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||1714 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician and academic (b. 1633)
||1526: Scipione del Ferro dies ... mathematician who first discovered a method to solve the depressed cubic equation. No pic online.
 
File:Tabulae_motuum_caelestium_universales_by_Vincentio_Reinieri_(1647).png|link=Vincentio Reinieri (nonfiction)|1647: Mathematician and astronomer [[Vincentio Reinieri (nonfiction)|Vincentio Reinieri]] dies. Reinieri will revise and finish the work of [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo]], who before his death will place all of the papers containing his observations and calculations in Reinieri's hands.
 
||1688: Louis Bertrand Castel born ... mathematician and philosopher. Ocular organ (stained glass keyboard). Pic (caricature).
 
||1714: Bernardino Ramazzini dies ... physician and academic. Occupational diseases. Pic.


File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1780:  Army officer, trader, and lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1780:  Army officer, trader, and lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.


||1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
File:Jesse Ramsden. Mezzotint by J. Jones, 1790, after R. Home.jpg|link=Jesse Ramsden (nonfiction)|1800: Mathematician, astronomical and scientific instrument maker [[Jesse Ramsden (nonfiction)|Jesse Ramsden]] dies. His reputation was built on the engraving and design of dividing engines which allowed high accuracy measurements of angles and lengths in instruments. He produced instruments for astronomy that were especially well-known for maritime use where they were needed for the measurement of latitudes and for his surveying instruments which were widely used for cartography and land survey.
 
||1831: Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia. Pic.
 
File:Ruy Barbosa 1907.jpg|link=Rui Barbosa (nonfiction)|1849: Polymath, diplomat, jurist, and politician [[Rui Barbosa (nonfiction)|Rui Barbosa]] born.  He will authorize the destruction of most government records relating to slavery, "erasing the stain" of slavery on Brazilian history, yet preventing any possible indemnization of the former slave-owners.
 
||1854: Paul Sabatier born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1855: Eugene V. Debs born ... union leader and politician. Pic.
 
||1855: Léon Teisserenc de Bort born ... meteorologist and climatologist ... credited as co-discoverer of the stratosphere, as both men announced their discovery during the same time period in 1902. Teisserenc de Bort pioneered the use of unmanned instrumented balloons and was the first to identify the region in the atmosphere around 8-17 kilometers of height where the lapse rate reaches zero, known today as the tropopause. Pic.
 
||1866: Alfred Tauber born ... mathematician, known for his contribution to mathematical analysis and to the theory of functions of a complex variable: he is the eponym of an important class of theorems with applications ranging from mathematical and harmonic analysis to number theory. He was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Pic.
 
||1872: Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100. Pic.


||1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist and mathematician [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] dies. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.  


||1855 – Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (d. 1926)
||1892: J. B. S. Haldane born ... geneticist and biologist ... contributed to physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. He made innovative contributions to the fields of statistics and biostatistics. His article on abiogenesis in 1929 introduced the "primordial soup theory", and it became the foundation to build physical models for the chemical origin of life. Pic.


||1855 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist and climatologist (d. 1913)
||1892: John Alcock born ... captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.


||1862 – American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
||1893: Raymond Loewy born ... engineer and designer.


||1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
||1894: Beardsley Ruml born ... economist and statistician.


File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist and mathematician [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] born. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.  
||1895: George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.


||1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (d. 1964)
||1906: Fred Lawrence Whipple born ... astronomer and academic. Pic.


||1892 – John Alcock (RAF officer), captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force (d. 1919)
||1916: Edmund Hlawka born ... mathematician. He was a leading number theorist. Pic.


||1893 – Raymond Loewy, French-American engineer and designer (d. 1986)
||1916: The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.


||1894 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (d. 1960)
||1925: Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.


||1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
||1930: Christiaan Eijkman dies ... physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate ... Extreme moustaches


||1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (d. 2004)
||1930: John Frank Adams dies ... mathematician, one of the major contributors to homotopy theory. Pic.


||1916 – The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
||1931: Leonard Herzenberg born ... immunologist, geneticist, and academic.


||1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
||1933: Walther von Dyck dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: http://www.deutsches-museum.de/presse/presse-2006/nachlass-von-dyck/


||1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858) Extreme moustaches
||1934: Jerzy Browkin born ... mathematician, studying mainly algebraic number theory. He was a professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1994, together with Juliusz Brzeziński, he formulated the n-conjecture—a version of the abc conjecture involving n > 2 integers. Pic.


||1931 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (d. 2013)
||1934: First flight of semi-rigid airship SSSR-V6 OSOAVIAKhIM. Pic.


||1933 – Walther von Dyck, German mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
||1936: Michael Dertouzos born ... computer scientist and academic.


||1934: First flight of semi-rigid airship SSSR-V6 OSOAVIAKhIM.
||1944: Alexis Carrel dies ... surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate ... Perfusion pump w/ Charles Lindbergh. Pic.


||1936 – Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (d. 2001)
||1952: Robert Wayne Thomason born ... mathematician who worked on algebraic K-theory. His results include a proof that all infinite loop space machines are in some sense equivalent, and progress on the Quillen–Lichtenbaum conjecture. No death date. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Robert-Wayne-Thomason


||1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873) Perfusion pump w/ Charles Lindbergh
||1957: Olive Dennis dies ... engineer whose design innovations changed the nature of railway travel. Pic.


File:Richard Sharpe Shaver.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|1975: Author and illustrator [[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] dies. He wrote stories in which he claims that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.  
File:Richard Sharpe Shaver.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|1975: Author and illustrator [[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] dies. He wrote stories in which he claims that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.  


||1979 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1978: In an interview published in ''Omni'' magazine, mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]] says that "the [[Gnomon Chronicles]] is analogous to [Richard Sharp] [[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Shaver]]'s work: a revealed private cosmos of unpredictable menace and wonder."
 
||1979: Al Capp dies ... cartoonist.
 
||1981: Stanisław Mazur dies ... mathematician and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Mazur made important contributions to geometrical methods in linear and nonlinear functional analysis and to the study of Banach algebras. He was also interested in summability theory, infinite games and computable functions. Pic.
 
||1983: Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
 
||1992: Physicist, academic, and chess player Arpad Elo dies. He created the Elo rating system for two-player games such as chess. Pic (cool chess!).


||1983 – Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
||1992: Jan Hendrik Oort born ... astronomer who made significant contributions to the understanding of the Milky Way and who was a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy. Pic.


||1992 – Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (b. 1903)
||1995: André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.


||1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
||1997: Isaiah Berlin dies ... social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas. He was an essayist, conversationalist, raconteur, and lecturer. Pic.


||2007 – China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
||2007: China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.


||2013 – India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
||2013: India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.


||2015 – George Barris, American engineer and car designer (b. 1925)
File:MAVEN spacecraft.jpg|link=MAVEN (nonfiction)|2015: NASA announced that data from the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] shows that the deterioration of Mars’ atmosphere increases significantly during solar storms.


File:Electric S'mores in Brasília.jpg|link=Electric S'mores|2016: [[Electric S'mores]] opens for business in Brasília.
||2015: George Barris dies ... engineer and car designer. Pic.


|File:Dick_Turpin_of_Mars.jpg|link=Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Highwayman Dick Turpin of Mars takes parting shot at [[Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Hopalong Cassidy]].
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates second anniversary of NASA announced that data from the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] shows that the deterioration of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]’ atmosphere increases significantly during solar storms.
|File:Hopalong_Takes_Command.jpg|link=Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Art thieves frame [[Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Hopalong Cassidy]] for crimes of [[Hopalong Perfidy]].
|File:Paraffin.jpg|link=Wax (nonfiction)|[[Wax (nonfiction)|Wax golem chow]] tastes better than it looks.
|File:Bread_mold_flavor,_best_flavor,_crazy_talk.png|link=Bread mold flavor (nonfiction)|[[Venn diagram (nonfiction)|Venn diagram]] computes the [[Bread mold flavor (nonfiction)|intersection of "Bread mold flavor", "Best flavor", and "Crazy talk"]].
|File:Three Kings baby birds.jpg|Poetry ensemble [[Three Baby Birds]] to perform their best known work, ''Hungry Morning'', at Kennedy Center for the Arts.
|File:Fenestraria aurantica.jpg|link=Fenestraria (nonfiction)|''[[Fenestraria (nonfiction)|Fenestraria]]'' produces optical fibers, transmits light to subterranean photosynthetic sites.
|File:Kinetoscope.jpg|link=kinetoscope (nonfiction)|[[Kinetoscope (nonfiction)|Kinetoscope]] overcomes sense of shame, reveals interior.


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  • 1647: Mathematician and astronomer Vincentio Reinieri dies. Reinieri will revise and finish the work of Galileo, who before his death will place all of the papers containing his observations and calculations in Reinieri's hands.

    1647: Mathematician and astronomer Vincentio Reinieri dies. Reinieri will revise and finish the work of Galileo, who before his death will place all of the papers containing his observations and calculations in Reinieri's hands.

  • 1780: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.

    1780: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.

  • 1800: Mathematician, astronomical and scientific instrument maker Jesse Ramsden dies. His reputation was built on the engraving and design of dividing engines which allowed high accuracy measurements of angles and lengths in instruments. He produced instruments for astronomy that were especially well-known for maritime use where they were needed for the measurement of latitudes and for his surveying instruments which were widely used for cartography and land survey.

    1800: Mathematician, astronomical and scientific instrument maker Jesse Ramsden dies. His reputation was built on the engraving and design of dividing engines which allowed high accuracy measurements of angles and lengths in instruments. He produced instruments for astronomy that were especially well-known for maritime use where they were needed for the measurement of latitudes and for his surveying instruments which were widely used for cartography and land survey.

  • 1849: Polymath, diplomat, jurist, and politician Rui Barbosa born. He will authorize the destruction of most government records relating to slavery, "erasing the stain" of slavery on Brazilian history, yet preventing any possible indemnization of the former slave-owners.

    1849: Polymath, diplomat, jurist, and politician Rui Barbosa born. He will authorize the destruction of most government records relating to slavery, "erasing the stain" of slavery on Brazilian history, yet preventing any possible indemnization of the former slave-owners.

  • 1879: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell dies. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.

    1879: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell dies. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.

  • 1975: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver dies. He wrote stories in which he claims that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.

    1975: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver dies. He wrote stories in which he claims that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.

  • 1978: In an interview published in Omni magazine, mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta says that "the Gnomon Chronicles is analogous to [Richard Sharp] Shaver's work: a revealed private cosmos of unpredictable menace and wonder."

    1978: In an interview published in Omni magazine, mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta says that "the Gnomon Chronicles is analogous to [Richard Sharp] Shaver's work: a revealed private cosmos of unpredictable menace and wonder."

  • 2015: NASA announced that data from the MAVEN probe shows that the deterioration of Mars’ atmosphere increases significantly during solar storms.

    2015: NASA announced that data from the MAVEN probe shows that the deterioration of Mars’ atmosphere increases significantly during solar storms.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates second anniversary of NASA announced that data from the MAVEN probe shows that the deterioration of Mars’ atmosphere increases significantly during solar storms.

    2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates second anniversary of NASA announced that data from the MAVEN probe shows that the deterioration of Mars’ atmosphere increases significantly during solar storms.

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