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||217 BC – The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
|| *** THEME: Four color theorem (Veblen, Ringel) ***


||109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north-west of Rome.
||217 BC: The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene. Pic: Ducarius decapitates Flaminius at the Battle of Lake Trasimene, by Joseph-Noël Sylvestre. Béziers (Languedoc-Roussillon), Musée des beaux-Arts.


||1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
||109: Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north-west of Rome. Pic.


||1616 – Ferdinand Bol, Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman, student of Rembrandt (d. 1680)
||1374: A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.


||1637 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer and historian (b. 1580)
||1616: Ferdinand Bol born ... painter, etcher and draftsman, student of Rembrandt. Pic.


File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1709: Public test of [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s airship fails to take place.
||1637: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc dies ... astronomer and historian. Pic.


||1771 – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, French chemist and businessman, founded DuPont (d. 1834)
File:The Passarola, a primitive airship devised by Bartolomeu de Gusmão.png|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1709: The public test of the "Passarola", a primitive airship devised by priest and inventor [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]], fails to take place.


||1774 – François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general and engineer (d. 1838)
||1756: Olof Celsius (the elder) dies ... botanist, philologist and clergyman, He was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carl Linnaeus. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, Hierobotanicos, in 1745-47. Pic.


||1788 – Thomas Blanchard, American inventor (d. 1864)
||1771: Éleuthère Irénée du Pont born ... chemist and businessman, founded DuPont. Pic.


||1793 – The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
||1774: François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo born ...  French Army general and military engineer during the French Revolution and First Empire. Pic.


||1835 – Johannes Wislicenus, German chemist and academic (d. 1902) Pic.
||1788: Thomas Blanchard born ... inventor ... pioneered the assembly line style of mass production in America, and also invented the major technological innovation known as interchangeable parts. Blanchard worked, for much of his career, with the Springfield Armory. In 1825, Blanchard also invented America's first car, which he called a "horseless carriage," powered by steam. Pic.


||1842 – Ambrose Bierce, American short story writer, essayist, and journalist (d. 1914)
||1793: The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.


||1852 – Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist and academic (d. 1915)
||1835: Johannes Wislicenus born ... chemist and academic. Pic.


File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1860: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]].
||1842: Ambrose Bierce born ... short story writer, essayist, and journalist.


File:Oswald Veblen 1915.jpg|link=Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|1880: Mathematician and academic [[Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|Oswald Veblen]] born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
||1852: Friedrich Loeffler born ... bacteriologist and academic.


||1883 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
||1880: Jules Antoine Lissajous dies ... mathematician and academic ... after whom Lissajous figures are named. Among other innovations, Lissajous invented the Lissajous apparatus, a device that creates the figures that bear his name. In it, a beam of light is bounced off a mirror attached to a vibrating tuning fork, and then reflected off a second mirror attached to a perpendicularly oriented vibrating tuning fork (usually of a different pitch, creating a specific harmonic interval), onto a wall, resulting in a Lissajous figure. Pic.


||1885 – Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist (d. 1975)
File:Oswald Veblen 1915.jpg|link=Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|1880: Mathematician and academic [[Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|Oswald Veblen]] born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. Veblen will publish a paper (1912) on the [[Four color theorem (nonfiction)|Four color conjecture]].


File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1886: ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time."
||1883: Victor Francis Hess born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, discovered cosmic rays. Pic.


||1894 – Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
||1885: Olaf Holtedahl born ... geologist; was among the last of a generation of geologists that mastered the subject in all its breadth. Pic.


||1900 – Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and engineer (d. 1945)
||1886: William King dies - geologist at Queen's College Galway. He was the first (in 1864) to propose that the bones found in the German valley of Neanderthal in 1856 were not of Homo sapiens, but of a distinct species: Homo neanderthalensis. Pic.


||1909 – William Penney, Baron Penney, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1991)
||1888: Georges Darmois born ... mathematician and statistician. He pioneered in the theory of sufficiency, in stellar statistics, and in factor analysis. He is one of the eponyms of the Koopman–Pitman–Darmois theorem and sufficient statistics and exponential families. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Darmois.html


||1911 – Ernesto Sabato, Argentinian physicist and academic (d. 2011)
||1894: Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.


||1914 – Pearl Witherington, French secret agent (d. 2008)
||1900: Wilhelm Cauer born ... mathematician and engineer. Pic.


||1915 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (d. 2001)
||1900: Bernard D. H. Tellegen born ... engineer and academic ... inventor of the pentode and the gyrator. He is also known for a theorem in circuit theory, Tellegen's theorem. Pic.


||1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
||1909: William Penney born ... mathematician and physicist ... Penney played a leading role in the development of Britain's nuclear programme, a clandestine programme started in 1942 during World War II which produced the first British atomic bomb in 1952. Pic.


||1917 – Joan Clarke, English cryptanalyst and numismatist (d. 1996)
||1911: Ernesto Sabato born ... physicist and academic. Pic.


||1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
||1914: Pearl Witherington born ... French secret agent. Pic.


||1922 – John Postgate, English microbiologist, author, and academic (d. 2014)
||1915: Fred Hoyle born ... astronomer and author. Pic.


||1924 – Archie Roy, Scottish astronomer and academic (d. 2012)
||1916: Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract. Pic.


||1927 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
||1917: Joan Clarke born ... cryptanalyst and numismatist. Pic.


||1938 – Pieces of a meteorite, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
||1918: First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.


||1946 – Ellison Onizuka, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1986)
||1922: John Postgate born ... microbiologist, author, and academic.


||1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
||1924: Archie Roy born ... astronomer and academic.


||1969 – Frank King, American cartoonist (b. 1883)
||1927: Martin Lewis Perl born ... physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Pic.


||1969 – Willy Ley, German-American historian and author (b. 1906)
||1931: George John Maltese born ... mathematician whose main field of research was functional analysis. Pic.


||Peter Thullen (d. 1996 in Lonay) was a German/Ecuadorian mathematician.
||1938: Pieces of a meteorite, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.


||2000 – Vera Atkins, British intelligence officer (b. 1908)
||1946: Ellison Onizuka born ... colonel, engineer, and astronaut.


||2008 – Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1919)
||1947: Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.


||2012 – Gu Chaohao, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
||1969: Willy Ley dies ... science writer, spaceflight advocate, and historian of science who helped to popularize rocketry, spaceflight, and natural history in both Germany and the United States. Pic.


||2013 – James Martin, English-Bermudian computer scientist and author (b. 1933)
||1969: Frank King dies ... cartoonist ''Gasoline Alley''. Pic.
 
||1969: Willy Ley dies ... historian and author. Pic.
 
||1978: Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh dies ... scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics. He was one of the key figures behind Soviet space program. Among scientific circles of USSR Keldysh was known with epithet "the Chief Theoretician". Pic.
 
||1990: William Kneale dies ... logician and philosopher ... best known for his 1962 book ''The Development of Logic'', a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with his wife Martha. Pic search.
 
||1996: Peter Thullen dies ... mathematician. Pic.
 
||2000: Vera Atkins dies ... intelligence officer ... worked in the French Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) from 1941 to 1945 during the Second World War. Pic.
 
||2005: Günter Lumer dies ... was a mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. He is the namesake of the Lumer–Phillips theorem on semigroups of operators on Banach spaces, and was the first to study semi-inner-products.  Pic.
 
File:Gerhard Ringel surfing.jpg|link=Gerhard Ringel (nonfiction)|2008: Mathematician and academic [[Gerhard Ringel (nonfiction)|Gerhard Ringel]] dies. Ringel was a pioneer of graph theory and contributed significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (now the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.
 
||2012: Gu Chaohao dies ... mathematician and academic.
 
||2013: James Martin dies ... computer scientist and author.
 
File:Boxes.jpg|link=Boxes (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Boxes (nonfiction)|Boxes]]'' unexpectedly reveals previously unknown type of [[cryptographic numen]]. [[APTO]] engineers call it "a remarkable breakthrough."


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  • 1709: The public test of the "Passarola", a primitive airship devised by priest and inventor Bartolomeu de Gusmão, fails to take place.

    1709: The public test of the "Passarola", a primitive airship devised by priest and inventor Bartolomeu de Gusmão, fails to take place.

  • 1880: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. Veblen will publish a paper (1912) on the Four color conjecture.

    1880: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. Veblen will publish a paper (1912) on the Four color conjecture.

  • 2008: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel dies. Ringel was a pioneer of graph theory and contributed significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (now the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.

    2008: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel dies. Ringel was a pioneer of graph theory and contributed significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (now the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.

  • 2016: Steganographic analysis of Boxes unexpectedly reveals previously unknown type of cryptographic numen. APTO engineers call it "a remarkable breakthrough."

    2016: Steganographic analysis of Boxes unexpectedly reveals previously unknown type of cryptographic numen. APTO engineers call it "a remarkable breakthrough."

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