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||1606 – Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian physician and philologist (b. 1530)
||1394: Prince Henry the Navigator dies ... patron of exploration. Pic.


File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1705: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1715: Physician Dorothea Erxleben born. Erxleben will be the first female medical doctor in Germany. Pic.


||1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1841: Surgeon and gentleman scientist [[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]] first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.


||1878 – Max Dehn, German-American mathematician and academic (d. 1952)
||1878: Max Dehn born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1893 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
||1893: Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||Samuel King Allison (b. November 13, 1900) was an American physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. He was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1943 until 1944, and later worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory — where he "rode herd" on the final stages of the project as part of the "Cowpuncher Committee", and read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity nuclear test. After the war he was involved in the "scientists' movement", lobbying for civilian control of nuclear weapons. Pic.
||1900: Samuel King Allison born ... physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. He was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1943 until 1944, and later worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory — where he "rode herd" on the final stages of the project as part of the "Cowpuncher Committee", and read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity nuclear test. After the war he was involved in the "scientists' movement", lobbying for civilian control of nuclear weapons. Pic.


||1906 – A. W. Mailvaganam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (d. 1987)
||1906: A. W. Mailvaganam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic. Pic.


||Major General Kenneth David "Nick" Nichols (b. 13 November 1907) was a United States Army officer and an engineer. He worked on the Manhattan Project, which developed the Atomic Bomb during World War II, as Deputy District Engineer to James C. Marshall, and from 13 August 1943 as the District Engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District. He was responsible for both the uranium production facility at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the plutonium production facility at Hanford Engineer Works in Washington state.
||1907: Kenneth David "Nick" Nichols born ... United States Army officer and an engineer. He worked on the Manhattan Project, which developed the Atomic Bomb during World War II, as Deputy District Engineer to James C. Marshall, and from 13 August 1943 as the District Engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District. He was responsible for both the uranium production facility at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the plutonium production facility at Hanford Engineer Works in Washington state.


||1913 – V. Appapillai, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (d. 2001)
||1911: Heinz von Foerster born ... physicist and philosopher. A polymath, von Foerster gained renown in fields from computer science and artificial intelligence to epistemology, and researched high-speed electronics and electro-optics switching devices as a physicist, and in biophysics, the study of memory and knowledge. He worked on cognition based on neurophysiology, mathematics, and philosophy. Pic.


||Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan (b. November 13, 1920) was an Indian mathematician known for his work in number theory. Pic.
||1920: Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan born ... mathematician known for his work in number theory. Pic.


||1924 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese biologist and geneticist (d. 1994)
||1924: Motoo Kimura born ... biologist and geneticist.


||1927 – Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid, American mathematician and theorist (d. 1985)
||1927: Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid born ... mathematician and theorist.


||1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
||1927: The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.


||1940 – Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.
||1940: Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.


||Robert Erich Remak (d. 13 November 1942 in Auschwitz) was a German mathematician. He is chiefly remembered for his work in group theory (Remak decomposition). His other interests included algebraic number theory, mathematical economics and geometry of numbers.  
||1942: Robert Erich Remak dies ... mathematician. He is chiefly remembered for his work in group theory (Remak decomposition). His other interests included algebraic number theory, mathematical economics and geometry of numbers.  


||1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
||1947: The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.


||1994 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese biologist and geneticist (b. 1924)
||1963: Margaret Murray dies ... archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist. Pic.


File:Gerard Butler 2013.jpg|link=Gerard Butler (nonfiction)|1969: Actor [[Gerard Butler (nonfiction)|Gerard Butler]] born.
File:Gerard Butler 2013.jpg|link=Gerard Butler (nonfiction)|1969: Actor [[Gerard Butler (nonfiction)|Gerard Butler]] born.


||1996 – Bobbie Vaile, Australian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1959)
||1994: Motoo Kimura dies ... biologist and geneticist.


||2001 – War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
||1996: Bobbie Vaile born ... astrophysicist and academic.


||2010 – Allan Sandage, American astronomer and cosmologist (b. 1926)
||2001: War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.


||2012 – A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific
||2010: Allan Sandage dies ... astronomer and cosmologist. Pic.


File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|2013: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration ''Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery'' reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
||2012: A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific


File:Alexander Grothendieck.jpg|link=Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|2014: Mathematician and theorist [[Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|Alexander Grothendieck]] dies. He was the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.
File:Alexander Grothendieck.jpg|link=Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|2014: Mathematician and theorist [[Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|Alexander Grothendieck]] dies. He was the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.


||2015 – WT1190F, a temporary satellite of Earth, impacts just southeast of Sri Lanka.
||2015: WT1190F, a temporary satellite of Earth, impacts just southeast of Sri Lanka.


File:London-Has-Swollen Double-Decker-2.jpg|link=London Has Swollen|2017: Action-adventure film ''[[London Has Swollen]]'' opens to rave reviews.
File:London-Has-Swollen Double-Decker-2.jpg|link=London Has Swollen|2017: Action-adventure film ''[[London Has Swollen]]'' opens to rave reviews.


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  • 1841: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.

    1841: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.

  • 1969: Actor Gerard Butler born.

    1969: Actor Gerard Butler born.

  • 2014: Mathematician and theorist Alexander Grothendieck dies. He was the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.

    2014: Mathematician and theorist Alexander Grothendieck dies. He was the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.

  • 2017: Action-adventure film London Has Swollen opens to rave reviews.

    2017: Action-adventure film London Has Swollen opens to rave reviews.

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