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File:Michel de Montaigne.jpg|link=Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|1592: Philosopher and author [[Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|Michel de Montaigne]] dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
File:Michel de Montaigne.jpg|link=Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|1592: Philosopher and author [[Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|Michel de Montaigne]] dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
File:Giovanni_Cassini.jpg|link=Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|1700: Mathematician, astronomer, and criminal investigator [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] publishes new study of the division of the rings of Saturn which reveals a series of previously unknown [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. This study will influence a generation of crime-fighting astronomers, leading to numerous breakthroughs in scientific law enforcement.


||1755: Oliver Evans born ... inventor, engineer and businessman born in rural Delaware and later rooted commercially in Philadelphia. He was one of the first Americans building steam engines and an advocate of high pressure steam (vs. low pressure steam). A pioneer in the fields of automation, materials handling and steam power, Evans was one of the most prolific and influential inventors in the early years of the United States. Pic.
||1755: Oliver Evans born ... inventor, engineer and businessman born in rural Delaware and later rooted commercially in Philadelphia. He was one of the first Americans building steam engines and an advocate of high pressure steam (vs. low pressure steam). A pioneer in the fields of automation, materials handling and steam power, Evans was one of the most prolific and influential inventors in the early years of the United States. Pic.
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File:Hannibal Goodwin.jpg|link=Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|1898: Priest and inventor [[Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|Hannibal Goodwin]] patents celluloid photographic film.
File:Hannibal Goodwin.jpg|link=Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|1898: Priest and inventor [[Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|Hannibal Goodwin]] patents celluloid photographic film.
File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1900: Social activist and alleged superhero [[The Governess]] shames [[math criminals]] into returning stolen digits, paying compensation for lost computational power, and personally apologizing to everyone who was inconvenienced by this sorry episode of bad behavior, ''which will never be repeated.''


||1905: Michael Willcox Perrin born ... scientist who created the first practical polythene, directed the first British atomic bomb programme, and participated in the Allied intelligence of the Nazi atomic bomb. Pic.
||1905: Michael Willcox Perrin born ... scientist who created the first practical polythene, directed the first British atomic bomb programme, and participated in the Allied intelligence of the Nazi atomic bomb. Pic.
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||1956: The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
||1956: The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
||1959: The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.


||1981: Gregory Breit dies ... physicist and academic. During the early stages of the war, Breit was chosen by Arthur Compton to supervise the early design of the first atomic bomb during an early phase in what would later become the Manhattan Project. Breit resigned his position in 1942, feeling that the work was going too slowly and that there had been security breaches on the project; his job went to Robert Oppenheimer, who was later appointed to scientific director of the entire project. Pic.
||1981: Gregory Breit dies ... physicist and academic. During the early stages of the war, Breit was chosen by Arthur Compton to supervise the early design of the first atomic bomb during an early phase in what would later become the Manhattan Project. Breit resigned his position in 1942, feeling that the work was going too slowly and that there had been security breaches on the project; his job went to Robert Oppenheimer, who was later appointed to scientific director of the entire project. Pic.
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||2004: Chemist Luis E. Miramontes dies.  He co-invented the progestin norethisterone, used in one of the first three oral contraceptives. Pic.
||2004: Chemist Luis E. Miramontes dies.  He co-invented the progestin norethisterone, used in one of the first three oral contraceptives. Pic.
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|2013: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."


||2014: Matthew Sands dies ... physicist and educator best known as a co-author of the ''Feynman Lectures on Physics''.  Pic.
||2014: Matthew Sands dies ... physicist and educator best known as a co-author of the ''Feynman Lectures on Physics''.  Pic.
File:Green Ring 2.png|link=Green Ring 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Green Ring 2 (nonfiction)|Green Ring 2]]'' reveals "over two hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.


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  • 1592: Philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.

    1592: Philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.

  • 1861: Mathematician Dmitry Mirimanoff born. In 1917, he will introduce the cumulative hierarchy of sets and the notion of von Neumann ordinals; although he will introduce a notion of regular (and well-founded set) he will not consider regularity as an axiom, but also explore what is now called non-well-founded set theory, and the idea of what is now called bisimulation.

    1861: Mathematician Dmitry Mirimanoff born. In 1917, he will introduce the cumulative hierarchy of sets and the notion of von Neumann ordinals; although he will introduce a notion of regular (and well-founded set) he will not consider regularity as an axiom, but also explore what is now called non-well-founded set theory, and the idea of what is now called bisimulation.

  • 1873: Mathematician and author Constantin Carathéodory born. He will pioneer the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.

    1873: Mathematician and author Constantin Carathéodory born. He will pioneer the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.

  • 1898: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

    1898: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

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