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File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1048: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyám]] born.
File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1048: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyám]] born. He wrote one of the most important treatises on algebra written before modern times, the ''Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra'' (1070), which includes a geometric method for solving cubic equations by intersecting a hyperbola with a circle. As an astronomer, he designed the Jalali calendar, a solar calendar with a very precise 33-year intercalation cycle.
 
||1302: Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.
 
||1593: Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe. Pic (Marlowe).
 
||1610: Stefano della Bella born ... engraver and etcher. Pic.
 
||1675: Stanisław Lubieniecki dies ... astronomer, historian, and theologian. Pic.
 
||1692: Elias Ashmole dies ... astrologer and politician. Pic.
 
File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1711: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] born. He will be a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1711: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] born. He will be a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
||1757: Karl Christian von Langsdorf born ... mathematician, geologist, natural scientist and engineer. Pic.
||1777: John George Children born ... chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist. He invented a method to extract silver from ore without the need for mercury. Pic.
||1804: Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate. Pic.
||1808: Elijah Craig dies ... minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey. No DOB. Pic.
||||James B. Francis|link=James B. Francis (nonfiction)|1815: Civil engineer [[James B. Francis (nonfiction)|James B. Francis]] born.  He will invent the Francis turbine.
File:Mathew Brady 1875.jpg|link=Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|1822: Photographer and journalist [[Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|Mathew Brady]] born. He will be one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.
File:Mathew Brady 1875.jpg|link=Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|1822: Photographer and journalist [[Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|Mathew Brady]] born. He will be one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.
File:Oliver Heaviside.jpg|link=Oliver Heaviside (nonfiction)|1850: Self-taught electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist [[Oliver Heaviside (nonfiction)|Oliver Heaviside]] born.  Heaviside will make major breakthroughs in the applied mathematics of electrical engineering; although he will be at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside will change the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science for years to come.
File:Bertrand Russell transparent bg.png|link=Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|1872: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist [[Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|Bertrand Russell]] born.
File:Bertrand Russell transparent bg.png|link=Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|1872: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist [[Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|Bertrand Russell]] born.
||1881: Erwin Madelung born ... physicist. He was born in 1881 in Bonn. His father was the surgeon Otto Wilhelm Madelung. He earned a doctorate in 1905 from the University of Göttingen, specializing in crystal structure, and eventually became a professor. It was during this time he developed the Madelung constant, which characterizes the net electrostatic effects of all ions in a crystal lattice, and is used to determine the energy of one ion. Pic search.
||1889: Thomas Midgley, Jr. born ... chemist and mechanical engineer ... key figure in a team of chemists, led by Charles F. Kettering, that developed the tetraethyllead (TEL) additive to gasoline as well as some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Pic.
||1896: Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
||1901: Vincent du Vigneaud born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1902: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] defeats [[Baron Zersetzung]] with knockout punch in the third round of bare-knuckled boxing at the World Peace Conference.
||1906: Herbert Marchant born ... schoolmaster, at Bletchley Park the codebreaking centre in World War II, and then a diplomat. He was ambassador to Cuba (1960–63) and Tunisia (1963–66); remembered for replying to British newspapers during the Cuban Missile Crisis that "Everything is perfectly quiet here" (in Cuba). Pic search.
||1909: Alexander Aigner born ... professor for mathematics ... during World War II he was part of a group of five mathematicians, which was recruited by the military cryptanalyst Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Georg Aumann, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht. Pic.
||1917: John Nevil Maskelyne dies ... stage magician and inventor of the pay toilet, along with other Victorian-era devices. He worked with magicians George Alfred Cooke and David Devant, and many of his illusions are still performed today. His book Sharps and Flats: A Complete Revelation of the Secrets of Cheating at Games of Chance and Skill is considered a classic overview of card sharp practices, and in 1914 he founded the Occult Committee, a group whose remit was to "investigate claims to supernatural power and to expose fraud". Pic.
||1921: Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz born ... academic, mathematician, and civil engineer. Zienkiewicz was a pioneer of the finite element method, recognizing its value in areas outside of solid mechanics.  Pic search.
||1922: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran dies ... physician and parasitologist ... won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as profession. Pic.
||1924: Corrado Segre dies ... mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to the early development of algebraic geometry. Pic.
||1926: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
||1927: The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
||1931: Don Martin born ... cartoonist. Pic.
||1953: Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
||1965: Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus, Syria.
||1969: Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
||1971: Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search.
||1974: Harry Ricardo dies ... engine designer and researcher.
||1974: Nuclear test: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
||1974: Thomas Henry Moray dies ... inventor ... received a US patent 2,460,707 in February 1949, after a process of 17 years in discussions with the patent office. The main components of the patent were an LC circuit resonator and a set of vacuum power tubes of diode type using uranium and radium power sources and doped germanium semiconductors on the cathodes. It was an early example of doped semiconductors and a forerunner of radioactive power supplies using radioactive isotopes in space research. Moray's device followed other work on nuclear batteries first done in 1913 by Henry Moseley using a radium source.
||1975: Christopher Strachey dies ... computer scientist. He was one of the founders of denotational semantics, and a pioneer in programming language design. Pic.
||1995: Brinsley Le Poer Trench born ... ufologist and historian.
||2004: Arnold Orville Beckman dies ... chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist. While a professor at California Institute of Technology, he founded Beckman Instruments based on his 1934 invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity, later considered to have "revolutionized the study of chemistry and biology". Pic.
||2005: A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra.
||2007: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||2014: Hans-Peter Dürr dies ... physicist and academic.
||2014: Wubbo Ockels dies ... physicist and astronaut. Pic.
||2015: Raymond Gosling dies ... physicist and academic.
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  • 1048: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám born. He wrote one of the most important treatises on algebra written before modern times, the Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra (1070), which includes a geometric method for solving cubic equations by intersecting a hyperbola with a circle. As an astronomer, he designed the Jalali calendar, a solar calendar with a very precise 33-year intercalation cycle.

    1048: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám born. He wrote one of the most important treatises on algebra written before modern times, the Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra (1070), which includes a geometric method for solving cubic equations by intersecting a hyperbola with a circle. As an astronomer, he designed the Jalali calendar, a solar calendar with a very precise 33-year intercalation cycle.

  • 1711: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich born. He will be a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.

    1711: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich born. He will be a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.

  • 1822: Photographer and journalist Mathew Brady born. He will be one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.

    1822: Photographer and journalist Mathew Brady born. He will be one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.

  • 1850: Self-taught electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist Oliver Heaviside born. Heaviside will make major breakthroughs in the applied mathematics of electrical engineering; although he will be at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside will change the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science for years to come.

    1850: Self-taught electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist Oliver Heaviside born. Heaviside will make major breakthroughs in the applied mathematics of electrical engineering; although he will be at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside will change the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science for years to come.

  • 1872: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist Bertrand Russell born.

    1872: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist Bertrand Russell born.

  • 1902: "Fightin'" Bert Russell defeats Baron Zersetzung with knockout punch in the third round of bare-knuckled boxing at the World Peace Conference.

    1902: "Fightin'" Bert Russell defeats Baron Zersetzung with knockout punch in the third round of bare-knuckled boxing at the World Peace Conference.

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