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|File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|1244: [[Anarchimedes]] acquires large quantity of highly concentrated [[geometry solvent]], threatens to dissolve entire digits from [[Pi (nonfiction)|pi]].
File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1520: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] dies. Waldseemüller produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".
||1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Homonhon in the Philippines.
||1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1732: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Caroline_Herschel_1829.jpg|link=Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|1750: Astronomer [[Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|Caroline Herschel]] born. She will discover several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name.


||1741 – Carlo Amoretti, Italian scientist (d. 1816)
File:Caroline_Herschel_1829.jpg|link=Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|1750: Astronomer [[Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|Caroline Herschel]] born. Herschel will discover several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name.


||1750 – Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (d. 1848)
File:Nathaniel Bowditch.jpg|link=Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|1838: American captain and mathematician [[Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Bowditch]] dies.  Bowditch was a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book ''The New American Practical Navigator'', first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.


File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1751: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1859: Physicist and academic [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] born. Popov will make pioneering contributions to the study of high frequency electrical phenomenoa; in Russia and some eastern European, he will be acclaimed as the inventor of radio.


||1774 – Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (d. 1814)
File:Kodaira Kunihiko.jpg|link=Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and academic [[Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|Kunihiko Kodaira]] born. Kodaira will make distinguished contributions algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, winning the Fields medal in 1954.
 
||1789 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (d. 1854)
 
||1821 – Eduard Heine, German mathematician and academic (d. 1881)
 
||1836 – Andrew Smith Hallidie, English-American engineer and businessman (d. 1900)
 
File:Nathaniel Bowditch.jpg|link=Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|1838: American captain and mathematician [[Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Bowditch]] dies.  He was a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book ''The New American Practical Navigator'', first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.
 
||1841 – Félix Savart, French physicist and psychologist (d. 1791)
 
||1846 – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician and academic (d. 1927)
 
||1851 – Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
 
File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1859: Physicist and academic [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] born. He will do pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomenoa; in Russia and some eastern European, he will be acclaimed as the inventor of radio.
 
File:Kodaira Kunihiko.jpg|link=Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and academic [[Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|Kunihiko Kodaira]] born. He will do distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, winning the Fields medal in 1954.
 
||1918 – Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
 
||1925 – August von Wassermann, German bacteriologist and hygienist (b. 1866)
 
||1929 – Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist and academic (d. 2015)
 
||1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
 
||1936 – Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian-American inventor, invented the MRI
 
||1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena target vehicle.
File:Palomares H-Bomb Incident.jpg|link=1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1966: After-effects of [[1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1966 Palomares B-52 crash]] reveal new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|1967: ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1988 – Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
 
||1992 – Yves Rocard, French physicist and engineer (b. 1903)
 
||1998 – Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
 
||2013 – Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (b. 1939)
 
File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2014: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].


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