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File:Theoricarum by Peuerbach 1915.png|link=Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)|1423: Mathematician and astronomer [[Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)]] born.  He will be remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the ''Theoricae Novae Planetarum''.
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File:Theoricarum by Peuerbach 1915.png|link=Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)|1423: Mathematician and astronomer [[Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)|Georg von Peuerbach]] born.  He will be remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the ''Theoricae Novae Planetarum''.
 
||1539: In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold. Pic.
 
||1593: Playwright, poet, and translator Christopher Marlowe is murdered. Pic.
 
||1631: Publication of ''Gazette de France'', the first French newspaper. Pic.
 
File:Vaucanson Automata.jpg|link=Digesting Duck (nonfiction)|1739:  Jacques de Vaucanson demonstrates his [[Digesting Duck (nonfiction)|Digesting Duck]] automaton for the first time.
 
||1768: Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann born ... mineralogist and geologist. Pic.
 
||1810: John Frederick Bateman born ... civil engineer whose work formed the basis of the modern United Kingdom water supply industry. For more than 50 years from 1835 he designed and constructed reservoirs and waterworks ... "the greatest dam-builder of his generation". Pic.
 
||1814: Eugène Charles Catalan born ... mathematician who worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics. His notable contributions included discovering a periodic minimal surface in the space {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}} \mathbb {R} ^{3}; stating the famous Catalan's conjecture, which was eventually proved in 2002; and, introducing the Catalan numbers to solve a combinatorial problem. Pic.
 
||1846: Peter Carl Fabergé born ... goldsmith and jeweler. Pic.
 
||1899: Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona. Pic.
 
||1901: Victor D'Hondt dies ... mathematician, lawyer, and jurist. Pic.
 
||1904:  Robert Elderfield born ... chemist. He established the fundamental relationship between the cardiac aglycones and the sterols and bile acids, developed improved techniques for synthesizing primaquine and other antimalarials, and researched new anticancer agents. Pic.
 
||1907: Ottomar Anschütz dies ... inventor, photographer, and chronophotographer. He invented the electrotachyscope: a disk of 24 glass diapositives, manually powered, and illuminated by a sparking spiral Geissler tube, used by a single viewer, or projected to a small group. Pic.
 
||1908: Hannes Alfvén born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1909: Norris Edwin Bradbury born ... physicist who served as Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years from 1945 to 1970. He succeeded Robert Oppenheimer, who personally chose Bradbury for the position of director after working closely with him on the Manhattan Project during World War II. Bradbury was in charge of the final assembly of "the Gadget", detonated in July 1945 for the Trinity test. Pic.
 
||1912: Wilbur Wright dies ... inventor. Pic.
 
||1912: Julius Axelrod born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1924: Anthony Dryden Marshall born ... American CIA officer and diplomat. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Anthony+Dryden+Marshall+CIA
 
||1925: John Cocke born ... computer scientist and engineer ... "the father of RISC architecture." Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Cocke+RISC
 
||1926: Vladimir Steklov dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic.
 
||1932: Solomon Wolf Golomb born ... mathematician, engineer, and adacemic. He specialized in problems of combinatorial analysis, number theory, coding theory, and communications. His game of pentomino inspired Tetris. Pic.
 
||1941: World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the German flag.
 
||1943: The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp. Pic.
 
File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1946: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1946: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.


File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1946: Physicist and academic [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] dies. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.  
||1956: Carl Neuberg dies ... an early pioneer in biochemistry, and he is often referred to as the "father of modern biochemistry". His notable contribution to science includes the discovery of the carboxylase and the elucidation of alcoholic fermentation which he showed to be a process of successive enzymatic steps, an understanding that became crucial as to how metabolic pathways would be investigated by later researchers. Pic.
 
File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and academic [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] dies. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.
 
File:Mariner 9.jpg|link=Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|1971: NASA launches the [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] spacecraft. It will map 70% of the surface of Mars, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
 
||1975: European Space Agency is established.
 
||1985: Igor Kurnosov born ... chess player. Pic.
 
||1989: Gianfranco Cimmino dies ... mathematician, working mathematical analysis, numerical analysis, and theory of elliptic partial differential equations: he is known for being the first mathematician generalizing in a weak sense the notion of boundary value in a boundary value problem, and for doing an influential work in numerical analysis. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Gianfranco+Cimmino
 
||1992: Antoni Zygmund dies ... mathematician. He is considered one of the greatest analysts of the 20th century. His main area of interest was harmonic analysis. Pic.
 
||1998: Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.
 
||2009: Ephraim Katzir dies ... biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel. Pic.
 
||2011: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic (cool tech).
 
||2012: Andrew Huxley born ... physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1989: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-sixth anniversary of the launch of [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]].
   
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  • 1423: Mathematician and astronomer Georg von Peuerbach born. He will be remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.

    1423: Mathematician and astronomer Georg von Peuerbach born. He will be remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.

  • 1739: Jacques de Vaucanson demonstrates his Digesting Duck automaton for the first time.

    1739: Jacques de Vaucanson demonstrates his Digesting Duck automaton for the first time.

  • 1946: Physicist Louis Slotin dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

    1946: Physicist Louis Slotin dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

  • 1964: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard dies. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.

    1964: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard dies. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.

  • 1971: NASA launches the Mariner 9 spacecraft. It will map 70% of the surface of Mars, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.

    1971: NASA launches the Mariner 9 spacecraft. It will map 70% of the surface of Mars, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-sixth anniversary of the launch of Mariner 9.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-sixth anniversary of the launch of Mariner 9.

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