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File:Thābit's Arabic translation of Apollonius' Conics.jpg|link=Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|901: Physician, astronomer, and mathematician [[Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|Thābit ibn Qurra]] dies. He made important discoveries in algebra, geometry, and astronomy; in astronomy, Thabit was one of the first reformers of the Ptolemaic system.
|| *** PAREIDOLIA: Arab thinkers


||1201 Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist and writer (d. 1274)
File:Nasir_al-Din_al-Tusi_at_observatory.jpg|link=Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (nonfiction)|1201: Polymath [[Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (nonfiction)|Nasir al-Din al-Tusi]] born. Tusi will be a mathematician, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian; he will establish trigonometry as a mathematical discipline in its own right.  


||1535 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German magician, astrologer, and theologian (b. 1486)
File:Alessandro Volta.jpg|link=Alessandro Volta (nonfiction)|1745: Physicist and chemist [[Alessandro Volta (nonfiction)|Alessandro Volta]] born. Volta will conduct pioneering experiments in electricity and electrochemistry, discovering the electrical battery; he will also discover methane.
 
||1626 – Francesco Redi, Italian physician (d. 1697)
||1745 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (d. 1827) Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (Italian: [alesˈsandro ˈvɔlta]; 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power,[2][3][4] who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery and the discoverer of methane.
 
||1766 – A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship Meermin, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.
 
||1788 – John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (b. 1713)
 
File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1809: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] uses [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] to power new type of [[scrying engine]].
 
||1838 – Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916)
 
File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1851: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
 
||1871 – Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)
 
||1880 – Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (b. 1812)
 
File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] publishes new theory of mathematical analysis with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
 
File:Marius Sophus Lie.jpg|link=Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|1899: Mathematician and academic [[Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|Marius Sophus Lie]] dies. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry and applied it to the study of geometry and differential equations.
 
||Eugenio Beltrami (d. 18 February 1900) was an Italian mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. His work was noted especially for clarity of exposition.  


File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1930: While studying photographs taken in January, astronomer [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] discovers Pluto.
File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1930: While studying photographs taken in January, astronomer [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] discovers Pluto.


File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which transform theoretical physics into practical physics.
File:J._R._Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. R. Oppenheimer|1949: Singer-physicist [[J. R. Oppenheimer]] performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
 
||1931 – Johnny Hart, American cartoonist, co-created The Wizard of Id (d. 2007)
 
||1943 – World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
 
||1955 – Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
 
||1957 – Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and academic (b. 1877)
 
||Joseph Gilbert Hamilton (d. February 18, 1957) was an American professor of Medical Physics, Experimental Medicine, General Medicine, and Experimental Radiology as well as director (1948-1957) of the Crocker Laboratory, part of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
 
||1964 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. (b. 1907)
 
File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|1967: American physicist and academic [[J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|J. Robert Oppenheimer]] dies. His achievements in physics included the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.
 
||1970 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
 
||1973 – Frank Costello, Italian-American gangster (b. 1891)
 
||1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
 
||1981 – Jack Northrop, American engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation (b. 1895) Flying wing


||2001 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|1967: American physicist and academic [[J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|J. Robert Oppenheimer]] dies. His achievements in physics included the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling. Oppenheimer has been called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project.


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