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| ||1576: Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán.
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| File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1618: Mathematician and astronomer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] discovers the third law of planetary motion. | | File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1618: Mathematician and astronomer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] discovers the third law of planetary motion. |
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| File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1618: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] prevents alleged supervillain [[Anarchimedes]] from assassinating astronomer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]]. [[Anarchimedes]] intended to steal credit for discovery of the third law of planetary motion.
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| File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1775: An anonymous writer, thought by some to be [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]], publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery. | | File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1775: An anonymous writer, thought by some to be [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]], publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery. |
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| ||1804: Alvan Clark born ... astronomer and optician.
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| File:Ignacy Lukasiewicz.jpg|link=Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1822: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist [[Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Ignacy Łukasiewicz]] born. He will build the world's first oil refinery and invent the kerosene lamp.
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| ||1836: Michael Foster born ... physiologist.
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| ||1839: James Mason Crafts born ... chemist, mostly known for developing the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with Charles Friedel in 1876. Pic.
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| ||1839: Josephine Cochrane born ... inventor ... Dish washing machine.
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| File:Hans Christian Ørsted.jpg|link=Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|1840: Physicist, chemist, and crime-fighter [[Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|Hans Christian Ørsted]] uses magnetic fields created by electric currents to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].
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| ||1848: LaMarcus Adna Thompson born ... engineer and businessman, developed the roller coaster.
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| ||1853: Edward John Dent does ... clockmaker and inventor whose chronometers were noted for high accuracy. His patents in this field included compasses for navigation and surveying. He experimented with springs made of steel, gold and glass, and devices for counteracting the effects of temperature change upon timepiece mechanisms. As clockmaker to Queen Victoria, he was commissioned to build the Great Clock for the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament (known as Big Ben, although that is actually the nickname of its hour bell) which he began in the year he died. His son, Frederick Dent, completed the work the following year and it was installed in the tower in 1859. It continues to be recognised for its great accuracy of 4 seconds in a year. Pic.
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| ||1858: Rudolf Hermann Arndt Kohlrausch dies ... physicist. In 1856, with Wilhelm Weber (1804–1891), he demonstrated that the ratio of electrostatic to electromagnetic units produced a number that matched the value of the then known speed of light. This finding was instrumental towards Maxwell's conjecture that light is an electromagnetic wave. Pic.
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| ||1865: Ernest Vessiot born ... mathematician. Vessiot's work on Picard–Vessiot theory dealt with the integrability of ordinary differential equations. Pic.
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| ||1865: Frederic Goudy born ... type designer, created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style.
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| ||1868: Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai, Osaka.
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| File:Otto Hahn 1970.jpg|link=Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|1879: Chemist and academic [[Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|Otto Hahn]] born. He will pioneer the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission. | | File:Otto Hahn 1970.jpg|link=Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|1879: Chemist and academic [[Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|Otto Hahn]] born. He will pioneer the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission. |
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| ||1886: Edward Calvin Kendall born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||1899: Elmer Keith born ... gun designer and author.
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| ||1889: John Ericsson dies ... engineer, designed the USS Monitor.
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| File:Birkeland terrella spiral nebula.jpg|link=Terrella (nonfiction)|1899: Aurora researcher and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist Kristian Birkeland demonstrates his experimental [[Terrella (nonfiction)|Terrella]] to great acclaim while visiting [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. The citizens will subsequently declare March 8 to be Kristian Birkeland Terrella Day.
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| File:Howard Aiken.jpg|link=Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|1900: Physicist and computer scientist [[Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|Howard H. Aiken]] born. He will design the Harvard Mark I computer.
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| File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] uses [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1910: French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
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| File:Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich postage stamp.jpg|link=Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|1914: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist [[Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich]] born. He will play a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, studying the effects of nuclear explosions. | | File:Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich postage stamp.jpg|link=Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|1914: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist [[Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich]] born. He will play a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, studying the effects of nuclear explosions. |
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| ||1917: Ferdinand von Zeppelin dies ... German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company.
| | File:One Veteran's Square - Media, Pennsylvania.jpg|link=Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI (nonfiction)|1971: Peace activists led break into the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, stealing over 1,000 classified documents. The activists mailed these documents anonymously to several US newspapers to expose numerous illegal FBI operations infringing on the First Amendment rights of American citizens. |
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| ||1921: Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
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| ||1922: Ralph H. Baer born ... video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey (d. 2014)
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| File:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg|link=Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|1923: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|Johannes Diderik van der Waals]] dies. He won the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids. | |
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| ||1924: Georges Charpak born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||1927: Gerard A. "Gerry" Salton born ... Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. Salton was perhaps the leading computer scientist working in the field of information retrieval during his time, and "the father of Information Retrieval". His group at Cornell developed the SMART Information Retrieval System, which he initiated when he was at Harvard. Pic: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Department/Annual95/Faculty/Salton.html
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| File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1927: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which which generate stochastic preventive algorithms in response to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''.
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| ||1942: José Raúl Capablanca dies ... chess player and theoretician.
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| ||1946: Frederick William Lanchester dies ... polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and co-invented the topic of operations research. Pic.
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| ||1947: Michael S. Hart born ... author, founded Project Gutenberg.
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| ||1949: Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason.
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| ||1965: Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.
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| File:William C. Davidon.jpg|link=William C. Davidon (nonfiction)|1971: Peace activists led by physicist and mathematician [[William Cooper Davidon (nonfiction)|William Cooper Davidon]] break into the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, making off with files.
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| ||1974: Olive Clio Hazlett dies ... mathematician who spent most of her career working for the University of Illinois. She mainly researched algebra, and wrote seventeen research papers on subjects such as nilpotent algebras, division algebras, modular invariants, and the arithmetic of algebras. WW2 Cryptanalyst. Pic: https://www.si.edu/spotlight/women-mathematicians/olive-c-hazlett-music-and-puzzles
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| ||1974: Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
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| ||1975: Emory Leon Chaffee dies ... physicist. Pic.
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| ||1988: Werner Hartmann dies ... physicist and academic.
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| ||2005: César Lattes dies ... physicist and academic. | | File:Desperately Hanging Chad.jpg|link=Desperately Hanging Chad|'''''[[Desperately Hanging Chad]]2001: Premiere of ''''', an American comedy documentary film about punched cards and electoral reform. |
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