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||49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
||49 BC: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war. Pic.


||1573 – Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
||1520: Philosopher Jo Gwang-jo executed. He was framed with charges of factionalism by the power elite that opposed his reform measures and was sentenced to drink poison in the Third Literati Purge of 1519. Pic.


||1654 – Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616)
||1654: Nicholas Culpeper dies ... botanist, physician, and astrologer. He spent much of his life in outdoor catalogueing of hundreds of medicinal herbs.  Pic.


||1745 – Isaac Titsingh, Dutch surgeon, scholar, and diplomat (d. 1812)
||1715: Christian August Crusius born ... philosopher and theologian ... anti Liebniz. Pic.
 
||1745: Isaac Titsingh born ... surgeon, scholar, and diplomat. No DOB. Pic search.


File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1776: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] publishes his pamphlet ''Common Sense''.
File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1776: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] publishes his pamphlet ''Common Sense''.
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File:Carl von Linné.jpg|link=Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist [[Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|Carl Linnaeus]] dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
File:Carl von Linné.jpg|link=Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist [[Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|Carl Linnaeus]] dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.


||1802 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian-Austrian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (d. 1860)
||1802: Carl Ritter von Ghega born ... engineer, designed the Semmering railway. Pic.
 
||1833: Adrien-Marie Legendre dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic (striking caricature).
 
||1842: Luigi Pigorini born ... palaeontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer. Pic.
 
||1855: Ivan Simonov dies ... astronomer and a geodesist. Pic.
 
File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and businessman [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.
 
||1864: Nicholas Callan dies ... priest and physicist. Best known for his work on the induction coil.  Pic.
 
||1875: Issai Schur born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
 
||1877: Frederick Gardner Cottrell born ... physical chemist, inventor and philanthropist.
 
||1891: Heinrich Behmann born ... mathematician and academic.


||1833 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1752)
||1895: Eli Whitney Blake, Jr. dies ... chemist, physicist, and academic.


||1842 – Luigi Pigorini, Italian palaeontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer (d. 1925)
||1898: Katharine Burr Blodgett born ... physicist and engineer.


||Ivan Mikhailovich Simonov (d. 1855) was a Russian astronomer and a geodesist.
||1899: Szolem Mandelbrojt born ... mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis. Pic.


File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[scrying engine]] device.
||1905: Ruth Moufang born ... mathematician.


File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and businessman [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.
||1907: Gordon Kidd Teal born ... engineer and inventor.


||1875 – Issai Schur, German mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
||1911: Norman Heatley born ... biologist and chemist.


||1877 – Frederick Gardner Cottrell, American physical chemist, inventor and philanthropist (d. 1948)
||1916: Biochemist and academic Sune Bergström born.  Bergström shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982, for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances. Pic.


||1891 – Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician and academic (d. 1970)
||1916: Neal R. Amundson born ... chemical engineer and mathematician. Amundson was considered one of the most prominent chemical engineering educators and researchers in the United States. Pic.


||1895 – Eli Whitney Blake, Jr., American chemist, physicist, and academic (b. 1836)
||1918: Alexander Brudno born ... computer scientist, best known for fully describing the alpha-beta pruning algorithm. Pic.


||1898 – Katharine Burr Blodgett, American physicist and engineer (d. 1979)
||1918: Res Jost born ... theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory. Pic.


||1907 – Gordon Kidd Teal, American engineer and inventor (d. 2003)
||1919: Wallace Clement Sabine dies ... physicist who founded the field of architectural acoustics. Pic.


||1911 – Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist (d. 2004)
||1927: Ludwig Maurer dies ... mathematician and professor at Tübingen University. He will be known for the Maurer-Cartan form. Pic.


||1916 – Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
||1927: Alfred George Greenhill dies ... mathematician. He he will be one of the world's leading experts on applications of elliptic integrals in electromagnetic theory. Pic: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_George_Greenhill


||1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
||1927: Fritz Lang's futuristic film ''Metropolis'' is released in Germany.


File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1938: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] born.
File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1938: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] born. Knuth will contribute to the development of rigorous, systematic analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms.


||1941 – Issai Schur, Belarusian-German mathematician and academic (b. 1875)
||1941: Issai Schur dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]], bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]], bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.


||1951 – Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1890)
||1951: Yoshio Nishina dies ... physicist and academic. Pic (cool tech).
 
||1961: Dashiell Hammett dies ... detective novelist and screenwriter.
 
||1962: Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
 
||1970: Pavel Belyayev dies ... pilot and astronaut.


File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1960: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], announces world tour.
||1976: Delbert Ray Fulkerson dies ... mathematician who co-developed the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm, one of the most well-known algorithms to solve the maximum flow problem in networks. Pic.


||1961 – Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (b. 1894)
||1989: Valentin Petrovich Glushko dies ... rocket scientist who was a pioneer developer of rocket engines (1946-74). From 1929, he worked in Leningrad in GDL - the Gas Dynamics Laboratory, the military rocket research organization, founded in 1921. He worked with renowned rocket designer Sergey Korolyov (1932-1966). In Aug 1957, they successfully launched the first intercontinental ballistic missile and in October of the same year, sent the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, into orbit. He became chief designer for the Soviet space program in 1974, helping to oversee development of the Mir space station. During his life, he designed the most succesessful rocket engines in the Soviet space program. Pic.


||1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
||1996: Louis W. Tordella dies ... the longest serving deputy director of the National Security Agency. Pic.


||1970 – Pavel Belyayev, Russian pilot and astronaut (b. 1925)
||1997: Alexander R. Todd dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1997 – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
||2010: Henry Berge Helson dies ... mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who worked on analysis. Pic.


File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2007: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]''.
||2010: Metallurgist, educator and administrator Patcha Ramachandra Tao born. Pic.


|File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|2007: ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' attends debut homage performance by [[Rhizolith Group]].
||2010: Oscar Sala dies ... nuclear physicist and academic. He will be a leading figure in Brazilian scientific research. Pic search tech.


||2012 – Gevork Vartanian, Russian intelligence agent (b. 1924)
||2012: Gevork Vartanian dies... Russian intelligence agent. He was primarily responsible for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, headed by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and led by Otto Skorzeny, which was an attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943. Pic.


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  • 1776: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.

    1776: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.

  • 1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.

    1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.

  • 1862: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.

    1862: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.

  • 1938: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth born. Knuth will contribute to the development of rigorous, systematic analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms.

    1938: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth born. Knuth will contribute to the development of rigorous, systematic analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms.

  • 1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.

    1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.

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