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File:Electric S'mores.jpg|link=Electric S'mores|[[Electric S'mores]] open for business.
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File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|[[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] refuses to betray friends and principles, enjoys state-sponsored meals for nearly a year.
 
File:The Joker circa 1940.jpg|link=Physicist (nonfiction)|[[The Joker (nonfiction)|The Joker]] imprisons, tortures famed [[Physicist (nonfiction)|physicist]] Galileo Galilei. Church authorities say they are "powerless to intervene".
File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1601: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] dies. Brahe made astronomical observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
File:Galileo_E_pur_si_muove.jpg|link=Physicist (nonfiction)|[[Physicist (nonfiction)|Galileo]], imprisoned on trumped-up charges, uses nail to scratch the equation ''E pur si muove'' on dungeon wall, cuts his way to freedom.
 
File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=Physicist (nonfiction)|''Dark Side of the Moon'' "kept my spirits up during the ordeal", [[Physicist (nonfiction)|Galileo]] heard to mutter while leaving the courtroom.
||1632: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek born ... biologist and microbiologist. Pic.
File:Electric_Kool-Aid_Acid_Test_cover.jpg|link=The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test|Early techno-thriller fails [[Turing test (nonfiction)|Turing test]], author invents [[High-energy literature]] techniques to improve readability.
 
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
File:Wilhelm_Schickard_1632.jpg|link=Wilhelm Schickard (nonfiction)|1635: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor [[Wilhelm Schickard (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Schickard]] dies.  Schickard designed and built calculating machines, and invented techniques for producing improved maps.
File:Companion of Asclepius Myrmidon.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|[[Asclepius Myrmidon]] provides emergency medical services after [[Pi disaster]].
 
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]]'s observatory to detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
 
File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] dies. Gassendi clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
 
||1667: Godefroy Wendelin dies ... astronomer and author. He is credited with recognizing that Kepler's third law applied to the satellites of Jupiter. Pic.
 
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1676: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] summarized the state of development of his method of fluxions and power series in the "Epistola posterior," which he sent to Oldenburg to transmit to Leibniz.
 
||1851: William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel, and Ariel, orbiting Uranus. Pic.
 
||1804: Wilhelm Eduard Weber born ... physicist and academic. Pic.
 
||1821: Mathematician Philipp Ludwig von Seidel born. He formulated the notion of uniform convergence.  Pic: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Ludwig_von_Seidel ... AMA says 23 Oct.
 
||1825: Carl Anton Bjerknes born ... mathematician and physicist. Bjerknes' earlier work was in pure mathematics, but he is principally known for his studies in hydrodynamics. Pic.
 
||1830: Marianne North born ... biologist and painter.
 
||1847: James MacCullagh dies ... mathematician. His most important paper on optics, entitled "An essay towards a dynamical theory of crystalline reflection and refraction", describes a potential function for a dynamical theory for the transmission of light. MacCullagh found that a conventional potential function proportional to the squared norm of the displacement field was incompatible with known properties of light waves. In order to support only transverse waves, he found that the potential function must be proportional to the squared norm of the curl of the displacement field.  No birth date. Pic.
 
||1853: Heinrich Maschke born ... mathematician who proved Maschke's theorem. Pic.
 
||1854: Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom born ... chemist and academic. Pic.
 
File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|1861: The first transcontinental [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|telegraph line]] across the United States is completed.
 
||1871: 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants were tortured and lynched in the Chinese massacre of 1871 in Los Angeles, California.
 
||1873: E. T. Whittaker born ... mathematician who contributed widely to applied mathematics, mathematical physics and the theory of special functions. He had a particular interest in numerical analysis, but also worked on celestial mechanics and the history of physics. Pic.
 
||1876: George B. Pegram born ... physicist who played a key role in the technical administration of the Manhattan Project. Pic.
 
||1883: Albert Châtelet born ... politician and mathematician. Pic.
 
||1901: Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Pic (pose with barrel).
 
||1903: Melvin Purvis born ... FBI agent. Pic.
 
||1906: Alexander Gelfond born ... mathematician and cryptographer. Pic search.
 
||1908: John Tuzo Wilson born ... geologist and geophysicist. Pic.
 
||1911: Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Pic.
 
||1919: Frank Piasecki born ...  engineer and pilot ... helicopters. Pic.
 
File:Marcel-Paul Schützenberger.jpg|link=Marcel-Paul Schützenberger (nonfiction)|1920: Mathematician and Doctor of Medicine [[Marcel-Paul Schützenberger (nonfiction)|Marcel-Paul Schützenberger]] born. Schützenberger will contribute to the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.
 
||1926: Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit. Pic.
 
||1930: Paul Appell dies ...  mathematician and Rector of the University of Paris. The concept of Appell polynomials is named after him. Pic.
 
||1932: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1940: Pierre-Ernest Weiss dies ... physicist specialized in magnetism. He developed the domain theory of ferromagnetism in 1907. Weiss domains and the Weiss magneton are named after him. Weiss also developed the molecular or mean field theory, which is often called Weiss-mean-field theory, that lead to the discovery of the Curie-Weiss law. Alongside Auguste Picard, Pierre Weiss is considered one of the first discoverers of the magnetocaloric effect in 1917. Pierre Weiss made several experimental discoveries that led to the development of the strongest electromagnets of the beginning of the 20th century. Pic.
 
||1941: William H. Dobelle born ... biologist and academic ... sight restoration. Pic search.
 
||1941: William Albert Noyes born ... analytical and organic chemist. He made pioneering determinations of atomic weights. Pic.
 
||1944: Louis Renault born ... engineer and businessman, co-founded Renault. Pic.
 
||1945: Founding of the United Nations.
 
||1946: A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
 
||1947: Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists. Pic.
 
||1949: The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
 
||1954: Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam. Pic.
 
||1957: The United States Air Force starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
 
||1960: Yevgeny Ostashev dies ... rocket test pilot ... participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences. Pic.
 
File:Nedelin catastrophe.jpg|1960: Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.
 
||1963: The fire at the spaceport Baikonur in one of the martial mines missiles R-9. Seven people were killed.
 
||1966: Sofya Yanovskaya dies ... mathematician and historian. Pic.
 
||1975: In Iceland, 90% of women take part in a national strike, refusing to work in protest of gaps in gender equality.
 
||1990: Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian "stay-behind" clandestine paramilitary NATO army, which was implicated in false flag terrorist attacks implicating communists and anarchists as part of the strategy of tension from the late 1960s to early 1980s. Pic.
 
||1998: Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission.
 
||2004: Isao Imai dies ... theoretical physicist, known for fluid mechanics and mathematical physics. Pic.
 
||2007: Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
 
||2011: John McCarthy dies ... computer scientist and academic, developed the Lisp programming language. Pic.
 
||2014: The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.
 
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  • 1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. Brahe made astronomical observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.

    1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. Brahe made astronomical observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.

  • 1635: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard dies. Schickard designed and built calculating machines, and invented techniques for producing improved maps.

    1635: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard dies. Schickard designed and built calculating machines, and invented techniques for producing improved maps.

  • 1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's observatory to detect and prevent crimes against astronomical constants.

    1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's observatory to detect and prevent crimes against astronomical constants.

  • 1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. Gassendi clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.

    1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. Gassendi clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.

  • 1676: Isaac Newton summarized the state of development of his method of fluxions and power series in the "Epistola posterior," which he sent to Oldenburg to transmit to Leibniz.

    1676: Isaac Newton summarized the state of development of his method of fluxions and power series in the "Epistola posterior," which he sent to Oldenburg to transmit to Leibniz.

  • 1861: The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.

    1861: The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.

  • 1920: Mathematician and Doctor of Medicine Marcel-Paul Schützenberger born. Schützenberger will contribute to the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.

    1920: Mathematician and Doctor of Medicine Marcel-Paul Schützenberger born. Schützenberger will contribute to the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.

  • 1960: Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.

    1960: Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.

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