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||1719: Johann Friedrich Böttger dies ... chemist and potter ... credited with being the first European to discover the secret of the creation of hard-paste porcelain in 1708. Pic.


File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1764: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] born. His government will see the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1764: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] born. His government will see the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.


|link=William Herschel (nonfiction)|1781: Astronomer [[William Herschel (nonfiction)|William Herschel]] discovers Uranus. Pic.
File:Myrtle_Bachelder_-_1942.jpg|link=Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|1908: Chemist and US military officer [[Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|Myrtle Bachelder]] born. Bachelder will be responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder will make pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.
 
||1781: Joseph Johann von Littrow born ... astronomer. Pic.
 
||1842: Joseph Valentin Boussinesq born ... mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. Pic.
 
||1855: Percival Lowell born ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic.
 
||1872: Léon Delagrange born ... pilot and sculptor. Pic.
 
File:Jacquard loom with two children and a dog (circa 1877).jpg|link=Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|1877: Children reprogram [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]] to compute new family of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
 
||1879: Adolf Anderssen dies ... mathematician and chess player. Pic.
 
||1887: Raymond Thayer Birge born ... physicist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=raymond+thayer+birge
 
||1899: John Hasbrouck Van Vleck born ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1900: Giorgos or George Seferis born ... Greek poet-diplomat. He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. He was a career diplomat in the Greek Foreign Service. Pic.
 
||1908: Myrtle Bachelder born ... chemist and Women's Army Corps officer ... Manhattan Project. Pic.


File:Melvin Dresher.jpg|link=Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|1911: Mathematician [[Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Melvin Dresher]] (Dreszer) born. Dresher will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.
File:Melvin Dresher.jpg|link=Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|1911: Mathematician [[Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Melvin Dresher]] (Dreszer) born. Dresher will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.


||1916: Jacque Fresco born ... engineer and academic. Pic.
File:Armageddon Hard.jpg|link=Armageddon Hard|1998: Premiere of '''''[[Armageddon Hard]]''''',  an American planetary catastrophe heist film about a New York City detective (Bruce Willis) who must stop a rogue splinter asteroid (99942 Apophis-B) from destroying the earth.  
 
||1925: Gabriel Andrew Dirac born ... mathematician who mainly worked in graph theory. He stated a sufficient condition for a graph to contain a Hamiltonian circuit. In 1951 he conjectured that n points in the plane, not all collinear, must span at least [n/2] two-point lines, where [x] is the largest integer not exceeding x. This conjecture is still open. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Gabriel+Andrew+Dirac
 
||1930: The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
 
||1937: Lars Edvard Phragmén dies ... mathematician. Pic.
 
||1962: Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position. Pic.
 
||1965: Corrado Gini dies ... sociologist and statistician, Italian Fascism, eugenics. Pic search.
 
||1968: In the days preceding the Dugway sheep incident the United States Army at Dugway Proving Ground conducted at least three separate operations involving nerve agents. All three operations occurred on March 13, 1968. One involved the test firing of a chemical artillery shell, another the burning of 160 U.S. gallons (600 litres) of nerve agent in an open air pit and in the third a jet aircraft sprayed nerve agent in a target area about 27 mi (43 km) west of Skull Valley. It is the third event that is usually connected to the Skull Valley sheep kill.
 
||1969: Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
 
File:Howard Aiken.jpg|link=Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|1969: Physicist, computer scientist, and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|Howard H. Aiken]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which compute and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1987: Peter Karl Henrici dies ... mathematician best known for his contributions to the field of numerical analysis. Pic.
 
||1997: The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
 
||1998: Hans von Ohain born ... physicist and engineer. Designed the first operational jet engine. Pic.
 
||2012: Michael P. Barnett dies ... chemist and computer scientist. Pic search.
 
||2013: Cartha DeLoach dies ... FBI agent and author. Pic.
 
File:Tractor.jpg|link=Tractor (nonfiction)|2013: ''[[Tractor (nonfiction)|Tractor]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
 
||2015: Jenifer Wheildon Brown dies ... physicist and computer scientist. She is most noted for her formulation of ray tracing equations in a cold magneto-plasma, now widely known in the radio science community as Haselgrove's Equations. Pic search.


File:Hilary Putnam.jpg|link=Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist [[Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|Hilary Putnam]] dies. Putnam argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".
File:Hilary Putnam.jpg|link=Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist [[Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|Hilary Putnam]] dies. Putnam argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".

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