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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. |
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| 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]].
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| ||1512 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (d. 1594)
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| 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. |
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| 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]].
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| 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. |
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| 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]].
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| ||1779 – Benjamin Gompertz, English mathematician and statistician (d. 1865)
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| ||1794 – Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1872)
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| ||1815 – Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (b. 1734)
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| 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. |
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| ||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. |
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| ||1829 – John Adams, English sailor and mutineer (b. 1766)
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| File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1836: Inventor [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber. | |
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| ||1862 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (d. 1934)
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| ||1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
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| ||Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (b. 5 March 1880) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician of Jewish origin known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theory, and approximation theory. Pic.
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| ||Otto Haupt (born 5 March 1887) was a German Mathematician. Pic.
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| ||1900 – Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974)
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| ||Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (d. 5 March 1903) was a French chemist. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas. During an experiment, an explosion destroyed the sight in one of his eyes. He isolated the element europium in 1896; in 1898 he used his skills of spectroscopy to help Marie Curie confirm that she had discovered the element radium. Pic.
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| ||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.
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| ||1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
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| ||Professor He Zehui (b. March 5, 1914) was a Chinese nuclear physicist who worked to develop and exploit nuclear physics in Germany and China. Pic.
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| ||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.
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| ||1925 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
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| 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]].
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| ||1927 – Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)
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| ||1938 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (d. 2011)
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| ||1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
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| ||1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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| ||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.
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| ||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.
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| ||1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| ||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". |
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| 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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