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||1535 – The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
||1535: The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.


||1562 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and author (d. 1647)
||1562: Christen Sørensen Longomontanus born ... astronomer and author. Pic.


||1669 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1606)
||1669: Rembrandt dies ... painter and illustrator. Pic.


||1759 – Louis François Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician and academic (d. 1803)
||1759: Louis François Antoine Arbogast born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search.


||Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (b. October 4, 1841) was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist.  
||1841: Thomas Corwin Mendenhall born ... autodidact physicist and meteorologist. Pic.


||1864 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
||1858: Léon Serpollet born ... industrialist and pioneer of steam automobiles, under the Gardner-Serpollet brand. Pic.


||1876 – Florence Eliza Allen, American mathematician and suffrage activist (d. 1960)
||1858: Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin born ... American physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization"). Pic.


||1892 – Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist and author (d. 1934)
||1864: Joseph Montferrand dies ... logger and strongman ... inspiration for the legendary Ottawa Valley figure Big Joe Mufferaw. Pic.


||1895 – Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy (d. 1944)
||1873: Gheorghe Țițeica born ... mathematician with important contributions in geometry. He is recognized as the founder of the Romanian school of differential geometry. Pic.
 
||1876: Florence Eliza Allen born ... mathematician and suffrage activist.
 
||1878: Eugène Lefebvre born ... pioneering aviator ... he will die in a plane crash, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft. Pic.
 
||1885: Heinrich Scherk dies ... mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers. Pic.
 
||1881: George Constantinescu born ... scientist, engineer and inventor. During his career, he registered over 130 inventions. He is the creator of the theory of sonics, a new branch of continuum mechanics, in which he described the transmission of mechanical energy through vibrations. Pic.
 
||1892: Hermann Glauert born ... 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.
 
||1895: Richard Sorge born ... journalist and spy. Pic search.
 
||1900: Nikolai Vasilyevich Smirnov born ... mathematician who contributed to probability theory and statistics. Smirnov is known, with Sergey Korolev, for the Korolev-Smirnov test. Pic search.


File:John Atanasov.gif|link=John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|1903: Physicist, inventor, and academic [[John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|John Vincent Atanasoff]] born. He will invent the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.
File:John Atanasov.gif|link=John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|1903: Physicist, inventor, and academic [[John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|John Vincent Atanasoff]] born. He will invent the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.


||1904 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
||1904: Cyril Stanley Smith born ... metallurgist who in 1943-44 determined the properties and technology of plutonium and uranium, the essential materials in the atomic bombs that were first exploded in 1945. Smith already then had 15 years of experience as a research metallurgist with the American Brass Co., during which time he studied properties of alloys and their microstructure. In WW II, he joined the Los Alamos Laboratory at its inception (1943). The properties and technology of plutonium had to be conducted with extremely limited quantities of available material. Smith and his group found it was unique, with five different allotropic forms with huge density differences between them. Postwar, he organized the Institute for the Study of Metal at the Univ. of Chicago. Pic.


||1906 – Mary Celine Fasenmyer, American mathematician (d. 1996)
||1904: Carl Josef Bayer dies ... chemist and academic. Pic search.


||1916 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
||1906: Mary Celine Fasenmyer born ... mathematician.


||1918 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
||1909: Eugene George Rochow born ... inorganic chemist. Rochow worked on organosilicon chemistry; in the 1940s, he described the direct process, also known as the Rochow process or Müller-Rochow process. Pic.
 
||1916: Vitaly Ginzburg born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1918: Kenichi Fukui born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1926: Kazuhiko Nishijima born ... physicist who made significant contributions to particle physics. Pic.
 
||1928: Alvin Toffler born ... writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide. He is regarded as one of the world's outstanding futurists. Pic.


File:Max Planck 1878.gif|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1947: Physicist and academic [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] dies. He made many contributions to theoretical physics, and earned fame as the originator of quantum theory.
File:Max Planck 1878.gif|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1947: Physicist and academic [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] dies. He made many contributions to theoretical physics, and earned fame as the originator of quantum theory.
||1954: Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel dies ... mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory.  In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device ... "He is perhaps best known for the Hamel basis ... for the real numbers as a vector space over the rational numbers." Data and pic: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Hamel.html


File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|1957: [[Clock Head 2]] stops [[math criminals]] from interfering with the launch of [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]].
File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|1957: [[Clock Head 2]] stops [[math criminals]] from interfering with the launch of [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]].
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File:Sputnik 1.jpg|link=Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|1957: Space Race: Launch of [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]], the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
File:Sputnik 1.jpg|link=Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|1957: Space Race: Launch of [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]], the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.


||1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
||1974: Robert Lee Moore dies ... mathematician who taught for many years at the University of Texas. He is known for his work in general topology, for the Moore method of teaching university mathematics, and for his poor treatment of African-American mathematics students. Pic.
 
||1985: The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
 
||1992: Zoltán Lajos Bay dies ... physicist, professor, and engineer who developed technologies, including tungsten lamps and microwave devices. Pic.
 
||2000: Michael Smith dies ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||2000 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
||2004: SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.


||2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
||2005: Ronald Samuel Rivlin dies ... physicist, mathematician, rheologist and a noted expert on rubber. Pic.


File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' sells for five hundred thousand dollars.
||2009: Bronisław Żurakowski dies ... pilot and engineer. Pic.


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  • 1903: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff born. He will invent the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.

    1903: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff born. He will invent the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.

  • 1947: Physicist and academic Max Planck dies. He made many contributions to theoretical physics, and earned fame as the originator of quantum theory.

    1947: Physicist and academic Max Planck dies. He made many contributions to theoretical physics, and earned fame as the originator of quantum theory.

  • 1957: Clock Head 2 stops math criminals from interfering with the launch of Sputnik 1.

    1957: Clock Head 2 stops math criminals from interfering with the launch of Sputnik 1.

  • 1957: Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

    1957: Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

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