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||1719 – Johann Friedrich Böttger, German chemist and potter (b. 1682)
||1719: Johann Friedrich Böttger dies ... chemist and potter.


|File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1763: Mathematician [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1763: Mathematician [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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|link=William Herschel (nonfiction)|1781: Astronomer [[William Herschel (nonfiction)|William Herschel]] discovers Uranus.
|link=William Herschel (nonfiction)|1781: Astronomer [[William Herschel (nonfiction)|William Herschel]] discovers Uranus.


||Joseph Johann von Littrow (b. 13 March 1781) was an Austrian astronomer.
||1781: Joseph Johann von Littrow born ... astronomer.


||Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (b. 13 March 1842) was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat.
||1842: Joseph Valentin Boussinesq born ... mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat.


||1855 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1916)
||1855: Percival Lowell born ... astronomer and mathematician.


File:Jacquard loom with two children and a dog (circa 1877).jpg|link=Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|1877: Children reprogram [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]] to compute new family of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Jacquard loom with two children and a dog (circa 1877).jpg|link=Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|1877: Children reprogram [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]] to compute new family of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].


||1879 – Adolf Anderssen, German mathematician and chess player (b. 1818)
||1879: Adolf Anderssen dies ... mathematician and chess player.


||Raymond Thayer Birge (b. March 13, 1887) was a physicist.
||1887: Raymond Thayer Birge born ... physicist.


||1899 – John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
||1899: John Hasbrouck Van Vleck born ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1908 – Myrtle Bachelder, American chemist and Women's Army Corps officer (d. 1997) Manhattan Project
||1908: Myrtle Bachelder born ... chemist and Women's Army Corps officer ... Manhattan Project.


File:Melvin Dresher.jpg|link=Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Mathematician [[Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Melvin Dresher]] (Dreszer) born. He will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.
File:Melvin Dresher.jpg|link=Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Mathematician [[Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Melvin Dresher]] (Dreszer) born. He will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.


||1916 – Jacque Fresco, American engineer and academic (d. 2017)
||1916: Jacque Fresco born ... engineer and academic.


||Gabriel Andrew Dirac (b. 13 March 1925) was a mathematician who mainly worked in graph theory. He stated a sufficient condition for a graph to contain a Hamiltonian circuit. In 1951 he conjectured that n points in the plane, not all collinear, must span at least [n/2] two-point lines, where [x] is the largest integer not exceeding x. This conjecture is still open.
||1925: Gabriel Andrew Dirac born ... mathematician who mainly worked in graph theory. He stated a sufficient condition for a graph to contain a Hamiltonian circuit. In 1951 he conjectured that n points in the plane, not all collinear, must span at least [n/2] two-point lines, where [x] is the largest integer not exceeding x. This conjecture is still open.


||1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
||1930: The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.


||Lars Edvard Phragmén (d. 13 March 1937) was a Swedish mathematician. Pic.
||1937: Lars Edvard Phragmén dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1962 – Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.
||1962: Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.


||1965 – Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist and statistician (b. 1884)
||1965: Corrado Gini dies ... sociologist and statistician.


||1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
||1969: Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.


||Peter Karl Henrici (d. 13 March 1987) was a Swiss mathematician best known for his contributions to the field of numerical analysis. Pic.
||1987: Peter Karl Henrici dies ... mathematician best known for his contributions to the field of numerical analysis. Pic.


||1997 – The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
||1997: The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.


||1998 – Hans von Ohain, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1911)
||1998: Hans von Ohain born ... physicist and engineer.


||2012 – Michael P. Barnett, English chemist and computer scientist (b. 1929)
||2012: Michael P. Barnett dies ... chemist and computer scientist.


||2013 – Cartha DeLoach, American FBI agent and author (b. 1920)
||2013: Cartha DeLoach dies ... FBI agent and author.


||Jenifer Haselgrove (d. 13 March 2015) was a British physicist and computer scientist. She is most noted for her formulation of ray tracing equations in a cold magneto-plasma, now widely known in the radio science community as Haselgrove's Equations. Nopic.
||2015: Jenifer Haselgrove dies ... physicist and computer scientist. She is most noted for her formulation of ray tracing equations in a cold magneto-plasma, now widely known in the radio science community as Haselgrove's Equations. Nopic.


File:Tesla with ray gun.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla|2015: Steganographic analysis of [[Nikola Tesla]] illustration unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte" of encrypted data, "almost certainly Tesla's case files on [[crimes against physical constants]]."
File:Tesla with ray gun.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla|2015: Steganographic analysis of [[Nikola Tesla]] illustration unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte" of encrypted data, "almost certainly Tesla's case files on [[crimes against physical constants]]."


File:Hilary Putnam.jpg|link=Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist [[Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|Hilary Putnam]] dies. He argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".
File:Hilary Putnam.jpg|link=Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist [[Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|Hilary Putnam]] dies. He argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".


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  • 1764: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey born. His government will see the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.

    1764: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey born. His government will see the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.

  • 1877: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1877: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) born. He will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.

    Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) born. He will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.

  • 2015: Steganographic analysis of Nikola Tesla illustration unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte" of encrypted data, "almost certainly Tesla's case files on crimes against physical constants."

    2015: Steganographic analysis of Nikola Tesla illustration unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte" of encrypted data, "almost certainly Tesla's case files on crimes against physical constants."

  • 2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist Hilary Putnam dies. He argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".

    2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist Hilary Putnam dies. He argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".

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