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||1621 – Ralph Agas, English surveyor and cartographer (b. 1540)
||1621: Ralph Agas dies ... surveyor and cartographer. No DOB. Pic: map.


||1678 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (d. 1771)
File:Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan.png|link=Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|1678: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist [[Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]] born. His observations and experiments will inspire the beginning of what


||1836 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer (b. 1756)
||1810: William George Armstrong born ... industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery. Pic.


||1885 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1813)
||1817: Charles Adolphe Wurtz born ... chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds. Pic.


||1981 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player, mathematician, and author (b. 1901)
||1832: Rudolph Koenig born ... physicist and academic.  He was a pioneer of acoustical physics and engineering; his Koenig sound analyzer revolutionized musical and scientific worlds by demonstrated visually that musical notes and voices were in fact made up of simple sounds. Pic.


||1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
||1836: John Loudon McAdam dies ... engineer and inventor of "macadamisation", an effective and economical method of constructing roads. Pic.


||1926 – John Browning, American weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company (b. 1855)
||1864: Auguste Charlois born ... astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Auguste+Charlois


||1832 – Rudolph Koenig, German-French physicist and academic (d. 1901)
||1876: Willis Carrier dies ... engineer, invented air conditioning. Pic.


||1876 – Willis Carrier, American engineer, invented air conditioning (d. 1950)
||1885: Thomas Andrews dies ... chemist and physicist ... did important work on phase transitions between gases and liquids.  Pic.


||1894 – Norbert Wiener, American-Swedish mathematician and philosopher (d. 1964)
||1894: Norbert Wiener born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic.


||1898 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
||1896: Benjamin Apthorp Gould dies ... astronomer. He is noted for founding the ''Astronomical Journal'', discovering the Gould Belt, and for founding of the Argentine National Observatory and the Argentine National Weather Service. Pic.


||1922 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist, created Peanuts (d. 2000)
||1898: Karl Ziegler born ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1930 – Berthold Leibinger, German engineer and philanthropist, founded Berthold Leibinger Stiftung
File:Rear Admiral Deak Parsons.jpg|link=William Sterling Parsons (nonfiction)|1901: [[William Sterling Parsons (nonfiction)|American naval officer William Sterling "Deak" Parsons]] born. Parsons will serve as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II.


||1933 – Tony Verna, American director and producer, invented instant replay (d. 2015)
File:Harry Hinsley.jpg|link=Harry Hinsley (nonfiction)|1918: Historian and cryptanalyst [[Harry Hinsley (nonfiction)|Francis Harry Hinsley]] born. Hinsley will work at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and write widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the war.


||1942 – Casablanca, the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City
||1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.


||1965 – In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1, on board.
||1922: Charles M. Schulz born ... cartoonist, created Peanuts. Pic.


||1977 – An unidentified hijacker named Vrillon, claiming to be the representative of the "Ashtar Galactic Command", takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes, starting at 5:12 pm.
||1926: John Browning dies ... weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company. Pic.


||1983 – Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
||Yash Pal born ... scientist, educator and educationist. He was known for his contributions to the study of cosmic rays, as well as for being an institution-builder. In his later years, he became one of India's leading science communicators. Pic.


||1986 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
||1933: Tony Verna born ... director and producer, invented instant replay. Pic.


||1990 – The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
||1942: ''Casablanca'', the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City


||1991 – Ed Heinemann, American engineer (b. 1908)
||1943: Raoul Bricard dies ... engineer and a mathematician. He is best known for his work in geometry, especially descriptive geometry and scissors congruence, and kinematics, especially mechanical linkages. Pic: Bricard octahedron. No pic online: https://www.google.com/search?q=raoul+bricard


||1996 – Paul Rand, American art director and graphic designer (b. 1914)
||1965: In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1, on board.


||2011 – The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.
||1977: An unidentified hijacker named Vrillon, claiming to be the representative of the "Ashtar Galactic Command", takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes, starting at 5:12 pm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Television_broadcast_interruption Pic: transmitter.


||2012 – Joseph Murray, American surgeon and soldier, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
||1977: Ruth Moufang dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||2015 – Amir Aczel, Israeli-American mathematician, historian, and academic (b. 1950)
||1981: Max Euwe dies ... chess player, mathematician, and author. Pic.
 
||1983: Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
 
||1986: Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
 
||1990: The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
 
||1991: Ed Heinemann dies ... military aircraft designer for the Douglas Aircraft Company. Pic.
 
||1996: Paul Rand dies ... art director and graphic designer. Pic.
 
||1999: John L. Kelley dies ... mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis. Pic.
 
File:Fermentation.jpg|link=Fermentation|Signed first edition of '''''[[Fermentation]]''''' stolen from the Louvre in a daring broad-daylight robbery by criminal mathematical generated by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.
 
File:Mars_Science_Laboratory.jpg|link=Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|2011: The [[Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|Mars Science Laboratory]] launches to Mars with the ''Curiosity'' Rover.
 
||2012: Joseph Murray dies ... surgeon and soldier ... performed the first successful human kidney transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick on December 23, 1954. Murray shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with E. Donnall Thomas for their discoveries concerning "organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease."
 
||2014: Marvin Leonard Goldberger dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic.
 
||2015: Amir Aczel dies ... mathematician, historian, and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=amir+aczel


|File:Aristotle - Roman copy after Greek bronze by Lysippos.jpg|link=Logic (nonfiction)|"A full understanding of [[Logic (nonfiction)|logic]] may require centuries of study," warns [[Aristotle (nonfiction)|Aristotle]].
|File:LogicGatesWorking.png|link=Logic gate (nonfiction)}|[[Logic gate (nonfiction)|Logic gate]] testifies in copmuter bug trial.
|File:First computer bug.jpg|link=Software defect (nonfiction)|[[Software defect (nonfiction)|Software bug]] convicted of computer crimes, sentenced to 300 hours of community service.
|File:Rosewater cannon deployment.jpg|link=Rosewater cannon|Invention of [[Rosewater cannon|smokeless rosewater cannon]].
|File:Ayn Rand signature 1949.svg|link=Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|[[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]] drafts love letter to [[Aristotle (nonfiction)|Aristotle]].
|File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|2016: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
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