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||1661 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and inventor (d. 1751)
File:Christopher Polhem painted by Johan Henrik Scheffel 1741.jpg|link=Christopher Polhem (nonfiction)|1661: Scientist, inventor, and industrialist [[Christopher Polhem (nonfiction)|Christopher Polhem]] born. He will make significant contributions to the economic and industrial development of Sweden, particularly mining.


||1737 – Antonio Stradivari, Italian instrument maker (b. 1644)
||1737: Antonio Stradivari dies ... instrument maker. No DOB.  Pic.


||1793 – Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
||1787: Jan Evangelista Purkyně born ... anatomist and physiologist. In 1839, he coined the term 'protoplasm' for the fluid substance of a cell. He was one of the best known scientists of his time. Pic.


||Bernard Bolzano (/bɒlˈtsɑːnoʊ/; German: [bɔlˈtsaːno]; born Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano; d. 18 December 1848) was a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian extraction, also known for his antimilitarist views.
||1793: Surrender of the frigate ''La Lutine'' by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck. Pic (kinda).
 
||1848: Bernard Bolzano dies ... mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest ... known for his antimilitarist views. Pic.


File:Jean-Étienne Montucla.jpg|link=Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|1799: Mathematician and theorist [[Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|Jean-Étienne Montucla]] dies. His deep interest in history of mathematics became apparent with his publication of ''Histoire des Mathématiques'', the first part appearing in 1758.
File:Jean-Étienne Montucla.jpg|link=Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|1799: Mathematician and theorist [[Jean-Étienne Montucla (nonfiction)|Jean-Étienne Montucla]] dies. His deep interest in history of mathematics became apparent with his publication of ''Histoire des Mathématiques'', the first part appearing in 1758.


||1856 – J. J. Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
File:J_J_Thomson.jpg|link=J. J. Thomson (nonfiction)|1856: Physicist and academic [[J. J. Thomson (nonfiction)|J. J. Thomson]] born. His research in cathode rays will lead to the discovery of the electron. Thomson will also discover the first evidence for isotopes of a stable element.
 
||1865: US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA.
 
||1880: Michel Chasles dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1865 – US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA.
||1880: Earle C. Anthony born ... businessman and philanthropist based in Los Angeles, California who worked in broadcasting and automobiles. He was also a songwriter, journalist and playwright. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Earle+C.+Anthony


||1880 – Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)
||1887: Charles Galton Darwin born ... physicist who served as director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War. He was the son of the mathematician George Howard Darwin and a grandson of Charles Darwin. Pic.


|File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|1889: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[Georg Cantor]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to advance [[Set theory (nonfiction)|Set theory]] research.
||1890: Edwin Howard Armstrong born ... engineer, invented FM radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. Pic.


||1890 – Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (d. 1954) Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, best known for developing FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system.
||1892: Richard Owen dies ... biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils. He produced a vast array of scientific work, but is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria (meaning "Terrible Reptile" or "Fearfully Great Reptile"). Pic.


||1892 – Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
||1892: Premiere performance of ''The Nutcracker'' by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.


File:Eisenhower in the Oval Office February 1956.jpg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1956: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "[[Crimes against mathematical constants|math-crimes complex]]."
||1917: Roger Conant Lyndon born ... mathematician, for many years a professor at the University of Michigan. He is known for Lyndon words, the Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem, Craig–Lyndon interpolation and the Lyndon–Hochschild–Serre spectral sequence. Pic: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Lyndon
 
||1936: Andrija Mohorovičić dies ... meteorologist and seismologist ... known for the eponymous Mohorovičić discontinuity and is considered as one of the founders of modern seismology. Pic.
 
||1936: Civil engineer and mathematician Leonardo Torres y Quevedo dies ... invented the Telekine, an early wireless remote-control device. Pic.
 
||1939: Freya radar first successfully used ... two stations detected an approaching daytime raid on Wilhelmshaven by 22 RAF Vickers Wellington bombers at a range of 113 km and guided fighter planes toward them via radio. Pic.


File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1958: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE]], the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1958: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE]], the world's first communications satellite, is launched.


File:Antikythera Team logo.svg|link=Antikythera Team|1965: [[Antikythera Team]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and reverse [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1966: Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=richard+walker
 
||1970: Pao-Lu Hsu dies ... mathematician noted for his work in probability theory and statistics. Pic.


||1966 – Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
||1972: Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.


File:Palomares H-Bomb Incident.jpg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1966: Accidental release of nuclear weapons precipitates new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1973: Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.


||1972 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
||1973: The Islamic Development Bank is founded.


||1973 – Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
File:Every Which Way But Lost in Space.jpg|link=Every Which Way But Lost in Space|1978: Premier of '''''[[Every Which Way But Lost in Space]]''''', an American action comedy film about an astronaut and bare-knuckle brawler (Clint Eastwood) roaming low Earth orbit in search of a lost robot while accompanied by his pet orangutan, Clyde.


||1973 – The Islamic Development Bank is founded.
||1981: First flight of the Russian heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and largest variable-sweep wing aircraft built.


File:Hexahedron.jpg|link=Cube (nonfiction)|1976: [[Cube (nonfiction)|Cube]] delivers lecture on [[Geometry (nonfiction)|geometry]].
||1991: Mathematician Richard Hubert Bruck dies. He is best known for his work in the field of algebra, especially in its relation to projective geometry and combinatorics. Pic. https://www.geni.com/people/Richard-H-Bruck/6000000002207390570


||1981 – First flight of the Russian heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and largest variable-sweep wing aircraft built.
||1992: Jean Kuntzmann dies ... mathematician, known for his works in applied mathematics and computer science, pushing and developing both fields at a very early time. Kuntzmann earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Paris under supervision of Georges Valiron (thesis: Contribution à l'étude des systèmes multiformes). Pic: https://aconit.inria.fr/omeka/items/show/677


||1994 – Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1916)
||1994: Roger Apéry dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Roger+Ap%C3%A9ry


File:Nathan Rosen.jpg|link=Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|1995: Physicist [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] dies.  He developed the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.
File:Nathan Rosen.jpg|link=Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|1995: Physicist [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] dies.  He developed the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.


||1995 – Konrad Zuse, German engineer, designed the Z3 computer (b. 1910)
File:Konrad Zuse (1992).jpg|link=Konrad Zuse (nonfiction)|1995: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist [[Konrad Zuse (nonfiction)|Konrad Zuse]] dies. He invent the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer.
 
||1996: Yulii Khariton dies ... physicist and academic ... leading scientist in the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program. Since the initiation of the atomic bomb project by Joseph Stalin in 1943, Khariton was the "chief Nuclear weapon designer" and remained associated with the Soviet program for nearly four decades. Pic.
 
||1998: Edwin Evariste Moise dies ... mathematician and mathematics education reformer. Pic.
 
||1999: Physicist and academic Bertha Swirles dies ... carried out research on quantum theory. Pic.
 
||1999: NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
 
||1999: Bertha Swirlesdies ... physicist who carried out research on quantum theory.
 
||1999: Dennis William Siahou Sciama dies ... physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology. Pic.
 
||2005: Dmitry Yevgenyevich Okhotsimsky dies ... aerospace engineer and scientist who was the pioneer of space ballistics in the USSR. He wrote fundamental works in applied celestial mechanics, spaceflight dynamics and robotics. Pic.


||1996 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1904)
||2006: Joseph Barbera dies ... animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera. Pic.


||1999 – NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
||2008: Mark Felt dies ... FBI agent and informant.


||2006 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (b. 1911)
||2010: Max Jammer dies ... physicist and philosopher of physics. Pic.


||2008 – Mark Felt, American FBI agent and informant (b. 1913)


File:Septins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.jpg|link=Transdimensional prison|2016: [[Transdimensional prison|''Saccharomyces Cerevisiae'' Prison]] unable to contain supervillain [[Abomynous]].
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  • 1661: Scientist, inventor, and industrialist Christopher Polhem born. He will make significant contributions to the economic and industrial development of Sweden, particularly mining.

    1661: Scientist, inventor, and industrialist Christopher Polhem born. He will make significant contributions to the economic and industrial development of Sweden, particularly mining.

  • 1799: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla dies. His deep interest in history of mathematics became apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.

    1799: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla dies. His deep interest in history of mathematics became apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.

  • 1856: Physicist and academic J. J. Thomson born. His research in cathode rays will lead to the discovery of the electron. Thomson will also discover the first evidence for isotopes of a stable element.

    1856: Physicist and academic J. J. Thomson born. His research in cathode rays will lead to the discovery of the electron. Thomson will also discover the first evidence for isotopes of a stable element.

  • 1958: Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.

    1958: Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.

  • 1978: Premier of Every Which Way But Lost in Space, an American action comedy film about an astronaut and bare-knuckle brawler (Clint Eastwood) roaming low Earth orbit in search of a lost robot while accompanied by his pet orangutan, Clyde.

    1978: Premier of Every Which Way But Lost in Space, an American action comedy film about an astronaut and bare-knuckle brawler (Clint Eastwood) roaming low Earth orbit in search of a lost robot while accompanied by his pet orangutan, Clyde.

  • 1995: Physicist Nathan Rosen dies. He developed the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.

    1995: Physicist Nathan Rosen dies. He developed the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.

  • 1995: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist Konrad Zuse dies. He invent the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer.

    1995: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist Konrad Zuse dies. He invent the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer.

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