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||1848 – Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor (d. 1928)
File:César François Cassini de Thury.jpg|link=César-François Cassini de Thury (nonfiction)|1784: Astronomer and cartographer [[César-François Cassini de Thury (nonfiction)|César-François Cassini de Thury]] dies. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates are known as the Cassini map.
 
||1797: Coup of 18 Fructidor in France.
 
||1802: Marcus Whitman born ... physician and missionary ... Following the deaths of many nearby Cayuse from an outbreak of measles, some remaining Cayuse accused Whitman of murder, suggesting that he had administered poison and was a failed shaman. In retaliation, a group of Cayuse killed the Whitmans and twelve other settlers on November 29, 1847, an event that came to be known as the Whitman Massacre. Continuing warfare between settlers and Indians reduced the Cayuse numbers further. Pic.
 
||1826: Martin Wiberg born ... philosopher and engineer ... computer pioneer for his c. 1859 (1857-1860) invention of a machine the size of a sewing machine that could print logarithmic tables (first interest tables appeared in 1860, logarithmic in 1875). Pic.
 
||1846: Daniel Burnham born ... architect, designed the World's Columbian Exposition. Pic.
 
||1848: Ernst Heinrich Bruns born ... mathematician and astronomer, who also contributed to the development of the field of theoretical geodesy. Pic.
 
||1848: Lewis Howard Latimer born ... inventor. Pic.


File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1882: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1882: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.
||1886: American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona. Pic.
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1887: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] and inventor [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] discuss advances in film technology.


File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1888: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1888: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.


||1905 – Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor, invented the Minox (d. 2003)
||1889: Vyacheslav Stepanov born ... mathematician, specializing in analysis. Pic.
 
||1889: Moses Ilyich Schönfinkel born ... logician and mathematician, known for the invention of combinatory logic. Pic.
 
||1890: Johannes Gaultherus van der Corput born ... mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He introduced the Van der Corput lemma, a technique for creating an upper bound on the measure of a set drawn from harmonic analysis, and the Van der Corput theorem on equidistribution modulo 1. Pic: https://www.ranker.com/review/johannes-van-der-corput/1298721
 
||1891: Fritz Todt born ... engineer and politician ... German construction engineer, senior Nazi, who rose from "Inspector General for German Roadways" where he directed the construction of German Autobahnen (Reichsautobahnen) to Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition where he directed the entire war military economy. At the beginning of World War II he initiated what Hitler named Organisation Todt, a military engineering company, which supplied industry with forced labor and administered all constructions of concentration camps in the late phase of Nazi Germany.  Pic.
 
||1893: Felix Klein said, "The proof of the transcendency of pi will hardly diminish the number of circle-squarers, however; for this class of people has always shown an absolute distrust of mathematicians and a contempt for mathematics that cannot be overcome by any amount of demonstration." - Klein in The Evanston Colloquium: Lectures on Mathematics (1894), pp. 52-53.  Pic.
 
||1896: Antonin Artaud born ... actor, director, and playwright. Pic.
 
||1905: Walter Zapp born ... inventor, invented the Minox. Pic.
 
||1906: Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück born ... biophysicist, helped launch the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time. Pic.
 
||1907: Konstantin Petrzhak born ... nuclear physicist and university professor of Polish origin. He discovered spontaneous fission of uranium with Georgy Flyorov in 1940; in addition, he also aided in Soviet Union's atomic bomb project. Pic.
 
||1913: Mickey Cohen born ... mob boss. Pic.
 
||1913: Stanford Moore born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
File:José_Echegaray_(1904).jpg|link=José Echegaray (nonfiction)|1916: Civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists [[José Echegaray (nonfiction)|José Echegaray y Eizaguirre]] dies.
 
File:USS Shenandoah (1924).jpg|link=USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) (nonfiction)|1923: Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS ''[[USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) (nonfiction)|Shenandoah]]''.
 
||1925: Leo Apostel born ... philosopher and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University. Apostel was an advocate of interdisciplinary research and the bridging of the gap between exact science and humanities. Pic.
 
||1926: Chemist and academic George William Gray born. He will be instrumental in developing the long-lasting materials which made liquid crystal displays possible. He created and systematised the liquid crystal materials science, and established a method of practical molecular design. Pic.
 
||1927: John McCarthy born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic.
 
||Greer incident (nonfiction)|link=Greer incident (nonfiction)|1941: [[Greer incident (nonfiction)|Greer incident]].
 
||1949: The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York. Pic.
 
||1965: Albert Schweitzer dies ... theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. Pic.
 
||1967: Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
 
||1969: Marcel Riesz born ... mathematician, known for work on summation methods, potential theory, and other parts of analysis, as well as number theory, partial differential equations, and Clifford algebras. Pic search.
 
||1970: Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile. Pic.
 
File:Vanitas Still life with Books, a Globe, a Skull, a Violin and a Fan.jpg|link=1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery (nonfiction)|1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are [[1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery (nonfiction)|stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts]].
 
||1985: The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.


||1906 – Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
||1984: Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg dies ... mathematician and physicist, regarded as one of the most eminent physicists of the 20th century. Despite making key advances in theoretical physics, including the exchange particle model of fundamental forces, causal S-matrix theory, and the renormalization group, his idiosyncratic style and publication in minor journals led to his work being unrecognized until the mid-1990s. Pic.


||1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
||1996: Joan Clarke dies ... cryptanalyst and numismatist. Pic.


||1949 – The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
||1998: Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.


||1985 – The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
||2003: David Peter Robbins dies ... mathematician. He is most famous for introducing alternating sign matrices. He is also known for his work on generalizations of Heron's formula on the area of polygons, due to which Robbins pentagons (cyclic pentagons with integer side lengths and areas) were named after him. Pic: https://www.maa.org/news/maa-establishes-a-prize-to-honor-david-robbins


File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|2017: Signed first edition of ''The Safe-Cracker'' sells for ten million dollars.
||2006: Bernard A. Galler dies ... mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Michigan who was involved in the development of large-scale operating systems and computer languages including the MAD programming language and the Michigan Terminal System operating system. Pic.


||2015: Claus Moser dies ... statistician and academic. Pic.


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  • 1784: Astronomer and cartographer César-François Cassini de Thury dies. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates are known as the Cassini map.

    1784: Astronomer and cartographer César-François Cassini de Thury dies. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates are known as the Cassini map.

  • 1882: Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.

    1882: Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.

  • 1887: Math photographer Cantor Parabola and inventor George Eastman discuss advances in film technology.

    1887: Math photographer Cantor Parabola and inventor George Eastman discuss advances in film technology.

  • 1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

    1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

  • 1916: Civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists José Echegaray y Eizaguirre dies.

    1916: Civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists José Echegaray y Eizaguirre dies.

  • 1923: Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.

    1923: Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.

  • 1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

    1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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