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|File:Kells genealogy of Christ.jpg|link=Uncial script (nonfiction)|601: New version of [[Uncial script (nonfiction)|Uncial script]] includes proto-[[Gnomon algorithm]] characters.


||1440 Hartmann Schedel, German physician (d. 1514)
||1440: Hartmann Schedel born ... physician.


||1523 Valentin Naboth, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1593)
||1523: Valentin Naboth born ... astronomer and mathematician.


||1633 Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
||1633: Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.


||1672 Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (d. 1731)
||1672: Étienne François Geoffroy born ... physician and chemist.


||1728 John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and anatomist (d. 1793)
||1728: John Hunter born ... surgeon and anatomist.


File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1787: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] dies. He was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1787: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] dies. He was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
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||1865: Dugald Caleb Jackson born ... electrical engineer. He received the IEEE Edison Medal for "outstanding and inspiring leadership in engineering education and in the field of generation and distribution of electric power".
||1865: Dugald Caleb Jackson born ... electrical engineer. He received the IEEE Edison Medal for "outstanding and inspiring leadership in engineering education and in the field of generation and distribution of electric power".
||1865: Theodor Kober born ... aviation engineer who contributed to the building of the first Zeppelin. Pic: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Kober


||1880: Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
||1880: Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
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||1900: Abraham Plessner born ... mathematician. He published a paper containing what is now called Plessner's theorem, concerning the boundary behavior of functions meromorphic in the unit disk. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Abraham-E-Plessner/6000000000601380840
||1900: Abraham Plessner born ... mathematician. He published a paper containing what is now called Plessner's theorem, concerning the boundary behavior of functions meromorphic in the unit disk. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Abraham-E-Plessner/6000000000601380840


||Magnus Rudolph Hestenes (b. February 13, 1906) was an American mathematician. Together with Cornelius Lanczos and Eduard Stiefel, he invented the conjugate gradient method. Pic.
||1906: Magnus Rudolph Hestenes born ... mathematician. Together with Cornelius Lanczos and Eduard Stiefel, he invented the conjugate gradient method. Pic.


File:William Shockley.jpg|link=William Shockley (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist and inventor [[William Shockley (nonfiction)|William Shockley]] born. He will share the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the [[Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|point-contact transistor]].  
File:William Shockley.jpg|link=William Shockley (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist and inventor [[William Shockley (nonfiction)|William Shockley]] born. He will share the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the [[Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|point-contact transistor]].  
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|File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1955: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]], revealing new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1955: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]], revealing new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1955 Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
||1955: Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.


||1960 With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
||1960: With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.


||1961 An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
||1961: An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.


File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg|link=Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1956: Mathematician and philosopher [[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]] dies.  He thought innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle.
File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg|link=Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1956: Mathematician and philosopher [[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]] dies.  He thought innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle.


||1967 American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
||1967: American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.


||Marian Adam Rejewski (d. 13 February 1980) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who reconstructed the Nazi German military Enigma cipher machine sight-unseen in 1932. The cryptologic achievements of Rejewski and colleagues Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski enabled the British to begin reading German Enigma-encrypted messages at the start of World War II.  Pic.
||1980: Marian Adam Rejewski dies ... mathematician and cryptologist who reconstructed the Nazi German military Enigma cipher machine sight-unseen in 1932. The cryptologic achievements of Rejewski and colleagues Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski enabled the British to begin reading German Enigma-encrypted messages at the start of World War II.  Pic.


||1992: Nikolay Bogolyubov dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. His method of teaching, based on creation of a warm atmosphere, politeness and kindness, is famous in Russia and is known as the "Bogoliubov approach".
||1992: Nikolay Bogolyubov dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. His method of teaching, based on creation of a warm atmosphere, politeness and kindness, is famous in Russia and is known as the "Bogoliubov approach".

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