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| File:Eclipse.jpg|link=Eclipse (nonfiction)|1223 BC: [[Eclipse (nonfiction)|Solar eclipse]] occurs; the event is recorded in a Syrian clay tablet, in the Ugaritic language. | | File:Eclipse.jpg|link=Eclipse (nonfiction)|1223 BC: [[Eclipse (nonfiction)|Solar eclipse]] occurs; the event is recorded in a Syrian clay tablet, in the Ugaritic language. |
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| File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1499: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to generate new class of [[cryptographic numen]].
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| File:William Oughtred.jpg|link=William Oughtred (nonfiction)|1574: Mathematician [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]] born. He will invent the slide rule in 1622. | | File:William Oughtred.jpg|link=William Oughtred (nonfiction)|1574: Mathematician [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]] born. He will invent the slide rule in 1622. |
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| File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1615: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] prevents alleged supervillain [[Anarchimedes]] from assassinating mathematician [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]].
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| File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1616: [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]]'s book ''On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'' is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published. | | File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1616: [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]]'s book ''On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'' is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published. |
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| File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1640: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] attends and records lecture by [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]], which it will later use to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1779 – Benjamin Gompertz, English mathematician and statistician (d. 1865)
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| ||1794 – Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1872)
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| ||1815 – Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (b. 1734)
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| File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1827: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] dies. He made important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy. | | File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1827: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] dies. He made important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy. |
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| ||Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (d. 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery and the discoverer of methane.
| | File:He_Zehui.jpg|link=He Zehui (nonfiction)|1914: Nuclear physicist and academic [[He Zehui (nonfiction)|He Zehui]] born. He Zehui will contribute to nuclear physics in Germany during World War II, and develop nuclear weapons for China during the 1960s. |
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| ||1829 – John Adams, English sailor and mutineer (b. 1766)
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| File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1836: Inventor [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber. | |
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| ||1862 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (d. 1934)
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| ||Karl Eugen Guthe (b. 5 March 1866) was a German-born American academic and physicist, notable for being the first Dean of the Graduate Department at the University of Michigan. Pic.
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| ||1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
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| ||Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (b. 5 March 1880) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician of Jewish origin known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theory, and approximation theory. Pic.
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| ||Pauline Sperry (b. March 5, 1885) was an American mathematician. Sperry was an active Quaker and involved in various humanitarian and political causes. At the height of McCarthyism, the Board of Regents required university employees to sign a loyalty oath. Sperry, Hans Lewy, and others who refused were barred from teaching without pay in 1950. In the case Tolman v. Underhill, the California Supreme Court ruled in 1952 the loyalty oath unconstitutional and reinstated those who refused to sign. Sperry was reinstated with back pay and the title emeritus associate professor. Pic.
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| ||Otto Haupt (born 5 March 1887) was a German Mathematician. Pic.
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| ||1900 – Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974)
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| ||Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (d. 5 March 1903) was a French chemist. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas. During an experiment, an explosion destroyed the sight in one of his eyes. He isolated the element europium in 1896; in 1898 he used his skills of spectroscopy to help Marie Curie confirm that she had discovered the element radium. Pic.
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| ||Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams (b. 5 March 1903), was a Welsh physicist, noted for his research on electronic instrumentation for use in nuclear physics. His work on the scale-of-two counter contributed to the development of the modern computer.
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| ||1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
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| ||Professor He Zehui (b. March 5, 1914) was a Chinese nuclear physicist who worked to develop and exploit nuclear physics in Germany and China. Pic.
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| ||Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (b. 5 March 1915) was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions.
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| ||1925 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
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| File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1926: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] reverse-engineers [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]], retrieves complete copy of lecture by [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]].
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| ||1927: Franz Mertens dies ... mathematician and academic.
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| ||1938: Lynn Margulis born ... biologist and academic.
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| ||1970: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
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| ||1978: The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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| ||1979: Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
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| ||1981: The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
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| ||1982: Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus.
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| ||1990: Edgar Raymond Lorch dies ... mathematician. Described by The New York Times as "a leader in the development of modern mathematics theory" Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Lorch_Ray.html
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| File:Joseph Weizenbaum.jpg|link=Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|2008: Computer scientist [[Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|Joseph Weizenbaum]] dies. He is considered one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.
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| File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|2009: Scientist and combat surgeon [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques.
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| ||2013: Duane Gish dies ... biochemist and academic. | | File:Cthulhu Teaches Typing.jpg|link=Cthulhu Teaches Typing|2022: Release of '''[[Cthulhu Teaches Typing]]''', an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Cthulhu Teaches Typing is not a game, rather a "system for teaching you how to type while yielding your sanity to the unimaginable terrors of the illimitable beyond". |
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| File:Ray Tomlinson.jpg|link=Ray Tomlinson (nonfiction)|2016: Computer programmer and engineer [[Ray Tomlinson (nonfiction)|Ray Tomlinson]] dies. He implemented the first email system on ARPANET, including the "@" separator which is still in use today.
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