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||1564: Christopher Marlowe born ... playwright, poet and translator. Pic.
||1586: Niccolò Cabeo born ... Jesuit philosopher, theologian, engineer and mathematician. Pic.


File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1616: Physicist and engineer [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1616: Physicist and engineer [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.


File:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.jpg|link=Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|1638: Mathematician and linguist [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]] dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.  
File:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.jpg|link=Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|1638: Mathematician and linguist [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]] dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.  
File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1648: [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] analyzes fossil trilobite using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques, finds evidence of [[crimes against geological constants]].
||1718: Johan Ernst Gunnerus born ... bishop, botanist and zoologist ... first to suggest Northern lights caused by the sun. Pic.


File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1786: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|François Arago]] born.  He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.  
File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1786: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|François Arago]] born.  He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.  


||1799: Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron born ... French physicist and engineer. Pic.
File:Angelo_Secchi.jpg|link=Angelo Secchi (nonfiction)|1878: Astronomer and Jesuit priest [[Angelo Secchi (nonfiction)|Angelo Secchi]] dies. Secchi was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
 
||1842: Camille Flammarion born ... French astronomer and author. Pic (cool associated pics).
 
||1878: Fr. Pietro Angelo Secchi SJ dies ... astronomer. He was Director of the Observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University (then called the Roman College) for 28 years. He was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star. Pic.
 
||1880: Kenneth Edgeworth born ... astronomer. Edgeworth is best known for proposing the existence of a disc of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune in the 1930s- observations later confirmed the existence of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt in 1992. Today those distant solar system bodies including Pluto, Eris, and Makemake, are grouped into the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, or Kuiper belt. Pic.
 
||1903: Richard Jordan Gatling dies ... engineer, invented the Gatling gun. Pic.
 
File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist and crime-fighter [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
 
||1903: Giulio Natta born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1909: Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London. Pic.
 
||1921: Dmitry Yevgenyevich Okhotsimsky born ... aerospace engineer and scientist who was the pioneer of space ballistics in the USSR. He wrote fundamental works in applied celestial mechanics, spaceflight dynamics and robotics. Pic.
 
||1926: James Alexander "Sandy" Green born ... mathematician and Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick, who worked in the field of representation theory. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=James+Alexander+"Sandy"+Green
 
||1931: Otto Wallach dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1935: Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.  With the aid of a radio station in Daventry, England, and two receiving antennas, Scottish engineer and inventor Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrated the use of radar. Pic.
 
||1936: In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government. Pic.
 
||1946: Ahmed Hassan Zewail born ... scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. Pic.
 
||1966: Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket. Pic.
 
||1985: Tjalling Koopmans dies ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1987: Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff. Pic.
 
||1993: World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand. Pic.
 
||1995: The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.  


File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|2005: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] dies.  He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|2005: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] dies.  He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
||2011: Kenichi Honda dies ... chemist. He made a significant contribution to the discovery and characterization of photocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide (TiO2) Pic.
||2016: Petr Hájek dies ... scientist in the area of mathematical logic and a professor of mathematics. Pic.
File:Enter_or_Exit_midsize_sketch.jpg|2017: Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sequence from ''[[Table Manners]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data."
||2017: Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev dies ... theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for the discovery of the Faddeev equations in the theory of the quantum mechanical three-body problem and for the development of path integral methods in the quantization of non-abelian gauge field theories, including the introduction (with Victor Popov) of Faddeev–Popov ghosts. Pic.
||2017: Lester Randolph Ford Jr. dies ... mathematician specializing in network flow problems. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lester+Randolph+Ford+Jr.


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  • 1616: Physicist and engineer Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.

    1616: Physicist and engineer Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.

  • 1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.

    1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.

  • 1786: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.

    1786: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.

  • 1878: Astronomer and Jesuit priest Angelo Secchi dies. Secchi was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.

    1878: Astronomer and Jesuit priest Angelo Secchi dies. Secchi was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.

  • 2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

    2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

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