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||1521: After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. Pic.
||1521: After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. Pic.


File:Rasmus_Bartholin.jpg|link=Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|1625: Physician, mathematician, and physicist [[Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|Rasmus Bartholin]] born. He will discover the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.  
File:Rasmus_Bartholin.jpg|link=Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|1625: Physician, mathematician, and physicist [[Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|Rasmus Bartholin]] born. He will discover the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.  
||1710: William Heberden born ... physician and scholar. "In 1766, he recommended to the College of Physicians the first design of the Medical Transactions, in which he proposed to collect together such observations as might have occurred to any of their body, and were likely to illustrate the history or cure of diseases. The plan was soon adopted, and three volumes (were) successively laid before the public." Pic.


||1756: James Gillray born ... caricaturist and printmaker. Pic.
||1756: James Gillray born ... caricaturist and printmaker. Pic.
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File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1819:  Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] born. He will make pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.  
File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1819:  Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] born. He will make pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.  
||1822: Amateur mathematician Jean-Robert Argand dies. In 1806, while managing a bookstore in Paris, he published the idea of geometrical interpretation of complex numbers known as the Argand diagram and is known for the first rigorous proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. Pic search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Robert_Argand


||1822: Heinrich Louis d'Arrest born ... astronomer. Pic.
||1822: Heinrich Louis d'Arrest born ... astronomer. Pic.
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||1867: Arthur Eichengrün born ... chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until the adoption of antibiotics, and for his pioneering contributions in plastics. Pic.
||1867: Arthur Eichengrün born ... chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until the adoption of antibiotics, and for his pioneering contributions in plastics. Pic.


||1872: Richard Willstätter born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate.
||1872: Richard Willstätter born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate. Pic.


||1882: William Stanley Jevons dies ... economist and logician. Pic.
||1882: William Stanley Jevons dies ... economist and logician. Pic.


||1884: Rufus M. Porter dies ... painter, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine. Pic.
||1884: Rufus M. Porter dies ... painter, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine. Pic.
||1888: John Logie Baird born ... invented the television.


||1896: Mathematician Philipp Ludwig von Seidel dies. He formulated the notion of uniform convergence.  Pic: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Ludwig_von_Seidel ... AMA says 23 Oct.
||1896: Mathematician Philipp Ludwig von Seidel dies. He formulated the notion of uniform convergence.  Pic: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Ludwig_von_Seidel ... AMA says 23 Oct.
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||1912: Salvador Luria born ... microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1912: Salvador Luria born ... microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1914: Grace Bates born ... mathematician and academic.
||1914: Grace Bates born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=Grace+Bates+mathematician


||1915: John Ulric Nef born ... chemist and academic ... discoverer of the Nef reaction and Nef synthesis. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Ulric+Nef
||1915: John Ulric Nef born ... chemist and academic ... discoverer of the Nef reaction and Nef synthesis. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Ulric+Nef


||1917: Eduard Buchner dies ... chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1917: Eduard Buchner dies ... chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1918: Frederick Sanger born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1918: Frederick Sanger born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1923: Arthur Dodd Code born ... astronomer who designed orbiting observatories. Pic.
||1923: Arthur Dodd Code born ... astronomer who designed orbiting observatories. Pic.
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||1932: Nguyen Dinh Ngoc born ... Army officer and a Vietnamese mathematician. Pic: http://khoahoc.tv/nha-khoa-hoc-diep-vien-nguyen-dinh-ngoc-24831
||1932: Nguyen Dinh Ngoc born ... Army officer and a Vietnamese mathematician. Pic: http://khoahoc.tv/nha-khoa-hoc-diep-vien-nguyen-dinh-ngoc-24831
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1941: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for new film by selling shares in the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].


File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
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||1969: The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
||1969: The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
||2004: Anna Macleod born ... biochemist and academic, an authority on brewing and distilling. She was a professor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. She was the world's first female Professor of Brewing and Biochemistry. Pic.


||2008: Henri Cartan dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
||2008: Henri Cartan dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||2014: Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani honored with the Fields Medal.
||2014: Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani honored with the Fields Medal. Pic.
 
|File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=On Halting Problems|2017: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon [[On Halting Problems|discovers unregistered halting problem]], predicts emergence of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
File:Crimson Blossom 2.jpg|link=Crimson Blossom 2 (nonfiction)|2019: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Crimson Blossom 2 (nonfiction)|Crimson Blossom 2]]'' reveals "five hundred and twelve kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.


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  • 1625: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin born. He will discover the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.

    1625: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin born. He will discover the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.

  • 1819: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet born. He will make pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.

    1819: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet born. He will make pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.

  • 1863: Artist Eugène Delacroix dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.

    1863: Artist Eugène Delacroix dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.

  • 1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

    1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

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