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||Scipione del Ferro (d. 5 November 1526) was an Italian mathematician who first discovered a method to solve the depressed cubic equation.
||1526: Scipione del Ferro dies ... mathematician who first discovered a method to solve the depressed cubic equation. No pic online.


||1714 Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician and academic (b. 1633)
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.


||Jesse Ramsden (d. 5 November 1800) was a British mathematician, astronomical and scientific instrument maker. 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. Pic.
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.


||1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
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.


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.


||1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
||1855: Eugene V. Debs born ... union leader and politician. Pic.


||1855 – Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (d. 1926)
||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.


||1855 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist and climatologist (d. 1913)
||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.


||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.
||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.


||Alfred Tauber (b. 5 November 1866) was an Austrian and Slovak 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.
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.  


||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.
||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.


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.  
||1892: John Alcock born ... captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.


||1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (d. 1964)
||1893: Raymond Loewy born ... engineer and designer.


||1892 – John Alcock (RAF officer), captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force (d. 1919)
||1894: Beardsley Ruml born ... economist and statistician.


||1893 – Raymond Loewy, French-American engineer and designer (d. 1986)
||1895: George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.


||1894 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (d. 1960)
||1906: Fred Lawrence Whipple born ... astronomer and academic. Pic.


||1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
||1916: Edmund Hlawka born ... mathematician. He was a leading number theorist. Pic.


||1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (d. 2004)
||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.


||Edmund Hlawka (b. November 5, 1916) was an Austrian mathematician. He was a leading number theorist. Pic.
||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.


||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.
||1930: Christiaan Eijkman dies ... physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate ... Extreme moustaches


||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.
||1930: John Frank Adams dies ... mathematician, one of the major contributors to homotopy theory. Pic.


||1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858) Extreme moustaches
||1931: Leonard Herzenberg born ... immunologist, geneticist, and academic.


||John Frank Adams FRS (d. 5 November 1930) was a British mathematician, one of the major contributors to homotopy theory.
||1933: Walther von Dyck dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: http://www.deutsches-museum.de/presse/presse-2006/nachlass-von-dyck/


||1931 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (d. 2013)
||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.


||1933 – Walther von Dyck, German mathematician and academic (b. 1856). Statue pic.
||1934: First flight of semi-rigid airship SSSR-V6 OSOAVIAKhIM. Pic.


||Jerzy Browkin (b. 5 November 1934) was a Polish 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.
||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.


||Stanisław Mazur (d. 1981, Warsaw) was a Polish 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.
||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.
||1983: Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.


||1992 – Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (b. 1903)
||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!).


||Jan Hendrik Oort (d. 5 November 1992) was a Dutch 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: 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.


||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.


||Sir Isaiah Berlin OM CBE FBA (d. 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas. He was an essayist, conversationalist, raconteur, and lecturer.
||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.


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: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.


||2015 George Barris, American engineer and car designer (b. 1925)
||2015: George Barris dies ... engineer and car designer. Pic.
 
|File:Electric S'mores in Brasília.jpg|link=Electric S'mores|2016: [[Electric S'mores]] opens for business in Brasília.


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: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:Dick_Turpin_of_Mars.jpg|link=Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Highwayman Dick Turpin of Mars takes parting shot at [[Hopalong Cassidy (nonfiction)|Hopalong Cassidy]].
|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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