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||1661: The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. No pic online.
 
||1689: Samuel Molyneux born ... member of the British parliament from Kew and an amateur astronomer whose work with James Bradley attempting to measure stellar parallax led to the discovery of the aberration of light. The aberration was the first definite evidence that the earth moved and that Copernicus and Kepler were correct. In addition to his astronomical works, Molyneux wrote about the natural history and other features of Ireland. Pic: http://www.npgprints.com/image/27750/john-brooks-robert-hunter-samuel-molyneux-madden
 
||1714: Marc René, marquis de Montalembert born ... military engineer and writer, known for his work on fortifications. Pic.
 
||1932: Stanisław (Stash) Świerczkowski born ... mathematician famous for his solutions to two iconic problems posed by Hugo Steinhaus: the three-gap theorem and the Non-Tetratorus Theorem. Pic: https://www.amazon.com/Sets-Numbers-Library-Mathematics-Swierczkowski/dp/071007137X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535988419&sr=1-1
 
||1739: Charles François de Cisternay du Fay dies ... chemist. He discovered the existence of two types of electricity and named them "vitreous" and "resinous" (later known as positive and negative charge respectively). He noted the difference between conductors and insulators, calling them 'electrics' and 'non-electrics' for their ability to produce contact electrification. He also discovered that alike-charged objects would repel each other and that unlike-charged objects attract. Pic.
 
File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.
 
||1855: Hans Friedrich Geitel born ... physicist. Pic search.
 
||1876: Alfred Stock born ... a German inorganic chemist. He did pioneering research on the hydrides of boron and silicon, coordination chemistry, mercury, and mercury poisoning. The German Chemical Society's Alfred-Stock Memorial Prize is named after him. Pic.
 
||1888: Frits Zernike born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1896: Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer born ... biologist and eugenicist. Pic.
 
||1902: Neuropsychologist Alexander Luria born ... pioneer of modern neuropsychological assessment. He developed an extensive and original battery of neuropsychological tests during his clinical work with brain-injured victims of World War II, which are still used in various forms. Pic.
 
||1903: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz born ... mathematician and engineer. Pic.
 
||1925: Cyrus Derman born ... mathematician and amateur musician who did research in Markov decision process, stochastic processes, operations research, statistics and a variety of other fields. Pic.
 
||1926: Irwin Rose born ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1935: The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
 
File:USS Indianapolis (CA-35) underway at sea 27 September 1939 (80-G-425615).jpg|link=USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (nonfiction)|1945: World War II: The heavy cruiser [[USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (nonfiction)|USS ''Indianapolis'']] leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. See [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
 
File:Trinity detonation.jpg|link=Trinity (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|1945: [[Trinity (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Trinity nuclear weapon test]]: the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. See [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
 
||1958: Carl Axel Fredrik Benedicks dies ... physicist whose work included geology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics, astronomy and mathematics. Pic.
 
||1960: Harry Egerton Wimperis born ... British aeronautical engineer who acted as the Director of Scientific Research at the UK's Air Ministry prior to World War II. He is best known for his role in setting up the Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defence under Henry Tizard, which led directly to the development and introduction of radar in the UK. He is also known for the development of the Drift Sight and Course Setting Bomb Sight during World War I, devices that revolutionised the art of bombing. Pic: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw52864/Harry-Egerton-Wimperis
 
||1969: Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
 
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
 
||1979: The Church Rock uranium mill spill occurred in the US state of New Mexico on July 16, 1979, when United Nuclear Corporation's Church Rock uranium mill tailings disposal pond breached its dam. Over 1,000 tons of solid radioactive mill waste and 93 million gallons of acidic, radioactive tailings solution flowed into the Puerco River, and contaminants traveled 80 miles (130 km) downstream to Navajo County, Arizona and onto the Navajo Nation.
 
||1986: Jerrold Reinach Zacharias dies ... physicist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as an education reformer. His scientific work was in the area of nuclear physics. Pic.
 
File:Herbert Lawrence Anderson.jpg|link=Herbert L. Anderson (nonfiction)|1988: Nuclear physicist [[Herbert L. Anderson (nonfiction)|Herbert L. Anderson]] dies.  Anderson contributed to the Manhattan Project: he was a member of the team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States, in the basement of Pupin Hall at Columbia University, and he participated in the first atomic bomb test, code-named Trinity.
 
||1994: Julian Schwinger dies ... theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. Pic.
 
||2002: John Cocke dies ... computer scientist and engineer ... "the father of RISC architecture." Pic search.
 
||2004: Frank Farmer born ... physicist, and a pioneer in the application of physics to medicine, particularly in relation to the practical aspects of cancer treatment by radiation. Pic search.
 
||2005: Mark Chorvinsky dies ... magician and author, FX, Forteana. Pic search. http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2020/10/when-i-interviewed-mark-chorvinsky.html
 
File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2011: The ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe enters Vesta's orbit. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.
 
||2013: Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov dies ... mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. Pic.
 
||2014: Heinz Zemanek dies ... computer scientist and academic ... computer pioneer who led the development, from 1954 to 1958, of one of the first complete transistorized computers on the European continent. Pic
 
||2015: Denis Avey dies ... soldier, engineer, and author ... "The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz" ... Avey saved the life of Jewish prisoner Ernst Lobethal, by smuggling cigarettes to him. Pic.
 
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  • 1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.

    1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.

  • 1945: World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. See Manhattan Project.

    1945: World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. See Manhattan Project.

  • 1945: Trinity nuclear weapon test: the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. See Manhattan Project.

    1945: Trinity nuclear weapon test: the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. See Manhattan Project.

  • 1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

    1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

  • 1988: Nuclear physicist Herbert L. Anderson dies. Anderson contributed to the Manhattan Project: he was a member of the team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States, in the basement of Pupin Hall at Columbia University, and he participated in the first atomic bomb test, code-named Trinity.

    1988: Nuclear physicist Herbert L. Anderson dies. Anderson contributed to the Manhattan Project: he was a member of the team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States, in the basement of Pupin Hall at Columbia University, and he participated in the first atomic bomb test, code-named Trinity.

  • 2011: The Dawn space probe enters Vesta's orbit. Dawn will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.

    2011: The Dawn space probe enters Vesta's orbit. Dawn will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.

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