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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. | ||
||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. Pic search | ||1683: Gottfried Silbermann born ... instrument maker. Pic search. | ||
||1684: Johann Matthias Hase born ... mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer. Pic. | ||1684: Johann Matthias Hase born ... mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer. Pic. | ||
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||1875: Albert Schweitzer born ... physician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1875: Albert Schweitzer born ... physician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||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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||1938: Gust Avrakotos born ... American case officer and Afghan Task Force Chief for the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Pic. | ||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 | ||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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||2000: Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III dies ... mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science. Pic. | ||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 | ||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. | ||
||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 | ||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. | ||2014: Milutin Dostanić dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to functional analysis and operator theory. Pic. | ||
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1867: Artist 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.
1874: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.
1887: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus born. He will "discover" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he will make notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.
1898: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll dies. He wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
1901: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred Tarski born. He will be a prolific author, contributing to model theory, metamathematics, algebraic logic, abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and analytic philosophy.
1901: Mathematician Charles Hermite dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.
1978: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Kurt Gödel dies. His two incompleteness theorems had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.