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File:César François Cassini de Thury.jpg|link=César-François Cassini de Thury (nonfiction)|1784: Astronomer and cartographer [[César-François Cassini de Thury (nonfiction)|César-François Cassini de Thury]] dies. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates are known as the Cassini map.
File:César François Cassini de Thury.jpg|link=César-François Cassini de Thury (nonfiction)|1784: Astronomer and cartographer [[César-François Cassini de Thury (nonfiction)|César-François Cassini de Thury]] dies. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates are known as the Cassini map.


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File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1882: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1882: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.


||1886: American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
||1886: American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona. Pic.


File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1888: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1888: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
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||1891: Fritz Todt born ... engineer and politician ... German construction engineer, senior Nazi, who rose from "Inspector General for German Roadways" where he directed the construction of German Autobahnen (Reichsautobahnen) to Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition where he directed the entire war military economy. At the beginning of World War II he initiated what Hitler named Organisation Todt, a military engineering company, which supplied industry with forced labor and administered all constructions of concentration camps in the late phase of Nazi Germany.  Pic.
||1891: Fritz Todt born ... engineer and politician ... German construction engineer, senior Nazi, who rose from "Inspector General for German Roadways" where he directed the construction of German Autobahnen (Reichsautobahnen) to Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition where he directed the entire war military economy. At the beginning of World War II he initiated what Hitler named Organisation Todt, a military engineering company, which supplied industry with forced labor and administered all constructions of concentration camps in the late phase of Nazi Germany.  Pic.


||1893: Felix Klein said, "The proof of the transcendency of pi will hardly diminish the number of circle-squarers, however; for this class of people has always shown an absolute distrust of mathematicians and a contempt for mathematics that cannot be overcome by any amount of demonstration." - Klein in The Evanston Colloquium: Lectures on Mathematics (1894), pp. 52-53.  
||1893: Felix Klein said, "The proof of the transcendency of pi will hardly diminish the number of circle-squarers, however; for this class of people has always shown an absolute distrust of mathematicians and a contempt for mathematics that cannot be overcome by any amount of demonstration." - Klein in The Evanston Colloquium: Lectures on Mathematics (1894), pp. 52-53.  Pic.


||1896: Antonin Artaud born ... actor, director, and playwright.
||1896: Antonin Artaud born ... actor, director, and playwright. Pic.


||1905: Walter Zapp born ... inventor, invented the Minox.
||1905: Walter Zapp born ... inventor, invented the Minox. Pic.


||1906: Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück born ... biophysicist, helped launch the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time. Pic.
||1906: Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück born ... biophysicist, helped launch the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time. Pic.
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||1907: Konstantin Petrzhak born ... nuclear physicist and university professor of Polish origin. He discovered spontaneous fission of uranium with Georgy Flyorov in 1940; in addition, he also aided in Soviet Union's atomic bomb project. Pic.
||1907: Konstantin Petrzhak born ... nuclear physicist and university professor of Polish origin. He discovered spontaneous fission of uranium with Georgy Flyorov in 1940; in addition, he also aided in Soviet Union's atomic bomb project. Pic.


||1913: Mickey Cohen born ... mob boss.
||1913: Mickey Cohen born ... mob boss. Pic.


||1913: Stanford Moore born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1913: Stanford Moore born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1916: José Echegaray y Eizaguirre dies ... civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century. He was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama". Pic.
José Echegaray (nonfiction)|link=José Echegaray (nonfiction)|1916: Civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists [[José Echegaray (nonfiction)|José Echegaray y Eizaguirre]] dies.


||1923: Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS ''Shenandoah''.
USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) (nonfiction)|link=USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) (nonfiction)|1923: Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS ''[[USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) (nonfiction)|Shenandoah]]''.


||1925: Leo Apostel born ... philosopher and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University. Apostel was an advocate of interdisciplinary research and the bridging of the gap between exact science and humanities.
||1925: Leo Apostel born ... philosopher and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University. Apostel was an advocate of interdisciplinary research and the bridging of the gap between exact science and humanities. Pic.


||1926: Chemist and academic George William Gray born. He will be instrumental in developing the long-lasting materials which made liquid crystal displays possible. He created and systematised the liquid crystal materials science, and established a method of practical molecular design. Pic.
||1926: Chemist and academic George William Gray born. He will be instrumental in developing the long-lasting materials which made liquid crystal displays possible. He created and systematised the liquid crystal materials science, and established a method of practical molecular design. Pic.
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||1927: John McCarthy born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic.
||1927: John McCarthy born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic.


||1941: World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer. The "Greer incident" occurred 4 September. By all accounts, a German submarine (later identified as U-652) fired upon the Greer, but made no contact. When news of the encounter reached the United States, public concern ran high. Initial reports reported that a British aircraft aided in repelling the attack. In response, Germany claimed "that the attack had not been initiated by the German submarine; on the contrary, ... the submarine had been attacked with depth bombs, pursued continuously in the German blockade zone, and assailed by depth bombs until midnight."
||1941: World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer. The "Greer incident" occurred 4 September. By all accounts, a German submarine (later identified as U-652) fired upon the Greer, but made no contact. When news of the encounter reached the United States, public concern ran high. Initial reports reported that a British aircraft aided in repelling the attack. In response, Germany claimed "that the attack had not been initiated by the German submarine; on the contrary, ... the submarine had been attacked with depth bombs, pursued continuously in the German blockade zone, and assailed by depth bombs until midnight." Pic.


||1949: The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
||1949: The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York. Pic.


||1965: Albert Schweitzer dies ... theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. Pic.
||1965: Albert Schweitzer dies ... theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. Pic.
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||1967: Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
||1967: Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.


||1969: Marcel Riesz born ... mathematician, known for work on summation methods, potential theory, and other parts of analysis, as well as number theory, partial differential equations, and Clifford algebras. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=marcel+riesz
||1969: Marcel Riesz born ... mathematician, known for work on summation methods, potential theory, and other parts of analysis, as well as number theory, partial differential equations, and Clifford algebras. Pic search.


||1970: Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile. Pic.
||1970: Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile. Pic.

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  • 1784: Astronomer and cartographer César-François Cassini de Thury dies. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates are known as the Cassini map.

    1784: Astronomer and cartographer César-François Cassini de Thury dies. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates are known as the Cassini map.

  • 1881: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes arrives at New Minneapolis, where he will write his well-known essay, A Noble Experiment.

    1881: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes arrives at New Minneapolis, where he will write his well-known essay, A Noble Experiment.

  • 1882: Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.

    1882: Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.

  • 1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

    1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

  • 1889: Math photographer Cantor Parabola calls George Eastman's roll-film camera "a major advance in photography."

    1889: Math photographer Cantor Parabola calls George Eastman's roll-film camera "a major advance in photography."

  • José Echegaray (nonfiction)

    1916: Civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists José Echegaray y Eizaguirre dies.

  • USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) (nonfiction)

    1923: Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.

  • 1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

    1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

  • 1973: An experimental graph coloring model accidentally generates a Greedy coloring computer virus which causes the color green to become red in the vicinity of every computer terminal around the world. The virus will be eliminated several hours later by APTO troubleshooters, restoring green to its normal appearance.

    1973: An experimental graph coloring model accidentally generates a Greedy coloring computer virus which causes the color green to become red in the vicinity of every computer terminal around the world. The virus will be eliminated several hours later by APTO troubleshooters, restoring green to its normal appearance.

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