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File:Cleopatra-dies-of-asp-bite-and-IBM-PC.png|link=Death of Cleopatra|[[Death of Cleopatra|Cleopatra dies]] of asp bite, according to IBM-PC.
|File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1608: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Orgasmatron from Sleeper.png|link=Artificial hedonism (nonfiction)|Tiny [[Spacecraft (nonfiction)|spacecraft]] with [[Artificial hedonism (nonfiction)|alien "Happy Ending" software]] implicated in [[death of Cleopatra]].
 
||1742: Friedrich Hoffmann dies ... physician and chemist. Pic.
 
||1746: Jacques Alexandre César Charles born ... inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist. Pic.
 
||1746: Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes born ... he will be leading member of the Brazilian revolutionary movement known as Inconfidência Mineira, whose aim was full independence from Portuguese colonial power and creation of a Brazilian republic. Pic.
 
File:Jean_Sylvain_Bailly.jpg|link=Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|1793: Astronomer, mathematician, and political leader [[Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|Jean Sylvain Bailly]] is guillotined during the Reign of Terror. He participated in the early stages of the French Revolution, presiding over the Tennis Court Oath, and serving as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791.
 
||1833: Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin born ... composer of Georgian-Russian origin, as well as a doctor and chemist. Pic.
 
||1840: Auguste Rodin born ... sculptor and illustrator, created The Thinker.
 
||1842: John William Strutt born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, which can be used to explain why the sky is blue, and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves.
 
||1847: William Christopher Zeise dies ... chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds. Pic.
 
||1881: Erich Regener born ... physicist known primarily for the design and construction of instruments to measure cosmic ray intensity at various altitudes. He is also known for predicting a 2.8 K cosmic background radiation,[1] for the invention of the scintillation counter which contributed to the discovery of the structure of the atom, for his calculation of the charge of an electron and for his early work on atmospheric ozone. He is also credited with the first use of rockets for scientific research. Pic.
 
||1902: William Henry Barlow dies ... engineer.
 
||1902: Ogden Nicholas Rood dies ... physicist best known for his work in color theory. Pic.
 
||1910: Hua Luogeng (or Hua Loo-gehng) born ... mathematician famous for his important contributions to number theory and for his role as the leader of mathematics research and education in the People's Republic of China.
 
||1912: The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
 
||1916: Percival Lowell dies ... American astronomer, mathematician, and author. Pic.
 
||1920: Georges Henri Reeb born ... mathematician. He worked in differential topology, differential geometry, differential equations, topological dynamical systems theory and non-standard analysis. Pic.
 
||1923: Irving S. Reed born ... mathematician and engineer. He is best known for co-inventing a class of algebraic error-correcting and error-detecting codes known as Reed–Solomon codes in collaboration with Gustave Solomon. He also co-invented the Reed–Muller code. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Irving+S.+Reed
 
||1927: Yutaka Taniyama born ... mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture. Pic.
 
||1927: Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
 
||1928: SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
 
||1930: Norman Woodason Johnson born ... mathematician. In 1966 he enumerated 92 convex non-uniform polyhedra with regular faces. Victor Zalgaller later proved (1969) that Johnson's list was complete; the complete set is now known as the Johnson solids. Pic.
 
||1932: Dugald Clerk dies ... engineer who designed the world's first successful two-stroke engine in 1878. Pic.
 
||1936: In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
 
||1930: Floris Takens born ... mathematician known for contributions to the theory of chaotic dynamical systems. Together with David Ruelle, he predicted that fluid turbulence could develop through a strange attractor, a term they coined, as opposed to the then-prevailing theory of accretion of modes. The prediction was later confirmed by experiment. Pic.
 
File:Abe Reles.jpg|link=Abe Reles (nonfiction)|1941: New York mobster and hit man turned goverment informant [[Abe Reles (nonfiction)|Abe Reles]] falls to his death while under police custody. Despite knotted sheets and other evidence of an escape attempt, there is widespread belief that Reles was murdered to prevent him from testifying.
 
||1944: Otto Blumenthal dies ... mathematician and academic. Blumenthal made a fundamental, though often overlooked, contribution to aerodynamics by building on Joukowsky's work to extract the complex transformation that carries the latter's name. Pic.
 
File:George_David_Birkhoff.jpg|link=George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.
 
File:Van meegeren trial.jpg|link=Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|1947: Painter and forger [[Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|Han van Meegeren]] is convicted on falsification and fraud charges.
 
||1969: William F. Friedman dies ... US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s. Pic.
 
||1969: Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.
 
||1970: The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.
 
||1971: Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
 
||1980: The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
 
||1981: Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.
 
File:Tim Berners-Lee (2009).jpg|link=Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|1990: Engineer and computer scientist [[Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|Tim Berners-Lee]] publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
 
||1995: Roland Lvovich Dobrushin dies ... mathematician who made important contributions to probability theory, mathematical physics, and information theory. Pic.
 
||1997: Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
 
||1998: Sally Shlaer dies ... mathematician and engineer. Pic.
 
||2005: Computer scientist Jerre Noe dies. In the 1950s, he led the technical team for the ERMA project, the Bank of America's first venture into computerized banking. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jerre+Noe
 
||2013: Mavis Lilian Batey dies ... code-breaker during World War II. Pic: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-mavis-batey-8960761.html
 
||2013: Aleksandr Serebrov dies ... engineer and cosmonaut. Pic: postage stamp.
 
||2014: John Briscoe dies ... epidemiologist, water engineer, and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Briscoe+engineer
 
||2014: Valery Senderov dies ...  Soviet dissident, mathematician, teacher, and advocate of human rights known for his struggle against state-sponsored antisemitism. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Valery+Senderov
 
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  • 1793: Astronomer, mathematician, and political leader Jean Sylvain Bailly is guillotined during the Reign of Terror. He participated in the early stages of the French Revolution, presiding over the Tennis Court Oath, and serving as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791.

    1793: Astronomer, mathematician, and political leader Jean Sylvain Bailly is guillotined during the Reign of Terror. He participated in the early stages of the French Revolution, presiding over the Tennis Court Oath, and serving as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791.

  • 1941: New York mobster and hit man turned goverment informant Abe Reles falls to his death while under police custody. Despite knotted sheets and other evidence of an escape attempt, there is widespread belief that Reles was murdered to prevent him from testifying.

    1941: New York mobster and hit man turned goverment informant Abe Reles falls to his death while under police custody. Despite knotted sheets and other evidence of an escape attempt, there is widespread belief that Reles was murdered to prevent him from testifying.

  • 1944: Mathematician George David Birkhoff dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.

    1944: Mathematician George David Birkhoff dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.

  • 1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren is convicted on falsification and fraud charges.

    1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren is convicted on falsification and fraud charges.

  • 1990: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

    1990: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

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