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|File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1523: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] translates [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]] procedures into [[Gnomon algorithm]] routines. | |File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1523: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] translates [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]] procedures into [[Gnomon algorithm]] routines. | ||
||1697: Georg Mohr dies ... mathematician and academic ... More was the first to prove the Mohr–Mascheroni theorem, which states that any geometric construction which can be done with compass and straightedge can also be done with compasses alone. Pic search book cover | ||1697: Georg Mohr dies ... mathematician and academic ... More was the first to prove the Mohr–Mascheroni theorem, which states that any geometric construction which can be done with compass and straightedge can also be done with compasses alone. Pic search book cover. | ||
||1823: Edward Jenner dies ... physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms "vaccine" and "vaccination" are derived from Variolae vaccinae (smallpox of the cow), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1796 in the long title of his Inquiry into the ''Variolae vaccinae'' known as the Cow Pox, in which he described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox. Jenner is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have "saved more lives than the work of any other human". Pic. | ||1823: Edward Jenner dies ... physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms "vaccine" and "vaccination" are derived from Variolae vaccinae (smallpox of the cow), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1796 in the long title of his Inquiry into the ''Variolae vaccinae'' known as the Cow Pox, in which he described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox. Jenner is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have "saved more lives than the work of any other human". Pic. | ||
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||1919: Igor Gouzenko born ... cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945 – just three days after the end of World War II – with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West. Pic (wearing hood mask during testimony - how cool is that?). | ||1919: Igor Gouzenko born ... cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945 – just three days after the end of World War II – with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West. Pic (wearing hood mask during testimony - how cool is that?). | ||
||1920: Hans Holzer born ... paranormal investigator and author. Pic. | |||
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1926: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] makes the first public demonstration of television. | File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1926: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] makes the first public demonstration of television. | ||
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File:Flying Diner.jpg|link=Flying Diner|1963: The [[Flying Diner]] announces twice-daily flights between [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] and Saint Paul, Minnesota. | File:Flying Diner.jpg|link=Flying Diner|1963: The [[Flying Diner]] announces twice-daily flights between [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] and Saint Paul, Minnesota. | ||
||1974: Johanna Langefeld dies ... guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps. Pic search | ||1974: Johanna Langefeld dies ... guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps. Pic search. | ||
||2007: Jean David Ichbiah dies ... computer scientist and the initial chief designer (1977–1983) of Ada, a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with certified validated compilers. Pic. | ||2007: Jean David Ichbiah dies ... computer scientist and the initial chief designer (1977–1983) of Ada, a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with certified validated compilers. Pic. | ||
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1467: Scholar and philosopher Guillaume Budé born. His De Asse et Partibus Eius (1514), a treatise on ancient coins and measures, will secure his reputation.
1848: Mathematician and crime-fighter János Bolyai publishes new theory of non-Euclidean geometry which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
1857: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville submits sealed patent application for the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
1884: Signed first edition of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess purchased for an undisclosed amount in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1885: Physician, scientist, and inventor Edward Davy dies. He played a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invented an electric relay.
1895: Mathematician and academic Arthur Cayley dies. He was the first to define the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws.
1911: Physicist and academic Polykarp Kusch born. Kusch will make an accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron is greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of—and innovations in—quantum electrodynamics; he will be awarded the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics for this accomplishment.
1926: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird makes the first public demonstration of television.
1933: Mathematician Donald Erik Sarason born. He will make fundamental advances in the areas of Hardy space theory and Vanishing mean oscillation (VMO).
1943: American eugenicist and sociologist Harry H. Laughlin dies. He will be the Superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office from its inception in 1910 to its closing in 1939, and among the most active individuals in influencing American eugenics policy, especially compulsory sterilization legislation.
1961: Mathematician and crime-fighter Richard Courant publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1962: Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
1963: The Flying Diner announces twice-daily flights between New Minneapolis, Canada and Saint Paul, Minnesota.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Green Spiral 9 unexpectedly reveals "at least a thousand twenty-four kilobytes, perhaps two thousand forty-eight" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.