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File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1754: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] dies. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', is prized by gamblers.
||602: Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself.
File:Berners_Street_Hoax_caricature.jpg|1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
 
File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship [[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]] attacked by [[Neptune Slaughter]] in mid-ocean.
||1605: Clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer Nathaniel Torporley - Just after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, Torporley was examined by the council for having cast the king's nativity. Pic search French wiki: https://www.google.com/search?q=Nathaniel+Torporley
File:Robbing a rich merchants house-J. M. W. Silver.jpg|link=Crime (nonfiction)|[[Crime (nonfiction)|Crime sometimes does pay]], according to [[Game theory (nonfiction)|game theory]].
 
File:Fortunes of a Street Waif.jpg|[[Lud the Gamer]] was boot-thief as child, say Biographer-Critics.
File:Anders_Celsius.jpg|link=Anders Celsius (nonfiction)|1701: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician [[Anders Celsius (nonfiction)|Anders Celsius]] born. In 1742 he will propose the Celsius temperature scale which today bears his name.
File:Flea circus ticket.jpg|link=Human Flea Circus|[[Human Flea Circus]] breaks attendance record.
 
File:The Joker circa 1940.jpg|link=The Joker (nonfiction)|[[The Joker (nonfiction)|The Joker]] makes surprise appearance at the [[Human Flea Circus]].
||1703: Henry Winstanley dies ... painter and engineer. Pic.
File:Nacre_powder_flask.jpg|link=Nacre (nonfiction)|link=Nacre (nonfiction)|Sales of ''Turbo marmoratus'' flasks are brisk at the [[Human Flea Circus]].
 
File:Iridescent_Ammonite.jpg|link=Gold Ruster|Supervillain [[Gold Ruster]] threatens to use "rust powers" on Fort Knox gold.
||1715: Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost born ... doctor and theologian who first described the scientific phenomenon eponymously named the Leidenfrost effect. Pic.
File:Nobel Ice (Fabergé egg).jpg|link=Dysprosium Titanate|[[Gem detective (nonfiction)|Gem detective]] alert: Fabergé egg recently commissioned by [[Dysprosium Titanate]] made from Spin Ice, may be trap for [[Roger Zelazny]].
 
File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1852: Mathematician and writer [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] dies.
File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1754: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] dies. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', was prized by gamblers of his day.
 
File:Berners_Street_Hoax_caricature.jpg|link=Berners Street hoax (nonfiction)|1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
 
||1811: Andrew Meikle dies ... engineer, designed the threshing machine. Pic.
 
||1848: Physicist Charles S. Hastings born. known for his work in optics. Pic search.
 
||1849: Ruan Yuan dies ... the most prominent Chinese scholar during the first half of the 19th century. He was known for his work ''Biographies of Astronomers and Mathematicians''. Pic.
 
File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1852: Mathematician and writer [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
 
||1857: Charles Scott Sherrington born ... physiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1867: Chemist Nikolai Kischner born ... He significantly contributed to the understanding of alicyclic compounds, their intermediate position between fatty (acyclic) and aromatic compounds and relationships with heterocyclic compounds. He also developed several efficient catalytic synthesis methods that were used by the Soviet dye industry.  Pic.
 
||1871: Giovanni Giorgi born ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
 
||1873: Auguste Arthur de la Rive born ... physicist. Pic.
 
||1874: Chaim Weizmann born ... chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel. Pic.
 
||1875: Richard Christopher Carrington dies ... amateur astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot observations revealed the differential rotation of the Sun. Pic search.
 
||1876: Viktor Kaplan born ... engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine. Pic.
 
||1895: At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies. Pic.
 
||1897: Vito Genovese born ... mob boss. Pic.
 
||1903: Lars Onsager born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1904: Paul Tannery dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was the older brother of mathematician Jules Tannery, to whose Notions Mathématiques he contributed an historical chapter. Though Tannery's career was in the tobacco industry, he devoted his evenings and his life to the study of mathematicians and mathematical development. Pic.
 
||1909: Anatoly Maltsev born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search.
 
||1923: J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. born ... nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician. Pic.
 
||1924: George Chandler Whipple dies ... civil engineer and an expert in the field of sanitary microbiology. His career extended from 1889 to 1924 and he is best known as a co-founder of the Harvard School of Public Health. Whipple published some of the most important books in the early history of public health and applied microbiology. Pic.
 
||1925: John Maddox born ... chemist, physicist, and journalist. Pic search.
 
||1942: World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
 
||1944: Leonid Mandelstam dies ... physicist and academic. The main emphasis of his work was broadly considered theory of oscillations, which included optics and quantum mechanics. He was a co-discoverer of inelastic combinatorial scattering of light used now in Raman spectroscopy. Pic.
 
||1965: Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
 
||1971: The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
 
File:Mars 2 and 3.jpg|link=Mars 2 (nonfiction)|1971: The The [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2 landing module]] crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.  
 
||1978: In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White. Pic.
 
||1983: Harrie Massey dies ... mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics. Pic.
 
||1990: Basilis C. Xanthopoulos murdered ... physicist and academic ...  contributions to the study of colliding plane waves in general relativity. No DOB. Pic.
 
||2001: A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
 
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2]] crash.
 
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  • 1701: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Anders Celsius born. In 1742 he will propose the Celsius temperature scale which today bears his name.

    1701: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Anders Celsius born. In 1742 he will propose the Celsius temperature scale which today bears his name.

  • 1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, was prized by gamblers of his day.

    1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, was prized by gamblers of his day.

  • 1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.

    1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.

  • 1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.

    1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.

  • 1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.

    1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.

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