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||810 – Muhammad al-Bukhari, Persian scholar (d. 870)
||1545: The Tudor warship ''Mary Rose'' sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology. Pic: remnants.


File:Cesare Cremonini.jpg|link=Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|1631:  Philosopher and academic [[Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|Cesare Cremonini]] dies. His work promoted rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.


||1845 – Great New York City Fire of 1845: The last great fire to affect Manhattan began early in the morning and was subdued that afternoon. The fire killed 4 firefighters, 26 civilians, and destroyed 345 buildings.
||1670: Olof Celsius (the elder) born ... 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.


||1900 – The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
||1684: Elena Cornaro Piscopia dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic.


||1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
||1789: Antonio Maria Bordoni born ... mathematician who did research on mathematical analysis, geometry, and mechanics. Pic.


||1981 – In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.
File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1814: Engineer and businessman [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] born. He will found Colt's Manufacturing Company.
 
||1817: Charles Auguste Briot (19 July 1817) was a French mathematician who worked on elliptic functions. The Académie des Sciences awarded him the Poncelet Prize in 1882. Pic.
 
||1817: Francesco Castracane degli Antelminelli born ... naturalist. He was reportedly one of the first to introduce microphotography into the study of biology. His first experiments in applying the camera to the microscope were made as early as 1862 with diatomaceæ, and he subsequently made these microorganisms his chief study. Pic: https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2023813/https___phaidra_cab_unipd_it_o_1480.html
 
||1824: Agustín de Iturbide dies ... general and emperor. Although Iturbide's reign was short, it defined the political struggles before and after independence. Pic.
 
||1838: Pierre Louis Dulong dies ... physicist and chemist. Pic.
 
||1843: Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller, becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
 
||1845: Great New York City Fire of 1845: The last great fire to affect Manhattan began early in the morning and was subdued that afternoon. The fire killed 4 firefighters, 26 civilians, and destroyed 345 buildings.
 
||1849: Elling Bolt Holst born ... mathematician, biographer and children's writer.
 
||1849: Raphael Meldola born ... chemist and entomologist. Meldola blue. Pic.
 
||1851: Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé dies ... Belgian nobleman and convicted murderer. He poisoned his brother-in-law in order to acquire some urgently needed money. In 1851, the chemist Jean Servais Stas proved that Visart de Bocarmé had used nicotine extracted from tobacco leaves as poison. This was the first exact proof of alkaloids in forensic medicine. Pic.
 
||1857: Stefano Franscini dies ... statistician and politician.
 
||1865: Georges Friedel born ... mineralogist and crystallographer.
 
||1865: Charles Horace Mayo born ... surgeon, founded the Mayo Clinic.
 
||1878: Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
 
||1881: Friedrich Dessauer born ... physicist and philosopher. Pic search.
 
||1883: Max Fleischer born ... animator and producer.
 
||1885: Johannes Peter Letzmann born ... meteorologist, and a pioneering tornado researcher. His prolific output related to severe storms concepts included: developing tornado damage studies, atmospheric vortices, theoretical studies and laboratory simulations, tornado case studies, and observation programs. It generated extensive analysis techniques and insights on tornadoes at a time when there was still very little research on the subject in the United States. Pic.
 
||1886: Michael Fekete born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
 
File:Aleksandr Khinchin.gif|link=Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|1894: Mathematician and academic [[Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Khinchin]] born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory.
 
||1894: Percy Spencer born ... physicist and inventor of the microwave oven. Pic search.
 
||1900: The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
 
||1920: Richard Oriani born ... metallurgist and engineer dies ... Cold fusion
 
||1921: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1026: Ernst Lecher dies ... physicist who, from 1909. He is remembered for developing an apparatus— "Lecher lines"—to measure the wavelength and frequency of electromagnetic waves. Pic.
 
||1929: Gaston Glock, Austrian engineer and businessman, co-founded Glock Ges.m.b.H.
 
||1929: David Ritz Finkelstein born ... professor of physics ... Finkelstein and Charles W. Misner found the gravitational kink, a topological defect in the gravitational metric, whose quantum theory could exhibit spin 1/2. Finkelstein determined that whatever falls past the Schwarzschild radius into a black hole cannot escape it; the membrane is one-directional.  Pic: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Finkelstein2 (local copy)
 
||1947: Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
 
||1947: Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
 
||1963: Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
 
||1965: Alvin Cushman Graves dies ... nuclear physicist who served at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory and the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. After the war, he became the head of J (Test) Division at Los Alamos, and was director or assistant director of numerous nuclear weapons tests during the 1940s and 1950s. Pic.
 
||1977: The world's first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal was transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 12:41 a.m. Eastern time (ET).[1]
 
||1981: In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.


File:Hugh Everett III.jpg|link=Hugh Everett III (nonfiction)|1982: Physicist [[Hugh Everett III (nonfiction)|Hugh Everett III]] dies. He proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.
File:Hugh Everett III.jpg|link=Hugh Everett III (nonfiction)|1982: Physicist [[Hugh Everett III (nonfiction)|Hugh Everett III]] dies. He proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.


File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1984: New type of [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] displays artificial intelligence, forecasts [[crimes against mathematical constants]] up to ten megabytes per fluid minute in advance.
||2002: Arthur Lee Loeb dies ... scientist and crystallographer. His life's work involved the articulation of a language of spatial patterns. His language, which he described as "Visual Mathematics" and "Design Science," led to lifelong collaboration with innovators such as R. Buckminster Fuller and M.C. Escher. Pic search.
 
 
||2006: George Wetherill dies ... physicist and academic. He contributed to high-precision geochronology, radiometric chronology of meteorite and lunar samples, and numerical techniques for predicting the physical and orbital properties of terrestrial planets. Pic search tech.
 
||2007: Roberto Fontanarrosa dies ... cartoonist.
 
||2010: Gerson Goldhaber dies ... particle physicist and astrophysicist. He was one of the discoverers of the J/ψ meson which confirmed the existence of the charm quark. Pic.
 
||2011: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic (cool tech).
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  • 1631: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini dies. His work promoted rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

    1631: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini dies. His work promoted rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

  • 1814: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt born. He will found Colt's Manufacturing Company.

    1814: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt born. He will found Colt's Manufacturing Company.

  • 1894: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory.

    1894: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory.

  • 1982: Physicist Hugh Everett III dies. He proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.

    1982: Physicist Hugh Everett III dies. He proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.

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