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||Christoph Grienberger (also variously spelled Gruemberger, Bamberga, Bamberger, Banbergiera, Gamberger, Ghambergier, Granberger, Panberger) (b. 2 July 1561) was an Austrian Jesuit astronomer, after whom the crater Gruemberger on the Moon is named.
||1561: Christoph Grienberger born ... Jesuit astronomer, after whom the crater Gruemberger on the Moon is named.


||1566 – Nostradamus, French astrologer and author (b. 1503)
||1566: Nostradamus dies ... astrologer and author.


||Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (d. July 2, 1613) was a 16th-century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word trigonometry. Pic - book cover.
||1613: Bartholomaeus Pitiscus dies ... trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word trigonometry. Pic - book cover.


||1621 – Thomas Harriot, English astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer (b. 1560)
||1621: Thomas Harriot dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer.


||René-François Walter de Sluse (b. 2 July 1622) was a Walloon mathematician and churchman. The Conchoid of de Sluze is named after him.  
||1622: René-François Walter de Sluse born ... mathematician and churchman. The Conchoid of de Sluze is named after him.  


File:Thomas Savery.gif|link=Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|1698: [[Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|Thomas Savery]] patents the first steam engine.  Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.
File:Thomas Savery.gif|link=Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|1698: [[Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|Thomas Savery]] patents the first steam engine.  Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.
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||1798: John Fitch dies ... inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer. He was most famous for operating the first steamboat service in the United States. Pic.
||1798: John Fitch dies ... inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer. He was most famous for operating the first steamboat service in the United States. Pic.


||1822 – Thirty-five slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion.
||1822: Thirty-five slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion.


||Bailie Hugh Blackburn (b. 2 July 1823) was a Scottish mathematician. A lifelong friend of William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), and the husband of illustrator Jemima Blackburn, he was professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow from 1849 to 1879. Pic.
||1823: Bailie Hugh Blackburn born ... mathematician. A lifelong friend of William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), and the husband of illustrator Jemima Blackburn, he was professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow from 1849 to 1879. Pic.


||Aleksander Zaytsev (b. 2 July 1841), was a Russian chemist. He worked on organic compounds and proposed Zaitsev's rule, which predicts the product composition of an elimination reaction. Pic.
||Aleksander Zaytsev (b. 2 July 1841), was a Russian chemist. He worked on organic compounds and proposed Zaitsev's rule, which predicts the product composition of an elimination reaction. Pic.
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||Olga Arsenievna Oleinik (b. 2 July 1925) was a Soviet mathematician who conducted pioneering work on the theory of partial differential equations, the theory of strongly inhomogeneous elastic media, and the mathematical theory of boundary layers.  Pic.
||Olga Arsenievna Oleinik (b. 2 July 1925) was a Soviet mathematician who conducted pioneering work on the theory of partial differential equations, the theory of strongly inhomogeneous elastic media, and the mathematical theory of boundary layers.  Pic.


||1926 – Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist (b. 1857)
||1926: Émile Coué dies ... psychologist and pharmacist.


||1934 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
||1934: The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.


File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1937: Pilot and author [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1937: Pilot and author [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.


||Hans Albrecht Bethe (b. July 2, 1906) was a German and American nuclear physicist who, in addition to making important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.
||1906: Hans Albrecht Bethe born ... nuclear physicist who, in addition to making important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.


||1966 – The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb code-named Aldébaran in Moruroa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
||1947: Nikolai Chebotaryov dies ... mathematician and theorist ... best known for the Chebotaryov density theorem. Pic.


||On July 2, 1967, at 14:19 UTC, the Vela 4 and Vela 3 satellites detected a flash of gamma radiation unlike any known nuclear weapons signature. Uncertain what had happened but not considering the matter particularly urgent, the team at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, led by Ray Klebesadel, filed the data away for investigation. As additional Vela satellites were launched with better instruments, the Los Alamos team continued to find inexplicable gamma-ray bursts in their data. By analyzing the different arrival times of the bursts as detected by different satellites, the team was able to determine rough estimates for the sky positions of sixteen bursts and definitively rule out a terrestrial or solar origin. The discovery was declassified and published in 1973 as an Astrophysical Journal article entitled "Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts of Cosmic Origin". This alerted the astronomical community to the existence of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), now recognised as the most violent events in the universe.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_(satellite)
||1966: The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb code-named Aldébaran in Moruroa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.


||1988 – Vibert Douglas, Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1894)
||1967: Vela 4 and Vela 3 satellites detected a flash of gamma radiation unlike any known nuclear weapons signature. Uncertain what had happened but not considering the matter particularly urgent, the team at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, led by Ray Klebesadel, filed the data away for investigation. As additional Vela satellites were launched with better instruments, the Los Alamos team continued to find inexplicable gamma-ray bursts in their data. By analyzing the different arrival times of the bursts as detected by different satellites, the team was able to determine rough estimates for the sky positions of sixteen bursts and definitively rule out a terrestrial or solar origin. The discovery was declassified and published in 1973 as an Astrophysical Journal article entitled "Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts of Cosmic Origin". This alerted the astronomical community to the existence of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), now recognised as the most violent events in the universe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_(satellite)


||2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
||1988: Vibert Douglas dies ... astronomer and astrophysicist.


||2013 – Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse (b. 1925)
||2002: Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.


||2013 – Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American chemist, academic, and astronaut (b. 1933)
||2013: Douglas Engelbart dies ... computer scientist, invented the computer mouse.


||2014 – Manuel Cardona, Spanish physicist and academic (b. 1934)
||2013: Anthony Llewellyn dies ... chemist, academic, and astronaut.


||2014 – Harold W. Kuhn, American mathematician and academic (b. 1925)
||2014: Manuel Cardona dies ... physicist and academic.


||Rudolf Emil Kálmán (d. July 2, 2016) was a Hungarian-born American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He was most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control. Pic.
||2014: Harold W. Kuhn dies ... mathematician and academic.
 
||2016: Rudolf Emil Kálmán dies ... electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He was most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control. Pic.


File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes series of pictures through the Enlightenment in France, in honor of [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques Rousseau]].
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes series of pictures through the Enlightenment in France, in honor of [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques Rousseau]].
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  • 1698: Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine. Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.

    1698: Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine. Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.

  • 1699: Omar Khayyam publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1699: Omar Khayyam publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1778: Philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe.

    1778: Philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe.

  • 1850: Stokes' theorem appeared for the first time as a postscript to a letter from Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) to Stokes. By the time Stokes died, the theorem was universally known as "Stokes' theorem."

    1850: Stokes' theorem appeared for the first time as a postscript to a letter from Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) to Stokes. By the time Stokes died, the theorem was universally known as "Stokes' theorem."

  • 1897: British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.

    1897: British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.

  • 1937: Pilot and author Amelia Earhart disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.

    1937: Pilot and author Amelia Earhart disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.

  • 2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes series of pictures through the Enlightenment in France, in honor of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

    2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes series of pictures through the Enlightenment in France, in honor of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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