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||1560 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian aristocrat and serial killer (d. 1614)
||1560: Elizabeth Báthory born ... aristocrat and serial killer.


||1574 – Robert Dudley, English explorer and cartographer (d. 1649)
||1574: Robert Dudley born ... explorer and cartographer.


||1639 – Martin van den Hove, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1605)
||1639: Martin van den Hove dies ... astronomer and mathematician.


||Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (b. 7 August 1779) was a French navigator. He circumnavigated the earth, and in 1811 published the first map to show a full outline of the coastline of Australia. Pic.
||1779: Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet born ... navigator. He circumnavigated the earth, and in 1811 published the first map to show a full outline of the coastline of Australia. Pic.


||1779 – Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (d. 1859)
||1779: Carl Ritter born ... geographer and academic.


||Elias Loomis (b. August 7, 1811) was an American mathematician.
||1811: Elias Loomis born ... mathematician.


File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1834: Weaver and merchant [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] dies. He invented the [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]], an early type of programmable machine.
File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1834: Weaver and merchant [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] dies. He invented the [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]], an early type of programmable machine.


||1844 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and author (d. 1911)
||1844: Auguste Michel-Lévy born ... geologist and author.


||1848 – Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779)
||1848: Jöns Jacob Berzelius dies ... chemist and academic.


File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1847: Scientist, inventor, crime-fighter [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] demonstrates new method of electric telegraphy which detects and prevents [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1847: Scientist, inventor, crime-fighter [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] demonstrates new method of electric telegraphy which detects and prevents [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (d. 1917)
||1876: Mata Hari born ... dancer and spy.


||1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer and author (d. 1917)
||1860: Alan Leo born ... astrologer and author.


||1868 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician (d. 1931)
||1868: Ladislaus Bortkiewicz born ... economist and statistician.


||1903 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (d. 1972)a
||1903: Louis Leakey born ... palaeontologist and archaeologist.


||1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
||1938: Thomas M. Cover born ... information theorist and professor jointly in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University. He devoted almost his entire career to developing the relationship between information theory and statistics. Pic.


||Kon-Tiki: Heyerdahl and five companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 6,900 km (4,300 miles) across the Pacific Ocean before smashing into a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotus on August 7, 1947. The crew made successful landfall and all returned safely. (The trip began on April 28, 1947.)
||1944: IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).


||1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
||1947: Kon-Tiki: Heyerdahl and five companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 6,900 km (4,300 miles) across the Pacific Ocean before smashing into a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotus on August 7, 1947. The crew made successful landfall and all returned safely. (The trip began on April 28, 1947.)
 
||1955" Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.


File:Plumbbob-Stokes barrage balloon.jpg|link=Stokes (nonfiction)|1957: [[Stokes (nonfiction)|Stokes nuclear weapon test]] conducted by the United States.
File:Plumbbob-Stokes barrage balloon.jpg|link=Stokes (nonfiction)|1957: [[Stokes (nonfiction)|Stokes nuclear weapon test]] conducted by the United States.
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||File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1958: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] reprogrammed to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1958: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] reprogrammed to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1959 – Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
||1959: Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.


||1964 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
||1964: Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.


||1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
||1970: California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.


File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|1973: [[Clock Head 2]] generates computational model of High-wire artist Philippe Petit's [[Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center]]. A year later, Petit will use this model to improve his balance during the actual walk.
File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|1973: [[Clock Head 2]] generates computational model of High-wire artist Philippe Petit's [[Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center]]. A year later, Petit will use this model to improve his balance during the actual walk.

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