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||1520 More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
||1520: More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath


||1857 – The Atlantic is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
||1542: Priest and historian Anders Sørensen Vedel born. He translated the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus into Danish in 1575, and published the influential "Hundredvisebogen" in 1591. Tutor of Tycho Brahe. Pic.


||1885 – Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1954)
||1731: Benjamin Banneker born ... almanac author, surveyor, naturalist, and farmer.  Pic.


||1885 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1955)
||1803: Georges-Louis Le Sage dies ... physicist and is most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases. Pic.


||1897 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
||1819: Annibale de Gasparis born ... astronomer discovered asteroids. Pic.


||1906 – Arthur Rudolph, German scientist and engineer (d. 1996) rockets
||1830: Jan Śniadecki dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Śniadecki will make his observations on recently discovered planetoids. His O rachunku losów (On the Calculation of Chance, 1817) was a work in probability. Pic.


||1922 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian mathematician, philosopher, and academic (d. 1974)
||1846: Mór Réthy (or Moritz Réthy) born ... mathematician and academic ... theoretical mechanics. Pic.


||1952 – Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist, academic, and politician, 1st President of Israel (b. 1874)
||1857: The Atlantic is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.


||1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
||1885: Theodor Kaluza born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=theodor+kaluza


||1979 – Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
File:Hermann Weyl.jpg|link=Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|1885: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|Hermann Weyl]] born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research will have major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.  


||1994 – The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
||1891: Rodion Osievich Kuzmin born ... mathematician, known for his works in number theory and analysis. He will be known for the Gauss–Kuzmin distribution is a discrete probability distribution that arises as the limit probability distribution of the coefficients in the continued fraction expansion of a random variable uniformly distributed in (0, 1). Pic.


||2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
||1897: Ronald George Wreyford Norrish born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||2006 – Markus Wolf, German intelligence officer (b. 1923)
||1904: Viktor Brack born ... German physician ... T4. Pic.


||2007 – The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
||1905: Abraham Adrian Albert born ... mathematician ... He is best known for his work on the Albert–Brauer–Hasse–Noether theorem on finite-dimensional division algebras over number fields and as the developer of Albert algebras, which are also known as exceptional Jordan algebras. Pic: http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/050714/acubed.shtml


||2008 Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer (b. 1929)
||1906: Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph born ... rocket engineer who was a leader of the effort to develop the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany. After the war, the United States Government's Office of Strategic Services (OSS) brought him to the U.S. as part of the clandestine Operation Paperclip, where he became one of the main developers of the U.S. space program. He worked within the U.S. Army and NASA, where he managed the development of several systems, including the Pershing missile and the Saturn V Moon rocket. Pic.
 
File:Philip G. Hodge.jpg|link=Philip G. Hodge (nonfiction)|1920: Materials engineer and academic [[Philip G. Hodge (nonfiction)|Philip G. Hodge]] born. He will study the mechanics of elastic and plastic behavior of materials, contributing to plasticity theory including developments in the method of characteristics, limit-analysis, piecewise linear isotropic plasticity, and nonlinear programming applications.
 
||1921: Alenush Terian born ... astronomer and physicist ... the "Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy". Pic.
 
||1922: Richard K. Lashof born ... American mathematician. He contributed to the field of geometric and differential topology, working with Shiing-Shen Chern, Stephen Smale, among others. Pic.
 
File:Imre Lakatos.jpg|link=Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|1922: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Imre Lakatos (nonfiction)|Imre Lakatos]] born. He will be known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.
 
||1934: Carl Sagan born ... astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist. Pic.
 
||1941: Alan Kotok born ... computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).  Early hacker. Pic.
 
||1952: Chaim Weizmann dies ... chemist, academic, and politician, 1st President of Israel. Pic.
 
||1967: Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
 
||1979: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
 
||1984: Hans Petersson dies ... mathematician. He introduced the Petersson inner product and is also known for the Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture. Petersson was a member of the NSDAP. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hans+Petersson+mathematician
 
||1993: Ross Andru dies ... American illustrator ... known for his work on The Amazing Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and The Metal Men, and for having co-created the Punisher. His most frequent collaborator was inker Mike Esposito, with whom he worked on projects over a span of four decades. Pic.
 
||1994: The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
 
||1997: Carl Gustav Hempel dies ... writer and philosopher. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the raven paradox (also known as "Hempel's paradox"). Pic.
 
File:Venus Express in orbit.jpg|link=Venus Express (nonfiction)|2005: The [[Venus Express (nonfiction)|Venus Express]] mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
 
||2006: Markus Wolf dies ... German intelligence officer ... head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung), the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, abbreviated MfS, commonly known as the Stasi). He was the Stasi's number two for 34 years, which spanned most of the Cold War. He is often regarded as one of the most well known spymasters during the Cold War. In the west he was known as "the man without a face" due to his elusiveness. Pic.
 
||2007: The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
 
||2008: Hans Freeman dies ... bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hans+Freeman
 
||2011: Har Gobind Khorana dies ... biochemist. He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Pic.
 
||2012: Sergey Mikhailovich Nikolsky dies ... mathematician. Nikolsky made fundamental contributions to functional analysis, approximation of functions, quadrature formulas, enclosed functional spaces and their applications to variational solutions of partial differential equations. Pic.
 
||2013: Émile Zuckerkandl dies ... biologist considered one of the founders of the field of molecular evolution. He is best known for introducing, with Linus Pauling, the concept of the "molecular clock", which enabled the neutral theory of molecular evolution. Pic.


||2012 – Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1905)


|File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."
|File:Neptune_Slaughter_menaces_Project_Iceworm.jpg|link=Project Iceworm (nonfiction)|Supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] manifests as gigantic ice worm, extracts data from [[Project Iceworm (nonfiction)|Project Iceworm]].
|File:Red-Limned Sea Quetzalcoatl.jpg|link=Sea Quetzalcoatl|Red-limned [[Sea Quetzalcoatl]] takes orders from [[Neptune Slaughter]].
File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' vows to fight [[Sea Quetzalcoatl]] on sight.
|File:HAL9000.svg|link=HAL 9000|[[HAL 9000]] blames [[software defect (nonfiction)|software defect]] for death of crew and passengers.
File:First computer bug.jpg|link=Software defect (nonfiction)|[[Software defect (nonfiction)|Software defect]] denies killing crew and passengers of spaceship ''Discovery''.
|File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Mandelbrot-AI-interview.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot|Famed artificial intelligence [[Benoit Mandelbrot]] proposes to deprogram [[HAL 9000]].
|File:Fugitive Rubies and hand x-ray.jpg|link=Evil bit release|[[Evil bit release|Release of evil bit]] blamed for [[HAL 9000]]'s [[Software defect (nonfiction)|defects]].
|File:Ecliptic path.jpg|link=Zodiac Healer|The [[Zodiac Healer]] travels along the ecliptic, exactly as [[HAL 9000]] predicted.
|File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=HAL 9000|"[[HAL 9000]] is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.
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