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||1867: Eldridge Reeves Johnson born ... businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. Pic.
||1867: Eldridge Reeves Johnson born ... businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. Pic.
File:Galileo Ferraris.jpg|link=Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist and electrical crime-fighter [[Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|Galileo Ferraris]] invents new type of AC power systems which detects and prevents [[crimes against physics]].


||1872: Robert Maillart born ... engineer, He revolutionized the use of structural reinforced concrete with such designs as the three-hinged arch and the deck-stiffened arch for bridges, and the beamless floor slab and mushroom ceiling for industrial buildings. Pic.
||1872: Robert Maillart born ... engineer, He revolutionized the use of structural reinforced concrete with such designs as the three-hinged arch and the deck-stiffened arch for bridges, and the beamless floor slab and mushroom ceiling for industrial buildings. Pic.
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||1879: Carl Ramsauer born ... physicist and author ... famous for the discovery of the Ramsauer–Townsend effect. He pioneered the field of electron and proton collisions with gas molecules. Pic.
||1879: Carl Ramsauer born ... physicist and author ... famous for the discovery of the Ramsauer–Townsend effect. He pioneered the field of electron and proton collisions with gas molecules. Pic.


||1890: Hugh Stott Taylor born ... chemist primarily interested in catalysis. In 1925, in a landmark contribution to catalytic theory, Taylor suggested that a catalysed chemical reaction is not catalysed over the entire solid surface of the catalyst but only at certain 'active sites' or centres. He also developed important methods for procuring heavy water during World War II and pioneered the use of stable isotopes in studying chemical reactions. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=hugh+stott+taylor
||1890: Hugh Stott Taylor born ... chemist primarily interested in catalysis. In 1925, in a landmark contribution to catalytic theory, Taylor suggested that a catalysed chemical reaction is not catalysed over the entire solid surface of the catalyst but only at certain 'active sites' or centres. He also developed important methods for procuring heavy water during World War II and pioneered the use of stable isotopes in studying chemical reactions. Pic search.
 
||1897: Louis Buchalter born ... mob boss, Murder Inc. Pic


||1898: Yakov Geronimus born ... mathematician known for contributions to theoretical mechanics and the study of orthogonal polynomials. The Geronimus polynomials are named after him. Pic: https://www.math.technion.ac.il/hat/people/pix/geronimus.jpg
||1898: Yakov Geronimus born ... mathematician known for contributions to theoretical mechanics and the study of orthogonal polynomials. The Geronimus polynomials are named after him. Pic: https://www.math.technion.ac.il/hat/people/pix/geronimus.jpg
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||1923: Edward Emerson Barnard dies ... astronomer ... recognized as a gifted observational astronomer ... best known for his discovery of the high proper motion of Barnard's Star in 1916, which is named in his honor. Pic.
||1923: Edward Emerson Barnard dies ... astronomer ... recognized as a gifted observational astronomer ... best known for his discovery of the high proper motion of Barnard's Star in 1916, which is named in his honor. Pic.


||1927: Gerard Kitchen O'Neill born ... physicist and space activist. As a faculty member of Princeton University, he invented a device called the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiments. Later, he invented a magnetic launcher called the mass driver. In the 1970s, he developed a plan to build human settlements in outer space, including a space habitat design known as the O'Neill cylinder. Pic.
File:Gerard_Kitchen_O'Neill.jpg|link=Gerard K. O'Neill (nonfiction)|1927: Physicist and space activist [[Gerard K. O'Neill (nonfiction)|Gerard K. O'Neill]] born. O'Neill will invent the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiment, and the mass driver, a magnetic launcher. In the 1970s, he will develop a plan to build human settlements in outer space.


||1931: James Bonk born ... chemist and academic. Bonk taught chemistry courses for over 50 years, primarily at Duke University; he also wrote his own textbooks and laboratory manuals. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=james+bonk
||1931: James Bonk born ... chemist and academic. Bonk taught chemistry courses for over 50 years, primarily at Duke University; he also wrote his own textbooks and laboratory manuals. Pic search.


||1938: Crash of semi-rigid airship SSSR-V6 OSOAVIAKhIM. Pic.
||1938: Crash of semi-rigid airship SSSR-V6 OSOAVIAKhIM. Pic.
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||1940: Petr Hájek born ... scientist in the area of mathematical logic and a professor of mathematics. Pic.
||1940: Petr Hájek born ... scientist in the area of mathematical logic and a professor of mathematics. Pic.


||1950: Georges Imbert dies ... chemical engineer and inventor. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=georges+imbert
||1950: Georges Imbert dies ... chemical engineer and inventor. Pic search.
 
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1957: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] calls the upcoming  [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|Tybee nuclear bomb accident]]  "a rock-solid business investment which is certain to generate handsome returns for early investors."


File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: Air Force and Navy personnel begin search for [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb, which was lost in an accident the day before]].
File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: Air Force and Navy personnel begin search for [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb, which was lost in an accident the day before]].
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1959: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises funds for new comedy film about the [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|Tybee nuclear bomb accident]], denies accusations that he is "capitalizing on a tragedy."


||1959: Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit. Pic.
||1959: Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit. Pic.


||1965: Ernst Erich Jacobsthal dies ... mathematician.  his dissertation, ''Anwendung einer Formel aus der Theorie der quadratischen Reste'' ("Application of a Formula from the Theory of Quadratic Remainders"), provided a proof that prime numbers of the form 4n + 1 are the sum of two square numbers. Pic: https://archiv.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/doku/200jahre/ausstellung/2.etage/flure/nr.20/set20.3.htm
||1965: Ernst Erich Jacobsthal dies ... mathematician.  his dissertation, ''Anwendung einer Formel aus der Theorie der quadratischen Reste'' ("Application of a Formula from the Theory of Quadratic Remainders"), provided a proof that prime numbers of the form 4n + 1 are the sum of two square numbers. Pic: https://archiv.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/doku/200jahre/ausstellung/2.etage/flure/nr.20/set20.3.htm
File:The Shrubbing.jpg|link=The Shrubbing|1980: Premiere of '''''[[The Shrubbing]]''''', an American landscape gardening horror film about a young gardener (Danny Torrance) who discovers that he has supernatural powers over shrubbery.


||1991: Salvador Luria  dies ... biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1991: Salvador Luria  dies ... biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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||2002: Max Perutz dies ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||2002: Max Perutz dies ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
File:Green Ring.jpg|link=Green Ring (nonfiction)|2017: Chromatographic analysis ''[[Green Ring (nonfiction)|Green Ring]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least five, perhaps six" previously unknown shades of [[Green (nonfiction)|green]].


||2017: Raymond Merrill Smullyan dies ... mathematician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher. Pic.
||2017: Raymond Merrill Smullyan dies ... mathematician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher. Pic.

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  • 1582: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Mario Bettinus born. He will write Apiaria Universae Philosophiae Mathematicae, an encyclopedic collection of mathematical curiosities.

    1582: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Mario Bettinus born. He will write Apiaria Universae Philosophiae Mathematicae, an encyclopedic collection of mathematical curiosities.

  • 1804: Chemist, philosopher, educator, and clergyman Joseph Priestley dies. He is historically credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, but his determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution left him isolated within the scientific community.

    1804: Chemist, philosopher, educator, and clergyman Joseph Priestley dies. He is historically credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, but his determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution left him isolated within the scientific community.

  • 1916: Mathematician and physicist John Crank born. He will work on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation will result in the Crank–Nicolson method.

    1916: Mathematician and physicist John Crank born. He will work on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation will result in the Crank–Nicolson method.

  • 1927: Physicist and space activist Gerard K. O'Neill born. O'Neill will invent the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiment, and the mass driver, a magnetic launcher. In the 1970s, he will develop a plan to build human settlements in outer space.

    1927: Physicist and space activist Gerard K. O'Neill born. O'Neill will invent the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiment, and the mass driver, a magnetic launcher. In the 1970s, he will develop a plan to build human settlements in outer space.

  • 1980: Premiere of The Shrubbing, an American landscape gardening horror film about a young gardener (Danny Torrance) who discovers that he has supernatural powers over shrubbery.

    1980: Premiere of The Shrubbing, an American landscape gardening horror film about a young gardener (Danny Torrance) who discovers that he has supernatural powers over shrubbery.

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