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||1740: Philip James de Loutherbourg born ... painter who became known for his large naval works, his elaborate set designs for London theatres, and his invention of a mechanical theatre called the "Eidophusikon".
||1005: Abe no Seimei dies ... Japanese astrologer. In addition to his prominence in history, he is a legendary figure in Japanese folklore. Pic.


||1783: Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner born ... chemist, natural scientist, and a professor of physics and chemistry.
||1740: Philip James de Loutherbourg born ... painter who became known for his large naval works, his elaborate set designs for London theatres, and his invention of a mechanical theatre called the "Eidophusikon". Pic.
 
||1783: Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner born ... chemist, natural scientist, and a professor of physics and chemistry. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Karl+Wilhelm+Gottlob+Kastner


||1802: Benoît Fourneyron born ... engineer born ... He made significant contributions to the development of water turbines. Pic.
||1802: Benoît Fourneyron born ... engineer born ... He made significant contributions to the development of water turbines. Pic.
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File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and academic [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] born. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".  
File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and academic [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] born. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".  


File:The_Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|1816: Art critic and alleged math criminal [[The Eel]] escapes from [[Nacreum]], spending less than a day in prison.
File:The_Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|1816: Art critic and alleged math criminal [[The Eel]] escapes from [[Nacreum]], spending less than a day in the famed transdimensional prison.


||1831: Paolo Mantegazza born ... neurologist, physiologist, and anthropologist ... coca.
||1831: Paolo Mantegazza born ... neurologist, physiologist, and anthropologist ... coca. Pic.
 
||1834: Éleuthère Irénée du Pont dies ... chemist and businessman, founded DuPont. Pic.


||1835: Adolf von Baeyer born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... synthesised indigo, developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC organic nomenclature).
||1835: Adolf von Baeyer born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... synthesised indigo, developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC organic nomenclature).
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File:Galileo Ferraris.jpg|link=Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|1847: Physicist and electrical engineer [[Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|Galileo Ferraris]] born. He will be a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
File:Galileo Ferraris.jpg|link=Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|1847: Physicist and electrical engineer [[Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|Galileo Ferraris]] born. He will be a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.


||1856: Charles Leroux born ... balloonist and skydiver.
||1856: Charles Leroux born ... balloonist and skydiver. Pic.
 
||1883: David Gibb born ... mathematician and astronomer. He was the first person to use the term numerical integration. Pic: http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gibb.html
 
||1902: Abraham Wald born ... mathematician and economist. Pic.
 
||1911: Aleksander Ilyich Akhiezer born ... theoretical physicist, known for contributions to numerous branches of theoretical physics, including quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, solid state physics, quantum field theory, and the theory of plasma. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Aleksander+Ilyich+Akhiezer
 
||1914: John Hugenholtz born ... engineer and designer of racetracks and cars. Pic.


||1902: Abraham Wald born ... mathematician and economist.
||1919: Magnus Wenninger born ... mathematician who worked on constructing polyhedron models, and wrote the first book on their construction. Pic.


||1911: Aleksander Ilyich Akhiezer born ... theoretical physicist, known for contributions to numerous branches of theoretical physics, including quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, solid state physics, quantum field theory, and the theory of plasma.
||1925: John Pople born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1914 – John Hugenholtz, Dutch engineer and designer (d. 1995)
Harry_Houdini_1899.jpg|link=Harry Houdini (nonfiction)|1926: Magician and stuntman [[Harry Houdini (nonfiction)|Harry Houdini]] dies. Houdini's grand illusions and daring, spectacular escape acts made him one of the most famous magicians of all time.


||Father Magnus J. Wenninger OSB (October 31, 1919 – February 17, 2017) was an American mathematician who worked on constructing polyhedron models, and wrote the first book on their construction. Pic.
||1847: Charles Loring Jackson dies ... the first significant organic chemist in the United States. He brought organic chemistry to the United States from Germany and educated a generation of American organic chemists. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Charles+Loring+Jackson


||1925 – John Pople, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
||1935: Ronald Graham  born  ... mathematician and theorist.  (Alive.) Pic.


||1926 – Harry Houdini, American magician and stuntman (b. 1874)
||1938: Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.


||1935 – Ronald Graham, American mathematician and theorist
||1952: Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Andronov dies ... physicist and academic. He worked extensively on the theory of stability of dynamical systems, introducing (together with Lev Pontryagin) the notion of structural stability. In that context, he also contributed to the mathematical theory of self-oscillation (a term that he coined) by establishing a link between the generation of oscillations and the theory of Lyapunov stability. Pic: https://www.amazon.com/Aleksandr-Aleksandrovich-1901-1952-Nauchno-biograficheskai%CD%A1a%EF%B8%A1-literatura/dp/5020060356


||1938 – Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
||1956: Francis Simon dies ... physical chemist and physicist who devised the gaseous diffusion method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a major contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb. Pic.


||Sir Francis Simon (d. 31 October 1956), was a German and later British physical chemist and physicist who devised the gaseous diffusion method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a major contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb. Pic.
||1959: Jean Cabannes dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q="jean+cabannes"+physics


||1959 – Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic (b. 1885)
||1962: Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion dies ... astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Gabrielle+Renaudot+Flammarion


||1962 – Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion, French astronomer (b. 1877)
||1965: Jan Kowalewski dies ... Polish cryptologist, intelligence officer, engineer, journalist, military commander, and creator and first head of the Polish Cipher Bureau. He recruited a large staff of cryptologists who broke Soviet military codes and ciphers during the Polish-Soviet War, enabling Poland to weather the war and achieve victory in the 1920 Battle of Warsaw. Pic.


||Lt. Col. Jan Kowalewski (23 October 1892 – 31 October 1965) was a Polish cryptologist, intelligence officer, engineer, journalist, military commander, and creator and first head of the Polish Cipher Bureau. He recruited a large staff of cryptologists who broke Soviet military codes and ciphers during the Polish-Soviet War, enabling Poland to weather the war and achieve victory in the 1920 Battle of Warsaw. Pic.
||1980: Elizebeth Smith Friedman dies ... cryptanalyst and author, and pioneer in U.S. cryptography. She has been called "America's first female cryptanalyst". Pic.


||Elizebeth Smith Friedman (d. October 31, 1980) was an expert cryptanalyst and author, and pioneer in U.S. cryptography. She has been called "America's first female cryptanalyst".
||1986: Robert S. Mulliken dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1986 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
||1987: Raj Chandra Bose dies ... mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory, finite geometry and the theory of error-correcting codes in which the class of BCH codes is partly named after him. He also invented the notions of partial geometry, strongly regular graph and started a systematic study of difference sets to construct symmetric block designs.  Pic.


||Raj Chandra Bose (d. 31 October 1987) was an Indian American mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory, finite geometry and the theory of error-correcting codes in which the class of BCH codes is partly named after him. He also invented the notions of partial geometry, strongly regular graph and started a systematic study of difference sets to construct symmetric block designs. Pic.
||1988: George Uhlenbeck dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic.


||George Eugene Uhlenbeck (d. October 31, 1988) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist.
||1988: Theodor Schneider dies ... mathematician, best known for providing proof of what is now known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem. Schneider studied from 1929 to 34 in Frankfurt; he solved Hilbert's 7th problem in his PhD thesis, which then came to be known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem. Pic.


||Theodor Schneider (d. 31 October 1988) was a German mathematician, best known for providing proof of what is now known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem. Schneider studied from 1929 to 34 in Frankfurt; he solved Hilbert's 7th problem in his PhD thesis, which then came to be known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem.
||1992: The Vatican admitted erring for over 359 years in formally condemning Galileo Galilei for entertaining scientific truths such as the Earth revolves around the sun it, which the Roman Catholic Church long denounced as anti-scriptural heresy. After 13 years of inquiry, the Pope's commission of historic, scientific and theological scholars brought the pope a "not guilty" finding for Galileo. *TIS In 1822 the church lifted the ban on the works of Galileo and in 1979 Pope John Paul II selected a commission to investigate. On Mar 31 of 1984 the Vatican newspaper, L’Observatore Romano, stated, “The so-called heresy of Galileo does not seem to have any foundation, neither theologically nor under canon law.” It still took until Oct 31, 1992, before Pope John Paul II declared that the church may have been mistaken in condemning Galileo. *Wik


||Sidney Darlington (d. October 31, 1997) was an electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration in 1953, the Darlington pair. He advanced the state of network theory, developing the insertion-loss synthesis approach, and invented chirp radar, bombsights, and gun and rocket guidance. Pic.
||1997: Sidney Darlington dies ... electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration in 1953, the Darlington pair. He advanced the state of network theory, developing the insertion-loss synthesis approach, and invented chirp radar, bombsights, and gun and rocket guidance. Pic.


||2002 – A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.
||2002: A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.


||2005 – Hal Anger, American biophysicist and engineer (b. 1920)
||2005: Hal Anger dies ... biophysicist and engineer,  known for his invention of the gamma camera. Pic.


||2009 – Qian Xuesen, Chinese aerodynamicist and academic (b. 1911)
||2009: Qian Xuesen dies ... aerodynamicist and academic. Pic.


||John Lewis Selfridge (d. October 31, 2010), was an American mathematician who contributed to the fields of analytic number theory, computational number theory, and combinatorics.  
File:Karl_Werewolf_Jones.jpg|2009: Karl "Werewolf" Jones hosts "the greatest Halloween party ever."


||2013 – Trevor Kletz, English chemist and author (b. 1922) safety chem hazmat
||2010: John Selfridge dies ... mathematician who contributed to the fields of analytic number theory, computational number theory, and combinatorics. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Lewis+Selfridge


File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' reveals fifteen terabytes of encrypted data.
||2013: Trevor Kletz dies ... chemist and author ... safety chem hazmat. He is credited with introducing the concept of inherent safety, and was a major promoter of Hazop. No DOB. Pic.


File:Creature.jpg|link=Creature (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Creature (nonfiction)|Creature]]'' declared Image of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1815: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass born. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".

    1815: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass born. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".

  • 1816: Art critic and alleged math criminal The Eel escapes from Nacreum, spending less than a day in the famed transdimensional prison.

    1816: Art critic and alleged math criminal The Eel escapes from Nacreum, spending less than a day in the famed transdimensional prison.

  • 1847: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris born. He will be a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.

    1847: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris born. He will be a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.

  • 1926: Magician and stuntman Harry Houdini dies. Houdini's grand illusions and daring, spectacular escape acts made him one of the most famous magicians of all time.

    1926: Magician and stuntman Harry Houdini dies. Houdini's grand illusions and daring, spectacular escape acts made him one of the most famous magicians of all time.

  • 2009: Karl "Werewolf" Jones hosts "the greatest Halloween party ever."

    2009: Karl "Werewolf" Jones hosts "the greatest Halloween party ever."

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