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|File:Kells genealogy of Christ.jpg|link=Uncial script (nonfiction)|601: New version of [[Uncial script (nonfiction)|Uncial script]] includes proto-[[Gnomon algorithm]] characters.
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||1440 Hartmann Schedel, German physician (d. 1514)
||1440: Hartmann Schedel born ... physician, humanist, historian, and one of the first cartographers to use the printing press.  Pic: illustration.


||1523 Valentin Naboth, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1593)
||1523: Valentin Naboth born ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic: book cover.


||1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
||1616: Priest and historian Anders Sørensen Vedel dies. He translated the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus into Danish in 1575, and published the influential "Hundredvisebogen" in 1591. Tutor of Tycho Brahe. Pic.


||1672 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (d. 1731)
||1633: Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. TO_DO


||1728 – John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and anatomist (d. 1793)
||1672: Étienne François Geoffroy born ... physician and chemist. Pic.


File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1787: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] dies. He was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
||1728: John Hunter born ... surgeon and anatomist. Pic.


File:James Watt.jpg|link=James Watt (nonfiction)|1801: inventor, engineer, and crime-fighter [[James Watt (nonfiction)|James Watt]] adapts steam engine to perform numerical computation using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques.
File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1787: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] dies. Boscovich was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.


File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1805: Mathematician [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]] born. He will important make contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet will be one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.
||1804: French Army officer and inventor Claude-Etienne Minié born. He will gain fame for solving the problem of designing a reliable muzzle-loading rifle by inventing the Minié ball in 1846, and the Minié rifle in 1849. Pic.


||John Louis Emil Dreyer (b. February 13, 1852) was a Danish-Irish astronomer.
File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1805: Mathematician [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]] born. Dirichlet will important make contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. He will also be one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.


||1880 Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
||1852: John Louis Emil Dreyer born ... astronomer. Pic.
 
||1865: Dugald C. Jackson born ... electrical engineer. He received the IEEE Edison Medal for "outstanding and inspiring leadership in engineering education and in the field of generation and distribution of electric power". Pic.
 
||1865: Theodor Kober born ... aviation engineer who contributed to the building of the first Zeppelin. Pic: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Kober
 
||1880: Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect. TO_DO
 
||1883: Mathematician Henry Wilbraham dies. He is known for discovering and explaining the Gibbs phenomenon nearly fifty years before J. Willard Gibbs did. Gibbs and Maxime Bôcher, as well as nearly everyone else, were unaware of Wilbraham's work on the Gibbs phenomenon. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=henry+wilbraham
 
||1900: Abraham Plessner born ... mathematician. He published a paper containing what is now called Plessner's theorem, concerning the boundary behavior of functions meromorphic in the unit disk. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Abraham-E-Plessner/6000000000601380840
 
||1906: Magnus Rudolph Hestenes born ... mathematician. Together with Cornelius Lanczos and Eduard Stiefel, he invented the conjugate gradient method. Pic.


File:William Shockley.jpg|link=William Shockley (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist and inventor [[William Shockley (nonfiction)|William Shockley]] born. He will share the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the [[Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|point-contact transistor]].  
File:William Shockley.jpg|link=William Shockley (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist and inventor [[William Shockley (nonfiction)|William Shockley]] born. He will share the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the [[Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|point-contact transistor]].  


||1923 Chuck Yeager, American general and pilot; first test pilot to break the sound barrier
||1919: William Nierenberg born ... physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1965 through 1986. Pic.
 
||1923: Chuck Yeager born ... American general and pilot; first test pilot to break the sound barrier. (Alive July 2019.) Pic.
 
File:Fay Ajzenberg-Selove.jpg|link=Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (nonfiction)|1926: Nuclear physicist [[Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (nonfiction)|Fay Ajzenberg-Selove]] born. She will do important experimental work in nuclear spectroscopy of light elements, authoring annual reviews of the energy levels of light atomic nuclei.
 
||1947: Erich Hecke dies ... mathematician. Pic.
 
|File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1955: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]], revealing new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1955: Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
 
||1960: With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
 
||1961: An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.


||1926 – Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, American nuclear physicist (d. 2012)
File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg|link=Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1956: Mathematician and philosopher [[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]] dies.  Łukasiewicz' innovative thinking about the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle extended the bounds of traditional propositional logic.


||Erich Hecke (d. 13 February 1947) was a German mathematician.
File:Canopic Snickers Really Immortalizes.jpg|link=Canopic Snickers|1963: Discovery of '''[[Canopic Snickers]]''' an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which manifests itself as an ancient Egyptian candy bar with alleged life extension properties.


File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1955: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]], revealing new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1967: American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain. TO_DO


||1955 – Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
||1974: Sagittarius A* discovered.  It is a bright and very compact astronomical radio source at the center of the Milky Way, near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius. It is part of a larger astronomical feature known as Sagittarius A. Sagittarius A* is thought to be the location of a supermassive black hole, like those that are now generally accepted to be at the centers of most spiral and elliptical galaxies.


||1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
||1980: Marian Adam Rejewski dies ... mathematician and cryptologist who reconstructed the Nazi German military Enigma cipher machine sight-unseen in 1932. The cryptologic achievements of Rejewski and colleagues Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski enabled the British to begin reading German Enigma-encrypted messages at the start of World War II.  Pic.


||1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
File:Nikolay_Bogolyubov.jpg|link=Nikolay Bogolyubov (nonfiction)|1992: Mathematician and physicist [[Nikolay Bogolyubov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Bogolyubov]] dies. His method of teaching, based on creation of a warm atmosphere, politeness, and kindness, is renowned in Russia as the "Bogolyubov approach".


File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg|link=Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1956: Mathematician and philosopher [[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]] dies. He thought innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle.
||1997: Robert Klark Graham dies ... eugenicist and businessman. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+klark+graham


||1967 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
||1997: Mark Krasnosel'skii dies ... mathematician and academic ... nonlinear functional analysis and its applications. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mark+Krasnosel%27skii


||1992 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1909)
|File:Sir Tony Hoare 2011.jpg|link=Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|1997: Computer scientist and crime-fighter [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1997 – Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman (b. 1906)
||2001: Ugo Fano dies ... physicist. He will have a major impact in sustained work over six decades on atomic physics and molecular physics, and earlier on radiological physics. Phenomena named after him will include the Fano resonance profile, the Fano factor, the Fano effect. Pic.


||1997 – Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
||2004: The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".


File:Sir Tony Hoare 2011.jpg|link=Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|1997: Computer scientist [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] based on Leap Year algorithms.
||2012: The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.


||2004 – The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
||2016: Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman FRS dies ... mathematician, known for his work in geometric topology and singularity theory. Pic.


||2012 – The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.


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