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||1472: Leon Battista Alberti dies ... humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man. Pic (engraving).
File:James Ferguson.jpg|link=James Ferguson (nonfiction)|1710: Astronomer, instrument maker, and author [[James Ferguson (nonfiction)|James Ferguson]] born.  
 
File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1599: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] born.  He will become a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
 
File:Niles Cartouchian Renaissance juggler.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (Renaissance)|1600: Mathematician, detective, and alleged time-traveller [[Niles Cartouchian (Renaissance)|Niles Cartouchian]] publicly accuses the [[House of Malevecchio]] of committing shape theft and other [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1710: James Ferguson born ... astronomer and author.
 
||1744: Anders Celsius dies ... astronomer, physicist, and mathematician.
 
File:Jean-Antoine Nollet.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|1770: Priest and physicist [[Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine Nollet]] dies. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high.
 
||1792: "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
 
||1792: Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.


File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
File:Simeon Poisson.jpg|link=Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|1840: Mathematician and physicist [[Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|Siméon Denis Poisson]] dies. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
File:Signaling by Napoleonic semaphore line.jpg|link=Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|1848: [[Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|Semaphore telegraph]] system becomes infected with self-perpetuating error code, probably released by the [[Forbidden Ratio]].  Self-perpetuating error codes will later be recognized as an early form of computer virus.
||1849: Felix Klein born ... mathematician and academic ... work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the connections between geometry and group theory. His 1872 Erlangen Program, classifying geometries by their underlying symmetry groups, was a highly influential synthesis of much of the mathematics of the day.
||1854: Charles Sumner Tainter born ... engineer and inventor.
||1859: British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
||1868: John Moisant born ... pilot and engineer.


File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1874: Businessman and inventor [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] born.  He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".
File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1874: Businessman and inventor [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] born.  He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".
||1882: Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner born ... astrophysicist who studied optical illusions. He was also an early psychical investigator. Pic.
||1900: Wolfgang Pauli born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1901: New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1902: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."


File:Andrey Kolmogorov.jpg|link=Andrey Kolmogorov (nonfiction)|1903: Mathematician and academic [[Andrey Kolmogorov (nonfiction)|Andrey Kolmogorov]] born. He will make significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.
File:Andrey Kolmogorov.jpg|link=Andrey Kolmogorov (nonfiction)|1903: Mathematician and academic [[Andrey Kolmogorov (nonfiction)|Andrey Kolmogorov]] born. He will make significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.
File:Srinivasa Ramanujan.jpg|link=Srinivasa Ramanujan (nonfiction)|1904: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter [[Srinivasa Ramanujan (nonfiction)|Srinivasa Ramanujan]] uses the the Ramanujan theta function to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1912: Donald Clayton Spencer born ... mathematician, known for work on deformation theory of structures arising in differential geometry, and on several complex variables from the point of view of partial differential equations. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Donald-Spencer/6000000000566571886
||1918: Gérard de Vaucouleurs born ... astronomer and academic.
||1931: Felix Berezin born ... mathematician and physicist known for his contributions to the theory of supersymmetry and supermanifolds as well as to the path integral formulation of quantum field theory. Pic: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87
||1938: Roger Boisjoly born ... aerodynamicist and engineer.
||1944: George Herriman dies ... cartoonist.
||1953: Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
||1954: The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
||1959: The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.


File:The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter.jpg|link=The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller [[The Eel]] stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] from destroying the [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|United States Navy submarine USS ''Triton'']].
File:The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter.jpg|link=The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller [[The Eel]] stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] from destroying the [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|United States Navy submarine USS ''Triton'']].
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File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The United States Navy submarine USS ''Triton'' completes [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The United States Navy submarine USS ''Triton'' completes [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.


||1961: Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
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||1981: More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.


File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|1984: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] consumes two hundred and fifty terabytes of the transdimensional drug [[Clandestiphrine]] with no apparent ill effect.
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File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1983: [[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]] travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
 
||1996: Saul Bass, American graphic designer and director (b. 1920)
 
||2000: Lucien Marie Le Cam dies ... mathematician and statistician. Pic.
 
||2002: Athanasios Papoulis dies ... engineer and applied mathematician. Pic.
 
||2014: Barbara Fiske Calhoun dies ... cartoonist and painter.
 
File:Red Spiral 2.jpg|link=Red Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Red Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Red Spiral 2]]'' stolen from Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia by the notorious criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]].
 
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  • 1710: Astronomer, instrument maker, and author James Ferguson born.

    1710: Astronomer, instrument maker, and author James Ferguson born.

  • 1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.

    1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.

  • 1874: Businessman and inventor Guglielmo Marconi born. He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

    1874: Businessman and inventor Guglielmo Marconi born. He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

  • 1903: Mathematician and academic Andrey Kolmogorov born. He will make significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.

    1903: Mathematician and academic Andrey Kolmogorov born. He will make significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.

  • 1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller The Eel stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter from destroying the United States Navy submarine USS Triton.

    1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller The Eel stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter from destroying the United States Navy submarine USS Triton.

  • 1960: The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

    1960: The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

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