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File:Eclipse.jpg|link=Eclipse (nonfiction)|1223 BC: [[Eclipse (nonfiction)|Solar eclipse]] occurs; the event is recorded in a Syrian clay tablet, in the Ugaritic language.
File:Eclipse.jpg|link=Eclipse (nonfiction)|1223 BC: [[Eclipse (nonfiction)|Solar eclipse]] occurs; the event is recorded in a Syrian clay tablet, in the Ugaritic language.
File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1499: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to generate new class of [[cryptographic numen]].
||1512 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (d. 1594)


File:William Oughtred.jpg|link=William Oughtred (nonfiction)|1574: Mathematician [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]] born. He will invent the slide rule in 1622.
File:William Oughtred.jpg|link=William Oughtred (nonfiction)|1574: Mathematician [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]] born. He will invent the slide rule in 1622.
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1615: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] prevents alleged supervillain [[Anarchimedes]] from assassinating mathematician [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]].


File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1616: [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]]'s book ''On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'' is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1616: [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]]'s book ''On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'' is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1640: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] attends and records lecture by [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]], which it will later use to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1779 – Benjamin Gompertz, English mathematician and statistician (d. 1865)
||1794 – Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1872)
||1815 – Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (b. 1734)


File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1827: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] dies. He made important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1827: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] dies. He made important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.


||Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (d. 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery and the discoverer of methane.
File:He_Zehui.jpg|link=He Zehui (nonfiction)|1914: Nuclear physicist and academic [[He Zehui (nonfiction)|He Zehui]] born. He Zehui will contribute to nuclear physics in Germany during World War II, and develop nuclear weapons for China during the 1960s.
 
||1829 – John Adams, English sailor and mutineer (b. 1766)
 
File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1836: Inventor [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
 
||1862 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (d. 1934)
 
||1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
 
||1880 – Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1968)
 
||1900 – Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974)
 
||Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams (b. 5 March 1903), was a Welsh physicist, noted for his research on electronic instrumentation for use in nuclear physics. His work on the scale-of-two counter contributed to the development of the modern computer.
 
||1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
 
||Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (b. 5 March 1915) was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions.
 
||1925 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
 
File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1926: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] reverse-engineers [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]], retrieves complete copy of lecture by [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]].
 
||1927 – Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)
 
 
||1938 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (d. 2011)
 
||1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
 
||1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
 
||1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
 
||1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
 
||1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus.
 
File:Joseph Weizenbaum.jpg|link=Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|2008:  Computer scientist [[Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|Joseph Weizenbaum]] dies. He is considered one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.
 
File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|2009: Scientist and combat surgeon [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques.


||2013 – Duane Gish, American biochemist and academic (b. 1921)
File:Cthulhu Teaches Typing.jpg|link=Cthulhu Teaches Typing|2022:  Release of '''[[Cthulhu Teaches Typing]]''', an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Cthulhu Teaches Typing is not a game, rather a "system for teaching you how to type while yielding your sanity to the unimaginable terrors of the illimitable beyond".


File:Ray Tomlinson.jpg|link=Ray Tomlinson (nonfiction)|2016:  Computer programmer and engineer [[Ray Tomlinson (nonfiction)|Ray Tomlinson]] dies. He implemented the first email system on ARPANET, including the "@" separator which is still in use today.
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Latest revision as of 05:27, 5 March 2022

  • 1223 BC: Solar eclipse occurs; the event is recorded in a Syrian clay tablet, in the Ugaritic language.

    1223 BC: Solar eclipse occurs; the event is recorded in a Syrian clay tablet, in the Ugaritic language.

  • 1574: Mathematician William Oughtred born. He will invent the slide rule in 1622.

    1574: Mathematician William Oughtred born. He will invent the slide rule in 1622.

  • 1616: Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.

    1616: Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.

  • 1827: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace dies. He made important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.

    1827: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace dies. He made important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.

  • 1914: Nuclear physicist and academic He Zehui born. He Zehui will contribute to nuclear physics in Germany during World War II, and develop nuclear weapons for China during the 1960s.

    1914: Nuclear physicist and academic He Zehui born. He Zehui will contribute to nuclear physics in Germany during World War II, and develop nuclear weapons for China during the 1960s.

  • 2022: Release of Cthulhu Teaches Typing, an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Cthulhu Teaches Typing is not a game, rather a "system for teaching you how to type while yielding your sanity to the unimaginable terrors of the illimitable beyond".

    2022: Release of Cthulhu Teaches Typing, an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Cthulhu Teaches Typing is not a game, rather a "system for teaching you how to type while yielding your sanity to the unimaginable terrors of the illimitable beyond".

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