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| ||529: First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
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| ||1658L Juan Eusebio Nieremberg dies ... mystic and philosopher.
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| ||1727: Michel Adanson born ... botanist, entomologist, and mycologist.
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| File:Thomas_Bayes.gif|link=Thomas Bayes (nonfiction)|1761: Mathematician, philosopher, and minister [[Thomas Bayes (nonfiction)|Thomas Bayes]] dies. He is remembered for having formulated a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem.
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| ||1789: Petrus Camper dies ... physician, anatomist, and physiologist.
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| File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1789: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] uses early version of Fourier series analysis to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1805: Gabriel Gruber dies ... second Superior General of the Society of Jesus in Russia. Math, etc. Pic.
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| ||1805: Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
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| File:Hasan Tahsini.jpg|link=Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|1811: Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher [[Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|Hasan Tahsini]] born. He will become one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century. | | File:Hasan Tahsini.jpg|link=Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|1811: Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher [[Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|Hasan Tahsini]] born. He will become one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century. |
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| ||1746: Jacques Alexandre César Charles dies ... inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist. Pic.
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| ||1827: Chemist John Walker sells the first friction match, which he invented the previous year.
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| ||1859: Jacques Loeb born ... physiologist and biologist. Messaging. Pic.
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| File:Ernst_Ruhmer,_Technical_World_cover_(1905).jpg|link=Ernst Ruhmer (nonfiction)|1860: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Ernst Ruhmer (nonfiction)|Ernst Ruhmer]] invents a camera which uses the light-sensitivity properties of selenium to record images from past and future events. This type of camera is popular with math photographers, notably [[Cantor Parabola]].
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| File:Erik Ivar Fredholm.jpg|link=Erik Ivar Fredholm (nonfiction)|1866: Mathematician [[Erik Ivar Fredholm (nonfiction)|Erik Ivar Fredholm]] born. He will introduce and analyze a class of integral equations now called Fredholm equations. Fredholm's work on integral equations and operator theory will anticipate the theory of Hilbert spaces.
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| File:Niles Cartouchian.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian|1867: Gem detective [[Niles Cartouchian]] works with [[Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|Hasan Tahsini]] to recover stolen shipment of [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals (nonfiction)]].
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| ||1882: Hermann Pokorny born. He was a World War I Austro-Hungarian Army cryptologist whose work with Russian ciphers contributed substantially to Central Powers victories over Russia. Pic.
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| File:Paul Du Bois-Reymond Heidelberg.jpg|link=Paul du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|1889: Mathematician [[Paul du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond]] dies. He worked on the theory of functions and in mathematical physics.
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| File:Pieter Rijke.jpg|link=Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|1899: Physicist and academic [[Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|Petrus Leonardus Rijke]] dies. He explored the physics of electricity, and is known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave). | | File:Pieter Rijke.jpg|link=Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|1899: Physicist and academic [[Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|Petrus Leonardus Rijke]] dies. He explored the physics of electricity, and is known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave). |
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| ||1903: Edwin Thomas Layton born ... Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, who is most noted for his work as an intelligence officer during and before World War II.
| | File:Tim_Cochran_Multnomah_Falls_Oregon_July_16_2012.jpg|link=Tim Cochran (nonfiction)|2014: Mathematician and academic [[Tim Cochran (nonfiction)|Tim Cochran]] born. He will contribute to topology, especially low-dimensional topology, the theory of knots and links and associated algebra. |
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| ||1914: Heinz Billing born ... physicist and computer scientist, widely considered a pioneer in the construction of computer systems and computer data storage, who built a prototype laser interferometric gravitational wave detector.
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| ||1921: Feza Gürsey born ... mathematician and physicist.
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| ||1927: The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
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| ||1933: Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States of America)
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| ||1934: Ernst Paul Heinz Pruefer dies ... mathematician born in Wilhelmshaven. His major contributions were on abelian groups, algebraic numbers, knot theory and Sturm–Liouville theory. Pic.
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| ||1941: Lazăr Edeleanu dies ... chemist ... known for being the first chemist to synthesize amphetamine at the University of Berlin and for inventing the modern method of refining crude oil.
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| ||1955: Tim Cochran born ... mathematician and academic.
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| ||1964: IBM announces the System/360.
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| ||1969: The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
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| ||1971: President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
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| ||1976: Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.
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| ||1978: Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
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| ||1980: During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.
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| ||1983: During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
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| ||1989: Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
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| ||1990: Iran–Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
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| ||1986: Leonid Kantorovich dies ... mathematician and economist.
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| ||1994: Agathe Uwilingiyimana assassinated ... chemist, academic, and politician, Prime Minister of Rwanda.
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| File:Donald Sarason 2003.jpg|link=Donald Sarason (nonfiction)|1995: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Donald Sarason (nonfiction)|Donald Erik Sarason]] combines Hardy space theory with Vanishing mean oscillation (VMO); in the process, he will discover radical new techniques for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |
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| File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1995: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes a series of photographs which capture temporal superimpositions from physicist and academic [[Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|Petrus Leonardus Rijke]] in the form of a self-amplifying standing wave.
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| ||2001: Mars Odyssey is launched.
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| File:Dave_Arneson.png|link=Dave Arneson (nonfiction)|2009: Game designer [[Dave Arneson (nonfiction)|Dave Arneson]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] with Gary Gygax. | | File:Dave_Arneson.png|link=Dave Arneson (nonfiction)|2009: Game designer [[Dave Arneson (nonfiction)|Dave Arneson]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] with Gary Gygax. |
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| ||2014: James Alexander "Sandy" Green dies ... mathematician and Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick, who worked in the field of representation theory. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Sandy-Green-(mathematician)
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