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||1646: Elena Cornaro Piscopia born ... mathematician and philosopher.
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||1667: Grégoire de Saint-Vincent dies ... Jesuit and mathematician. He is remembered for his work on quadrature of the hyperbola. Grégoire gave the "clearest early account of the summation of geometric series."[1]:136 He also resolved Zeno's paradox by showing that the time intervals involved formed a geometric progression and thus had a finite sum. Pic. Challenge AMA says born Sept. 9.
File:Elena Piscopia.jpg|link=Elena Cornaro Piscopia (nonfiction)|1646: Mathematician and philosopher [[Elena Cornaro Piscopia (nonfiction)|Elena Cornaro Piscopia]] born. She will be one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
 
||1667: Grégoire de Saint-Vincent dies ... Jesuit and mathematician. He is remembered for his work on quadrature of the hyperbola. Grégoire gave the "clearest early account of the summation of geometric series." He also resolved Zeno's paradox by showing that the time intervals involved formed a geometric progression and thus had a finite sum. Challenge AMA says born Sept. 9. Pic.  


||1716: Roger Cotes dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic (bust).
||1716: Roger Cotes dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic (bust).
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File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] born.
File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] born.


||1760: Johan Gadolin born ... chemist, physicist, and mineralogist.
||1760: Johan Gadolin born ... chemist, physicist, and mineralogist. Pic: postage stamp.


||1764: Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt born ... pharmacist, chemist, and anatomist.
||1764: Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt born ... pharmacist, chemist, and anatomist. Pic.
||1819: John Couch Adams born ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic.


||1819: John Couch Adams born ... mathematician and astronomer.
||1829: HMS ''Pickle'' captures the armed slave ship ''Voladora'' off the coast of Cuba.


||1829: HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
||1862: Allvar Gullstrand born ... ophthalmologist and optician. He applied the methods of physical mathematics to the study of optical images and of the refraction of light in the eye. For this work, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1911. Pic.
 
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
 
||1862: Allvar Gullstrand born ... ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1865: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.  


||1871: Walter Kaufmann born ... physicist. He is best known for the first experimental proof of the velocity dependence of mass, which was an important contribution to the development of modern physics, including special relativity. Pic.
||1871: Walter Kaufmann born ... physicist. He is best known for the first experimental proof of the velocity dependence of mass, which was an important contribution to the development of modern physics, including special relativity. Pic.
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||1917: World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
||1917: World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
||1920: Mathematician and cryptanalyst Gene Grabeel born ... founded the Venona project. Pic.


||1926: Claude Jacques Berge born ... mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Claude-Berge
||1926: Claude Jacques Berge born ... mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Claude-Berge
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||1933: The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
||1933: The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.


||1964: DSV Alvin is commissioned.
||1940: Augustus Edward Hough Love dies ... mathematician and theorist ... famous for his work on the mathematical theory of elasticity. He also worked on wave propagation and his work on the structure of the Earth in Some Problems of Geodynamics won for him the Adams prize in 1911 when he developed a mathematical model of surface waves known as Love waves. Love also contributed to the theory of tidal locking and introduced the parameters known as Love numbers, which are widely used today. These numbers are also used in problems related to the tidal deformation of the Earth due to the gravitational attraction of the Moon and Sun. Pic.
 
||1944:  A squadron of 98 B-29 bombers flies from airfields in India to attack the Makasan railway yards in Bangkok. A 2,261 mile round trip, the first combat mission for the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress, and the longest mission to date in the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Bangkok_in_World_War_II


||1968: Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day.
||1964: Geologist and Arctic explorer Lauge Koch dies; expeditions to Greenland. Pic.


||1976: Robert Pohl dies ... physicist at the University of Göttingen. he has been called the "father of solid state physics". Pic.
||1964: DSV ''Alvin'' is commissioned.
 
||1968: Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day. Pic.
 
||File:No image available.gif|link=Robert Pohl (nonfiction)|1976: Physicist [[Robert Pohl (nonfiction)|Robert Pohl]] dies. Pohl has been called the "father of solid state physics".


||1983: Kurt Tank dies ... pilot and engineer. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. Pic.
||1983: Kurt Tank dies ... pilot and engineer. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. Pic.
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||1995: The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
||1995: The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|2004: [[John Brunner]] publishes history of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||2009: Rajeev Motwani dies ... professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was awarded the Gödel Prize in 2001 for his work on the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation. Pic.
||2009: Rajeev Motwani dies ... professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was awarded the Gödel Prize in 2001 for his work on the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation. Pic.
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File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] dies.  The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] dies.  The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".


||2012: Mihai Pătrașcu dies ... computer scientist.
||2012: Mihai Pătrașcu dies ... computer scientist. Pătraşcu’s work was concerned with fundamental questions about basic data structures. Pic.
 
File:Mad King.jpg|link=Mad King (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Mad King (nonfiction)|Mad King]]'' stolen from the Tate in London by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.


File:Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer.jpg|link=Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1)|2019: Signed first edition of ''[[Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1)]]'' purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist living in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]."


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  • 1646: Mathematician and philosopher Elena Cornaro Piscopia born. She will be one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

    1646: Mathematician and philosopher Elena Cornaro Piscopia born. She will be one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

  • 1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.

    1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.

  • 1900: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

    1900: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

  • 1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.

    1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.

  • 2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".

    2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".

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