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||1909: Wolfgang R. Wasow born ... mathematician known for his work in asymptotic expansions and their applications in differential equations. Pic.
||1909: Wolfgang R. Wasow born ... mathematician known for his work in asymptotic expansions and their applications in differential equations. Pic.


||1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes.
||1909: Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes.


File:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|link=Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|1920: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer [[Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|Rosalind Franklin]] born. She will make contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
File:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|link=Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|1920: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer [[Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|Rosalind Franklin]] born. She will make contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
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||1920: The first trans-Atlantic two-way radio broadcast was made. Source needed.
||1920: The first trans-Atlantic two-way radio broadcast was made. Source needed.


||1923 – Edgar Gilbert, American mathematician and theorist (d. 2013)
||1923: Edgar Gilbert born ... mathematician and theorist.


||Debabrata Basu (b. 5 July 1924) was an Indian statistician who made fundamental contributions to the foundations of statistics.
||1924: Debabrata Basu born ... statistician who made fundamental contributions to the foundations of statistics.


||Gene Franklin (b. July 25, 1927) was an American electrical engineer and control theorist known for his pioneering work towards the advancement of the control systems engineering – a subfield of electrical engineering. Most of his work on control theory was adapted immediately into NASA's U.S. space program, most famously in the control systems for the Apollo missions to the moon in 1960s–70s.  Pic.
||1927: Gene Franklin born ... electrical engineer and control theorist known for his pioneering work towards the advancement of the control systems engineering – a subfield of electrical engineering. Most of his work on control theory was adapted immediately into NASA's U.S. space program, most famously in the control systems for the Apollo missions to the moon in 1960s–70s.  Pic.


||1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
||1925: Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.


||1934 – The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
||1934: The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.


||1946 – Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.
||1946: Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.


File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1963: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which he derived using the Monte Carlo method. He will soon use these new functions to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1963: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which he derived using the Monte Carlo method. He will soon use these new functions to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
||1965: Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.


||1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
||1969: Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.


||1973 – Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
||1973: Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.


||1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
||1976: Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.


File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: The [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter is turned off after returning almost 16,000 images in about 700–706 orbits around Mars.
File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: The [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter is turned off after returning almost 16,000 images in about 700–706 orbits around [[Mar (nonfiction)|Mars]].


||1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
||1984: Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.


||Charles Stark "Doc" Draper (d. July 25, 1987) was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA.
||1987: Charles Stark "Doc" Draper dies ... scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA.


||2003 – Ludwig Bölkow, German aero engineer (b. 1912) Messer-262
||2003: Ludwig Bölkow dies ... aero engineer ... Messer-262


||2008 – Tracy Hall, American chemist and academic (b. 1919) synth diamond
||2008: Tracy Hall dies ... chemist and academic ... synth diamond


||2008 – Randy Pausch, American computer scientist and educator (b. 1960) interface design
||2008: Randy Pausch dies ... computer scientist and educator ... interface design


||2013 – Hugh Huxley, English-American biologist and academic (b. 1924)
||2013: Hugh Huxley dies ... biologist and academic.


File:Lend a Hand.jpg|link=Lend a Hand (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Lend a Hand (nonfiction)|Lend a Hand]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment unexpectedly generates [[organic golems]].
File:Lend a Hand.jpg|link=Lend a Hand (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Lend a Hand (nonfiction)|Lend a Hand]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment unexpectedly generates "at least a dozen, perhaps as many as fifteen" [[organic golems]].
 
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' observes a minute of silence in memory of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter, which was turned off forty-one years ago, after returning almost 16,000 images in about 700–706 orbits around [[Mar (nonfiction)|Mars]].


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  • 1616: Physician, alchemist and chemist Andreas Libavius dies. He accepted the Paracelsian principle of using occult properties to explain phenomena with no apparent cause, but rejected the conclusion that a thing possessing these properties must have an astral connection to the divine.

    1616: Physician, alchemist and chemist Andreas Libavius dies. He accepted the Paracelsian principle of using occult properties to explain phenomena with no apparent cause, but rejected the conclusion that a thing possessing these properties must have an astral connection to the divine.

  • 1617: Astronomer, mathematician, and crime-fighter Paul Guldin uses the Guldinus theorem to track down and apprehend math criminals.

    1617: Astronomer, mathematician, and crime-fighter Paul Guldin uses the Guldinus theorem to track down and apprehend math criminals.

  • 1748: Astronomer Charles Messier's interest in astronomy is stimulated by an annular solar eclipse visible from his hometown.

    1748: Astronomer Charles Messier's interest in astronomy is stimulated by an annular solar eclipse visible from his hometown.

  • 1808: Mathematician Johann Benedict Listing born. He will introduce the term "topology" in a famous article published in 1847, having already used the term in correspondence some years earlier.

    1808: Mathematician Johann Benedict Listing born. He will introduce the term "topology" in a famous article published in 1847, having already used the term in correspondence some years earlier.

  • 1836: New steganographic analysis of famed illustration Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus reveals several terabytes of encrypted data.

    1836: New steganographic analysis of famed illustration Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus reveals several terabytes of encrypted data.

  • 1837: The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.

    1837: The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.

  • 1842: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey dies. He was an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, and is often considered the first modern military surgeon.

    1842: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey dies. He was an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, and is often considered the first modern military surgeon.

  • 1864: The well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery "is a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," Judge Havelock tells interviewer.

    1864: The well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery "is a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," Judge Havelock tells interviewer.

  • 1920: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin born. She will make contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).

    1920: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin born. She will make contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).

  • 1963: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which he derived using the Monte Carlo method. He will soon use these new functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1963: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which he derived using the Monte Carlo method. He will soon use these new functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 orbiter is turned off after returning almost 16,000 images in about 700–706 orbits around Mars.

    1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 orbiter is turned off after returning almost 16,000 images in about 700–706 orbits around Mars.

  • 2016: Signed first edition of Lend a Hand used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly generates "at least a dozen, perhaps as many as fifteen" organic golems.

    2016: Signed first edition of Lend a Hand used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly generates "at least a dozen, perhaps as many as fifteen" organic golems.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a minute of silence in memory of the Viking 2 orbiter, which was turned off forty-one years ago, after returning almost 16,000 images in about 700–706 orbits around Mars.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a minute of silence in memory of the Viking 2 orbiter, which was turned off forty-one years ago, after returning almost 16,000 images in about 700–706 orbits around Mars.

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