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File:Laurentius Paulinus Gothius.jpg|link=Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (nonfiction)|1565: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Archbishop of Uppsala [[Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (nonfiction)|Laurentius Paulinus Gothus]] born.
||1695: John Bevis born ... physician and astronomer, Uranographia.  Pic: star chart.


File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
||1764: Andrés Manuel del Rio born ... scientist and discoverer of vanadium. Pic.
||1801: Samuel Gridley Howe born ... physician and activist ... Abolitionist. Pic.
||1810: George Jennings born ... plumber and engineer, invented the flush toilet. Pic: http://thevictorianist.blogspot.com/2011/02/spending-penny-or-first-public-flushing.html
File:Elwin_Bruno_Christoffel.jpg|link=Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|1829: Mathematician and physicist [[Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|Elwin Bruno Christoffel]] born. He will introduce fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which will later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.
||1832: Johann Spurzheim dies ... physician and leading phrenologist. Pic.
||1837: Amos Emerson Dolbear born ... physicist and inventor. Dolbear researched electrical spark conversion into sound waves and electrical impulses. Pic.
||1852: Gideon Mantell dies ... obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of Iguanodon began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in 1822 he was responsible for the discovery (and the eventual identification) of the first fossil teeth, and later much of the skeleton, of Iguanodon. Pic.
||1864: Simon Ritter von Stampfer dies ... Austrian mathematician, surveyor and inventor. His most famous invention is that of the stroboscopic disk which has a claim to be the first device to show moving images.  Pic.
||1887: Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu born ... engineer and academic. Pic.
||1888: Andrei Tupolev born ... engineer and designer, founded the Tupolev Company. Pic.
||1896: Ernst Paul Heinz Pruefer born ... mathematician born in Wilhelmshaven. His major contributions were on abelian groups, algebraic numbers, knot theory and Sturm–Liouville theory. Pic.
||1918: Ernst Otto Fischer born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=ernst+otto+fischer
||1919: Mikhail Kalashnikov born ... general and engineer, designed the AK-47. Pic.
||1923: Hachikō born ... Japanese dog famous for his loyalty to his owner.
||1933: Ronald Evans born ... captain, engineer, and astronaut.
||1934: A. Thurairajah born ... engineer and academic.
||1935: Bernard Babior born ... physician and biochemist.
||1935: Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov born ... astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (alive September 2018).
||1944: The ammunition ship USS ''Mount Hood'' explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
||1951: With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
||1954: Édouard Le Roy dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Le Roy especially interested himself to the relations between science and morality. Along with Henri Poincaré and Pierre Duhem, he supported a conventionalist thesis on the foundation of mathematics.  Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=édouard+le+roy&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS702US702&oq=Édouard+Le+Roy
||1958: The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.


File:Klara Dan von Neumann.png|link=Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|1963: Computer scientist [[Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|Klara Dan von Neumann]] dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.
File:Klara Dan von Neumann.png|link=Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|1963: Computer scientist [[Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|Klara Dan von Neumann]] dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.


|File:Nysa_on_Maeander_Library_Upgrade.jpg|link=Nysa on the Maeander|[[Nysa on the Maeander]] seeks upgrade to full [[transdimensional corporation]].
||1979: A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
|File:Pika-computational-activity.jpg|link=The Pika|[[The Pika]] hired for upgrade of [[Nysa on the Maeander]].
 
|File:Bourbaki_virages_dangereux_fruiting_body.jpg|link=Outsider mathematics|''[[Outsider mathematics|Bourbaki virages dangereux]]'' grown in [[Nysa on the Maeander]] for the first time.
||1988: Mathematician Otto Haupt dies. Pic.
|File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|New form of [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] discovered.
 
|File:Alistair Treadgold 1916.jpg|link=Alistair Treadgold|[[Alistair Treadgold]]'s patents new instruments for [[musical electoplating ensembles]].
||1990: Mário Schenberg dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
|File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1961: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[Musical electroplating ensemble (nonfiction)|musical electroplating ensemble]], performs new work based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
 
|File:Alberta sulfur pyramids.jpg|link=Alberta sulphur pyramids (nonfiction)|[[Alberta sulphur pyramids (nonfiction)|Alberta sulfur pyramids]] enjoys fame as eco-tourism destination.
||1994: William Higinbotham dies ... physicist, member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb, he later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement. Also: video game designer. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=william+higinbotham
|File:Poicephalus senegalus egg tooth.jpg|link=Egg tooth (nonfiction)|Baby bird with [[egg tooth (nonfiction)|egg tooth]] is adorable and menacing at the same time.
 
|File:Halobaena caerulea in flight - SE Tasmania.jpg|link=Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|[[Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|SOEP cartel]] threatens to shoot [[Stomach oil (nonfiction)|stomach oil smugglers]] on sight.
||1998: Jean Leray dies ... mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. Pic.
|File:Black_hellebore.jpg|link=Hellebore (nonfiction)|[[Hellebore (nonfiction)|Black hellebore]] in black mood today.
 
||2001: Carl-Gustav Esseen dies ... mathematician. His work was in the theory of probability. The Berry–Esseen theorem is named after him. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Carl-Gustav+Esseen
 
File:Hans Hermes.jpg|link=Hans Hermes (nonfiction)|2003: Mathematician and logician [[Hans Hermes (nonfiction)|Hans Hermes]] dies.  Hermes contributed to the foundations of mathematical logic; he was also a pioneer of the Turing machine as the central concept of predictability.
 
||2006: Fokko du Cloux dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. He worked on the Atlas of Lie groups and representations until his death. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=fokko+du+cloux
 
||2008: Kiyosi Itô dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
 
||2008: Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.
 
||2015: Klaus Roth dies ... mathematician known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution. Pic.
 
||2015: Gene Amdahl dies ... computer scientist, physicist, and engineer, founded the Amdahl Corporation. Pic.
 
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  • 1565: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Archbishop of Uppsala Laurentius Paulinus Gothus born.

    1565: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Archbishop of Uppsala Laurentius Paulinus Gothus born.

  • 1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".

    1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".

  • 1829: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel born. He will introduce fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which will later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.

    1829: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel born. He will introduce fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which will later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.

  • 1963: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.

    1963: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.

  • 2003: Mathematician and logician Hans Hermes dies. Hermes contributed to the foundations of mathematical logic; he was also a pioneer of the Turing machine as the central concept of predictability.

    2003: Mathematician and logician Hans Hermes dies. Hermes contributed to the foundations of mathematical logic; he was also a pioneer of the Turing machine as the central concept of predictability.

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