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|File:Dionysos kantharos.jpg|link=Dionysus (nonfiction)|500 BC: [[Dionysus (nonfiction)|Dionysus]] gives invites [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] to participate in symposium.
|File:Dionysos kantharos.jpg|link=Dionysus (nonfiction)|500 BC: [[Dionysus (nonfiction)|Dionysus]] gives invites [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] to participate in symposium.
|File:Federico Commandino.jpg|link=Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|1532:  Publication of mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]]'s translation of [[Gnomon algorithm]] textbooks from Latin to Arabic.
|File:Federico Commandino.jpg|link=Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|1532:  Publication of mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]]'s translation of [[Gnomon algorithm]] textbooks from Latin to Arabic.
File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1620: Statesman, scientist, and crime-fighter [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]] discovers evidence which clears the name of fellow crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]], who had been falsely accused of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1679: Jacques de Billy dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: book cover.
||1679: Jacques de Billy dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: book cover.


||1683: Gottfried Silbermann born ... instrument maker.
||1683: Gottfried Silbermann born ... instrument maker. Pic search.


||1684: Johann Matthias Hase born ... mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer.
||1684: Johann Matthias Hase born ... mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer. Pic.


||1806: Matthew Fontaine Maury born ... astronomer, United States Navy officer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator. Pic.
||1806: Matthew Fontaine Maury born ... astronomer, United States Navy officer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator. Pic.
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File:Ingres self-portrait.jpg|link=Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|1867: Artist [[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]] dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
File:Ingres self-portrait.jpg|link=Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|1867: Artist [[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]] dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.


File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=|1874: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.
File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|1874: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.


||1875: Albert Schweitzer born ... physician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1875: Albert Schweitzer born ... physician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:Mathew Brady 1875.jpg|link=Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|1875: Photographer, journalist, and crime-fighter [[Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|Mathew Brady]] demonstrates new type of [[scrying engine]] which detects [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1885: Benjamin Silliman Jr. dies ... professor of chemistry at Yale University and instrumental in developing the oil industry. Pic.


File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and academic [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] born. He will "discover" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he will make notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.
File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and academic [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] born. He will "discover" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he will make notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.
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||1937: Leo Kadanoff born ... physicist and academic. Pic.
||1937: Leo Kadanoff born ... physicist and academic. Pic.


File:Wilhelm Wirtinger.jpg|link=Wilhelm Wirtinger (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Wilhelm Wirtinger (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Wirtinger]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on knot theory which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1938: Gust Avrakotos born ... American case officer and Afghan Task Force Chief for the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Pic.


||1943: World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
||1943: World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
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||1967: Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
||1967: Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.


||1970: William Feller dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Feller+mathematician
||1970: William Feller dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search.


||1973: Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
||1973: Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
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File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Gödel]] dies. His two incompleteness theorems had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.
File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Gödel]] dies. His two incompleteness theorems had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.


||1997: The discovery in Athens of the lyceum where the philosopher Aristotle taught 2,500 years ago was confirmed by Greece's Minister of Culture. In 335 BC, Aristotle opened a lyceum to rival the academy. For the next 12 years he organised his lyceum as a centre for philosophical speculation and scientific research, particularly in biology and history. He died in 324 BC, but 47 of his many works remain, mostly notes used in lyceum lectures. When the discovery was made by archaeologist Ephi Ligouri, the site satisfied all known facts concerning the long-lost location of the lyceum: to the east of the city walls and on the banks of the river Iliso. The excavation was made urgently before building began for a planned museum of modern art.
||1997: The discovery in Athens of the lyceum where the philosopher Aristotle taught 2,500 years ago was confirmed by Greece's Minister of Culture. In 335 BC, Aristotle opened a lyceum to rival the academy. For the next 12 years he organised his lyceum as a center for philosophical speculation and scientific research, particularly in biology and history. He died in 324 BC, but 47 of his many works remain, mostly notes used in lyceum lectures. When the discovery was made by archaeologist Ephi Ligouri, the site satisfied all known facts concerning the long-lost location of the lyceum: to the east of the city walls and on the banks of the river Iliso. The excavation was made urgently before building began for a planned museum of modern art.
 
||2000: Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III dies ... mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science. Pic.
 
||2001: Burkhard Heim born ... physicist and academic. He devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of his unified field theory, Heim theory. Eventually he retreated into almost total seclusion, concentrating on developing and refining his theory of everything. Pic search.


||2014: Milutin Dostanić dies ... mathematician and academic.
||2008: Judah Folkman born ... physician and biologist.  He researched tumor angiogenesis, the process by which a tumor attracts blood vessels to nourish itself and sustain its existence; his worke has led to the discovery of a number of therapies based on inhibiting or stimulating neovascularization. Pic search.
||2014: Milutin Dostanić dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to functional analysis and operator theory. Pic.


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