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File:Eclipse.jpg|link=Eclipse (nonfiction)|763 BC: Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
File:Eclipse.jpg|link=Eclipse (nonfiction)|763 BC: Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.


File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1485 Feb. 1: lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to generate improved solar eclipse forecasts. During the Second World War, this data will be used by German cryptographers to defeat enemy traffic analysis.  
||1640: Bernard Lamy born ... mathematician and theologian. Pic.


||1640: Bernard Lamy born ... mathematician and theologian.
||1648: Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. No DOB. No pics online.


||1648: Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
||1667: The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. Pic.
 
||1667: The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.


||1712: Andrew Gordon born ... Benedictine monk, physicist and inventor. He made the first electric motor. Pic: https://www.beatson.co.uk/history-electric-motors/
||1712: Andrew Gordon born ... Benedictine monk, physicist and inventor. He made the first electric motor. Pic: https://www.beatson.co.uk/history-electric-motors/


||1752: Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
||1752: Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown). Pic.


||1754: Juan José Elhuyar born ...chemist and mineralogist.
||1754: Juan José Elhuyar born ...chemist and mineralogist ... with his brother Fausto Elhuyar, first to isolate tungsten  in 1783. Pic search maybe: http://www.laboratorium.eus/en/pertsonaia/juan-jose-elhuyar-1754-1796


||1755: Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy born ... chemist and entomologist.
||1755: Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy born ... chemist and entomologist. Pic.


||1765: Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger born ... astronomer and mathematician.
||1765: Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger born ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic.


||1768: James Short born ... mathematician and optician.
||1785: Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier ... was a French chemistry and physics teacher, and one of the first pioneers of aviation. He and the Marquis d'Arlandes made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon. Pic.


||1785: Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier ... was a French chemistry and physics teacher, and one of the first pioneers of aviation. He and the Marquis d'Arlandes made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon.
||1826: The Auspicious Incident (Ottoman Turkish: "Fortunate Event"; in the Balkans: "Unfortunate Incident") was the forced disbandment of the centuries-old Janissary corps by Sultan Mahmud II. Most of the 135,000 Janissaries revolted against Mahmud II, and after the rebellion was suppressed, its leaders were killed, and many of its members exiled or imprisoned, the Janissary corps was disbanded and replaced with a more modern military force. Pic.


||1844: Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
||1844: Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber. Pic.


||1878: Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
||1878: Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures. Pic.


||1881: Paul Cornu born ... engineer. He designed the world's first successful manned rotary wing aircraft. Pic (cool).
||1881: Paul Cornu born ... engineer. He designed the world's first successful manned rotary wing aircraft. Pic (cool).


||1894: Nikolai Chebotaryov born ... mathematician and theorist ... best known for the Chebotaryov density theorem. Pic.
||1894: Nikolai Chebotaryov born ... mathematician and theorist ... best known for the Chebotaryov density theorem. Pic.
||1902: Alfred Kneschke born ... mathematician, engineer and university lecturer. During the World War II, Kneschke managed the Referat IV, Section II of the Wehrmacht Signals intelligence organization General der Nachrichtenaufklärung until November 1944, working on cryptanalysis and decoding of British, USA, French and Balkan cipher systems. From Nov 1944, he worked in the OKW/Chi cipher bureau as a cryptanalyst. Pic.


File:Gordon Welchman.jpg|link=Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|1906: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author [[Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|Gordon Welchman]] born. During the Second World War, he will develop traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.
File:Gordon Welchman.jpg|link=Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|1906: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author [[Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|Gordon Welchman]] born. During the Second World War, he will develop traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.
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||1908: Chaim Leib Pekeris born ... physicist and mathematician. He made notable contributions to geophysics and the spectral theory of many-electron atoms, in particular the Helium atom. He was also one of the designers of the first computer in Israel, WEIZAC. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Prof-Chaim-Leib-Pekeris/6000000026350827675
||1908: Chaim Leib Pekeris born ... physicist and mathematician. He made notable contributions to geophysics and the spectral theory of many-electron atoms, in particular the Helium atom. He was also one of the designers of the first computer in Israel, WEIZAC. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Prof-Chaim-Leib-Pekeris/6000000026350827675


||1914: Hilda Terry born ... cartoonist.
||1914: Hilda Terry born ... cartoonist, created the comic strip ''Teena'', which ran in newspapers from 1944 to 1964. Pic.
 
||1915: Thomas Huckle Weller born ... biologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1915: Thomas Huckle Weller born ... biologist and virologist ... He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, using a combination of human embryonic skin and muscle tissue. Pic.


||1916: Herbert Simon born ... economist and political scientist whose primary interest was decision-making within organizations and is best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing". He was among the pioneers of several modern-day scientific domains such as artificial intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, organization theory, and complex systems. He was among the earliest to analyze the architecture of complexity and to propose a preferential attachment mechanism to explain power law distributions. Pic.
||1916: Herbert Simon born ... economist and political scientist whose primary interest was decision-making within organizations and is best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing". He was among the pioneers of several modern-day scientific domains such as artificial intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, organization theory, and complex systems. He was among the earliest to analyze the architecture of complexity and to propose a preferential attachment mechanism to explain power law distributions. Pic.


||1917: John Fenn born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1917: John Fenn born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1917: Kristian Birkeland dies ... physicist and academic.
||1917: Kristian Birkeland dies ... physicist and academic. Pic (cool).


||https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Duluth_lynchings
||https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Duluth_lynchings


||1927: Ross Andru born ... American illustrator.
||1927: Ross Andru born ... American illustrator ... known for his work on The Amazing Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and The Metal Men, and for having co-created the Punisher. His most frequent collaborator was inker Mike Esposito, with whom he worked on projects over a span of four decades. Pic.
 
||1927: Gart Westerhout born ... astronomer and academic ... Westerhout specialized in studies of radio sources and the Milky Way Galaxy based on observations of radio continuum emissions and 21-cm spectral line radiation that originates in interstellar hydrogen. Pic.
 
||1929: Traian Lalescu dies ... mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics. Pic.


||Traian Lalescu (d. 15 June 1929) was a Romanian mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics. Pic.
||1934: George W. Fuller dies ... chemist and engineer ... responsible for important innovations in water and wastewater treatment. He designed and built the first modern water filtration plant, and he designed and built the first chlorination system that disinfected a U.S. drinking water supply. In addition, he performed groundbreaking engineering work on sewage treatment facilities. Pic.


File:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|1939: Art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]] helps break German military codes using surf-powered [[The Eel Time-Surfing 2|gnomon algorithm]] techniques.
||1962: Grace Marie Bareis dies ... mathematician. Bareis taught mathematics to World War II veterans in a class called the "Army Specialized Training Program" and even did so two years after her retirement because of a shortage of math instructors. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Grace+Marie+Bareis


||1971: Wendell Meredith Stanley dies ...biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Pic.
||1971: Wendell Meredith Stanley dies ...biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Pic.


||1985: Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
||1985: Rembrandt's painting ''Danaë'' is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.


File:John Atanasov.gif|link=John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic [[John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|John Vincent Atanasoff]] dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.
File:John Atanasov.gif|link=John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic [[John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|John Vincent Atanasoff]] dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.


||2001: Alessandro Faedo ... mathematician and politician, born in Chiampo. He is known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Galerkin method: he was one of the pupils of Leonida Tonelli and, after his death, he succeeded him on the chair of mathematical analysis at the University of Pisa, becoming dean of the faculty of sciences and then rector and exerting a strong positive influence on the development of the university.
||2001: Mathematician and politician Alessandro Faedo born ... known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Galerkin method: he was one of the pupils of Leonida Tonelli and, after his death, he succeeded him on the chair of mathematical analysis at the University of Pisa, becoming dean of the faculty of sciences and then rector and exerting a strong positive influence on the development of the university. Pic.


||2012: Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls.
||2012: Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls. (Alive December 2019.) Pic.


||2013: Kenneth G. Wilson dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||2013: Kenneth G. Wilson dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:Traveller.jpg|link=Traveller (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Traveller (nonfiction)|Traveller]]'' reveals "several hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.
File:Ely, Minnesota water tower (15 June 2022) 20220615_191439.jpg|link=Ely, Minnesota water tower (15 June 2022)|2022: '''[[Ely, Minnesota water tower (15 June 2022)|Ely, Minnesota water tower]]'''.


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  • 763 BC: Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

    763 BC: Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

  • 1906: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman born. During the Second World War, he will develop traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

    1906: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman born. During the Second World War, he will develop traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

  • 1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.

    1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.

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