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||1810 – Lysander Button, American engineer (d. 1898)
||1666: The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.


||1850 – Woldemar Voigt, German physicist, mathematician, and academic (d. 1919)
||1764: Nathaniel Bliss dies ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic.


||1853 – Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
File:Antoine Deparcieux.jpg|link=Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|1768: French mathematician and engineer [[Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|Antoine Deparcieux]] dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.


||1865 – William Rowan Hamilton, Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1805)
||1807: The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Copenhagen_(1801) Pic.


||1877 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)
File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1808: [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] writes Wolfgang Bolyai: "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."


||1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
||1810: Lysander Button born ... engineer. Pic: fire engine.


||1913 – Israel Gelfand, Russian-American mathematician and biologist (d. 2009)
||1832: Franz Xaver von Zach dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic.


||1923 – René Thom, French mathematician, biologist, and academic (d. 2002)
||1834: Sumner Increase Kimball born ... organizer of the United States Life-Saving Service and the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service from 1878-1915.


||1948 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
||1834: Thomas Telford dies ... engineer and architect, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge.
 
||1841: Paul Matthieu Hermann Laurent born ... mathematician. He developed statistical formulas for the calculation of actuarial tables and studied heat conduction.  Pic.
 
||1850: Woldemar Voigt born ... physicist, mathematician, and academic. Pic.
 
||1850: Alfred Pringsheim born ... mathematician and patron of the arts.  He will study real and complex functions, following the power-series-approach of the Weierstrass school. Pringsheim published numerous works on the subject of complex analysis, with a focus on the summability theory of infinite series and the boundary behavior of analytic functions. Pic.
 
||1851: William Nicol dies ... geologist and physicist who invented the Nicol prism, the first device for obtaining plane-polarized light, in 1828. Pic: memorial plaque.
 
||1853: Wilhelm Ostwald born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1854: Paul Marie Eugène Vieille born ... chemist and the inventor of modern nitrocellulose-based smokeless gunpowder in 1884. Pic.
 
||1863: Lars Edvard Phragmén born ... mathematician. Pic.
 
File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|quaternion]].
 
||1877: Frederick Soddy born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... he explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements. Pic.
 
||1878: Maurice René Fréchet born ... mathematician and academic. He made major contributions to the topology of point sets and introduced the entire concept of metric spaces. He also made several important contributions to the field of statistics and probability, as well as calculus. His dissertation opened the entire field of functionals on metric spaces and introduced the notion of compactness. Independently of Riesz, he discovered the representation theorem in the space of Lebesgue square integrable functions. Pic.
 
||1901: Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
 
||1909: Deane Montgomery born ... mathematician specializing in topology who was one of the contributors to the final resolution of Hilbert's fifth problem. Born in the small town of Weaver, Minnesota. Pic.
 
||1913: Israel Gelfand born ... mathematician and biologist. Pic.
 
||1915: Elling Bolt Holst dies ... mathematician, biographer and children's writer.
 
||1923: René Thom born ... mathematician, biologist, and academic. Pic.
 
||1926: Joachim Nitsche born ... mathematician and academic. Image search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joachim+Nitsche
 
File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1948: Archaeologist and spy [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.
 
||1954: Fritz Wolfgang London dies ... physicist and professor at Duke University. His fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces (London dispersion forces) are today considered classic and are discussed in standard textbooks of physical chemistry. With his brother Heinz London, he made a significant contribution to understanding electromagnetic properties of superconductors with the London equations. Pic.
 
||1960: Frederick John Marrian Strattondies ... astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer. Cool pic.
 
||1963: CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
 
||1970: Joseph Wenger dies ... Rear-Admiral of the United States Navy who served as the first Deputy Director of the Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), and later as the first Vice Director of the National Security Agency, from December 1952 to November 1953, after the separate divisions of the AFSA merged into the NSA. Wenger was one of the leaders responsible for the development of the NSA. Pic.
 
||1987: In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.
 
||1988: Alexander Aigner dies. He was a full university professor for mathematics at the Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria. 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. (abbr. OKW/Chi). Pic.
 
||1990: Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove dies ... physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology. Pic.
 
||1992: Barbara McClintock dies ... scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She discovered transposition and used it to demonstrate that genes are responsible for turning physical characteristics on and off. Pic.
 
||1994: Fritz Karl Preikschat dies ... electrical and telecommunications engineer and inventor. Pic.
 
||1998:  Swissair Flight 111 crash: ... crashed into the Atlantic Ocean  ... Two paintings, including Le Peintre (The Painter) by Pablo Picasso, were on board the aircraft and were destroyed in the accident.
 
||2002: Sheila May Edmonds dies ... mathematician. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sheila+May+Edmonds
 
||2006: Gisbert F. R. Hasenjaeger dies ... mathematical logician. Independently and simultaneously with Leon Henkin in 1949, he developed a new proof of the completeness theorem of Kurt Gödel for predicate logic. He worked as an assistant to Heinrich Scholz at Section IVa of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Chiffrierabteilung, and was responsible for the security of the Enigma machine. Pic.
 
||2011: Herbert Mataré dies ... physicist and academic ... the focus of his research was the field of semiconductor research. His best-known work is the first functional "European" transistor, which he developed and patented together with Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, at the same time and independently from the Bell Labs engineers. Pic.


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  • 1768: French mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.

    1768: French mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.

  • 1808: Carl Friedrich Gauss writes Wolfgang Bolyai: "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."

    1808: Carl Friedrich Gauss writes Wolfgang Bolyai: "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."

  • 1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.

    1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.

  • 1948: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.

    1948: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.

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