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||117: Trajan dies ... Roman emperor from 98 to 117. Officially declared by the Senate optimus princeps ("the best ruler"), Trajan is remembered as a successful soldier-emperor who presided over the greatest military expansion in Roman history, leading the empire to attain its maximum territorial extent by the time of his death. He is also known for his philanthropic rule, overseeing extensive public building programs and implementing social welfare policies, which earned him his enduring reputation as the second of the Five Good Emperors. Pic: bust.


||1492: Matteo Tafuri born ... alchemist. Pic: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo_Tafuri
||1492: Matteo Tafuri born ... alchemist. Pic: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo_Tafuri
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File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1555: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] dies. He was imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]].
File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1555: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] dies. He was imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]].
File:Gilbert terrella.png|link=Terrella (nonfiction)|1575: Physician, physicist, and crime-fighter uses his experimental [[Terrella (nonfiction)|Terrella]] to stop alleged math criminal [[Anarchimedes]] from sabotaging the construction of Tycho Brahe's [[Uraniborg (nonfiction)|Uraniborg observatory]].


File:Uraniborg main building.jpg|link=Uraniborg (nonfiction)|1576: The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's [[Uraniborg (nonfiction)|Uraniborg observatory]] is laid on the island of Hven.
File:Uraniborg main building.jpg|link=Uraniborg (nonfiction)|1576: The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's [[Uraniborg (nonfiction)|Uraniborg observatory]] is laid on the island of Hven.
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||1694: Antoine Arnauld dies ... was a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher and mathematician. Pic.
||1694: Antoine Arnauld dies ... was a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher and mathematician. Pic.


||1748: Johann Friedrich Gmelin born ... naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist.
||1748: Johann Friedrich Gmelin born ... naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist. Pic.


||1779: Benjamin Silliman born ... chemist and science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science, at Yale College, the first person to distill petroleum in America, and a founder of the American Journal of Science, the oldest continuously published scientific journal in the United States. Pic.
||1779: Benjamin Silliman born ... chemist and science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science, at Yale College, the first person to distill petroleum in America, and a founder of the American Journal of Science, the oldest continuously published scientific journal in the United States. Pic.
File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1872: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" [[Wallace War-Heels]] defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat.


File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1873: Scientist, inventor, and engineer [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] dies. He was knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.
File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1873: Scientist, inventor, and engineer [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] dies. He was knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.


||1876: Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
||1876: Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. TO_DO


||1879: Bob Smith born ... physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous.
||1879: Bob Smith born ... physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous.


File:Edward Frankland.jpg|link=Edward Frankland (nonfiction)|1880: Chemist and crime-fighter [[Edward Frankland (nonfiction)|Edward Frankland]] gives landmark lecture on applications of [[Gnomon algorithm]] theory to the detection and prevention of organometallic [[crimes against chemistry]], introducing the concept of combining power or valence.
||1896: George Dawson Preston born ... physicist specializing in crystallography and the structure of alloys. He was one of the first to use x-rays and electron diffraction to study the crystal structure of metals and alloys. He gives his name to the Guinier-Preston zone, discovered in 1938. Pic search.
 
||1896: George Dawson Preston born ... physicist specializing in crystallography and the structure of alloys. He was one of the first to use x-rays and electron diffraction to study the crystal structure of metals and alloys. He gives his name to the Guinier-Preston zone, discovered in 1938. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Dawson+Preston


||1897: Viktor Meyer dies ... chemist and significant contributor to both organic and inorganic chemistry. He is best known for inventing an apparatus for determining vapour densities, the Viktor Meyer apparatus, and for discovering thiophene, a heterocyclic compound. Pic.
||1897: Viktor Meyer dies ... chemist and significant contributor to both organic and inorganic chemistry. He is best known for inventing an apparatus for determining vapour densities, the Viktor Meyer apparatus, and for discovering thiophene, a heterocyclic compound. Pic.
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||1902: Paul Dirac born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1902: Paul Dirac born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1921: Edwin Henry Spanier dies ... mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley, working in algebraic topology. He co-invented Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology, and wrote what was for a long time the standard textbook on algebraic topology
File:Edwin_Henry_Spanier_(1986).jpg|link=Edwin Spanier (nonfiction)|1921: Mathematician and academic [[Edwin Spanier (nonfiction)|Edwin Spanier]] born. Spanier will contribut to algebraic topology, co-inventing Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology; also, his book on algebraic topology will become a standard textbook of its day.


||1929: The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
||1929: The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
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||1979: Jacob Lionel Bakst Cooper dies ... mathematician who worked in operator theory, transform theory, thermodynamics, functional analysis and differential equations. Pic.
||1979: Jacob Lionel Bakst Cooper dies ... mathematician who worked in operator theory, transform theory, thermodynamics, functional analysis and differential equations. Pic.


||1987: Danilo Blanuša dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=danilo+blanuša&oq=Danilo+Blanuša
||1987: Danilo Blanuša dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic search.


||1989: Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
||1989: Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.


||1996: Nevill Francis Mott dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1996: Nevill Francis Mott dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1998: Laszlo Szabo dies ... chess player. Pic (chess!).


File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|2000: Confederate submarine [[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]] is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|2000: Confederate submarine [[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]] is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
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File:Fay Ajzenberg-Selove.jpg|link=Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (nonfiction)|2012: Nuclear physicist [[Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (nonfiction)|Fay Ajzenberg-Selove]] dies. She did important experimental work in nuclear spectroscopy of light elements, authoring annual reviews of the energy levels of light atomic nuclei.
File:Fay Ajzenberg-Selove.jpg|link=Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (nonfiction)|2012: Nuclear physicist [[Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (nonfiction)|Fay Ajzenberg-Selove]] dies. She did important experimental work in nuclear spectroscopy of light elements, authoring annual reviews of the energy levels of light atomic nuclei.
File:Blue Green Spiral.jpg|link=Blue Green Spiral (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Blue Green Spiral (nonfiction)|Blue Green Spiral]]'' reveals "at least five hundred and twelve kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].


||2016: Klaus Weber dies ... scientist who made many fundamentally important contributions to biochemistry, cell biology, and molecular biology. Pic.
||2016: Klaus Weber dies ... scientist who made many fundamentally important contributions to biochemistry, cell biology, and molecular biology. Pic.
File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|2017: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for two million dollars in charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


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  • 1555: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé dies. He was imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing judicial astrology.

    1555: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé dies. He was imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing judicial astrology.

  • 1576: The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven.

    1576: The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven.

  • 1873: Scientist, inventor, and engineer Francis Ronalds dies. He was knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.

    1873: Scientist, inventor, and engineer Francis Ronalds dies. He was knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.

  • 1900: David Hilbert delivers his famous "Mathematical problems" address: "We hear within us the perpetual call: There is a problem. Seek its solution. You can find it by pure reason, for in mathematics there is no 'ignorabimus'."

    1900: David Hilbert delivers his famous "Mathematical problems" address: "We hear within us the perpetual call: There is a problem. Seek its solution. You can find it by pure reason, for in mathematics there is no 'ignorabimus'."

  • 1921: Mathematician and academic Edwin Spanier born. Spanier will contribut to algebraic topology, co-inventing Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology; also, his book on algebraic topology will become a standard textbook of its day.

    1921: Mathematician and academic Edwin Spanier born. Spanier will contribut to algebraic topology, co-inventing Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology; also, his book on algebraic topology will become a standard textbook of its day.

  • 1957: A day after the Stokes nuclear weapon test, large numbers of carnivorous dirigibles unexpectedly die.

    1957: A day after the Stokes nuclear weapon test, large numbers of carnivorous dirigibles unexpectedly die.

  • 1974: President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.

    1974: President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.

  • 2000: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.

    2000: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.

  • 2001: NASA launches its unmanned spacecraft Genesis. The return capsule will crash-land in Utah on September 8, 2004, after a design flaw prevents the deployment of its drogue parachute.

    2001: NASA launches its unmanned spacecraft Genesis. The return capsule will crash-land in Utah on September 8, 2004, after a design flaw prevents the deployment of its drogue parachute.

  • 2012: Nuclear physicist Fay Ajzenberg-Selove dies. She did important experimental work in nuclear spectroscopy of light elements, authoring annual reviews of the energy levels of light atomic nuclei.

    2012: Nuclear physicist Fay Ajzenberg-Selove dies. She did important experimental work in nuclear spectroscopy of light elements, authoring annual reviews of the energy levels of light atomic nuclei.

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