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File:Johann Bernoulli.jpg|link=|1667: Mathematician [[Johann Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Johann Bernouli]] born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
File:Johann Bernoulli.jpg|link=|1667: Mathematician [[Johann Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Johann Bernouli]] born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.


File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1753: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] publishes new edition of his book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', with an addendum on applications of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to the psychology of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1741: John Wilson born ... mathematician. Wilson's theorem is named after him. Pic.


||1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (d. 1828)
||1753: Physicist and academic Georg Wilhelm Richmann dies by electrocution while conducting an experiment during a thunderstorm. He proved that thunder clouds contain electric charge. Pic.


||1844 – James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (d. 1896)
||1766: William Hyde Wollaston born ... chemist and physicist. Pic.


||1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
||1795: Heinrich Rose born ... mineralogist and analytical chemist. Pic.


||1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
||1844: James Henry Greathead born ... civil engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railway. He is also the reason that the London Underground is colloquially named "the tube". Pic.


||Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (d. 6 August 1925) was an Italian mathematician born in Lugo di Romagna. He is most famous as the inventor of tensor calculus
File:Alexander Fleming.jpg|link=Alexander Fleming (nonfiction)|1881: Biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist [[Alexander Fleming (nonfiction)|Alexander Fleming]] born. Fleming will discover the enzyme lysozyme in 1923, and the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) in 1928, for which he will share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.
 
||1890: At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
 
||1903: Philip M. Morse born ... physicist, administrator and pioneer of operations research (OR) in World War II. He is considered to be the father of operations research in the U.S. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Philip+McCord+Morse
 
||1915: Guido Goldschmiedt dies ... chemist. His most remarkable results were establishing the structure of several natural compounds including papaverine and ellagic acid. Pic.
 
||1925: Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro dies ... mathematician born in Lugo di Romagna. He is most famous as the inventor of tensor calculus. Pic.


File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1928: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] born. He will be a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement.
File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1928: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] born. He will be a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement.


||1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
||1929: Emil Hilb dies ... mathematician who worked in the fields of special functions, differential equations, and difference equations. Pic.
 
||1930: Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
 
||1930: Physicist Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar born. He and his colleagues will discover the columnar phase of liquid crystals made of disc-shaped molecules. Through supramolecular assembly, the discs exhibit a mesophase which has a two-dimensional periodic order.  Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=sivaramakrishna+chandrasekhar
 
||1934: Hermann Glauert dues ... aerodynamicist and author. His book '''The Elements of Aerofoil and Airscrew Theory''' was the single most important instrument for spreading airfoil and wing theory around the English speaking world.  Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hermann+Glauert&oq=Hermann+Glauert


||1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
||1943: Jonathan Bruce Postel born ... computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards. He is known principally for being the Editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) document series, for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), and for administering the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) until his death.  Pic.


File:Gambling Den Fight.jpg|link=Gambling Den Fight|1969: Signed first edition of ''[[Gambling Den Fight]]'' purchased by [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] for an undisclosed sum.
||1945: World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.


||1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
||1945: Paul Koebe dies ... mathematician. His work dealt exclusively with the complex numbers, his most important results being on the uniformization of Riemann surfaces in a series of four papers in 1907–1909. Pic.
 
||1961: Earle C. Anthony dies ... businessman and philanthropist based in Los Angeles, California who worked in broadcasting and automobiles. He was also a songwriter, journalist and playwright. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Earle+C.+Anthony
 
||1987: Hans Motz dies ...  pioneering work at Stanford University on undulators which led to the development of the wiggler and the free-electron laser. Pic: https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/rse34067
 
||2000: Arthur Harold Stone dies ... mathematician born in London, who worked mostly in topology.  he proved the Erdős–Stone theorem with Paul Erdős and is credited with the discovery of the first 2 flexagons, a trihexaflexagon and a hexahexaflexagon. Pic: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-london-mathematical-society/article/arthur-harold-stone-19162000/1E575AF918A66A3DEB8F902221CCAFC5
 
File:Tim Berners-Lee (2009).jpg|link=Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|1991: Computer scientist [[Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|Tim Berners-Lee]] releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.


File:Mars 23 aug 2003 hubble.jpg|link=Mars (nonfiction)|1996: NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]], contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
File:Mars 23 aug 2003 hubble.jpg|link=Mars (nonfiction)|1996: NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]], contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
||1998: André Weil dies ... mathematician of the 20th century, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry. Pic.
||2007: Atle Selberg dies ... mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory. Pic.
||2009: Antonia Ferrín Moreiras dies ... mathematician, academic, and astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Antonia+Ferrín+Moreiras
||2012: Bernard Lovell dies ... physicist and radio astronomer. Pic.


File:Curiosity rover.jpg|link=Curiosity (nonfiction)|2012: NASA's ''[[Curiosity (nonfiction)|Curiosity]]'' rover lands on the surface of Mars.
File:Curiosity rover.jpg|link=Curiosity (nonfiction)|2012: NASA's ''[[Curiosity (nonfiction)|Curiosity]]'' rover lands on the surface of Mars.

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  • 1638: Priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche born. He will be instrumental in introducing and disseminating the work of René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in France.

    1638: Priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche born. He will be instrumental in introducing and disseminating the work of René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in France.

  • 1667: Mathematician Johann Bernouli born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.

    1667: Mathematician Johann Bernouli born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.

  • 1881: Biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist Alexander Fleming born. Fleming will discover the enzyme lysozyme in 1923, and the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) in 1928, for which he will share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

    1881: Biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist Alexander Fleming born. Fleming will discover the enzyme lysozyme in 1923, and the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) in 1928, for which he will share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

  • 1928: Artist Andy Warhol born. He will be a leading figure in the Pop art movement.

    1928: Artist Andy Warhol born. He will be a leading figure in the Pop art movement.

  • 1991: Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

    1991: Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

  • 1996: NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

    1996: NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

  • 2012: NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

    2012: NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates twenty-first anniversary of the NASA announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates twenty-first anniversary of the NASA announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

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