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||1712 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, and engineer (b. 1625)
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||1486: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa dies ... magician, astrologer, and theologian. Pic.
 
||1637: Pierre Vernier dies ... was a French mathematician and instrument inventor. He was inventor and eponym of the vernier scale used in measuring devices. Pic: device.
 
||1698: Charles François de Cisternay du Fay born ... chemist. He discovered the existence of two types of electricity and named them "vitreous" and "resinous" (later known as positive and negative charge respectively). He noted the difference between conductors and insulators, calling them 'electrics' and 'non-electrics' for their ability to produce contact electrification. He also discovered that alike-charged objects would repel each other and that unlike-charged objects attract. Pic.
 
File:Giovanni_Cassini.jpg|link=Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|1712: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] dies. He discovered four satellites of the planet Saturn and noted the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division was named after him.


File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1713: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.
File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1713: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.


||1837 – Nikolai Bugaev, Georgian-Russian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1903)
||1769: Alexander von Humboldt born ... polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. Pic.
 
||1835: Astronomer and churchman John Mortimer Brinkley dies. He contributed to stellar astronomy, publishing his ''Elements of Plane Astronomy'' in 1808. Pic search.
 
||1837: Nikolai Bugaev born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic.
 
||1847: William Edward Ayrton born ... physicist and electrical engineer. Pic.
 
||1870: Carl August von Steinheil dies ... physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer. Pic.
 
||1873: Simion Stoilow born ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to complex analysis. Pic.
 
File:Karl_Heinrich_Emil_Becker.jpg|link=Karl Heinrich Emil Becker (nonfiction)|1879: Weapons engineer and army officer [[Karl Heinrich Emil Becker (nonfiction)|Karl Heinrich Emil Becker]] born. He will promote the integration of scientific research into military goals, notably advanced weapons design.
 
||1887: Karl Taylor Compton born ... physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948. Pic.


||1891 – Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1983)
||1891: Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov born ... mathematician and academic ... one of the creators of modern analytic number theory. Pic search.


File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1893: [[Transdimensional corporation|Transdimensional corporation mascot]] spontaneously generates sales pitch for [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]].
||1901: Chemist Richard Helmuth Frederick Manske born. First synthesized DMT.  Pic: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89667801/richard-helmuth_frederick-manske


File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1894: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
||1906: Franz Rellich born ... mathematician. He made important contributions in mathematical physics, in particular for the foundations of quantum mechanics and for the theory of partial differential equations. The Rellich–Kondrachov theorem is named after him. Pic.


||1913 – Rubby Sherr, American physicist and academic (d. 2013)
||1912: Georg Landsberg dies ... mathematician, known for his work in the theory of algebraic functions and on the Riemann–Roch theorem. The Takagi–Landsberg curve, a fractal that is the graph of a nowhere-differentiable but uniformly continuous function, is named after Teiji Takagi and him. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georg_Landsberg_(HeidICON_28864).jpg


||1916 – José Echegaray, Spanish engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
||1913: Rubby Sherr born ... nuclear physicist and academic. Pic search.
 
||1915: John Dobson born ... astronomer and author .. best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable, low-cost Newtonian reflector telescope; also known for his efforts to promote awareness of astronomy (and his unorthodox views of physical cosmology) through public lectures including his performances of "sidewalk astronomy." Pic.
 
||1916: José Echegaray dies ... engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:Pierre Duhem.jpg|link=Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian [[Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|Pierre Duhem]] dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
File:Pierre Duhem.jpg|link=Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian [[Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|Pierre Duhem]] dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."


||1920 – Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1998)
||1918: Mathematician C. S. Venkataraman born. He specialised in the Theory of numbers and his forte was the Theory of Arithmetic Functions. Pic.
 
||1920: Alberto Calderón born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
 
||1926: John Louis Emil Dreyer dies ... astronomer. Pic.
 
||1930: Eugene I. Gordon born ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
 
||1942: E. S. dies born ... philanthropist and eugenicist, founded the Human Betterment Foundation. Pic.
 
||1954: In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village. == A tactical weapon based on the RDS-4 was also used on September 14, 1954 during Snowball military exercise near Totskoye (similar to Western Desert Rock exercises), when the bomb was dropped by the Tu-4 bomber (the copy of American B-29 bomber). The purpose of this exercise was not to test the bomb itself, but the ability of using it while breaking through enemy defenses (presumably in West Germany).
 
||1960: Arthur Percy Morris Fleming dies ... electrical engineer, researcher director, and engineering educator. Pic search.
 
File:Flag of OPEC.svg|link=Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|1960: The [[Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries]] (OPEC) is founded.


||1930 – Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist and engineer (d. 2014)
||1982: Alberto González Domínguez dies ... mathematician working on analysis, probability theory and quantum field theory. Pic search.


||1954 – In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
||2010: Frederick Jelinek dies ... researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He is well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up". Pic: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/business/24jelinek.html


||1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
||2013: Haggard and her team detected an X-ray flare from Sgr A* 400 times brighter than its usual, quiet state. This “megaflare” was nearly three times brighter than the previous brightest X-ray flare from Sgr A* in early 2012.  https://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/nasa-s-chandra-detects-record-breaking-outburst-from-milky-way-s-black-hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*


||1960 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
||2015: The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.


||2015 – The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
|File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2015: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].


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  • 1712: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini dies. He discovered four satellites of the planet Saturn and noted the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division was named after him.

    1712: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini dies. He discovered four satellites of the planet Saturn and noted the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division was named after him.

  • 1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.

    1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.

  • 1879: Weapons engineer and army officer Karl Heinrich Emil Becker born. He will promote the integration of scientific research into military goals, notably advanced weapons design.

    1879: Weapons engineer and army officer Karl Heinrich Emil Becker born. He will promote the integration of scientific research into military goals, notably advanced weapons design.

  • 1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."

    1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."

  • 1960: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

    1960: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

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