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| ||AD 51: Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title ''princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
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| File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|928: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to solve [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1394: Prince Henry the Navigator born ... patron of exploration.
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| ||1519: Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.
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| ||1634 – Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Polish philosopher (d. 1689) Executed for writing "De non existentia Dei" (On the non-existence of God)
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| ||1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
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| File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1702: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. | | File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1702: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. |
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| ||1760 – Hugh Ronalds, British nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples (d. 1833)
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| ||1790 – France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
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| ||1792 – Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (d. 1886)
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| File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1821: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1822 – Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician and academic (d. 1880)
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| ||1826 – Theodore Judah, American engineer, founded the Central Pacific Railroad (d. 1863)
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| ||1853 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1774)
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| ||1837 – The city of Chicago is incorporated.
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| ||1847 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (d. 1904)
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| ||1862 – Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
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| ||1866 – Eugène Cosserat, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1931)
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| ||1871 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 1945)
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| ||1876 – Theodore Hardeen, Hungarian-American magician (d. 1945)
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| ||1877 – Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor (d. 1963)
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| File:Tolman and Einstein.jpg|link=Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|1881: Physicist and chemist [[Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|Richard C. Tolman]] born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity. | | File:Tolman and Einstein.jpg|link=Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|1881: Physicist and chemist [[Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|Richard C. Tolman]] born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity. |
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| ||1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
| | File:Stillsuit of the Night.jpg|link=Stillsuit of the Night|'''''[[Stillsuit of the Night]]''''' is a 1982 neo-noir psychological thriller film about a Suk doctor (Roy Scheider) who falls in love with a Fremen (Meryl Streep) who may be the psychopathic killer of one of his patients. |
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| ||1889 – Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician and statistician (d. 1967)
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| ||1893 – Charles Herbert Colvin, American engineer, co-founded the Pioneer Instrument Company (d. 1985)
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| ||1901 – Wilbur R. Franks, Canadian scientist, invented the g-suit (d. 1986)
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| ||1903 – Malcolm Dole, American chemist and academic (d. 1990)
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| ||1903 – John Scarne, American magician and author (d. 1985)
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| ||1904 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (d. 1968)
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| ||1909 – George Edward Holbrook, American chemist and engineer (d. 1987)
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| ||Knut Johan Ångström (d. 4 March 1910) was a Swedish physicist. He investigated the radiation of heat from the sun, and terrestrial nocturnal emission and its absorption by the Earth's atmosphere; to that end devised various delicate methods and instruments, including his electric compensation pyrheliometer, invented in 1893, apparatus for obtaining a photographic representation of the infra-red spectrum (1895) and pyrgeometer (circa 1905) Pic.
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| ||1914 – Ward Kimball, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
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| ||1914 – Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor, and architect (d. 2000)
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| ||1915 – William Willett, English inventor, founded British Summer Time (b. 1856)
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| ||1923 – Patrick Moore, English astronomer and television host (d. 2012)
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| ||1927 – Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (b. 1846)
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| File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1931: US Navy says [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] cannot be tamed, should be put down.
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| ||1932 – Ed Roth, American illustrator (d. 2001)
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| ||1934 – Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist and academic (d. 2015) Janez Strnad (March 4, 1934 – November 28, 2015) was a Slovene physicist and popularizer of natural science.
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| ||1935 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player and author (d. 2010)
| | File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|2007: Mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem. |
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| ||1944 – Louis Buchalter, American mob boss (b. 1897)
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| ||1944 – Louis Capone, Italian-American gangster (b. 1896)
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| ||Felix Ehrenhaft (d. 4 March 1952) was an Austrian physicist who contributed to atomic physics, to the measurement of electrical charges and to the optical properties of metal colloids. He was known for his maverick and controversial style. Pic.
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| ||Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (d. 4 March 1952) was an English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s.
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| ||1954 – Mark Chorvinsky, American magician and author (d. 2005)
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| ||1967: Michel Plancherel dies ... mathematician. He worked in the areas of mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and algebra, and is known for the Plancherel theorem in harmonic analysis. Pic.
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| ||1970: French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
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| ||1976: Walter H. Schottky dies ... physicist and engineer.
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| ||1986: The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
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| ||1986: Albert L. Lehninger dies ... biochemist and academic.
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| ||1993: Izaak Kolthoff dies ... chemist and academic.
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| ||1997: Robert H. Dicke dies ... physicist and astronomer ... made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity.
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| ||2000: Hermann Brück dies ... physicist and astronomer.
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| ||2000: Ta-You Wu dies ... physicist and academic.
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| ||2001: Gerardo Barbero dies ... chess player.
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| ||2001: Fred Lasswell dies ... cartoonist.
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| ||2006: John Reynolds Gardiner dies ... author and engineer.
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| File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2007: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions which uses [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]] to reveal centuries-old events.
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| File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|2008: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] (D&D) with Dave Arneson. | | File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|2008: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] (D&D) with Dave Arneson. |
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| ||2011: Alenush Terian dies ... astronomer and physicist.
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| ||2011: Simon van der Meer dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||2014: Jack Kinzler dies ... engineer.
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| File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|2016: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting." [[Cantor Parabola|Parabola]]'s work will influence a generation of [[Mathematician|mathematicians]].
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