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||1561: Thomas Walsingham born ... English spymaster.
||1561: Thomas Walsingham born ... English spymaster.
File:Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.jpg|link=Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|1671: Mathematician [[Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus]] removes intermediate terms from a given algebraic equation using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques.


File:Johann Bernoulli.jpg|link=|1748: Mathematician [[Johann Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Johann Bernouli]] dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
File:Johann Bernoulli.jpg|link=|1748: Mathematician [[Johann Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Johann Bernouli]] dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
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||1895: J. Edgar Hoover born.  Pic.
||1895: J. Edgar Hoover born.  Pic.
File:Telephone exchange operator circa 1900.jpg|link=Telephone switchboard (nonfiction)|1893: [[Telephone switchboard (nonfiction)|Telephone switchboard]] technology modified to send and receive [[Gnomon algorithm]] data.


File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.  
File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.  
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||1955: Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar dies ... chemist and academic. Pic: postage stamp.
||1955: Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar dies ... chemist and academic. Pic: postage stamp.
File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1962: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series wins Pulitzer Prize.


||1971: Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
||1971: Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
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||2016: John Coleman Moore dies ... mathematician. The Borel−Moore homology and Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence are named after him. Pic: https://www.math.princeton.edu/people/john-c-moore
||2016: John Coleman Moore dies ... mathematician. The Borel−Moore homology and Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence are named after him. Pic: https://www.math.princeton.edu/people/john-c-moore
File:Golden Spiral.jpg|link=Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|Golden Spiral]]'' declared Picture of the Year by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1548: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno born. He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600).

    1548: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno born. He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600).

  • 1748: Mathematician Johann Bernouli dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.

    1748: Mathematician Johann Bernouli dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.

  • 1891: Astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered a "stellar object" that moved against the background of stars. At first he thought it was a fixed star, but once he noticed that it moved, he became convinced it was a planet, or as he called it, "a new star", now known as the dwarf planet Ceres.

    1891: Astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered a "stellar object" that moved against the background of stars. At first he thought it was a fixed star, but once he noticed that it moved, he became convinced it was a planet, or as he called it, "a new star", now known as the dwarf planet Ceres.

  • 1862: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada).

    1862: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada).

  • 1878: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang born. He will invent the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.

    1878: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang born. He will invent the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.

  • 1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

    1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

  • 1992: Computer scientist and Admiral Grace Hopper dies. She pioneered computer programming techniques, inventing one of the first compilers, and popularizing machine-independent programming languages (leading to the development of COBOL).

    1992: Computer scientist and Admiral Grace Hopper dies. She pioneered computer programming techniques, inventing one of the first compilers, and popularizing machine-independent programming languages (leading to the development of COBOL).

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