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|File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|1244: [[Anarchimedes]] acquires large quantity of highly concentrated [[geometry solvent]], threatens to dissolve entire digits from [[Pi (nonfiction)|pi]].


File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1520: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] dies. He produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".
File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1520: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] dies. He produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".


||1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Homonhon in the Philippines.
||1521: Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Homonhon in the Philippines.
 
||1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.


File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1732: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1732: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1741 – Carlo Amoretti, Italian scientist (d. 1816)
||1741: Carlo Amoretti born ... scientist.


File:Daniel Bernoulli.jpg|link=Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter [[Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Daniel Bernoulli]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on applications of mathematics to mechanics to detect and prevent both [[crimes against mathematics]] and [[crimes against physics]].
File:Daniel Bernoulli.jpg|link=Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter [[Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Daniel Bernoulli]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on applications of mathematics to mechanics to detect and prevent both [[crimes against mathematics]] and [[crimes against physics]].
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||1918 – Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998).
||1918 – Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998).


||Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Лодыгин; 18 October 1847 – 16 March 1923) was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor, one of inventors of the incandescent light bulb. Pic.
||1923: Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin dies ... electrical engineer and inventor, one of inventors of the incandescent light bulb. Pic.
 
||1925: August von Wassermann dies ... bacteriologist and hygienist.
 
||1926: History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
 
||1927: Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov born ... test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. He became the first cosmonaut to fly in space twice when he was selected as the solo pilot of Soyuz 1, the first manned test flight of a new spacecraft. A parachute failure caused his Soyuz capsule to crash into the ground after re-entry on 24 April 1967, making him the first human to die in a space flight. Pic.


||1925 – August von Wassermann, German bacteriologist and hygienist (b. 1866)
||1929: Tihomir Novakov born ... physicist and academic.


||1929 – Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist and academic (d. 2015)
||1935: Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.  


||Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (b. 16 March 1927) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. He became the first cosmonaut to fly in space twice when he was selected as the solo pilot of Soyuz 1, the first manned test flight of a new spacecraft. A parachute failure caused his Soyuz capsule to crash into the ground after re-entry on 24 April 1967, making him the first human to die in a space flight. Pic.
||1936: Raymond Vahan Damadian born ... inventor, invented the MRI.


||1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.  
||1940: Thomas Little Heath dies ... civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator, and mountaineer. He was educated at Clifton College. Heath translated works of Euclid of Alexandria, Apollonius of Perga, Aristarchus of Samos, and Archimedes of Syracuse into English. Pic: http://faculty.etsu.edu/gardnerr/geometry-history/heiberg-heath.htm


||1936 – Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian-American inventor, invented the MRI
||1966: Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena target vehicle.


||1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena target vehicle.
File:Palomares H-Bomb Incident.jpg|link=1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1966: After-effects of [[1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1966 Palomares B-52 crash]] reveal new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Palomares H-Bomb Incident.jpg|link=1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1966: After-effects of [[1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1966 Palomares B-52 crash]] reveal new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|1967: ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|1967: ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1988 – Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
||1988: Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.


||1992 – Yves Rocard, French physicist and engineer (b. 1903)
||1992: Yves Rocard dies ... physicist and engineer.


||Prof. C. S. Venkataraman (d. 1994), popularly known as CSV, was a Mathematician from Kerala, India. He specialised in the Theory of numbers and his forte was the Theory of Arithmetic Functions. Pic.
||1994: C. S. Venkataraman dies ... Mathematician ... specialized in the theory of numbers and his forte was the Theory of Arithmetic Functions. Pic.


||1998 – Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
||1998: Derek Barton dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Johannes Benzing (d. 16 March 2001) was a German Turkic specialist and Diplomat in the era of National Socialism and in the Federal Republic of Germany. Benzing worked as a Linguist in Pers Z S, the signals intelligence agency of the German Foreign Office (German: Auswärtiges Amt). He was the youngest senior official (German:Beamter) and headed the section from October 1939 until September 1944. Pic.
||2001: Johannes Benzing dies ... Turkic specialist and Diplomat in the era of National Socialism and in the Federal Republic of Germany. Benzing worked as a Linguist in Pers Z S, the signals intelligence agency of the German Foreign Office (German: Auswärtiges Amt). He was the youngest senior official (German:Beamter) and headed the section from October 1939 until September 1944. Pic.


||2013 – Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (b. 1939)
||2013: Jamal Nazrul Islam dies ... physicist and cosmologist.


File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2014: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].
File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2014: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].

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