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File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.


||1645: William Kidd born ... sailor and pirate hunter.
||1645: William Kidd born ... sailor and pirate hunter. Pic.


||1767: Johann Gottlob Lehmann dies ... meteorologist and geologist.
||1707: Richard Towneley dies ... mathematician and astronomer. No pics online.


File:Claude Chappe.jpg|link=Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|1795: Inventor [[Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|Claude Chappe]] uses the French [[Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|semaphore system]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1767: Johann Gottlob Lehmann dies ... meteorologist and geologist. Pic.


||1779: Jeremiah Dixon born ... surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason–Dixon line.
File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1673: [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] presents a calculation machine at the Royal Society. Leibniz would complain to Oldenburg that Hooke took an "almost obscene" interest in the machine. Sure enough, by Feb 2 Hooke was actively working on an "arithmetic engine" that he would complete and show to the Royal Society within the month. By the following month his interest waned and he decided that no mechanical device could compare to paper and pencil or "Lord Napier's metal or parchment rods" (Napiers bones).
|*Stephen Inwood, The Forgotten Genius: The Biography Of Robert Hooke 1635-1703


||1840: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach dies ... physician, physiologist, and anthropologist.
||1779: Jeremiah Dixon born ... surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason–Dixon line. Pic: grave marker. No pics online.


File:Joseph Ludwig Raabe.jpg|link=Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician [[Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|Joseph Ludwig Raabe]] dies. He is best known for Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in some cases.
||1799: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure dies ... physicist and meteorologist ... often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven. Pic.


||1861: Friedrich Tiedemann dies ... anatomist and physiologist. Contra racism.
||1840: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach dies ... physician, physiologist, and anthropologist. Pic.


||1865: Wilbur Scoville born ... chemist and pharmacist.
File:Joseph Ludwig Raabe.jpg|link=Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician [[Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|Joseph Ludwig Raabe]] dies. He is best known for Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in certain cases.
 
||1861: Friedrich Tiedemann dies ... anatomist and physiologist. Contra racism. Pic.
 
||1865: Wilbur Scoville born ... chemist and pharmacist. Pic.


||1865: Louis Carl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen born ... physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges. He is also known for the Paschen series, a series of hydrogen spectral lines in the infrared region that he first observed in 1908.  Pic.
||1865: Louis Carl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen born ... physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges. He is also known for the Paschen series, a series of hydrogen spectral lines in the infrared region that he first observed in 1908.  Pic.
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||1866: Gustav de Vries born ... mathematician, who is best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation with Diederik Korteweg. Pic.
||1866: Gustav de Vries born ... mathematician, who is best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation with Diederik Korteweg. Pic.


||1867: William Snow Harris dies ... physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning, research and successful testing before the British Royal Navy changed to Harris's conductors from their previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was HMS Beagle which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles Darwin. No pic (Beagle).
||1867: William Snow Harris dies ... physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning, research and successful testing before the British Royal Navy changed to Harris's conductors from their previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was HMS Beagle which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles Darwin. Pic: Beagle.


||1874: Leonard Eugene Dickson born ... was an American mathematician. He was one of the first American researchers in abstract algebra, in particular the theory of finite fields and classical groups, and is also remembered for a three-volume history of number theory, History of the Theory of Numbers. Pic not Wikipedia.
||1874: Leonard Eugene Dickson born ... was an American mathematician. He was one of the first American researchers in abstract algebra, in particular the theory of finite fields and classical groups, and is also remembered for a three-volume history of number theory, History of the Theory of Numbers. Pic not Wikipedia.
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||1880: Frigyes Riesz born ... mathematician who made fundamental contributions to functional analysis. Pic.
||1880: Frigyes Riesz born ... mathematician who made fundamental contributions to functional analysis. Pic.


||1883: Ivan Emanuel Wallin born ... biologist who made the first experimental works on endosymbiotic theory. Nicknamed the "Mitochondria Man"
||1883: Ivan Emanuel Wallin born ... biologist who made the first experimental works on endosymbiotic theory. Nicknamed the "Mitochondria Man". Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ivan+Emanuel+Wallin


||1889: Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
||1889: Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.


File:Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger.jpg|link=Oliver B. Shallenberger (nonfiction)|1890: Electrical engineer, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Oliver B. Shallenberger (nonfiction)|Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger]] demonstrates new type of alternating current electrical meter which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].
||1890: Grigory Samuilovich Landsberg born ... physicist who worked in the fields of optics and spectroscopy. Together with Leonid Mandelstam he co-discoverer inelastic combinatorial scattering of light, which is used now in Raman spectroscopy. Pic.
 
||1890: Grigory Samuilovich Landsberg born ... physicist who worked in the fields of optics and spectroscopy. Together with Leonid Mandelstam he co-discoverer inelastic combinatorial scattering of light, which is used now in Raman spectroscopy.


||1900: David Edward Hughes dies ... physicist, co-invented the microphone.
||1900: David Edward Hughes dies ... physicist, co-invented the microphone. Pic.


File:Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer.jpg|link=Emil Erlenmeyer (nonfiction)|1909: Chemist and academic [[Emil Erlenmeyer (nonfiction)|Emil Erlenmeyer]] dies. He contributed to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing the Erlenmeyer flask.
File:Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer.jpg|link=Emil Erlenmeyer (nonfiction)|1909: Chemist and academic [[Emil Erlenmeyer (nonfiction)|Emil Erlenmeyer]] dies. He contributed to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing the Erlenmeyer flask.


||1903: Fritz Houtermans born ... physicist and academic.
||1903: Fritz Houtermans born ... physicist and academic. Pic: http://blog.eag.eu.com/general/houtermans/
 
File:Tesla with ray gun.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla|1910: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter [[Nikola Tesla]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].


File:George Salmon.jpg|link=George Salmon (nonfiction)|1904:  Mathematician and Anglican theologian [[George Salmon (nonfiction)|George Salmon]] dies. He worked in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devoted the last forty years of his life to theology.
File:George Salmon.jpg|link=George Salmon (nonfiction)|1904:  Mathematician and Anglican theologian [[George Salmon (nonfiction)|George Salmon]] dies. He worked in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devoted the last forty years of his life to theology.


||1905: Willy Hartner born ... physicist, historian, and academic.
||1905: Willy Hartner born ... physicist, historian, and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=willy+hartner


||1907: Michel Loève born ... probabilist and mathematical statistician. He is known in mathematical statistics and probability theory for the Karhunen–Loève theorem and Karhunen–Loève transform. Pic.
||1907: Michel Loève born ... probabilist and mathematical statistician. He is known in mathematical statistics and probability theory for the Karhunen–Loève theorem and Karhunen–Loève transform. Pic.


||1908: Lev Landau born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate .. made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.  
||1908: Lev Landau born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate .. made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. Pic.


||1917: William David McElroy born ... biochemist and academic administrator. He initiated an independent research program in bioluminescence, recruiting students to collect fireflies to perform experiments. He discovered the key role that luciferase and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) play in the process. Pic.
||1917: William David McElroy born ... biochemist and academic administrator. He initiated an independent research program in bioluminescence, recruiting students to collect fireflies to perform experiments. He discovered the key role that luciferase and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) play in the process. Pic.


||1922: Camille Jordan dies ... mathematician and academic.
||1921: Mathematician Marie Georges Humbert dies ... worked on Kummer surfaces and the Appell–Humbert theorem and introduced Humbert surfaces.  Pic.
 
||1922: Camille Jordan dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1927: Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
||1927: Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Teddy+Wakelam&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS702US702&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjDpffLnpjnAhXQU80KHT_9CNIQ_AUoAXoECA4QAw&biw=695&bih=669


||1946: Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
||1946: Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.


||1951: Harald August Bohr dies ... mathematician and soccer player. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr.
||1951: Harald August Bohr dies ... mathematician and soccer player. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr. Pic.


File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1953: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental [[scrying engine]] which unexpectedly previews the upcoming arrest of [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George Metesky]].
File:Astronaut Farm.jpg|link=Astronaut Farm|Premiere of the political science fiction thriller '''''[[Astronaut Farm]]''''', set in the Edward Eric Blair Memorial Space Station.  


||1957: Paul Walden dies ... chemist known for his work in stereochemistry and history of chemistry. In particular he invented the stereochemical reaction known as Walden inversion and synthesized the first room-temperature ionic liquid, ethylammonium nitrate. Pic.
||1957: Paul Walden dies ... chemist known for his work in stereochemistry and history of chemistry. In particular he invented the stereochemical reaction known as Walden inversion and synthesized the first room-temperature ionic liquid, ethylammonium nitrate. Pic.
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||1966: K. Ananda Rau dies ... mathematician. He worked on the summability of series, the theory of functions of a complex variable, and sums of an even number of squares. Pic.
||1966: K. Ananda Rau dies ... mathematician. He worked on the summability of series, the theory of functions of a complex variable, and sums of an even number of squares. Pic.
File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to detect and prevent crimes against [[Poem|poetry]].


||1968: Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
||1968: Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.


||1968: Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam, begins installation.
File:Air_Force_ordnancemen_load_a_dispenser_with_seismic_sensors.jpg|link=Operation Igloo White (nonfiction)|1968: [[Operation Igloo White (nonfiction)|Operation Igloo White]], a US electronic surveillance system, begins installation: the first of 316 sensors are implanted around and near Khe Sanh in 44 strings by Navy squadron VO-67.


||1970: The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
||1970: The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
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||1973: The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
||1973: The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.


||1975: Paul Antoine Aristide Montel dies ... mathematician. He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis.
||1975: Paul Montel dies ... mathematician. He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Paul+Antoine+Aristide+Montel


||1980: Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop dies ... physicist and humanitarian. Pic.
||1980: Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop dies ... physicist and humanitarian. Pic.
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File:R. Budd Dwyer.jpg|link=R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|1987:  Politician [[R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|R. Budd Dwyer]] takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.
File:R. Budd Dwyer.jpg|link=R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|1987:  Politician [[R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|R. Budd Dwyer]] takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.
||1987: Patrick du Val dies ... mathematician, known for his work on algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and general relativity. The concept of Du Val singularity of an algebraic surface is named after him. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Du_Val.html


||1989: Sydney Goldstein dies ... mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics, notably his work on steady-flow laminar boundary-layer equations and on the turbulent resistance to rotation of a disk in a fluid. Goldstein also contributed to aerodynamics. Pic: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/history/sydney-goldstein/
||1989: Sydney Goldstein dies ... mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics, notably his work on steady-flow laminar boundary-layer equations and on the turbulent resistance to rotation of a disk in a fluid. Goldstein also contributed to aerodynamics. Pic: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/history/sydney-goldstein/


||2015: Fabrizio de Miranda dies ... engineer and academic, co-designed the Rande Bridge.
||2001: Anne Burns born ... aeronautical engineer and glider pilot. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=anne+burns
 
||1921: Bill Mauldin dies ... soldier and cartoonist.  Mauldin gained fame — and two Pulitzer prizes — for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe, two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers of duty in the field. Pic.


||2017: Rudolf Wille dies ... mathematician and was professor of General Algebra from 1970 to 2003 at Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt). His most celebrated work is the invention of formal concept analysis, an unsupervised machine learning technique that applies mathematical lattice theory to organize data based on objects and their shared attributes. Pic.
||2017: Rudolf Wille dies ... mathematician and was professor of General Algebra from 1970 to 2003 at Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt). His most celebrated work is the invention of formal concept analysis, an unsupervised machine learning technique that applies mathematical lattice theory to organize data based on objects and their shared attributes. Pic.


File:Humpty Dumpty At Bat.jpg|link=Humpty Dumpty At Bat|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Humpty Dumpty At Bat]]'' reveals formula for [[Extract of Radium]].


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  • 1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.

    1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.

  • 1673: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz presents a calculation machine at the Royal Society. Leibniz would complain to Oldenburg that Hooke took an "almost obscene" interest in the machine. Sure enough, by Feb 2 Hooke was actively working on an "arithmetic engine" that he would complete and show to the Royal Society within the month. By the following month his interest waned and he decided that no mechanical device could compare to paper and pencil or "Lord Napier's metal or parchment rods" (Napiers bones).

    1673: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz presents a calculation machine at the Royal Society. Leibniz would complain to Oldenburg that Hooke took an "almost obscene" interest in the machine. Sure enough, by Feb 2 Hooke was actively working on an "arithmetic engine" that he would complete and show to the Royal Society within the month. By the following month his interest waned and he decided that no mechanical device could compare to paper and pencil or "Lord Napier's metal or parchment rods" (Napiers bones).

  • 1859: Mathematician Joseph Ludwig Raabe dies. He is best known for Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in certain cases.

    1859: Mathematician Joseph Ludwig Raabe dies. He is best known for Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in certain cases.

  • 1909: Chemist and academic Emil Erlenmeyer dies. He contributed to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing the Erlenmeyer flask.

    1909: Chemist and academic Emil Erlenmeyer dies. He contributed to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing the Erlenmeyer flask.

  • 1904: Mathematician and Anglican theologian George Salmon dies. He worked in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devoted the last forty years of his life to theology.

    1904: Mathematician and Anglican theologian George Salmon dies. He worked in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devoted the last forty years of his life to theology.

  • Premiere of the political science fiction thriller Astronaut Farm, set in the Edward Eric Blair Memorial Space Station.

    Premiere of the political science fiction thriller Astronaut Farm, set in the Edward Eric Blair Memorial Space Station.

  • 1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.

    1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.

  • 1968: Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system, begins installation: the first of 316 sensors are implanted around and near Khe Sanh in 44 strings by Navy squadron VO-67.

    1968: Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system, begins installation: the first of 316 sensors are implanted around and near Khe Sanh in 44 strings by Navy squadron VO-67.

  • 1987: Politician R. Budd Dwyer takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.

    1987: Politician R. Budd Dwyer takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.

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