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File:Federico Commandino.jpg|link=Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|1527: Publication of mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]]'s translation of [[Gnomon algorithm]] textbooks from Arabic to Latin.
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File:Bill of Rights.jpg|link=United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|1791: The [[United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|United States Bill of Rights]] becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
File:Bill of Rights.jpg|link=United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|1791: The [[United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|United States Bill of Rights]] becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1887: [[Transdimensional corporation|Transdimensional corporation mascot]] spontaneously generates sales pitch for [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]].
 
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1887: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
||1802: Jean-Daniel Colladon dies ... physicist. Light Pipe. Pic search.
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1979: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
 
File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|2016: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel chamber]] appears in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
János_Bolyai_-_Romanian_postage_stamp_circa_1960.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1802: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
 
||1823: August Yulevich Davidov dies ...  mathematician and engineer, professor at Moscow University, and author of works on differential equations with partial derivatives, definite integrals, and the application of probability theory to statistics, and textbooks on elementary mathematics. Pic.
 
File:Gustave Eiffel 1888.jpg|link=Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|1832: Engineer [[Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|Gustave Eiffel]] born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.
 
||1834: Charles Augustus Young born ... one of the foremost solar spectroscopist astronomers in the United States. He observed a solar flare with a spectroscope on 3 August 1872, and also noted that it coincided with a magnetic storm on Earth. Pic.
 
File:Blodget's Hotel.jpg|link=1836 Patent Office fire (nonfiction)|1836: A [[1836 Patent Office fire (nonfiction)|fire at the U.S. Patent Office]] destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.
 
||1838: Émile Léger dies ... mathematician ...  only published four papers on mathematics, but one of them seems to be the first to recognize the worst case in the euclidean algorithm: when the inputs are proportional to consecutive Fibonacci numbers. No pic online, but interesting life: he helped defend Paris during the Hundred Days of Napoleon in March 1815, and was decorated for bravery.
 
||1852: Henri Becquerel born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1855: Jacques Charles François Sturm dies ... French mathematician and academic. Pic search, see also: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Francois-Sturm
 
File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1857: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] dies.  He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
 
||1860: Niels Ryberg Finsen born ... physician and scientist ... awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1903 "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science." Pic.
 
||1861: Charles Duryea born ... engineer and businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company. Pic (in vehicle).
 
||1863: Arthur Dehon Little born ... chemist and engineer. Pic search.
 
||1869: Leon Marchlewski born ... chemist and academic. Pic (lab).
 
||1878: Alfred Bird dies ... chemist and businessman, invented baking powder. Pic search.
 
||1890: Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre. Pic.
 
||1894: Vibert Douglas born ... astrophysicist and astronomer. She will research the spectra of A and B type stars and the Stark Effect using the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. Pic search.
 
||1912: Reuben Louis Goodstein born ... mathematician with a strong interest in the philosophy and teaching of mathematics. Pic search.
 
||1913: Roger Gaudry born ... chemist and businessman. Pic.
 
||1914: Anatole Abragam born ... physicist who wrote The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Pic.
 
|link=|1915: Henry Roscoe dies ... chemist. He is particularly noted for early work on vanadium and for photochemical studies. Pic.
 
||1916: Maurice Wilkins born ... physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic: (laboratory!).
 
||1921: Leo Königsberger dies ... mathematician, and historian of science. He is best known for his three-volume biography of Hermann von Helmholtz, which remains the standard reference on the subject. Pic.
 
||1924: Frank W. J. Olver born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
 
||1929: Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov born ... mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. Pic.
 
||1933: Ludwig Schlesinger ... mathematician known for the research in the field of linear differential equations. Pic.
 
||1933: The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.
 
||1935: Richard Tetley Glazebrook dies ... physicist who was the first director of the UK National Physical Laboratory, from 1 Jan 1900 until his retirement in Sep 1919. At first, the laboratory's income depended on much routine, commercial testing, but Glazebrook championed fundamental, industrially oriented research. With support from individual donors, buildings were added for electrical work, metrology, and engineering. Data useful to the shipbuilding industry was collected in pioneering experimental work on models of ships made possible by a tank funded by Alfred Yarrow (1908). From 1909, laboratory began work benefitting the embryonic aeronautics industry, at the request of the secretary of state for war. The lab to contributed substantially to military needs during WW I Pic: http://www.npl.co.uk/about/history/directors/sir-richard-tetley-glazebrook Search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Richard+Tetley+Glazebrook
 
||1944: Patent application for Control circuits for electric coding machines. Will not be granted until 2001. See https://patents.google.com/patent/US6175625B1/en and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGABA
 
File:Wolfgang_Pauli.jpg|link=Wolfgang Pauli (nonfiction)|1958: Theoretical physicist [[Wolfgang Pauli (nonfiction)|Wolfgang Pauli]] dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".
 
||1960: Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy. Pic search.
 
||1961: Anatoliy Golitsyn, a Major in the KGB, defects to the US along with his wife and daughter by riding the train to the Swedish border. Pic search.
 
||1961: Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
 
||1965: Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
 
||1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
 
||1970: Theodore Samuel Motzkin dies ... mathematician. Pic search.
 
||1970: Ernest Marsden dies ... physicist. He is recognized internationally for his contributions to science while working under Ernest Rutherford, which led to the discovery of new theories on the structure of the atom.  Pic.
 
File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
 
||1971: Paul Lévy dies ... French mathematician and theorist. Pic.
 
||1980: James Leslie Tuck dies ... physicist ... involvement with the Manhattan Project. Pic.
 
||1984: Frank Spedding dies ... chemist. He was a renowned expert on rare earth elements, and on extraction of metals from minerals. The uranium extraction process helped make it possible for the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bombs.
 
||1988: Leonid Andrussow dies ... chemical engineer. He developed the process for the production of hydrogen cyanide based on the oxidation of ammonia and methane, now known as Andrussow oxidation. Pic.
 
||1993: William Dale Phillips dies ... chemist, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopist, federal science policy advisor. Pic: https://www.nap.edu/read/9977/chapter/11 and https://academictree.org/chemistry/peopleinfo.php?pid=52514
 
||1997: Siegfried Flügge dies ... theoretical physicist and made contributions to nuclear physics and the theoretical basis for nuclear weapons. He worked in the German Uranverein (nuclear weapons project).  Pic.
 
File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|2000: The third reactor at the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] is shut down.
 
||2005: Heinrich Gross dies ... 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.
 
||2003: George Fisher dies ... American cartoonist. Pic: http://www.argenweb.net/white/wchs/GeorgeFisher_files/GeorgeFisher.htm
||2011: Boris Isaac Korenblum dies ... mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis. Pic.
 
||2015: Harry Zvi Tabor dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic (science!).
 
 
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  • 1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

    1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

  • 1802: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

    1802: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

  • 1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

    1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

  • 1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.

    1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.

  • 1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.

    1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.

  • 1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".

    1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".

  • 1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.

    1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.

  • 2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

    2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

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