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File:Eel hates statue.jpg|link=The Eel|Supervillain and art critic [[The Eel]] hates ''Peter Aal'' by [[Bernd Maro (nonfiction)|Bernd Maro]].
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File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1716: Mathematician and philosopher [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] dies. He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and designed and built mechanical calculators.
 
||1746: Georg Wilhelm Steller dies ... botanist, zoologist, physician, and explorer. No portrait exists.  Pic: memorial stone.
 
||1797: Charles Lyell born ... geologist who popularized the revolutionary work of James Hutton. He wrote ''Principles of Geology'', which presented uniformitarianism–the idea that the Earth was shaped by the same scientific processes still in operation today–to the broad general public. Pic.
 
||1807: Auguste Laurent born ... chemist who helped in the founding of organic chemistry with his discoveries of anthracene, phthalic acid, and carbolic acid. He devised a systematic nomenclature for organic chemistry based on structural grouping of atoms within molecules to determine how the molecules combine in organic reactions.  Pic.
 
||1817: Policarpa Salavarrieta executed ... seamstress and spy. Pic.
 
||1829: Louis Nicolas Vauquelin dies ... pharmacist and chemist. Pic.
 
||1845: Ulisse Dini born ... mathematician and politician, born in Pisa. He is known for his contribution to real analysis. Pic.
 
||1851: Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.
 
||1863: Leo Baekeland born ... chemist and engineer. Pic.
 
||1882: Robert Lee Moore born ... mathematician who taught for many years at the University of Texas. He is known for his work in general topology, for the Moore method of teaching university mathematics, and for his poor treatment of African-American mathematics students. Pic.
 
||1885: Theoretical physicist and academic Earle Hesse Kennard born. Much of his research for the Navy focused on hydrodynamics and elasticity, in particular on the theory of potential flow, the physics of underwater explosions and structural vibrations. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Earle+Hesse+Kennard
 
||1891: Howard Florey born ... pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1897: C. B. van Niel born ... microbiologist. He introduced the study of general microbiology to the United States and made key discoveries explaining the chemistry of photosynthesis. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=c.+b.+van+niel
 
||1907: Pedro Arrupe SJ born ... Jesuit priest who served as the twenty-eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1965–83). Stationed as novice master outside Hiroshima in 1945, he used his medical background as a first responder to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Pic online: https://www.google.com/search?q=pedro+arrupe
 
||1909: Joshua Slocum born ... the first man to sail single-handedly around the world... disappeared while aboard his boat, the ''Spray''. Pic.
 
||1910: Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher. Pic.
 
||1915: Heinrich Gross born ... psychiatrist, medical doctor and neurologist, a reputed expert as a leading court-appointed psychiatrist, ill-famed for his proven involvement in the killing of at least nine children with physical, mental and/or emotional/behavioral characteristics considered "unclean" by the Nazi regime, under its Euthanasia Program. His role in hundreds of other cases of infanticide is unclear.  Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Heinrich+Gross+nazi&oq=Heinrich+Gross+nazi
 
||1916: Roger Apéry born ... mathematician and academic. Pic: https://aperiodical.com/2016/11/aperyodical-roger-aperys-mathematical-story/
 
||1925: Stirling Colgate born ... physicist and academic. He was America's premier diagnostician of thermonuclear weapons during the early years at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.  Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=stirling+colgate
 
||1932: Jacques Jean-Pierre Neveu born ... mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school (post WW II) of probability and statistics. Pic.
 
||1945: Eldridge Reeves Johnson dies ... businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. Pic.
 
||1948: Mathematician and astronomer William Duncan MacMillan dies - he researched applications of classical mechanics to astronomy, and is noted for pioneering speculations on physical cosmology.
 
||1965: Allen B. DuMont dies ... electronics engineer, scientist and inventor best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube in 1931 for use in television receivers. Seven years later he manufactured and sold the first commercially practical television set to the public. Pic.
 
||1967: American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser. Pic.
 
||1969: Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
 
File:Hanna Neumann.jpg|link=Hanna Neumann (nonfiction)|1971: Mathematician and academic [[Hanna Neumann (nonfiction)|Hanna Neumann]] dies. She contributed to [[Group theory (nonfiction)|group theory]], co-authoring the important paper ''Wreath products and varieties of groups'' (with her husband Bernhard and eldest son Peter), and authoring the influential book ''Varieties of Groups''.
 
File:Mariner 9.jpg|link=Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|1971: [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] enters orbit around Mars. It will map 70% of the surface, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
 
||1979: Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
 
||2003: Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
 
||2006: Gustave Choquet dies ... mathematician. His contributions include work in functional analysis, potential theory, topology and measure theory. He is known for creating the Choquet theory, the Choquet integral and the theory of capacities. Pic.
 
File:Rudolf Mössbauer.jpg|link=Rudolf Mössbauer (nonfiction)|2011: Physicist and academic '''[[Rudolf Mössbauer (nonfiction)|Rudolf Mössbauer]]''' dies. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1957) of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence (now known as the Mössbauer effect), the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.
 
||2012: Chemist Norman Greenwood dies. Greenwood will co-author the innovative textbook ''Chemistry of the Elements'', make contributions to the chemistry of boron hydrides and other main-group element compounds, and pioneer the application of Mössbauer spectroscopy to problems in chemistry. Pic.
 
||2014: Eugene Dynkin dies ... mathematician and theorist. He has made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes. The Dynkin diagram, the Dynkin system, and Dynkin's lemma are named after him. Pic.
 
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates forty-sixth anniversary of [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] entering orbit around [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
 
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