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File:Albertus Magnus.jpg|link=Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher [[Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|Albertus Magnus]] dies. He was known during his lifetime as ''doctor universalis'' and ''doctor expertus'' and, late in his life, the term ''magnus'' was appended to his name.
File:Albertus Magnus.jpg|link=Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher [[Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|Albertus Magnus]] dies. He was known during his lifetime as ''doctor universalis'' and ''doctor expertus'' and, late in his life, the term ''magnus'' was appended to his name.


||1793: Michel Floréal Chasles born ... mathematician.
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] born. He will discover laws of planetary motion.


File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes Fighting|1797: Philosopher and crime-fighter ''[[Red Eyes Fighting]]'' defeats gang of [[Crimes against mathematical constants|math criminals]] in close-quarters combat.
File:William Herschel.jpg|link=William Herschel (nonfiction)|1738: Astronomer and composer [[William Herschel (nonfiction)|William Herschel]] born. Herschel discovered the planet Uranus and its two moons, formulated a theory of stellar evolution, and suggested that nebulae are composed of stars.


File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] born. He discovered laws of planetary motion.
||1793: Michel Chasles born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1688: Louis Bertrand Castel born ... mathematician and philosopher.
||1819: Daniel Rutherford dies ... chemist and physician. Pic.
 
||1738: William Herschel born ... astronomer and composer.
 
||1793: Michel Chasles born ... mathematician and academic.
 
||1819: Daniel Rutherford dies ... chemist and physician.


||1839: William Murdock dies ... inventor who was the first to make extensive use of coal gas for illumination and a pioneer in the development of steam power. He joined James Watt and Matthew Boulton and in 1784 he was sent to supervise the installation of Boulton & Watt steam engines working pumping equipment in Cornish tin mines. While there, he tested his ideas to use the gas given off by burning coal. From an iron retort in the backyard of his home, he ran a metal tube into his living room. On 29 Jul 1792, Murdock achieved a gas flame inside the room. In 1802, Boulton installed two gas lamps outside his Soho factory. Next year, the foundry was entirely illuminated by gas. Shortly, Boulton & Watt began to sell lighting and heating equipment with Murdock as a partner in the business. Pic.
||1839: William Murdock dies ... inventor who was the first to make extensive use of coal gas for illumination and a pioneer in the development of steam power. He joined James Watt and Matthew Boulton and in 1784 he was sent to supervise the installation of Boulton & Watt steam engines working pumping equipment in Cornish tin mines. While there, he tested his ideas to use the gas given off by burning coal. From an iron retort in the backyard of his home, he ran a metal tube into his living room. On 29 Jul 1792, Murdock achieved a gas flame inside the room. In 1802, Boulton installed two gas lamps outside his Soho factory. Next year, the foundry was entirely illuminated by gas. Shortly, Boulton & Watt began to sell lighting and heating equipment with Murdock as a partner in the business. Pic.


||1849: Mary E. Byrd born ... astronomer and educator.
||1849: Mary E. Byrd born ... astronomer and educator. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mary+E.+Byrd


||1868: Emil Racoviță born ... biologist, zoologist, and explorer.
||1868: Emil Racoviță born ... biologist, zoologist, speleologist, academic, explorer of Antarctica and the first biologist study arctic life. Pic.


||1874: August Krogh born ... zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1874: August Krogh born ... zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1885: Frederick Handley Page born ... industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber.
||1885: Frederick Handley Page born ... industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber. Pic (charming).


||1888: Harald Sverdrup born ... meteorologist and oceanographer known for his studies of the physics, chemistry, and biology of the oceans. He explained the equatorial countercurrents and helped develop the method of predicting surf and breakers. As scientific director of Roald Amundsen's polar expedition on Maud (1918-1925), Sverdrup worked extensively on meteorology, magnetics, atmospheric electricity, physical oceanography, and tidal dynamics on the Siberian shelf, and even on the anthropology of Chukchi natives. In 1953, Sverdrup quantified the concept of "critical depth", explaining the onset of the spring phytoplankton bloom in newly stratified water columns. Pic.
||1888: Harald Sverdrup born ... meteorologist and oceanographer known for his studies of the physics, chemistry, and biology of the oceans. He explained the equatorial countercurrents and helped develop the method of predicting surf and breakers. As scientific director of Roald Amundsen's polar expedition on Maud (1918-1925), Sverdrup worked extensively on meteorology, magnetics, atmospheric electricity, physical oceanography, and tidal dynamics on the Siberian shelf, and even on the anthropology of Chukchi natives. In 1953, Sverdrup quantified the concept of "critical depth", explaining the onset of the spring phytoplankton bloom in newly stratified water columns. Pic.


File:Bauernrauferei beim Kartenspiel Adriaen Brouwer.jpg|link=Donnybrook (nonfiction)|1894: [[Donnybrook (nonfiction)|Donnybrook]] breaks out, [[Extract of Radium]] abuse suspected.
||1894: Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin born ... mathematician who made major contributions to the fields of general topology and descriptive set theory. His name is especially associated to Suslin's problem, a question relating to totally ordered sets. Pic.


||1894: Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin born ... mathematician who made major contributions to the fields of general topology and descriptive set theory. His name is especially associated to Suslin's problem, a question relating to totally ordered sets
||1896: Horia Hulubei born ... nuclear physicist, known for his contributions to the development of X-ray spectroscopy. Pic.


||1907: Edward Marczewski born ... mathematician.  Pic.
||1907: Edward Marczewski born ... mathematician.  Pic.


||1908: Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth.
||1915: Martin Nodell born ... cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. Pic.


||1912: Harald Keres born ... physicist and academic.
||1919: Alfred Werner dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1915: Martin Nodell born ... cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern.  
||1922: Petros Protopapadakis executed ... mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece. DOB unknown. Pic.


||1919: Alfred Werner dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1922: Francis Brunn born ... juggler. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Francis+Brunn


||1922: Petros Protopapadakis dies ... mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece.
||1935: Stephen Warshall born ... computer scientist. Pic.


||1922: Francis Brunn born ... juggler (d. 2004)
||1938: André-Eugène Blondel dies ... engineer and physicist. He is the inventor of the electromechanical oscillograph and a system of photometric units of measurement. Pic.


||1922: David Sidney Feingold born ... biochemist and academic.
|link=|1938: Carol Jo Crannell born ... a solar physicist known for her work on solar flares and on the astrophysical observation of x-rays and gamma rays.  Pic: https://ggstem.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/carol-jo-crannell/


||1935: Stephen Warshall born ... computer scientist.
||1939: Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde born ... physician and parapsychologist. She said that there was a secret exchange program between humans and aliens that was being deliberately suppressed by "powerful Western governments", particularly the United States. Pic.


||1939: Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde born ... physician and parapsychologist. She said that there was a secret exchange program between humans and aliens that was being deliberately suppressed by "powerful Western governments", particularly the United States.
||1959: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson dies ... physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1959: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson dies ... physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1966: Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
||1966: Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
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||1979: A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
||1979: A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
||1979: Art historian Anthony Blunt's wartime role as a Soviet spy is revealed in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Pic.


File:Walter_Heitler.jpg|link=Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|1981: Physicist and chemist [[Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|Walter Heinrich Heitler]] dies. He made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.
File:Walter_Heitler.jpg|link=Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|1981: Physicist and chemist [[Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|Walter Heinrich Heitler]] dies. He made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.
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||1988: In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
||1988: In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
||1988: Collapse of the first Green Bank telescope, a 90.44 m paraboloid erected in 1962. The telescope collapsed due to the sudden loss of a gusset plate in the box girder assembly, which was a key component for the structural integrity of the telescope.


||1990: Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
||1990: Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
||2010: Larry Evans born ... chess player and journalist. Pic.
||2015: Lauri Vaska dies ... chemist and academic. Vaska contributed to the coordination chemistry of transition metals, homogeneous catalysis, and both organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=lauri+vaska
File:Phagey the Extract of Radium mascot.png|link=Extract of Radium|2015: [[Extract of Radium]] installs transdimensional vending machines at all San Francisco Muni stations.


File:San Francisco Muni worm logo.png|link=San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|2016: [[San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|San Francisco Muni hack]] begins, data held hostage for ransom.
File:San Francisco Muni worm logo.png|link=San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|2016: [[San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|San Francisco Muni hack]] begins, data held hostage for ransom.


File:No Image.gif|link=Murder, Incorporated 1.1|2016: [[Killer Poke]] denies involvement in [[San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|San Francisco Muni hack]].
|File:Lugus Demonicus.jpg|link=Lugus Demonicus|1921: Demon hunter [[Lugus Demonicus]] challenges [[Hopalong Perfidy]] to single combat.
|File:Hopalong Perfidy.jpg|link=Hopalong Perfidy|1939: Authorities declare that "[[Hopalong Perfidy]] is the personification of [[Perfidy (nonfiction)|perfidy]]."
|File:Thought camera.jpg|link=Scrying engine|2015: [[Scrying engine]] forecast indicates [[San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|San Francisco Muni hack]] "within a year."
|File:Gysin and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|2016: Fresh [[Extract of Radium]] rushed to San Francisco, distributed free at Muni stations.
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