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||1682 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1716)
||552: Origin of Armenian calendar.


||1832 – Alvan Graham Clark, American astronomer (d. 1897) Alvan Graham Clark (July 10, 1832 – June 9, 1897) was an American astronomer and telescope-maker.
||1658: Luigi Ferdinando Marsili born ... scholar and eminent natural scientist, who also served as an emissary and soldier. Pic.


||1851 – Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (b. 1787)
File:Roger Cotes.png|link=Roger Cotes (nonfiction)|1682: Mathematician and astronomer [[Roger Cotes (nonfiction)|Roger Cotes]] born. Cotes will work closely with Isaac Newton, proofreading the second edition of Newton's ''Principia''. Cotes also invented the quadrature formulas known as Newton–Cotes formulas, and first introduced what is known today as Euler's formula.
 
||1788: Mathematician Christian Ludwig Gerling born ... He is notable for his work on geodetics and in 1927 some 60 letters of correspondence between Gerling and Gauss on the topic were published. Pic.
 
||1821: Carl Culmann born ... structural engineer. Pic.
 
||1832: Alvan Graham Clark, American astronomer born ... astronomer and telescope-maker. Pic (cool tech).
 
||1851: Louis Daguerre dies ... photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype. Pic.


File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1856: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1856: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.


||1902 – Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
||1858: Boleslav Kornelievich Mlodzeevskii born ... mathematician, a former president of the Moscow Mathematical Society. He will work in differential and algebraic geometry. Pic.
 
||1902: Kurt Alder born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry shared with Otto Diels for their work on what is now known as the Diels–Alder reaction.  Pic.
 
||1902: Wolfram Sievers born ... German SS officer ... director of the Institut für Wehrwissenschaftliche Zweckforschung (Institute for Military Scientific Research), which conducted extensive experiments using human subjects. Pic.
 
||1910: Johann Gottfried Galle dies ... astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at. Urbain Le Verrier had predicted the existence and position of Neptune, and sent the coordinates to Galle, asking him to verify. Pic.
 
||1912: Duško Popov born ... double agent who served as part of the MI6 and Abwehr during World War II, and passed off disinformation to Germany as part of the Double-Cross System. Pic.
 
||1914: Bonnie Madison Stewart born ... mathematician and academic. He will publish (1954) a complete characterization of the practical numbers in terms of their factorizations; later, he will be the namesake of Stewart toroids. No pic, but seek book cover.
 
||1919: Author Aldous Huxley weds epidemiologist Maria Nys in Bellem, Belgium. Pic.
 
||1920: Owen Chamberlain born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1925: Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
 
||1927: Grigory Barenblatt born ... mathematician and academic. He will contribute to fracture mechanics, fluid and gas flows in porous media, the mechanics of a non-classical deformable solids, turbulence, and self-similarities. Pic.
 
||1931: Peter P. Sorokin born ... physicist and co-inventor of the dye laser. Pic.
 
||1936: Salvatore Pincherle dies ... mathematician. He contributed significantly to (and arguably helped to found) the field of functional analysis, established the Italian Mathematical Union (Italian: "Unione Matematica Italiana"), and was president of the Third International Congress of Mathematicians. The Pincherle derivative is named after him. Pic.


||Johann Gottfried Galle (d. 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at. Urbain Le Verrier had predicted the existence and position of Neptune, and sent the coordinates to Galle, asking him to verify
||1942: An American naval aviator discovered a downed Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island, Alaska, US, which was later rebuilt and flown to devise tactics against that type of aircraft.


||1920 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
||1943: Frank Schlesinger dies ... astronomer and author. His work concentrated on using photographic plates rather than direct visual studies for astronomical research. Pic.


||1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
File:Telstar.jpg|link=Telstar (nonfiction)|1962: [[Telstar (nonfiction)|Telstar 1]], the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. Two days later Telstar will relay a live television signal across the Atlantic.


||1927 – Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician and academic
||1976: Seveso disaster: an industrial accident in a small chemical manufacturing plant near Milan, Italy, which resulted in a major release of toxic chemicals, causing multipel long-term health problems for thousands of people. The disaster gave rise to numerous scientific studies and standardized industrial safety regulations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveso_disaster


File:Nicolaas de Bruijn.jpg|link=Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|1938:  Mathematician and theorist [[Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn]] uses combinatorics, logic, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and reverse [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Greens.jpg|link=Greens|'''''[[Greens]]''''' is a 1985 American epic historical drama film, co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty about the bombing of the Greenpeace ship ''Rainbow Warrior'' on 10 July 1985 by agents of the French foreign intelligence services. Co-starring Diane Keaton and Edward Abbey.


||1942 – An American naval aviator discovered a downed Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island, Alaska, US, which was later rebuilt and flown to devise tactics against that type of aircraft.
||1986: Roman Ulrich Sexl dies ... theoretical physicist. He is famous for his textbooks on Special relativity. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Roman+Ulrich+Sexl


File:Telstar.jpg|link=Telstar (nonfiction)|1962: [[Telstar (nonfiction)|Telstar]], the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
||1992: Albert Pierrepoint dies ... English hangman who executed between 435 and 600 people in a 25-year career that ended in 1956. His father, Henry, and uncle Thomas were official hangmen before him. Pic.


||1976: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveso_disaster
||1997: In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.


||1997 – In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
||2008: Yoji Totsuka dies ... physicist. Pic.


File:Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research.jpg|link=Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research]]'' sells for ten millions dollars at a charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research.jpg|link=Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research]]'' sells for ten millions dollars at a charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


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  • 1682: Mathematician and astronomer Roger Cotes born. Cotes will work closely with Isaac Newton, proofreading the second edition of Newton's Principia. Cotes also invented the quadrature formulas known as Newton–Cotes formulas, and first introduced what is known today as Euler's formula.

    1682: Mathematician and astronomer Roger Cotes born. Cotes will work closely with Isaac Newton, proofreading the second edition of Newton's Principia. Cotes also invented the quadrature formulas known as Newton–Cotes formulas, and first introduced what is known today as Euler's formula.

  • 1856: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

    1856: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

  • 1962: Telstar 1, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. Two days later Telstar will relay a live television signal across the Atlantic.

    1962: Telstar 1, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. Two days later Telstar will relay a live television signal across the Atlantic.

  • Greens is a 1985 American epic historical drama film, co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty about the bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985 by agents of the French foreign intelligence services. Co-starring Diane Keaton and Edward Abbey.

    Greens is a 1985 American epic historical drama film, co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty about the bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985 by agents of the French foreign intelligence services. Co-starring Diane Keaton and Edward Abbey.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research sells for ten millions dollars at a charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    2017: Signed first edition of Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research sells for ten millions dollars at a charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

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