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||1576 – Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán.
||1576: Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán.


File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1618: Mathematician and astronomer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] discovers the third law of planetary motion.
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1618: Mathematician and astronomer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] discovers the third law of planetary motion.
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File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1775: An anonymous writer, thought by some to be [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]], publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1775: An anonymous writer, thought by some to be [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]], publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.


||1804 – Alvan Clark, American astronomer and optician (d. 1887)
||1804: Alvan Clark born ... astronomer and optician.


File:Ignacy Lukasiewicz.jpg|link=Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1822: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist [[Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Ignacy Łukasiewicz]] born. He will build the world's first oil refinery and invent the kerosene lamp.
File:Ignacy Lukasiewicz.jpg|link=Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1822: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist [[Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Ignacy Łukasiewicz]] born. He will build the world's first oil refinery and invent the kerosene lamp.


||Sir Michael Foster, KCB (b. 8 March 1836) was an English physiologist.
||1836: Michael Foster born ... physiologist.


||James Mason Crafts (b. March 8, 1839) was an American chemist, mostly known for developing the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with Charles Friedel in 1876. Pic.
||1839: James Mason Crafts born ... chemist, mostly known for developing the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with Charles Friedel in 1876. Pic.


||1839 – Josephine Cochrane, American inventor (d. 1913) Dish washing machine
||1839: Josephine Cochrane born ... inventor ... Dish washing machine


File:Hans Christian Ørsted.jpg|link=Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|1840: Physicist, chemist, and crime-fighter [[Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|Hans Christian Ørsted]] uses magnetic fields created by electric currents to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].
File:Hans Christian Ørsted.jpg|link=Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|1840: Physicist, chemist, and crime-fighter [[Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|Hans Christian Ørsted]] uses magnetic fields created by electric currents to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].


||1848 – LaMarcus Adna Thompson, American engineer and businessman, developed the roller coaster (d. 1917)
||1848: LaMarcus Adna Thompson born ... engineer and businessman, developed the roller coaster.


||1853: Edward John Dent does ... clockmaker and inventor whose chronometers were noted for high accuracy. His patents in this field included compasses for navigation and surveying. He experimented with springs made of steel, gold and glass, and devices for counteracting the effects of temperature change upon timepiece mechanisms. As clockmaker to Queen Victoria, he was commissioned to build the Great Clock for the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament (known as Big Ben, although that is actually the nickname of its hour bell) which he began in the year he died. His son, Frederick Dent, completed the work the following year and it was installed in the tower in 1859. It continues to be recognised for its great accuracy of 4 seconds in a year. Pic.
||1853: Edward John Dent does ... clockmaker and inventor whose chronometers were noted for high accuracy. His patents in this field included compasses for navigation and surveying. He experimented with springs made of steel, gold and glass, and devices for counteracting the effects of temperature change upon timepiece mechanisms. As clockmaker to Queen Victoria, he was commissioned to build the Great Clock for the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament (known as Big Ben, although that is actually the nickname of its hour bell) which he began in the year he died. His son, Frederick Dent, completed the work the following year and it was installed in the tower in 1859. It continues to be recognised for its great accuracy of 4 seconds in a year. Pic.


||Ernest Vessiot (b. 8 March 1865) was a French mathematician. Vessiot's work on Picard–Vessiot theory dealt with the integrability of ordinary differential equations. Pic.
||1858: Rudolf Hermann Arndt Kohlrausch dies ... physicist. In 1856, with Wilhelm Weber (1804–1891), he demonstrated that the ratio of electrostatic to electromagnetic units produced a number that matched the value of the then known speed of light. This finding was instrumental towards Maxwell's conjecture that light is an electromagnetic wave. Pic.


||1865 – Frederic Goudy, American type designer, created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style (d. 1947)
||1865: Ernest Vessiot born ... mathematician. Vessiot's work on Picard–Vessiot theory dealt with the integrability of ordinary differential equations. Pic.


||1868 – Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai, Osaka.
||1865: Frederic Goudy born ... type designer, created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style.
 
||1868: Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai, Osaka.


File:Otto Hahn 1970.jpg|link=Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|1879: Chemist and academic [[Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|Otto Hahn]] born. He will pioneer 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)|1879: Chemist and academic [[Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|Otto Hahn]] born. He will pioneer the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission.  


||1886 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
||1886: Edward Calvin Kendall born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1899 – Elmer Keith, American gun designer and author (d. 1984)
||1899: Elmer Keith born ... gun designer and author.


||1889 – John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer, designed the USS Monitor (b. 1803)
||1889: John Ericsson dies ... engineer, designed the USS Monitor.
 
File:Birkeland terrella spiral nebula.jpg|link=Terrella (nonfiction)|1899: Aurora researcher and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist Kristian Birkeland demonstrates his experimental [[Terrella (nonfiction)|Terrella]] to great acclaim while visiting [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. The citizens will subsequently declare March 8 to be Kristian Birkeland Terrella Day.


File:Howard Aiken.jpg|link=Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|1900: Physicist and computer scientist [[Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|Howard H. Aiken]] born. He will design the  Harvard Mark I computer.
File:Howard Aiken.jpg|link=Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|1900: Physicist and computer scientist [[Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|Howard H. Aiken]] born. He will design the  Harvard Mark I computer.
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File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] uses [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] uses [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1910 – French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
||1910: French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.


File:Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich postage stamp.jpg|link=Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|1914: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist [[Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich]] born. He will play a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, studying the effects of nuclear explosions.
File:Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich postage stamp.jpg|link=Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|1914: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist [[Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich]] born. He will play a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, studying the effects of nuclear explosions.


||1917 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
||1917: Ferdinand von Zeppelin dies ... German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company.


||1921 – Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
||1921: Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.


||1922 – Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey (d. 2014)
||1922: Ralph H. Baer born ... video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey (d. 2014)


File:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg|link=Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|1923: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|Johannes Diderik van der Waals]] dies. He won the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
File:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg|link=Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|1923: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|Johannes Diderik van der Waals]] dies. He won the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.


||1924 – Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
||1924: Georges Charpak born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1927: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which which generate stochastic preventive algorithms in response to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1927: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which which generate stochastic preventive algorithms in response to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''.
File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''.


||1942 – José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
||1942: José Raúl Capablanca dies ... chess player and theoretician.
 
||1947 – Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (d. 2011)


||1949 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason.
||1947: Michael S. Hart born ... author, founded Project Gutenberg.


||Rudolf Hermann Arndt Kohlrausch (d. March 8, 1858 in Erlangen) was a German physicist. In 1856, with Wilhelm Weber (1804–1891), he demonstrated that the ratio of electrostatic to electromagnetic units produced a number that matched the value of the then known speed of light. This finding was instrumental towards Maxwell's conjecture that light is an electromagnetic wave. Pic.
||1949: Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason.


||1965 – Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.
||1965: Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.


||1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
||1974: Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.


||Emory Leon Chaffee (d. March 8, 1975) was an American physicist. Pic.
||1975: Emory Leon Chaffee dies ... physicist. Pic.


||1988 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist and academic (b. 1912)
||1988: Werner Hartmann dies ... physicist and academic.


||2005 – César Lattes, Brazilian physicist and academic (b. 1924)
||2005: César Lattes dies ... physicist and academic.


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