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||1545: Guidobaldo del Monte born ... mathematician, philosopher and astronomer. Pic.
||1545: Guidobaldo del Monte born ... mathematician, philosopher and astronomer. Pic.
File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1664: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] publishes an original [[Gnomon algorithm function]] which locates the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:English Lottery 1566 Scroll.jpg|link=Lottery (nonfiction)|1569: First recorded [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery]] in England.
File:English Lottery 1566 Scroll.jpg|link=Lottery (nonfiction)|1569: First recorded [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery]] in England.
File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1570: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to predict winning [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery numbers]].


File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1638: Scientist and bishop [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] born. He will question explanations for tear production, the idea that fossils grow in the ground.
File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1638: Scientist and bishop [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] born. He will question explanations for tear production, the idea that fossils grow in the ground.


||1707: Vincenzo Riccati born ... mathematician and physicist. He was the brother of Giordano Riccati, and the second son of Jacopo Riccati. Riccati's main research continued the work of his father in mathematical analysis, especially in the fields of the differential equations and physics. Pic.
||1707: Vincenzo Riccati born ... mathematician and physicist. He was the brother of Giordano Riccati, and the second son of Jacopo Riccati. Riccati's main research continued the work of his father in mathematical analysis, especially in the fields of the differential equations and physics. Pic.
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1711: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] collaborates with [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] on design of new [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]].


||1757: Louis Bertrand Castel dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Pics: misc.
||1757: Louis Bertrand Castel dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Pics: misc.
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||1917: The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
||1917: The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
||1919: Denis Avey born ... soldier, engineer, and author ... "The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz" ... Avey saved the life of Jewish prisoner Ernst Lobethal, by smuggling cigarettes to him. Pic.


||1922: First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
||1922: First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
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File:Sir Tony Hoare 2011.jpg|link=Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|1934: Computer scientist [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]] born.  He will go on to invent the quicksort algorithm, and make other contributions to [[Computer science (nonfiction)|computer science]].
File:Sir Tony Hoare 2011.jpg|link=Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|1934: Computer scientist [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]] born.  He will go on to invent the quicksort algorithm, and make other contributions to [[Computer science (nonfiction)|computer science]].


||1941: Emanuel Lasker dies ... mathematician, philosopher, and chess player.
||1941: Emanuel Lasker dies ... mathematician, philosopher, and chess player. Pic.  


||1943: Carlo Tresca dies ... newspaper editor, orator, and labor organizer who was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1910s. He is remembered as a leading public opponent of fascism, Stalinism, and Mafia infiltration of the trade union movement. Pic.
||1943: Carlo Tresca dies ... newspaper editor, orator, and labor organizer who was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1910s. He is remembered as a leading public opponent of fascism, Stalinism, and Mafia infiltration of the trade union movement. Pic.
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||1962: Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
||1962: Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.


||1980: Erwin Otto Marx dies ... electrical engineer who invented the Marx generator, a device for producing high voltage electrical pulses. He worked on electrical power distribution via long distances. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Erwin+Otto+Marx
||1980: Erwin Otto Marx dies ... electrical engineer who invented the Marx generator, a device for producing high voltage electrical pulses. He worked on electrical power distribution via long distances. Pic search.


||1996: Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
||1996: Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.


||1988: Isidor Isaac Rabi dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1988: Isidor Isaac Rabi dies ... physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging. He was also one of the first scientists in the United States to work on the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens. Pic.


||1991: Carl David Anderson dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1991: Carl David Anderson dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||On January 11, 2007, China conducted an anti-satellite missile test. A Chinese weather satellite—the FY-1C polar orbit satellite of the Fengyun series, at an altitude of 865 kilometres (537 mi), with a mass of 750 kg—was destroyed by a kinetic kill vehicle traveling with a speed of 8 km/s in the opposite direction. Pic.
||On January 11, 2007, China conducted an anti-satellite missile test. A Chinese weather satellite—the FY-1C polar orbit satellite of the Fengyun series, at an altitude of 865 kilometres (537 mi), with a mass of 750 kg—was destroyed by a kinetic kill vehicle traveling with a speed of 8 km/s in the opposite direction. Pic.
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File:Mars_Science_Laboratory.jpg|link=Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|2012: The [[Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|Mars Science Laboratory]] successfully refined its trajectory with a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings, advancing the rover's landing time by about 14 hours.
File:Mars_Science_Laboratory.jpg|link=Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|2012: The [[Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|Mars Science Laboratory]] successfully refined its trajectory with a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings, advancing the rover's landing time by about 14 hours.


||2012: Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan dies ... physicist and academic.
||2012: Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan assassinated ... physicist and academic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists Pic search.


||2012: Steven Rawlings dies ... astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic.
||2012: Steven Rawlings dies ... astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic.

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