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||1535 – The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
||1535: The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.


||1562 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and author (d. 1647)
||1562: Christen Sørensen Longomontanus born ... astronomer and author.


||1669 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1606)
||1669: Rembrandt dies ... painter and illustrator.


||1759 – Louis François Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician and academic (d. 1803)
||1759: Louis François Antoine Arbogast born ... mathematician and academic.


||Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (b. October 4, 1841) was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist.  
||1841: Thomas Corwin Mendenhall born ... autodidact physicist and meteorologist.  


||Léon Serpollet (b. 4 October 1858) was a French industrialist and pioneer of steam automobiles, under the Gardner-Serpollet brand.  
||1858: Léon Serpollet born ... industrialist and pioneer of steam automobiles, under the Gardner-Serpollet brand.  


||Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Ph.D., LL.D. (b. 4 October 1858), also known as Michael I. Pupin was a Serbian American physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization").
||1858: Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin born ... American physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization").


||1864 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
||1864: Joseph Montferrand dies ... logger and strongman.


||Gheorghe Țițeica (b. 4 October 1873) publishing as George or Georges Tzitzeica) was a Romanian mathematician with important contributions in geometry. He is recognized as the founder of the Romanian school of differential geometry. Pic.
||1873: Gheorghe Țițeica born ... mathematician with important contributions in geometry. He is recognized as the founder of the Romanian school of differential geometry. Pic.


||1876 – Florence Eliza Allen, American mathematician and suffrage activist (d. 1960)
||1876: Florence Eliza Allen born ... mathematician and suffrage activist.


||1885: Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk dies ... mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers.
||1885: Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk dies ... mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers.
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||1906: Mary Celine Fasenmyer born ... mathematician.
||1906: Mary Celine Fasenmyer born ... mathematician.


||1916 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
||1916: Vitaly Ginzburg born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1918 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
||1918: Kenichi Fukui born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Kazuhiko Nishijima (b. 4 October 1926) was a Japanese physicist who made significant contributions to particle physics. Pic.
||1926: Kazuhiko Nishijima born ... physicist who made significant contributions to particle physics. Pic.


File:Max Planck 1878.gif|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1947: Physicist and academic [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] dies. He made many contributions to theoretical physics, and earned fame as the originator of quantum theory.
File:Max Planck 1878.gif|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1947: Physicist and academic [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] dies. He made many contributions to theoretical physics, and earned fame as the originator of quantum theory.


||Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel (d. 4 October 1954) was a German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory.  In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device.
||1954: Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel dies ... mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory.  In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device ... "He is perhaps best known for the Hamel basis ... for the real numbers as a vector space over the rational numbers." Data and pic: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Hamel.html


File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|1957: [[Clock Head 2]] stops [[math criminals]] from interfering with the launch of [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]].
File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|1957: [[Clock Head 2]] stops [[math criminals]] from interfering with the launch of [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]].
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File:Sputnik 1.jpg|link=Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|1957: Space Race: Launch of [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]], the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
File:Sputnik 1.jpg|link=Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|1957: Space Race: Launch of [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]], the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.


||Robert Lee Moore (d. October 4, 1974) was an American mathematician who taught for many years at the University of Texas. He is known for his work in general topology, for the Moore method of teaching university mathematics, and for his poor treatment of African-American mathematics students. Pic.
||1974: Robert Lee Moore dies ... mathematician who taught for many years at the University of Texas. He is known for his work in general topology, for the Moore method of teaching university mathematics, and for his poor treatment of African-American mathematics students. Pic.


||1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
||1985: The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.


||Zoltán Lajos Bay (d. October 4, 1992) was a Hungarian physicist, professor, and engineer who developed technologies, including tungsten lamps and microwave devices. Pic.
||1992: Zoltán Lajos Bay dies ... physicist, professor, and engineer who developed technologies, including tungsten lamps and microwave devices. Pic.


||2000 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
||2000: Michael Smith dies ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
||2004: SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.


||Ronald Samuel Rivlin (d. 4 October 2005) was a British-American physicist, mathematician, rheologist and a noted expert on rubber. Pic.
||2005: Ronald Samuel Rivlin dies ... physicist, mathematician, rheologist and a noted expert on rubber. Pic.


File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' sells for five hundred thousand dollars.
File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' sells for five hundred thousand dollars.


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  • 1903: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff born. He will invent the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.

    1903: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff born. He will invent the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.

  • 1947: Physicist and academic Max Planck dies. He made many contributions to theoretical physics, and earned fame as the originator of quantum theory.

    1947: Physicist and academic Max Planck dies. He made many contributions to theoretical physics, and earned fame as the originator of quantum theory.

  • 1957: Clock Head 2 stops math criminals from interfering with the launch of Sputnik 1.

    1957: Clock Head 2 stops math criminals from interfering with the launch of Sputnik 1.

  • 1957: Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

    1957: Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for five hundred thousand dollars.

    2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for five hundred thousand dollars.

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