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||1538: Christopher Clavius born ... mathematician and astronomer.
|File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1636: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[Numbered cake algorithm]] (NCA) to pre-visualize the transit of Venus.
File:Christiaan Huygens.jpg|link=Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]].
File:Christiaan Huygens.jpg|link=Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]].
||1681: Gabriele Manfredi born ... mathematician who undertook important work in the field of calculus.
||1712: Nehemiah Grew dies ... anatomist and physiologist ... Father plant anatomy.  Pic.
||1778: Sophie Blanchard born ... aeronaut and the wife of ballooning pioneer Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Blanchard was the first woman to work as a professional balloonist, and after her husband's death she continued ballooning, making more than 60 ascents. Known throughout Europe for her ballooning exploits, Blanchard entertained Napoleon Bonaparte, who promoted her to the role of "Aeronaut of the Official Festivals", replacing André-Jacques Garnerin. On the restoration of the monarchy in 1814 she performed for Louis XVIII, who named her "Official Aeronaut of the Restoration". Pic.
||1786: Giovanni Battista Amici born ... astronomer, microscopist, and botanist. Pic.
||1798: Christoph Gudermann born ... mathematician noted for introducing the Gudermannian function and the concept of uniform convergence.
||1807: The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
||1800: Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen born ... geologist and academic.
||1818: Caspar Wessel born ... mathematician and cartographer.


File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1857: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] is receives a patent for 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)|1857: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] is receives a patent for the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
||1859: Samuil Shatunovsky born ... mathematician.  He worked on several topics in mathematical analysis and algebra, such as group theory, number theory and geometry. Independently from Hilbert, he developed a similar axiomatic theory and applied it in geometry, algebra, Galois theory and analysis. Pic.


File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1860: Surgeon and gentleman scientist [[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]] dies. He was an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.   
File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1860: Surgeon and gentleman scientist [[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]] dies. He was an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.   


File:Maurice d'Ocagne.jpg|link=Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|1862: Mathematician and engineer [[Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne]] born.  He will found the field of nomography, the graphic computation of algebraic equations, on charts which he will called [[Nomogram (nonfiction)|nomograms]].
File:Maurice d'Ocagne.jpg|link=Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|1862: Mathematician and engineer [[Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne]] born.  He will found the field of nomography, the graphic computation of algebraic equations, on charts which he will called nomograms.


||1900: John Henry "Professor" Pepper dies ... scientist and inventor who toured the English-speaking world with his scientific demonstrations. He entertained the public, royalty, and fellow scientists with a wide range of technological innovations. He is primarily remembered for developing the projection technique known as Pepper's ghost, building a large-scale version of the concept by Henry Dircks. Pic.
File:No prison can hold me, not even the Nacreum - the Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|1923: Art critic and alleged time-traveler '''[[The Eel]]''' escapes from the Nacreum, a transdimensional prison made of artificially intelligent, self-assembling nacre.
 
||1912: Melita Norwood born ... English civil servant and spy.
 
File:Robert Andrews Millikan.jpg|link=Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|1924: Physicist [[Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|Robert Andrews Millikan]] uses the measurement of the elementary electronic charge to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in the first of a three-week series of demonstrations.
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in the first of a three-week series of demonstrations.
File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1927: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture on [[numbered cake algorithms]].
||1928: Gunnar Nielsen born ... runner and typographer.
||1938: Ettore Majorana disappears ... theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. On March 25, 1938, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named after him.
||1940: Jean David Ichbiah born ... computer scientist and the initial chief designer (1977–1983) of Ada, a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with certified validated compilers. Pic.
||1946: Maurice Krafft born ... volcanologist.
||1957: United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
||1960: Ralph Elmer Wilson born ... astronomer.
||1979: The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
||1987: A. W. Mailvaganam dies ... physicist and academic.
||1995: Lee Albert Rubel dies ... mathematician, and Doctor of Mathematics renowned for his contributions to analog computing. Nopic
||1995: Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry dies ... chess player, chess writer, World War II codebreaker and civil servant. He represented England in chess both before and after World War II. He worked at Bletchley Park during World War II, and was head of "Hut 6", a section responsible for deciphering messages which had been encrypted using the German Enigma machine. Pic.
||1996: The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).


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  • 1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.

    1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.

  • 1857: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville is receives a patent for the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.

    1857: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville is receives a patent for the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.

  • 1860: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid dies. He was an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.

    1860: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid dies. He was an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.

  • 1862: Mathematician and engineer Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne born. He will found the field of nomography, the graphic computation of algebraic equations, on charts which he will called nomograms.

    1862: Mathematician and engineer Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne born. He will found the field of nomography, the graphic computation of algebraic equations, on charts which he will called nomograms.

  • 1923: Art critic and alleged time-traveler The Eel escapes from the Nacreum, a transdimensional prison made of artificially intelligent, self-assembling nacre.

    1923: Art critic and alleged time-traveler The Eel escapes from the Nacreum, a transdimensional prison made of artificially intelligent, self-assembling nacre.

  • 1925: John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in the first of a three-week series of demonstrations.

    1925: John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in the first of a three-week series of demonstrations.

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