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||1580: Johann Faulhaber born ... mathematician. Faulhaber's major contribution was in calculating the sums of powers of integers. Jacob Bernoulli makes references to Faulhaber in his Ars Conjectandi. Pic.
File:Ioannes Faulhaberus Mathematicus Imperialis Ulmæ Natus.png|link=Johann Faulhaber (nonfiction)|1580: Mathematician [[Johann Faulhaber (nonfiction)|Johann Faulhaber]] born. He will discover Faulhaber's formula, which expresses the sum of the ''p''-th powers of the first ''n'' positive integers.
 
||1752: Johann Tobias Mayer born ... physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks.  Pic.
 
||1809: Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
 
||1818: Karl Marx born ... philosopher, sociologist, and journalist.
 
||1821: Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.


File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]] dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.
File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]] dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.
||1861: Peter Cooper Hewitt born ... electrical engineer who invented the mercury-vapour lamp, an important forerunner of fluorescent lamps. He studied the production of light using electrical discharges (while Thomas Edison was still developing incandescent filaments). The mercury-filled tubes he developed from the late 1890s, gave off an unattractive blue-green light. Although unsuitable in homes, its brilliance won wide adoption by photo studios because the black and white film of the time needed just bright light, despite its colour. There were many other industrial uses for the lamp. His manufacturing company (est. 1902) was bought by General Electric in 1919 which produced a new design in 1933. He took out his first eight mercury vapour lamp patents on 17 Sep 1901. Pic.
File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|1867: [[Pin Man]] escapes from the [[Carnevale Tenebre]], finds sanctuary in the town of [[Periphery (town)|Periphery]].


File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1868: Inventor, physician, chemist [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1868: Inventor, physician, chemist [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.
||1892: August Wilhelm von Hofmann dies ... chemist and academic.
||1895: Karl Christoph Vogt dies ... scientist, philosopher and politician.
||1895: Stefan Bergman born ... mathematician whose primary work was in complex analysis. He is best known for the kernel function he discovered while at Berlin University in 1922. This function is known today as the Bergman kernel. Pic.
||1897: Francesco Giacomo Tricomi born ... mathematician famous for his studies on mixed type partial differential equations. Pic.
||1905: The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
File:Carnevale Tenebre vise logo.jpg|link=Carnevale Tenebre|1906: New sideshow at [[Carnevale Tenebre]] is "fronting all kinds of [[math crimes]]," says mathematician and alleged immortal [[John Havelock]].


File:Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs.jpg|link=Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1833: Mathematician and academic [[Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs]] born. He will contribute important research in the field of linear differential equations. Fuchs will be the eponym of Fuchsian groups and functions, and the Picard–Fuchs equation.
File:Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs.jpg|link=Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1833: Mathematician and academic [[Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs]] born. He will contribute important research in the field of linear differential equations. Fuchs will be the eponym of Fuchsian groups and functions, and the Picard–Fuchs equation.
||1920: Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
||1921: Mavis Lilian Batey, MBE (née Lever; 5 May 1921 – 12 November 2013), was an English code-breaker during World War II. Pic: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-mavis-batey-8960761.html
||1921: Arthur Leonard Schawlow born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... co-inventor of the laser with Charles Townes. His central insight, which Townes overlooked, was the use of two mirrors as the resonant cavity to take MASER action to visible wavelengths. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn for his work on lasers.
||1927: Sylvia Fedoruk born ... physicist and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.


File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]].
File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]].


File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|1943: Alleged incident of [[Janet Beta at ENIAC|radio-gnomic contact with an extratemporal intelligence]] as part of the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]] ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") program.
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||1945: World War II: Six people are killed when a Japanese fire balloon explodes near Bly, Oregon. They are the only Americans killed in the continental US during the war.
 
||1954: Castle Yankee was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of American tests of thermonuclear bombs. It was originally intended as a test of a TX-16/EC-16 bomb, but the design became obsolete after the Castle Bravo test was successful. The test device was replaced with a TX-24/EC-24 bomb which was detonated on May 5, 1954, at Bikini Atoll. Pic.
 
||1957: Leopold Löwenheim dies ... mathematician and logician.
 
||1961: The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
 
||1987: Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
 
||1995: Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington dies ... engineer and businessman who invented and perfected the float glass process for commercial manufacturing of plate glass. Pic: http://100th.nsg.com/story/02/
 
||2007: Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman dies ... engineer and physicist who was widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser (Others attribute the invention to Gordon Gould). Pic.


||2008: Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. dies ... physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum."
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File:Mendel Sachs.jpg|link=Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|2012: Theoretical physicist [[Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|Mendel Sachs]] dies. His work included the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.
 
Creature_3.jpg|link=Creature 3 (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Creature 3 (nonfiction)|Creature 3]]'', stolen last year by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang, is recovered with all of its data intact.
 
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  • 1580: Mathematician Johann Faulhaber born. He will discover Faulhaber's formula, which expresses the sum of the p-th powers of the first n positive integers.

    1580: Mathematician Johann Faulhaber born. He will discover Faulhaber's formula, which expresses the sum of the p-th powers of the first n positive integers.

  • 1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

    1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

  • 1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.

    1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.

  • 1833: Mathematician and academic Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs born. He will contribute important research in the field of linear differential equations. Fuchs will be the eponym of Fuchsian groups and functions, and the Picard–Fuchs equation.

    1833: Mathematician and academic Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs born. He will contribute important research in the field of linear differential equations. Fuchs will be the eponym of Fuchsian groups and functions, and the Picard–Fuchs equation.

  • 1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by Karl Guthe Jansky.

    1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by Karl Guthe Jansky.

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