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||1580: Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
||1580: Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth. Pic.


||1679: A fierce fire consumed the Stellaburgum — Europe’s finest observatory, built by the pioneering astronomer Johannes Hevelius in the city of Danzig, present-day Poland, decades before the famous Royal Greenwich Observatory and Paris Observatory existed.  
||1679: A fierce fire consumed the Stellaburgum — Europe’s finest observatory, built by the pioneering astronomer Johannes Hevelius in the city of Danzig, present-day Poland, decades before the famous Royal Greenwich Observatory and Paris Observatory existed. Pic: https://pballew.blogspot.com/2013/09/on-this-day-in-math-september-26.html


File:The Parthenon.jpg|link=Parthenon (nonfiction)|1687: [[Parthenon (nonfiction)|The Parthenon]] is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
File:The Parthenon.jpg|link=Parthenon (nonfiction)|1687: [[Parthenon (nonfiction)|The Parthenon]] is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.


||1688: Willem Jacob 's Gravesande born ... mathematician and natural philosopher, chiefly remembered for developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics. As professor of mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy at Leiden University, he helped to propagate Isaac Newton's ideas in Continental Europe.
||1688: Willem 's Gravesande born ... mathematician and natural philosopher, chiefly remembered for developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics. As professor of mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy at Leiden University, he helped to propagate Isaac Newton's ideas in Continental Europe. Pic.


File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1689: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] publishes ''Philosophiæ Criminalis Principia Mathematica'' ("Mathematical Principles of Criminal Philosophy"). ''Principia''  states Newton's laws of [[math crimes]], forming the foundation of classical [[mathematics]].
||1716: Antoine Parent dies ... mathematician and theorist. No pic online.
 
||1716: Antoine Parent dies ... mathematician and theorist.
 
File:Hubert Gautier.jpg|link=Hubert Gautier (nonfiction)|1730: Physician, mathematician, and engineer [[Hubert Gautier (nonfiction)|Hubert Gautier]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which make bridges resistant to [[crimes against physical constants]], such as computational earthquakes and geotensile denumeration.


||1731: Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe Malfatti, also known as Gian Francesco or Gianfrancesco born ... mathematician. Pic.
||1731: Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe Malfatti, also known as Gian Francesco or Gianfrancesco born ... mathematician. Pic.


||1754: Joseph Louis Proust born ... chemist. He was best known for his discovery of the law of constant composition in 1794, stating that chemical compounds always combine in constant proportions.
||1754: Joseph Louis Proust born ... chemist. He was best known for his discovery of the law of constant composition in 1794, stating that chemical compounds always combine in constant proportions. Pic search.


File:Etienne Bezout.jpg|link=Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|1772: Mathematician and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|Étienne Bézout]] publishes his ''Théorie générale des équations gnomoniques'' contained much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of [[crimes against mathematical functions]].
||1766: Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi dies ... mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals.  Pic: book cover.


||1775: John Adams writes to his wife to entreat her to teach his children geometry and... "I have seen the Utility of Geometry, Geography, and the Art of drawing so much of late, that I must intreat you, my dear, to teach the Elements of those Sciences to my little Girl and Boys.  
||1775: John Adams writes to his wife to entreat her to teach his children geometry and... "I have seen the Utility of Geometry, Geography, and the Art of drawing so much of late, that I must intreat you, my dear, to teach the Elements of those Sciences to my little Girl and Boys." Pic.


||1802: Jurij Vega dies ... mathematician and physicist.
||1802: Jurij Vega dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic.


||1809: Johann Philipp Gustav von Jolly born ... physicist and mathematician. Jolly was first and foremost an experimental physicist. He measured the acceleration due to gravity with precision weights and also worked on osmosis. Pic.
||1809: Johann Philipp Gustav von Jolly born ... physicist and mathematician. Jolly was first and foremost an experimental physicist. He measured the acceleration due to gravity with precision weights and also worked on osmosis. Pic.
||1849: Ivan Pavlov born ... physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1864: Percy Alexander MacMahon born ... mathematician, especially noted in connection with the partitions of numbers and enumerative combinatorics. Pic.
||1864: Percy Alexander MacMahon born ... mathematician, especially noted in connection with the partitions of numbers and enumerative combinatorics. Pic.


||1867: Winsor McCay born ... illustrator and animator (d. 1934)
||1867: Winsor McCay born ... illustrator and animator. Pic.


File:August Ferdinand Möbius.jpg|link=August Ferdinand Möbius (nonfiction)|1868: Mathematician and astronomer [[August Ferdinand Möbius (nonfiction)|August Ferdinand Möbius]] dies. He discovered the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
File:August Ferdinand Möbius.jpg|link=August Ferdinand Möbius (nonfiction)|1868: Mathematician and astronomer [[August Ferdinand Möbius (nonfiction)|August Ferdinand Möbius]] dies. He discovered the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
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||1874: James Clerk Maxwell in a letter to Professor Lewis Campbell describes Galton, "Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'. " *Lewis Campbell and William Garnett (eds.), The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1884), 299.
||1874: James Clerk Maxwell in a letter to Professor Lewis Campbell describes Galton, "Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'. " *Lewis Campbell and William Garnett (eds.), The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1884), 299.


||1877: Hermann Grassmann dies ... mathematician and physicist.
||1877: Hermann Grassmann dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic.


||1886: Archibald Vivian Hill born ... physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. He shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his elucidation of the production of heat and mechanical work in muscles.
||1886: Archibald Hill born ... physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. He shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his elucidation of the production of heat and mechanical work in muscles. Pic.


||1887: Barnes Wallis born ... scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb.
||1887: Barnes Wallis born ... scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb.


||1891: Hans Reichenbach born ... philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He was influential in the areas of science, education, and of logical empiricism: he made lasting contributions to the study of empiricism based on a theory of probability; the logic and the philosophy of mathematics; space, time, and relativity theory; analysis of probabilistic reasoning; and quantum mechanics.
||1891: Hans Reichenbach born ... philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He was influential in the areas of science, education, and of logical empiricism: he made lasting contributions to the study of empiricism based on a theory of probability; the logic and the philosophy of mathematics; space, time, and relativity theory; analysis of probabilistic reasoning; and quantum mechanics. Pic.


||1905: George Placzek born ... physicist. Together with Otto Frisch, he suggested a direct experimental proof of nuclear fission. Together with Niels Bohr and others, he was instrumental in clarifying the role of Uranium 235 for the possibility of nuclear chain reaction. Pic.
||1905: George Placzek born ... physicist. Together with Otto Frisch, he suggested a direct experimental proof of nuclear fission. Together with Niels Bohr and others, he was instrumental in clarifying the role of Uranium 235 for the possibility of nuclear chain reaction. Pic.
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||1910: Thorvald Nicolai Thiele dies ... astronomer and director of the Copenhagen Observatory. He was also an actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem.
||1910: Thorvald Nicolai Thiele dies ... astronomer and director of the Copenhagen Observatory. He was also an actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem.


||1933: Charles Cameron Conley born ... mathematician who worked on dynamical systems.
||1933: Charles Cameron Conley born ... mathematician who worked on dynamical systems. Pic search.


File:Edwin Hubble.jpg|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|1943: Astronomer, cosmologist, and crime-fighter [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|Edwin Hubble]] tracks gang of [[Crimes against astronomical constants|astronomical criminals]] to the Andromeda "nebula".
||1933: As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don't shoot, G-Men!", which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.


||1933: As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don't shoot, G-Men!", which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.
||1939: Ottó Bláthy dies ... engineer and chess player ... co-inventor of the modern electric transformer, the tension regulator, the AC watt-hour meter, motor capacitor for the single-phase (AC) electric motor, the turbo generator, and the high-efficiency turbo generator. Pic.
 
||1943: U-536, which had been tasked with picking up the escaping naval officers, arrived off Pointe de Maisonnette at the appointed time. Operation Kiebitz was a failed German operation during World War II to organize the escape of four skilled U-boat commanders from a Canadian prisoner of war camp in Bowmanville, Ontario. The subsequent counter operation by the Royal Canadian Navy, Operation Pointe Maisonnette, became a key engagement in the Battle of the St. Lawrence and was also successful in thwarting the Germans' plan. Pic.


||1960: In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
||1960: In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
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||1973: Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
||1973: Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.


||1976: Leopold Ružička dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1976: Leopold Ružička dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1975: Engineer and crime-fighter [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundation for later advances in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Pál Turán.jpg|link=Pál Turán (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician [[Pál Turán (nonfiction)|Pál Turán]] dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory.
File:Pál Turán.jpg|link=Pál Turán (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician [[Pál Turán (nonfiction)|Pál Turán]] dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory.


||1978: Manne Siegbahn dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1978: Manne Siegbahn dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1983: Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Military officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
||1983: Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Military officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.


||1990: Lothar Collatz dies ... mathematician.
||1990: Lothar Collatz dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1999: The Kobe meteorite fell on September 26 (local time 20:23), 1999, in Kita-ku in the north of Kobe city, Japan. The meteorite fall was widely observed in Kobe and the surrounding area, and was photographed by an amateur photographer in Imabari city, 200 km southwest of Kobe. The meteorite struck a house with an explosive sound but otherwise caused only minor property damage. The approximately 20 fragments of the meteorite had a total mass of 136 g.
||1996: Geoffrey Wilkinson dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis. Pic.


||2012: Sylvia Fedoruk dies ... physicist and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.
||1998: Asteroid 25143 Itokawa discovered ... a sub-kilometer near-Earth object of the Apollo group and a potentially hazardous asteroid. It was discovered by the LINEAR program in 1998 and later named after Hideo Itokawa. The strange peanut-shaped S-type asteroid has a rotation period of 12.1 hours and measures approximately 330 meters (1,100 feet) in diameter. Due to its low density and high porosity, Itokawa is considered to be a rubble pile, consisting of numerous boulders of different sizes rather than of a single solid body. It was the first asteroid to be the target of a sample return mission, the Japanese Hayabusa space probe, which recovered more than 1500 particles. It is the smallest asteroid ever photographed and visited by a spacecraft. Pic (cool).


||2014: Gerald Neugebauer dies ... astronomer and physicist.
||1999: The Kobe meteorite falls to earth (local time 20:23) in Kita-kum, north of Kobe city, Japan. The meteorite fall was widely observed in Kobe and the surrounding area, and was photographed by an amateur photographer in Imabari city, 200 km southwest of Kobe. The meteorite struck a house with an explosive sound but otherwise caused only minor property damage. The approximately 20 fragments of the meteorite had a total mass of 136 g.


File:Blue Flower.jpg|link=Blue Flower (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Blue Flower (nonfiction)|Blue Flower]]'' declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
||2012: Sylvia Fedoruk dies ... physicist and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan. Pic.


File:Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge|2017: ''[[Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize.
||2014: Gerald Neugebauer dies ... astronomer and physicist, pioneering work in infrared astronomy. Pic uploaded.


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  • 1687: The Parthenon is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.

    1687: The Parthenon is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.

  • 1868: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius dies. He discovered the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.

    1868: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius dies. He discovered the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.

  • 1905: Albert Einstein publishes his first paper on the special theory of relativity.

    1905: Albert Einstein publishes his first paper on the special theory of relativity.

  • 1976: Mathematician Pál Turán dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory.

    1976: Mathematician Pál Turán dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory.

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