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File:David Gregory.jpg|link=David Gregory (nonfiction)|1708: Mathematician and astronomer [[David Gregory (nonfiction)|David Gregory]] dies. At the Union of 1707, he was given the responsibility of reorganizing the Scottish Mint.
File:David Gregory.jpg|link=David Gregory (nonfiction)|1708: Mathematician and astronomer [[David Gregory (nonfiction)|David Gregory]] dies. At the Union of 1707, he was given the responsibility of reorganizing the Scottish Mint.
File:Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.jpg|link=Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|1730: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]] uses precision thermometry to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Henry Cavendish.jpg|link=Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|1731: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher [[Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|Henry Cavendish]] born. He will discover "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.  
File:Henry Cavendish.jpg|link=Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|1731: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher [[Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|Henry Cavendish]] born. He will discover "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.  
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||1861: Fridtjof Nansen born ... explorer, scientist, and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate ... Nansen Passport ... Pic.
||1861: Fridtjof Nansen born ... explorer, scientist, and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate ... Nansen Passport ... Pic.
File:James Prescott Joule.jpg|link=James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|1888: Physicist and brewer [[James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|James Prescott Joule]] uses the nature of heat, and its relationship to mechanical work, to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Van meegeren trial.jpg|link=Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|1889: Painter and forger [[Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|Han van Meegeren]] born. He will be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
File:Van meegeren trial.jpg|link=Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|1889: Painter and forger [[Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|Han van Meegeren]] born. He will be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
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||1940: David Anthony Klarner born ... mathematician, author, and educator. He is known for his work in combinatorial enumeration, polyominoes, and box-packing. Pic: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thane/421802519
||1940: David Anthony Klarner born ... mathematician, author, and educator. He is known for his work in combinatorial enumeration, polyominoes, and box-packing. Pic: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thane/421802519
File:Janet Beta Accepts Commission (detail).jpg|link=Janet Beta|1943: Mathematician and soldier [[Janet Beta]] accepts commission with secret military-intelligence program [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]].


||1945: Joseph Darnand dies ... soldier in the French and later German militaries, a leader of the Vichy French collaborators with Nazi Germany and a Waffen-SS officer. Pic.
||1945: Joseph Darnand dies ... soldier in the French and later German militaries, a leader of the Vichy French collaborators with Nazi Germany and a Waffen-SS officer. Pic.
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||1949: Chikuhei Nakajima dies ... engineer, businessman, and politician, founded Nakajima Aircraft Company. Pic.
||1949: Chikuhei Nakajima dies ... engineer, businessman, and politician, founded Nakajima Aircraft Company. Pic.


||1957: Windscale fire nuclear accident: ... took place in Unit 1 of the two-pile Windscale facility on the northwest coast of England in Cumberland (now Sellafield, Cumbria). The two graphite-moderated reactors, referred to at the time as "piles", had been built as part of the British post-war atomic bomb project. The fire burned for three days and there was a release of radioactive contamination that spread across the UK and Europe. Pic.
File:Windscale nuclear power plant - Sept 1958.jpg|link=Windscale fire (nonfiction)|1957: [[Windscale fire (nonfiction)|Windscale fire nuclear accident]]: The fire burned for three days and there was a release of radioactive contamination that spread across the UK and Europe. The event was not an isolated incident; there had been a series of radioactive discharges from the piles in the years leading up to the accident.  


|File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1959: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], announces new tour.
|File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1959: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], announces new tour.
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||1979: Heinrich Adolph Louis Behnke dies ... mathematician. Pic.
||1979: Heinrich Adolph Louis Behnke dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1979: Christopher Riche Evans dies ... psychologist, computer scientist, and author. Pic: http://www.cdpa.co.uk/Newman/MHAN/view-item.php?Box=3&Folder=4&Item=3&Page=1
File:Christopher_Riche_Evans.jpg|link=Christopher Evans (nonfiction)|1979: Psychologist, computer scientist, and author [[Christopher Evans (nonfiction)|Christopher Evans]] dies.  


||1982: Jean Effel dies ... painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist. Pic search.
||1982: Jean Effel dies ... painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist. Pic search.
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||2015: Richard F. Heck dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes. Pic.
||2015: Richard F. Heck dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes. Pic.
File:Crimson Blossom.jpg|link=Crimson Blossom (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Crimson Blossom (nonfiction)|Crimson Blossom]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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