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||1695: Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho. No DOB.  Pic: bust.
||1695: Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho. No DOB.  Pic: bust.
||1715: Pierre Charles Le Monnier born ... astronomer and author. Pic.


||1737: José Antonio Alzate y Ramírez born ... priest, scientist, historian, cartographer, and journalist. Pic.
||1737: José Antonio Alzate y Ramírez born ... priest, scientist, historian, cartographer, and journalist. Pic.
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||1787: Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse born ... firearms inventor and manufacturer. He is most famous for submitting the Dreyse needle gun in 1836 to the Prussian army. Pic.
||1787: Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse born ... firearms inventor and manufacturer. He is most famous for submitting the Dreyse needle gun in 1836 to the Prussian army. Pic.


||1820: An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel ''Moby-Dick'' is in part inspired by this story.)
File:A whale striking the Essex - sketch by Thomas Nickerson.jpg|link=Essex (whaleship) (nonfiction)|1820: An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. Stranded thousands of miles from the coast of South America with little food and water, the 20-man crew was forced to make for land in the ship's surviving whaleboats; eight men survived the ordeal.


||1841: Victor D'Hondt born ... mathematician, lawyer, and jurist. Pic.
||1841: Victor D'Hondt born ... mathematician, lawyer, and jurist. Pic.
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||1885: Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz born ... physicist and the first to perform fluctuational analysis of electrons as Brownian particles. Consequently she is considered to be the first woman in electrical noise theory. DOD year only. Pic.
||1885: Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz born ... physicist and the first to perform fluctuational analysis of electrons as Brownian particles. Consequently she is considered to be the first woman in electrical noise theory. DOD year only. Pic.


File:Edwin Hubble.jpg|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|1889: Astronomer and cosmologist [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|Edwin Hubble]]. He will discover the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.
File:Edwin Hubble.jpg|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|1889: Astronomer and cosmologist [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|Edwin Hubble]] born. He will discover the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.


||1892: James Collip born ... biochemist and academic, co-discovered insulin. Pic.
||1892: James Collip born ... biochemist and academic, co-discovered insulin. Pic.
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||1900: Chester Gould born ... cartoonist and author, created Dick Tracy. Pic: strip.
||1900: Chester Gould born ... cartoonist and author, created Dick Tracy. Pic: strip.


File:Georgy Voronoy.jpg|link=Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|1908: Mathematician [[Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|Georgy Voronoy]] dies. He invented what are today called [[Voronoi diagram (nonfiction)|Voronoi diagrams]] or Voronoi tessellations.
File:Georgy Voronoy.jpg|link=Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|1908: Mathematician [[Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|Georgy Voronoy]] (Voronoi) dies. He invented what are today called [[Voronoi diagram (nonfiction)|Voronoi diagrams]] or Voronoi tessellations, which partition a plane into regions close to each of a given set of objects.


||1910: Willem Jacob van Stockum born ... mathematician, pilot, and academic. Pic.
||1910: Willem Jacob van Stockum born ... mathematician, pilot, and academic. Pic.
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1917: Leonard Jimmie Savage born ... mathematician and statistician. Savage's most noted work was the 1954 book ''The Foundations of Statistics'', in which he put forward a theory of subjective and personal probability and statistics which forms one of the strands underlying Bayesian statistics and has applications to game theory. He was one the participants to the Macy conferences on cybernetics. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=leonard+jimmie+savage
1917: Leonard Jimmie Savage born ... mathematician and statistician. Savage's most noted work was the 1954 book ''The Foundations of Statistics'', in which he put forward a theory of subjective and personal probability and statistics which forms one of the strands underlying Bayesian statistics and has applications to game theory. He was one the participants to the Macy conferences on cybernetics. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=leonard+jimmie+savage


File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] born.
File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] born. He will be one of the first to use computer graphics to create and display fractal geometric images, leading to his discovery of the Mandelbrot set in 1980.  
 
File:Fugitive_Rubies_interrogation_800x600.jpg|link=Fugitive Rubies|1924: Captive supervillain [[Fugitive Rubies]] gathering strength for escape attempt, says [[Niles Cartouchian]].


||1925: George Barris born ... engineer and car designer. Pic.
||1925: George Barris born ... engineer and car designer. Pic.
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File:Lake Peigneur waterfall.png|link=Lake Peigneur (nonfiction)|1980: [[Lake Peigneur (nonfiction)|Lake Peigneur]] drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
File:Lake Peigneur waterfall.png|link=Lake Peigneur (nonfiction)|1980: [[Lake Peigneur (nonfiction)|Lake Peigneur]] drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
File:Abdus Salam 1987.jpg|link=Abdus Salam (nonfiction)|1996: Theoretical physicist and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Abdus Salam (nonfiction)|Mohammad Abdus Salam]] translates electroweak unification theory into [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].  His work will quickly find applications in the detection and prevention of [[Crimes against physical constants|crimes against electroweak forces]].


File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1980: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] flies by Saturn, completing its primary mission.   
File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1980: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] flies by Saturn, completing its primary mission.   
File:Geometrical frustration icosahedron.jpg|link=Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|1981: Outbreak of [[Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|Geometrical frustration]] releases previously unknown class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]], causing an outbreak of [[Scrimshaw abuse]].


||1984: Charles Cameron Conley dies ... mathematician who worked on dynamical systems. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Charles+Cameron+Conley
||1984: Charles Cameron Conley dies ... mathematician who worked on dynamical systems. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Charles+Cameron+Conley
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||2000: Mike Muuss dies ... computer programmer, created Ping. Pic.
||2000: Mike Muuss dies ... computer programmer, created Ping. Pic.


File:Three Kings 2.jpg|link=Three Kings 2 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Three Kings 2 (nonfiction)|Three Kings 2]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the Citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
File:Voronoi-diagram-color-commentators.jpg|link=Fantasy Voronoi diagram|2019: Recent survey shows that [[Fantasy Voronoi diagram]] is more popular than [[Fantasy football (American) (nonfiction)|Fantasy American Football]].


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  • 1820: An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. Stranded thousands of miles from the coast of South America with little food and water, the 20-man crew was forced to make for land in the ship's surviving whaleboats; eight men survived the ordeal.

    1820: An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. Stranded thousands of miles from the coast of South America with little food and water, the 20-man crew was forced to make for land in the ship's surviving whaleboats; eight men survived the ordeal.

  • 1889: Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Hubble born. He will discover the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.

    1889: Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Hubble born. He will discover the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.

  • 1908: Mathematician Georgy Voronoy (Voronoi) dies. He invented what are today called Voronoi diagrams or Voronoi tessellations, which partition a plane into regions close to each of a given set of objects.

    1908: Mathematician Georgy Voronoy (Voronoi) dies. He invented what are today called Voronoi diagrams or Voronoi tessellations, which partition a plane into regions close to each of a given set of objects.

  • 1924: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot born. He will be one of the first to use computer graphics to create and display fractal geometric images, leading to his discovery of the Mandelbrot set in 1980.

    1924: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot born. He will be one of the first to use computer graphics to create and display fractal geometric images, leading to his discovery of the Mandelbrot set in 1980.

  • 1934: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Willem de Sitter dies. He co-authored a paper with Albert Einstein in 1932 in which they discuss the implications of cosmological data for the curvature of the universe.

    1934: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Willem de Sitter dies. He co-authored a paper with Albert Einstein in 1932 in which they discuss the implications of cosmological data for the curvature of the universe.

  • 1980: Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.

    1980: Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.

  • 1980: Voyager 1 flies by Saturn, completing its primary mission.

    1980: Voyager 1 flies by Saturn, completing its primary mission.

  • 2019: Recent survey shows that Fantasy Voronoi diagram is more popular than Fantasy American Football.

    2019: Recent survey shows that Fantasy Voronoi diagram is more popular than Fantasy American Football.

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