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||1565 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1522)
||1565: Lodovico Ferrari dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search (dubious): https://www.google.com/search?q=lodovico+ferrari


File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1607: Assassins sent by Pope Paul V attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]], who survives fifteen stiletto thrusts.
File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1607: Assassins sent by Pope Paul V attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]], who survives fifteen stiletto thrusts.


||1740 – Jean-Philippe Baratier, German astronomer and scholar (b. 1721)
File:Denis Diderot by van Loo.jpg|link=Denis Diderot (nonfiction)|1713: Philosopher, art critic, and writer [[Denis Diderot (nonfiction)|Denis Diderot]] born. He will be a prominent figure during the Enlightenment, serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.


||1777 – Johann Andreas Segner, Slovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
||1740: Jean-Philippe Baratier dies ... astronomer and scholar. A noted child prodigy of the 18th century, he published eleven works and authored a great quantity of unpublished manuscripts. Pic (attended by Athena!).


||1781 – Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848) - Bernard Bolzano (/bɒlˈtsɑːnoʊ/; German: [bɔlˈtsaːno]; born Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano; 5 October 1781 – 18 December 1848) was a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian extraction, also known for his antimilitarist views.
File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi engraving.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1750: [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] receives a response from Pope Benedict XIV on the publication of her book, ''Instituzioni Analitiche'', a two volume presentation covering algebra, calculus and differential equations. The pope will send her a gold medal and a wreath laid with precious stones, and name her honorary professor at the University of Bologna.


||1869 – During construction, the Hennepin Island tunnel has a limestone cap breached and the rushing water breaks large chunks of land away and the St. Anthony Falls are nearly destroyed.
||1777: Johann Andreas Segner dies ... mathematician, physicist, and physician. Pic.


||William Lassell, FRS FRSE FRSL FRAS (d. 5 October 1880) was an English merchant and astronomer.[1][2][3][4][5][6] He is remembered for his improvements to the reflecting telescope and his ensuing discoveries of four planetary satellites.
||1781: Bernard Bolzano born ... mathematician and philosopher ... logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest ... known for his antimilitarist views. Pic.


||1882 – Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 1945)
||1804: Robert Parker Parrott born ... American soldier and inventor of military ordnance. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Robert+Parker+Parrott


||1899 – Elda Anderson, American physicist and health researcher (d. 1961)
||1861: Thomas Little Heath born ... civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator, and mountaineer. He was educated at Clifton College. Heath translated works of Euclid of Alexandria, Apollonius of Perga, Aristarchus of Samos, and Archimedes of Syracuse into English. Pic: http://faculty.etsu.edu/gardnerr/geometry-history/heiberg-heath.htm


||1903 – M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist and academic (d. 1989)
||1869: During construction, the Hennepin Island tunnel has a limestone cap breached and the rushing water breaks large chunks of land away and the St. Anthony Falls are nearly destroyed.


||1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
||1877: Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner born ... engineer and a pioneer of sound-on-film technology. Pic.


||1921 – The 1921 World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
||1880: William Lassell dies ... merchant and astronomer. He is remembered for his improvements to the reflecting telescope and his ensuing discoveries of four planetary satellites. Pic.


||1930 – Reinhard Selten, German economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
||1882: Robert H. Goddard born ... physicist, engineer, and academic. Pic.


||1930 – British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
||1889: Dirk Coster  born ... physicist. He is known as the co-discoverer of Hafnium (Hf) (element 72) in 1923, along with George de Hevesy, by means of X-ray spectroscopic analysis of zirconium ore. Pic.


||1942 – Dorothea Klumpke, American astronomer (b. 1861)
||1898: Philip Franklin born ... mathematician and professor whose work was primarily focused in analysis. Pic: https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/philip-franklin/


||1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
||1899: Elda Anderson born ... physicist and health researcher. She worked on the Manhattan Project at Princeton University and the Los Alamos Laboratory, where she prepared the first sample of pure uranium-235 at the laboratory. Pic.


||1966 – Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
||1903: M. King Hubbert born ... geophysicist and academic.


||1976 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
||1905: Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.


File:Six Seconds to Hell.jpg|link=Six Seconds to Hell|1975: ''[[Six Seconds to Hell]]'' is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," says art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]].
File:Nathan Jacobson.jpg|link=Nathan Jacobson (nonfiction)|1910: Mathematician [[Nathan Jacobson (nonfiction)|Nathan Jacobson]] born. He will conduct research on the structure theory of rings without finiteness conditions--a subject closely related to the theory of algebras--which will transform the approach to classical results and break ground for solutions to problems inaccessible by previous methods.
 
||1921: The 1921 World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
 
||1922: Bil Keane dies ... cartoonist ... most notable for his work on the newspaper comic The Family Circus. It began in 1960 and continues in syndication, drawn by his son Jeff Keane. Pic.
 
||1930: Reinhard Selten born ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1930: British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
 
||1942: Dorothea Klumpke dies ... astronomer. Pic.
 
||1947: The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
 
||1966: Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
 
||1972: Solomon Lefschetz dies ... mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations.
 
||1976: Lars Onsager dies ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: The [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter primary mission ends at the beginning of solar conjunction. The extended mission will commence on 14 December 1976 after solar conjunction.
File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: The [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter primary mission ends at the beginning of solar conjunction. The extended mission will commence on 14 December 1976 after solar conjunction.
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File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] dies. He worked on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.
File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] dies. He worked on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.


File:Isaac Asimov.jpg|link=Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|1985: Writer and crime-fighter [[Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|Isaac Asimov]] publishes ''Two Plus Two Opens the Door'', an introduction to [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] for children, which will influence a generation of [[mathematicians]].
File:Harald Cramér.jpg|link=Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician and statistician [[Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|Harald Cramér]] dies. He helped found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."


File:Harald Cramér.jpg|link=Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician and statistician [[Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|Harald Cramér]] dies. He helped found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."
||1985: Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic.


||1986 – Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".
||1986: Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".


||1986 – James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1919)
||1986: James H. Wilkinson dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=James+H.+Wilkinson


||1996: Seymour Cray dies ... engineer and businessman, founded CRAY Inc.


||1996 – Seymour Cray, American engineer and businessman, founded CRAY Inc (b. 1925)
||2004: William H. Dobelle dies ... biologist and academic ... sight restoration. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=William+H.+Dobelle


||2004: Maurice Wilkins dies ... physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2004 – William H. Dobelle, American biologist and academic (b. 1941)
||2009: Israel Moiseevich Gelfand dies ... Soviet mathematician. Pic.


||2004 – Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
||2017: Myles Tierney dies ... mathematician. He founded the theory of elementary toposes with William Lawvere. Birth date unknown. Pic: https://www.math.rutgers.edu/for-alumni-friends/in-memoriam


File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter's primary mission, at the beginning of the solar conjunction.
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter's primary mission, at the beginning of the solar conjunction.


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  • 1607: Assassins sent by Pope Paul V attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi, who survives fifteen stiletto thrusts.

    1607: Assassins sent by Pope Paul V attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi, who survives fifteen stiletto thrusts.

  • 1713: Philosopher, art critic, and writer Denis Diderot born. He will be a prominent figure during the Enlightenment, serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

    1713: Philosopher, art critic, and writer Denis Diderot born. He will be a prominent figure during the Enlightenment, serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

  • 1750: Maria Gaetana Agnesi receives a response from Pope Benedict XIV on the publication of her book, Instituzioni Analitiche, a two volume presentation covering algebra, calculus and differential equations. The pope will send her a gold medal and a wreath laid with precious stones, and name her honorary professor at the University of Bologna.

    1750: Maria Gaetana Agnesi receives a response from Pope Benedict XIV on the publication of her book, Instituzioni Analitiche, a two volume presentation covering algebra, calculus and differential equations. The pope will send her a gold medal and a wreath laid with precious stones, and name her honorary professor at the University of Bologna.

  • 1910: Mathematician Nathan Jacobson born. He will conduct research on the structure theory of rings without finiteness conditions--a subject closely related to the theory of algebras--which will transform the approach to classical results and break ground for solutions to problems inaccessible by previous methods.

    1910: Mathematician Nathan Jacobson born. He will conduct research on the structure theory of rings without finiteness conditions--a subject closely related to the theory of algebras--which will transform the approach to classical results and break ground for solutions to problems inaccessible by previous methods.

  • 1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 orbiter primary mission ends at the beginning of solar conjunction. The extended mission will commence on 14 December 1976 after solar conjunction.

    1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 orbiter primary mission ends at the beginning of solar conjunction. The extended mission will commence on 14 December 1976 after solar conjunction.

  • 1985: Mathematician Karl Menger dies. He worked on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.

    1985: Mathematician Karl Menger dies. He worked on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.

  • 1985: Mathematician and statistician Harald Cramér dies. He helped found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."

    1985: Mathematician and statistician Harald Cramér dies. He helped found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the Viking 2 orbiter's primary mission, at the beginning of the solar conjunction.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the Viking 2 orbiter's primary mission, at the beginning of the solar conjunction.

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