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||1871: Federigo Enriques born ... mathematician, now known principally as the first to give a classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry, and other contributions in algebraic geometry. Pic.
||1871: Federigo Enriques born ... mathematician, now known principally as the first to give a classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry, and other contributions in algebraic geometry. Pic.
||1874: Joseph Erlanger born ... physiologist, neuroscientist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1884: Mathematician Arnaud Denjoy born. His contributions will include work in harmonic analysis and differential equations; he will be the first to define an integral which integrates all derivatives (now known as the Henstock–Kurzweil integral). Pic: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud_Denjoy
||1884: Mathematician Arnaud Denjoy born. His contributions will include work in harmonic analysis and differential equations; he will be the first to define an integral which integrates all derivatives (now known as the Henstock–Kurzweil integral). Pic: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud_Denjoy
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||1906: Kathleen Kenyon born ... archaeologist whose work at Jericho identified it as the oldest known continuously occupied human settlement by excavating to its Stone Age foundation. This evidence pushed back the era of occupation of the mound at Jericho from the Bronze Age and Neolithic to the Natufian culture at the end of the Ice Age (10,000 – 9,000 BC). She established that the city itself spanned more than 3,800 years. Over 100 tombs were discovered at Jericho during excavations (1952-58). Kenyon helped pioneer stratigraphic excavations as a more scientific approach to archaeological digs, a technique she learned while working with Sir Mortimer Wheeler at his major excavation of the Romano-British city of Verulamium (north of London). Pic.
||1906: Kathleen Kenyon born ... archaeologist whose work at Jericho identified it as the oldest known continuously occupied human settlement by excavating to its Stone Age foundation. This evidence pushed back the era of occupation of the mound at Jericho from the Bronze Age and Neolithic to the Natufian culture at the end of the Ice Age (10,000 – 9,000 BC). She established that the city itself spanned more than 3,800 years. Over 100 tombs were discovered at Jericho during excavations (1952-58). Kenyon helped pioneer stratigraphic excavations as a more scientific approach to archaeological digs, a technique she learned while working with Sir Mortimer Wheeler at his major excavation of the Romano-British city of Verulamium (north of London). Pic.


||1909: Mathematician and computer scientist Stephen Cole Kleene born. Kleene will contribute to the foundation of recursion theory, notably the study of computable functions. He will also invent regular expressions.
||1909: Mathematician and computer scientist Stephen Cole Kleene born. Kleene will contribute to the foundation of recursion theory, notably the study of computable functions. He will also invent regular expressions. Pic.


||1911: Arnold Nordsieck born ... theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work with Felix Bloch on the infrared problem in quantum electrodynamics. He developed the inertial electrostatic gyroscope (ESG) used as part of the inertial navigation system of nuclear submarines that allows them to remain underwater without having to surface to ascertain their location. Pic: https://www.ion.org/museum/item_view.cfm?cid=2&scid=4&iid=30
||1911: Arnold Nordsieck born ... theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work with Felix Bloch on the infrared problem in quantum electrodynamics. He developed the inertial electrostatic gyroscope (ESG) used as part of the inertial navigation system of nuclear submarines that allows them to remain underwater without having to surface to ascertain their location. Pic: https://www.ion.org/museum/item_view.cfm?cid=2&scid=4&iid=30
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File:Max Born.jpg|link=Max Born (nonfiction)|1970: Physicist and mathematician [[Max Born (nonfiction)|Max Born]] dies. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".
File:Max Born.jpg|link=Max Born (nonfiction)|1970: Physicist and mathematician [[Max Born (nonfiction)|Max Born]] dies. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".


File:Hexahedron.jpg|link=Cube (nonfiction)|1972: Artificially intelligent [[Cube (nonfiction)|Cube]] delivers the keynote speech at the 2019 [[APTO]] Lecture Series on [[Geometry (nonfiction)|geometry]].
|File:Hexahedron.jpg|link=Cube (nonfiction)|1972: Artificially intelligent [[Cube (nonfiction)|Cube]] delivers the keynote speech at the 2019 [[APTO]] Lecture Series on [[Geometry (nonfiction)|geometry]].


||1972: United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.
||1972: United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.


||1981: Harold Urey dies ... chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1981: Harold Urey dies ... chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
File:ScarNFTs.jpg|link=ScarNFTs|1983:  Premiere of '''''[[ScarNFTs]]''''', a crime NFT film about Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Al Pacino), who arrives penniless in 1980s Miami and goes on to sell non-fungible tokens to a powerful drug lord.


||1993: Nicholas Ulrich Mayall dies ... observational astronomer. After obtaining his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, Mayall worked at the Lick Observatory, where he remained from 1934 to 1960, except for a brief period at MIT's Radiation Laboratory during World War II. During his time at Lick, Mayall contributed to astronomical knowledge of nebulae, supernovae, spiral galaxy internal motions, the redshifts of galaxies, and the origin, age, and size of the Universe. He played a significant role in the planning and construction of Lick's 120-inch (3.0 m) reflector, which represented a major improvement over its earlier 36-inch (0.91 m) telescope. From 1960, Mayall spent 11 years as director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory until his retirement in 1971. Under his leadership KPNO, and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, developed into two of the world's top research observatories, equipped with premier telescopes. Mayall was responsible for the construction of the 4-meter (160 in) Kitt Peak reflector, which was named after him.  Pic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Mayall
||1993: Nicholas Ulrich Mayall dies ... observational astronomer. After obtaining his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, Mayall worked at the Lick Observatory, where he remained from 1934 to 1960, except for a brief period at MIT's Radiation Laboratory during World War II. During his time at Lick, Mayall contributed to astronomical knowledge of nebulae, supernovae, spiral galaxy internal motions, the redshifts of galaxies, and the origin, age, and size of the Universe. He played a significant role in the planning and construction of Lick's 120-inch (3.0 m) reflector, which represented a major improvement over its earlier 36-inch (0.91 m) telescope. From 1960, Mayall spent 11 years as director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory until his retirement in 1971. Under his leadership KPNO, and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, developed into two of the world's top research observatories, equipped with premier telescopes. Mayall was responsible for the construction of the 4-meter (160 in) Kitt Peak reflector, which was named after him.  Pic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Mayall


||2001: Arnold Rudolf Karl Flammersfeld dies ... nuclear physicist who worked on the German nuclear energy project during World War II. Pic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iXfTp-p-IA
File:Arnold Flammersfeld.jpg|link=Arnold  Flammersfeld (nonfiction)|2001: Nuclear physicist [[Arnold Flammersfeld (nonfiction)|Arnold Flammersfeld]] dies. Flammersfeld worked on the German nuclear energy project during World War II.


||2004: Norman Heatley dies ... biologist and chemist, co-developed penicillin. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=norman+heatley
||2004: Norman Heatley dies ... biologist and chemist, co-developed penicillin. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=norman+heatley
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||2016: Rudolf Haag dies ... physicist. He was best known for his contributions to the algebraic formulation of axiomatic quantum field theory (QFT), namely the Haag–Kastler axioms, and a central no-go theorem in QFT, Haag's theorem, which demonstrates the nonexistence of a unitary time-evolution operator in the interaction picture. Pic.
||2016: Rudolf Haag dies ... physicist. He was best known for his contributions to the algebraic formulation of axiomatic quantum field theory (QFT), namely the Haag–Kastler axioms, and a central no-go theorem in QFT, Haag's theorem, which demonstrates the nonexistence of a unitary time-evolution operator in the interaction picture. Pic.
Two_Bugs_Fighting.jpg|link=Two Bugs Fighting (nonfiction)|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Two Bugs Fighting (nonfiction)|Two Bugs Fighting]]'' sells for an undisclosed amount to "a prominent [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist living in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1625: Astronomer Simon Marius dies. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.

    1625: Astronomer Simon Marius dies. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.

  • 1723: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute born. She will predict the return of Halley's Comet, calculate the timing of a solar eclipse, and construct a group of catalogs for the stars.

    1723: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute born. She will predict the return of Halley's Comet, calculate the timing of a solar eclipse, and construct a group of catalogs for the stars.

  • 1895: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.

    1895: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.

  • 1932: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco born. He will cite James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who will have influenced his work the most.

    1932: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco born. He will cite James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who will have influenced his work the most.

  • 1945: Mathematician Dmitry Mirimanoff dies. In 1917, he introduced (though not as explicitly as John von Neumann later) the cumulative hierarchy of sets and the notion of von Neumann ordinals; although he introduced a notion of regular (and well-founded set) he did not consider regularity as an axiom, but also explored what is now called non-well-founded set theory, and had an emergent idea of what is now called bisimulation.

    1945: Mathematician Dmitry Mirimanoff dies. In 1917, he introduced (though not as explicitly as John von Neumann later) the cumulative hierarchy of sets and the notion of von Neumann ordinals; although he introduced a notion of regular (and well-founded set) he did not consider regularity as an axiom, but also explored what is now called non-well-founded set theory, and had an emergent idea of what is now called bisimulation.

  • 1970: Physicist and mathematician Max Born dies. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".

    1970: Physicist and mathematician Max Born dies. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".

  • 1983: Premiere of ScarNFTs, a crime NFT film about Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Al Pacino), who arrives penniless in 1980s Miami and goes on to sell non-fungible tokens to a powerful drug lord.

    1983: Premiere of ScarNFTs, a crime NFT film about Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Al Pacino), who arrives penniless in 1980s Miami and goes on to sell non-fungible tokens to a powerful drug lord.

  • 2001: Nuclear physicist Arnold Flammersfeld dies. Flammersfeld worked on the German nuclear energy project during World War II.

    2001: Nuclear physicist Arnold Flammersfeld dies. Flammersfeld worked on the German nuclear energy project during World War II.

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