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File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1470: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] born. He will produce a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".
||1717: Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin born ... astronomer and demographer. Pic.
||1721: Rudolf Jakob Camerarius dies ... botanist and physician ... one of the first workers to perform experiments in heredity. He contributed particularly toward establishing sexual differentiation in plants by identifying and defining the male (anther) and female (pistil) reproductive parts of the plant and also by describing their function in fertilization. He showed that pollen is required for this process. Pic.
||1760: Louis Godin dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic.
||1768: Joseph-Nicolas Delisle born ... astronomer and cartographer. Pic.
||1792: The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored. Pic.
File:Franz Ernst Neumann by Carl Steffeck 1886.jpg|link=Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|1798: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician [[Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|Franz Ernst Neumann]] born. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds will include what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.
||1816: Carl Zeiss, German lens maker born ... created the Optical instrument. Pic.
File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1831: Mathematician [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Jacobi]] appointed professor. After a four hour disputation in Latin, Jacobi was appointed professor at the University of Konigsberg. While there he inaugurated what was then a complete novelty in mathematics: research seminars for the more advanced students and interested colleagues.
File:Joseph Nicollet.jpg|link=Joseph Nicollet (nonfiction)|1843: Mathematician and explorer [[Joseph Nicollet (nonfiction)|Joseph Nicollet]] dies. He mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.
||1847: Mary Watson Whitney born ... astronomer and academic. Pic.
File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1862: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, born.  
File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1862: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, born.  


|File:Linus Pauling.jpg|link=Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|[[Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|Linus Pauling]] says he is "flattered, but cannot possibly accept" offer to play [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] in planned film.
||1862: Hawley Harvey Crippen born ... physician and murderer ... telegraph. Pic.
|File:Exploded electrolytic capacitor.jpg|link=Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|[[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|Capacitor plague]] affects several brands of [[portable envy]] devices.
 
|File:Portable envy clock generator.jpg|link=Portable envy|[[Portable envy]] components at risk of [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]].
||1877: James Jeans born ... physicist, astronomer, and mathematician. Pic.
 
File:Felice Casorati.jpg|link=Felice Casorati (nonfiction)|1890: [[Felice Casorati (nonfiction)|Felice Casorati]] dies. Casorati is best known for the Casorati–Weierstrass theorem in complex analysis.
 
||1910: Fritz Karl Preikschat born ... electrical and telecommunications engineer and inventor. Pic.
 
||1917: Kenkichi Iwasawa born ... mathematician who is known for his influence on algebraic number theory.  Pic search.
 
||1926: Heini Halberstam born ... mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is one of the two mathematicians after whom the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture is named. Pic search.
 
||1936: Herman Haga dies ... physicist. Pic.
 
||1940: George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer. Pic.
 
||1943: Mathematician Oswald Teichmüller dies. Pic.
 
||1957: Rocky Flats nuclear plant:  plutonium shavings in a glove box located in building 771 (the Plutonium Recovery and Fabrication Facility) spontaneously ignited. The fire spread to the flammable glove box materials, including plexiglas windows and rubber gloves. The fire rapidly spread through the interconnected glove boxes and ignited the large bank of High-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters located in a plenum downstream. Within minutes the first filters had burned out, allowing plutonium particles to escape from the building exhaust stacks.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_contamination_from_the_Rocky_Flats_Plant
 
||1972: Johannes de Groot dies ... mathematician, the leading Dutch topologist for more than two decades following World War II. Pic.
 
||1986: Henry DeWolf Smyth dies ... physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat. He played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy, as a participant in the Manhattan Project, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Pic.
 
||1993: Wolfgang R. Wasow dies ... mathematician known for his work in asymptotic expansions and their applications in differential equations. Pic.
 
1997: Darol Froman dies ... Deputy Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1951 to 1962. He served as a group leader from 1943 to 1945, and a division head from 1945 to 1948. He was the scientific director of the Operation Sandstone nuclear tests at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific in 1948, and Assistant Director for Weapons Development from 1949 to 1951. Pic.
 
File:Mars Global Surveyor.jpg|link=Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|1997: NASA's [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] reaches Mars.
 
||1998: Project FUBELT: The highlights of Project FUBELT are cited in declassified US government documents released by the National Security Archive ... the codename for the secret Central Intelligence Agency operations that were to prevent Salvador Allende's rise to power before his confirmation and to promote a military coup in Chile.
 
||2001: Daniel M. Lewin dies ... mathematician and businessman, co-founded Akamai Technologies.
 
||2007: Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
 
||2012: Irving S. Reed dies ... mathematician and engineer. He is best known for co-inventing a class of algebraic error-correcting and error-detecting codes known as Reed–Solomon codes in collaboration with Gustave Solomon. He also co-invented the Reed–Muller code. Pic search.
 
File:Andrzej Trybulec.jpg|link=Andrzej Trybulec (nonfiction)|2013: Mathematician and computer scientist [[Andrzej Trybulec (nonfiction)|Andrzej Trybulec]] dies. He developed the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.
 
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  • 1470: Mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller born. He will produce a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".

    1470: Mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller born. He will produce a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".

  • 1798: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann born. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds will include what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.

    1798: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann born. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds will include what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.

  • 1831: Mathematician Carl Jacobi appointed professor. After a four hour disputation in Latin, Jacobi was appointed professor at the University of Konigsberg. While there he inaugurated what was then a complete novelty in mathematics: research seminars for the more advanced students and interested colleagues.

    1831: Mathematician Carl Jacobi appointed professor. After a four hour disputation in Latin, Jacobi was appointed professor at the University of Konigsberg. While there he inaugurated what was then a complete novelty in mathematics: research seminars for the more advanced students and interested colleagues.

  • 1843: Mathematician and explorer Joseph Nicollet dies. He mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.

    1843: Mathematician and explorer Joseph Nicollet dies. He mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.

  • 1862: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, born.

    1862: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, born.

  • 1890: Felice Casorati dies. Casorati is best known for the Casorati–Weierstrass theorem in complex analysis.

    1890: Felice Casorati dies. Casorati is best known for the Casorati–Weierstrass theorem in complex analysis.

  • 1997: NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.

    1997: NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.

  • 2013: Mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec dies. He developed the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.

    2013: Mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec dies. He developed the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.

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