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File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|1599: Submarine inventor [[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] advises Dutch navy to "attack [[Neptune Slaughter]] on sight."
|| *** Calendrical pareidolia:  manned space flight ***
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] uses primitive [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] to design improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]].
 
File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1984: Advances in [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel technology]] generate improved [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchets]].
File:Christian Egenolff.jpg|link=Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|1555: [[Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|Christian Egenolff]] dies. He was the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main.
File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|1985: New form of [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] discovered.
 
File:Antikythera Team logo.svg|link=Antikythera Team|1973: First test of [[Antikythera Team]]'s self-assembling [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchets]].
File:Giulio Cesare Vanini.jpg|link=Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|1619: Physician and philosopher [[Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|Lucilio Vanini]] is put to death after being found guilty of atheism and blasphemy. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.
 
File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1737: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] born.  He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
 
||1775: American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
 
||1775: Farkas Bolyai born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
 
||1789: Franz Xaver Gabelsberger born ... engineer, invented Gabelsberger shorthand. Pic.
 
||1811: The Rev Dr Nevil Maskelyne dies ... fifth British Astronomer Royal. He held the office from 1765 to 1811. He was the first person to scientifically measure the weight of the planet Earth. Pic.
 
||1841: Frank Haven Hall born ...inventor, author, academic administrator, and theoretical structuralist. He invented the first successful mechanical point writer and developed major functions of modern day typography with kerning and tracking. Pic.
 
||1846: Wilhelm Maybach born ... engineer and businessman, founded Maybach.
 
||1854: Aletta Jacobs born ... physician. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the Netherlands. In 1882, she founded the world's first birth control clinic and was a leader in both the Dutch and international women's movements. She led campaigns aimed at deregulating prostitution, improving women's working conditions, promoting peace and calling for women's right to vote. Pic.
 
||1880: Lipót Fejér born ... mathematician and academic. Pic (small, group shot).
 
||1883: Henry John Stephen Smith dies ... mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula in number theory. Pic.
 
||1895: Max Valier born ... rocketry pioneer. He helped found the German Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR - "Spaceflight Society") that would bring together many of the minds that would later make spaceflight a reality in the 20th century. Pic (drawing).
 
File:Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.jpg|link=Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|1907: Mathematician and academic [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] born.  He will become of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
 
||1908: Alexander Dinghas dies ... mathematician. Pic.
 
||1909: Giulio (Yoel) Racah born ... physicist and mathematician. Pic.
 
||1910: Jacques Monod born ...  biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
File:Gustav Hahn - 1913 Great Meteor Procession.jpg|link=1913 Great Meteor Procession (nonfiction)|1913: A [[1913 Great Meteor Procession (nonfiction)|group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America]], leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
 
||1919: Irene Ann Stegun born ... mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards who, with Milton Abramowitz, edited a classic book of mathematical tables called ''A Handbook of Mathematical Functions'', widely known as ''Abramowitz and Stegun''.  Pic: https://alchetron.com/Irene-Stegun
 
||1925: Burkhard Heim born ... physicist and academic. He devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of his unified field theory, Heim theory. Eventually he retreated into almost total seclusion, concentrating on developing and refining his theory of everything. Pic search.
 
||1927: Charles Doolittle Walcott dies ... paleontologist, administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, and geologist. He is famous for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada. Pic.
 
||1927: David Wheeler born ... computer scientist and academic. He will contribute to the development of the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT).  Wheeler also helped developed the subroutine, and will give the first explanation of how to design software libraries. Pic.
 
File:David Wheeler.jpg|link=David Wheeler (nonfiction)|1927: Computer scientist and academic [[David Wheeler (nonfiction)|David Wheeler]] born. He will contribute to the development of the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT); help develop the subroutine; and gave the first explanation of how to design software libraries.
 
||1935: Roger Needham born ... computer scientist. He will develop Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic for authentication, generally known as BAN logic, and the Needham–Schroeder security protocol (which forms the basis of the Kerberos authentication and key exchange system). Pic.
 
||1937: Francis Sowerby Macaulay dies ... mathematician who made significant contributions to algebraic geometry. Cohen–Macaulay rings, Macaulay duality, the Macaulay resultant are named after him. Pic.
 
||1942: Mathematician Ernst August Weiß dies from combat wounds. Weiß (or Weiss) joined an SA storm in Bonn in 1933, and got promoted up to an Obertruppführer. He directed the Bonn Studentenwerk. He created the Mathematical Work Camps ("Mathematische Arbeitslager") in Kronenburg "as a new form of mathematical university teaching and collaboration of professors and students" ... "as one example of how mathematics and Nazi ideology would interact". Weiß was a permanent editor of the journal Deutsche Mathematik. Pic.
 
||1945: World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
 
||1950: Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
 
|File:Hebern_electric_code_machine.jpg|link=Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|1951: Inventor [[Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|Edward Hugh Hebern]] ... FICTION FICTION FICTION ... pioneer of rotor encryption machines.
 
||1959: The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
 
||1964: The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.
 
File:The_Courtship_of_Eddie's_Carpenter.jpg|link=The Courtship of Eddie's Carpenter|1969: Premiere of '''''[[The Courtship of Eddie's Carpenter]]''''', an American home improvement comedy romance television series based on the 1963 "Courtship Carpentry" fad of the same name.
 
||1970: Leo Moser dies ... mathematician, best known for his polygon notation. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Moser_Leo.html
 
||1971: Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
 
||1975: The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
 
||1977: Sergey Ilyushin dies ... engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Company. Pic.
 
File:Dennis Gabor.jpg|link=Dennis Gabor (nonfiction)|1979: Physicist and engineer [[Dennis Gabor (nonfiction)|Dennis Gabor]] dies. He invented holography, for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.
 
||1986: Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
 
||1987: Louis Plack Hammett dies ... physical chemist. He is known for the Hammett equation, which relates reaction rates to equilibrium constants for certain classes of organic reactions involving substituted aromatic compounds. He is also known for his research into superacids and his development of a scheme for comparing their acidities based on what is now known as the Hammett acidity function. Pic search.
 
||1994: Howard Martin Temin dies ... geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1996: Copernicium is discovered.
 
||2001: Herbert Simon dies ... economist and political scientist whose primary interest was decision-making within organizations and is best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing". He was among the pioneers of several modern-day scientific domains such as artificial intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, organization theory, and complex systems. He was among the earliest to analyze the architecture of complexity and to propose a preferential attachment mechanism to explain power law distributions. Pic.
 
||2001: The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision was a ship collision between the United States Navy (USN) Los Angeles-class submarine USS Greeneville (SSN-772) and the Japanese-fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru (えひめ丸) from Ehime Prefecture on 9 February 2001, about 9 nautical miles (17 km) off the south coast of Oahu, Hawaii, United States. In a demonstration for some VIP civilian visitors, Greeneville performed an emergency ballast-blow surfacing maneuver. As the submarine shot to the surface, she struck Ehime Maru. Within 10 minutes of the collision, Ehime Maru sank. Nine of the people on board were killed: four high-school students, two teachers, and three crewmembers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision
 
||2003: Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda (Masatoşi Gündüz İkeda) dies ... mathematician ... known for his contributions to the field of algebraic number theory. Pic.
 
||2005: Robert Kearns dies ... engineer, invented the windscreen wiper.
 
File:Walter Frederick Morrison.jpg|link=Walter Frederick Morrison (nonfiction)|2010: Businessman [[Walter Frederick Morrison (nonfiction)|Walter Frederick Morrison]] dies. Morrison invented the Frisbee. The first version, a cake pan purchased for a nickle and sold for a quarter, was known as the Flyin' Cake Pan.
 
 
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  • 1555: Christian Egenolff dies. He was the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main.

    1555: Christian Egenolff dies. He was the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main.

  • 1619: Physician and philosopher Lucilio Vanini is put to death after being found guilty of atheism and blasphemy. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.

    1619: Physician and philosopher Lucilio Vanini is put to death after being found guilty of atheism and blasphemy. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.

  • 1737: Thomas Paine born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.

    1737: Thomas Paine born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.

  • 1907: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter born. He will become of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.

    1907: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter born. He will become of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.

  • 1913: A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.

    1913: A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.

  • 1927: Computer scientist and academic David Wheeler born. He will contribute to the development of the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT); help develop the subroutine; and gave the first explanation of how to design software libraries.

    1927: Computer scientist and academic David Wheeler born. He will contribute to the development of the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT); help develop the subroutine; and gave the first explanation of how to design software libraries.

  • 1969: Premiere of The Courtship of Eddie's Carpenter, an American home improvement comedy romance television series based on the 1963 "Courtship Carpentry" fad of the same name.

    1969: Premiere of The Courtship of Eddie's Carpenter, an American home improvement comedy romance television series based on the 1963 "Courtship Carpentry" fad of the same name.

  • 1979: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor dies. He invented holography, for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

    1979: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor dies. He invented holography, for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

  • 2010: Businessman Walter Frederick Morrison dies. Morrison invented the Frisbee. The first version, a cake pan purchased for a nickle and sold for a quarter, was known as the Flyin' Cake Pan.

    2010: Businessman Walter Frederick Morrison dies. Morrison invented the Frisbee. The first version, a cake pan purchased for a nickle and sold for a quarter, was known as the Flyin' Cake Pan.

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