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||1730: Jan Ingenhousz born ... physiologist, biologist and chemist. He is best known for discovering photosynthesis by showing that light is essential to the process by which green plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. He also discovered that plants, like animals, have cellular respiration. Pic.
||1730: Jan Ingenhousz born ... physiologist, biologist and chemist. He is best known for discovering photosynthesis by showing that light is essential to the process by which green plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. He also discovered that plants, like animals, have cellular respiration. Pic.
||1765: Eli Whitney born ... engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin. Pic.


||1795: Peter Andreas Hansen born ... astronomer and mathematician born. Pic.
||1795: Peter Andreas Hansen born ... astronomer and mathematician born. Pic.


||1807: Friedrich Traugott Kützing born ... pharmacist, botanist and phycologist ... diatoms v. desmids.
||1807: Friedrich Traugott Kützing born ... pharmacist, botanist and phycologist ... diatoms v. desmids. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Friedrich+Traugott+Kützing


||1818: Johan Gottlieb Gahn born ... chemist and metallurgist who discovered manganese in 1774. Pic.
||1818: Johan Gottlieb Gahn born ... chemist and metallurgist who discovered manganese in 1774. Pic.
File:Jacquard loom with two children and a dog (circa 1877).jpg|link=Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|1825: Children reprogram [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]] to compute new family of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] builds new type of [[scrying engine]].
File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1835: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] secretly prints first edition of ''[[The Adulteration of Bergamot]]''.


||1837: Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron born ... pioneer of color photography. He worked on developing practical processes for color photography on the three-color principle, using both additive and subtractive methods; and introduced the anaglyph stereoscopic print, the "red and blue glasses" type of 3-D print. Pic.
||1837: Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron born ... pioneer of color photography. He worked on developing practical processes for color photography on the three-color principle, using both additive and subtractive methods; and introduced the anaglyph stereoscopic print, the "red and blue glasses" type of 3-D print. Pic.
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File:Jacques Hadamard.jpg|link=Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|1865: Mathematician [[Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|Jacques Hadamard]] born.  He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
File:Jacques Hadamard.jpg|link=Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|1865: Mathematician [[Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|Jacques Hadamard]] born.  He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
||1886: Isaac Lea dies ... conchologist, geologist, and publisher. Pic.


||1894: Pafnuty Chebyshev dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.
||1894: Pafnuty Chebyshev dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.


||1894: E. C. Segar born ... cartoonist, created Popeye.
File:Pafnuty Chebyshev.jpg|link=Pafnuty Chebyshev (nonfiction)|1894: Mathematician and statistician [[Pafnuty Chebyshev (nonfiction)|Pafnuty Chebyshev]] dies. He proved Chebyshev's inequality (also called the Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality), which guarantees that, for a wide class of probability distributions, no more than a certain fraction of values can be more than a certain distance from the mean. 
 
||1894: E. C. Segar born ... cartoonist, created Popeye. Pic.
 
||1894: James Thurber born ... humorist and cartoonist. Pic.


||1894: James Thurber born ... humorist and cartoonist.
||1903: Herbert Spencer dies ... biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher. Pic.


||1903: Herbert Spencer dies ... biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher.
||1913: Delmore Schwartz born ... poet and short story writer. Pic.


||1913: Delmore Schwartz born ... poet and short story writer.
||1917: Arthur Matthew Weld Downing born ... astronomer. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Arthur+Matthew+Weld+Downing


||1919: Julia Robinson born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.
||1919: Julia Robinson born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.
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||1919: Kateryna Yushchenko born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic.
||1919: Kateryna Yushchenko born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic.


File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1932: US Navy raises flock of [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]].
||1925: Arnaldo Forlani born ... Italian politician, P2 scandal ... who served as the 43rd Prime Minister of Italy from 18 October 1980 to 28 June 1981. He also held the office of Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense.  Alive Dec. 2019. Pic.
 
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1932: US Navy accidentally releases a flock of [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]], which will form the nucleus of a feral squadron.


||1937: Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky killed ... theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath and neomartyr.
||1937: Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky killed ... theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath and neomartyr. Pic.


||1938: Jon Hal Folkman born ... mathematician, a student of John Milnor, and a researcher at the RAND Corporation. Pic: diagram.
||1938: Jon Hal Folkman born ... mathematician, a student of John Milnor, and a researcher at the RAND Corporation. Pic: diagram.
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File:Hermann Weyl.jpg|link=Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|Hermann Weyl]] dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.  
File:Hermann Weyl.jpg|link=Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|Hermann Weyl]] dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.  


||1960: Aaron Allston born ... game designer and author.
||1960: Aaron Allston born ... game designer and author. Pic.


||1961: Francesco Severi dies ... mathematician.
||1961: Francesco Severi dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1969: Philip S. Van Cise dies ... U.S. Army colonel, crimebusting district attorney, and private practice lawyer in Denver, Colorado. He is best known for arresting and prosecuting the notorious "Million-Dollar Bunco Ring" headed by Lou Blonger, a story he recounted in his book ''Fighting the Underworld''. No pic online.
||1969: Philip S. Van Cise dies ... U.S. Army colonel, crimebusting district attorney, and private practice lawyer in Denver, Colorado. He is best known for arresting and prosecuting the notorious "Million-Dollar Bunco Ring" headed by Lou Blonger, a story he recounted in his book ''Fighting the Underworld''. No pic online.
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||2004: Gravity Probe B (GP-B) decommissioned ... a satellite-based mission which launched on 20 April 2004 on a Delta II rocket. The spaceflight phase lasted until 2005; its aim was to measure spacetime curvature near Earth, and thereby the stress–energy tensor (which is related to the distribution and the motion of matter in space) in and near Earth. This provided a test of general relativity, gravitomagnetism and related models. Pic.
||2004: Gravity Probe B (GP-B) decommissioned ... a satellite-based mission which launched on 20 April 2004 on a Delta II rocket. The spaceflight phase lasted until 2005; its aim was to measure spacetime curvature near Earth, and thereby the stress–energy tensor (which is related to the distribution and the motion of matter in space) in and near Earth. This provided a test of general relativity, gravitomagnetism and related models. Pic.


||2013: John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
||2013: John Cornforth dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:Green Spiral 5.jpg|link=Green Spiral 5 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Green Spiral 5 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 5]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
||2016: Mathematician and academic Mark Pinsky dies ... probability theory, mathematical analysis, Fourier Analysis and wavelets. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=mark+pinsky+mathematician


|File:Weyl semimetal diagram.png|link=Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|2017: First use of [[Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|Weyl semimetal crystals]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Weyl semimetal diagram.png|link=Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|2017: First use of [[Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|Weyl semimetal crystals]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].

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  • 1844: Scientist, inventor, and educator Charles-Émile Reynaud born. He will invent the Praxinoscope (an improved zoetrope) and be responsible for the first projected animated films.

    1844: Scientist, inventor, and educator Charles-Émile Reynaud born. He will invent the Praxinoscope (an improved zoetrope) and be responsible for the first projected animated films.

  • 1864: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole dies. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.

    1864: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole dies. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.

  • 1865: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard born. He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.

    1865: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard born. He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.

  • 1894: Mathematician and statistician Pafnuty Chebyshev dies. He proved Chebyshev's inequality (also called the Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality), which guarantees that, for a wide class of probability distributions, no more than a certain fraction of values can be more than a certain distance from the mean.

    1894: Mathematician and statistician Pafnuty Chebyshev dies. He proved Chebyshev's inequality (also called the Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality), which guarantees that, for a wide class of probability distributions, no more than a certain fraction of values can be more than a certain distance from the mean.

  • 1932: US Navy accidentally releases a flock of Carnivorous dirigibles, which will form the nucleus of a feral squadron.

    1932: US Navy accidentally releases a flock of Carnivorous dirigibles, which will form the nucleus of a feral squadron.

  • 1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.

    1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.

  • 2001: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer Betty Holberton dies. She was one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and was the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging.

    2001: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer Betty Holberton dies. She was one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and was the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging.

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