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File:Julius_Caesar_-_Tusculum_portrait.jpg|link=Julius Caesar (nonfiction)|44 BC: [[Julius Caesar (nonfiction)|Julius Caesar]], Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
File:Julius_Caesar_-_Tusculum_portrait.jpg|link=Julius Caesar (nonfiction)|44 BC: [[Julius Caesar (nonfiction)|Julius Caesar]], Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1519: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] publishes new edition of ''Universalis Cosmographia'' which accuses [[Egon Rhodomunde]] of commissioning [[crimes against cartography]].
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1612: Mathematician [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] uses astrological forecasts to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1783: In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
||1819: French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel wins a contest at the Academie des Sciences in Paris by proving that light behaves like a wave. The Fresnel integrals, still used to calculate wave patterns, silence skeptics who had backed the particle theory of Isaac Newton.
||1821: Johann Josef Loschmidt born ... physicist and chemist. Pic.
||1855: Charles Vernon Boys born ... physicist, known for his careful and innovative experimental work. Pic (tech).
||1860: Waldemar Haffkine born ... bacteriologist and microbiologist.
||1866: Johan Vaaler born ... inventor, invented the Paper clip.
||1868: Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young born. She will contribute measurable functions to the Denjoy–Young–Saks theorem, which gives some possibilities for the Dini derivatives of a function that hold almost everywhere. Pic.
||1877: Innocenzo Vincenzo Bartolomeo Luigi Carlo Manzetti dies ... inventor. Pic.
||1890: Boris Delaunay born ... mathematician and mountaineer. Pic.
||1891: Joseph Bazalgette dies ... engineer and academic. Pic search, try library: https://www.google.com/search?q=joseph+bazalgette


File:James Joseph Sylvester.jpg|link=James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and academic [[James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|James Joseph Sylvester]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
File:James Joseph Sylvester.jpg|link=James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and academic [[James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|James Joseph Sylvester]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
||1898: Henry Bessemer dies ... engineer and businessman.


File:Elwin_Bruno_Christoffel.jpg|link=Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and physicist [[Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|Elwin Bruno Christoffel]] dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity.
File:Elwin_Bruno_Christoffel.jpg|link=Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and physicist [[Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|Elwin Bruno Christoffel]] dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity.


File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] uses liquid helium to freeze supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]].
File:You Can Make It If You Try - Sly Stone.jpg|1943: Sylvester Stewart born. Better known by his stage name Sly Stone, he is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer who is most famous for his role as front man for Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development of soul, funk, rock, and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s.
 
File:Cesare_Arzelà.jpg|link=Cesare Arzelà (nonfiction)|1912: Mathematician [[Cesare Arzelà (nonfiction)|Cesare Arzelà]] dies. He contributed to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions.
 
||1924: Aldo Andreotti born ... mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry, on the theory of functions of several complex variables and on partial differential operators. Notably he proved the Andreotti–Frankel theorem, the Andreotti–Grauert theorem, the Andreotti–Vesentini theorem and introduced, jointly with François Norguet, the Andreotti–Norguet integral representation for functions of several complex variables. Pic.
 
||1930: Zhores Alferov, Belarusian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018).
 
||1930: Martin Karplus born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018).
 
||1951: John S. Paraskevopoulos dies ... astronomer and academic.
 
||1960: Eduard Čech dies ... mathematician born in Stračov (then Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic). His research interests included projective differential geometry and topology. He is especially known for the technique known as Stone–Čech compactification (in topology) and the notion of Čech cohomology. Pic.


File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|link=Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|1962:  American physicist and academic [[Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|Arthur Compton]] dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|link=Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|1962:  American physicist and academic [[Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|Arthur Compton]] dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] detects evidence of [[Crimes against astronomical constants|crimes against interstellar constants]].
||1985: The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
||1988: Dmitri Polyakov dies ... general and spy.
||1993: Gustav Hedlund dies ... mathematician, was one of the founders of symbolic and topological dynamics. Pic.
||1996: Francis Joseph Murray dies ... mathematician, known for his foundational work (with John von Neumann) on functional analysis, and what subsequently became known as von Neumann algebras. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Francis+Joseph+Murray
||2004: Bill Pickering dies ... scientist and engineer ... headed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years. Pickering was a senior NASA luminary who pioneered the exploration of space. Pic.
||2004: John Pople dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||2006: George Whitelaw Mackey dies ... mathematician. Mackey was one of the pioneer workers in the intersection of quantum logic, the theory of infinite-dimensional unitary representations of groups, the theory of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. Pic.
||2013: James Bonk dies ... chemist and academic.
||2015: Valentine Joseph dies ... mathematician, noted for his contributions to education. Pic.
File:Three Kings 3.jpg|link=Three Kings 3 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Three Kings 3 (nonfiction)|Three Kings 3 ]]'' declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 44 BC: Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

    44 BC: Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

  • 1897: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.

    1897: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.

  • 1900: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity.

    1900: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity.

  • 1943: Sylvester Stewart born. Better known by his stage name Sly Stone, he is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer who is most famous for his role as front man for Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development of soul, funk, rock, and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s.

    1943: Sylvester Stewart born. Better known by his stage name Sly Stone, he is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer who is most famous for his role as front man for Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development of soul, funk, rock, and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s.

  • 1962: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.

    1962: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.

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