017: Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky dies ... mathematician. His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to the award of a Fields Medal in 2002.  Pic.


File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2018: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' wins three Retroactive Academy Awards for Lifetime Achievement.  
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2018: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' wins three Retroactive Academy Awards for Lifetime Achievement.  


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  • 1550: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin born. He will be a mentor to Johannes Kepler, and play a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.

    1550: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin born. He will be a mentor to Johannes Kepler, and play a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.

  • 1881: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.

    1881: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.

  • 1882: Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.

    1882: Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.

  • 1913: Mathematician Samuel Eilenberg born. He will co-found category theory with Saunders Mac Lane, and propose the Eilenberg swindle (a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules).

    1913: Mathematician Samuel Eilenberg born. He will co-found category theory with Saunders Mac Lane, and propose the Eilenberg swindle (a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules).

  • 2018: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden wins three Retroactive Academy Awards for Lifetime Achievement.

    2018: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden wins three Retroactive Academy Awards for Lifetime Achievement.

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