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||1511: Michael Servetus born ... physician, cartographer, and theologian. Pic.
||1511: Michael Servetus born ... physician, cartographer, and theologian. Pic.


File:Title page of the Astrolabium of Johannes Engel, printed by Johann Emerich, Venice 1494.jpg|link=Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]] dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
File:Title page of the Astrolabium of Johannes Engel, printed by Johann Emerich, Venice 1494.jpg|link=Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]] dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
||1547: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra born ... widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. His novel ''Don Quixote'' has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects; it is, after the Bible, the most-translated book in the world. Pic.


||1561: Adriaan van Roomen born ... priest and mathematician. Pic: book cover.
||1561: Adriaan van Roomen born ... priest and mathematician. Pic: book cover.
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||1803: Jacques Charles François Sturm born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jacques+Charles+François+Sturm
||1803: Jacques Charles François Sturm born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jacques+Charles+François+Sturm


||1838: Pierre-Dominique Bazaine dies. -scientist and engineer.  
||1838: Scientist and engineer Pierre-Dominique Bazaine dies. Pic.
 
||1853: Luther D. Bradley born ... illustrator and political cartoonist associated with the Chicago Daily News ... known for strong anti-war sentiments, opposing U.S. involvement in World War I. Pic.


||1885: The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
||1885: The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
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||1895: Harold Hotelling born ... mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics. Pic.
||1895: Harold Hotelling born ... mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics. Pic.


||1895: Joseph Banks Rhine born ... botanist and parapsychologist.
||1895: Joseph Banks Rhine born ... botanist and parapsychologist. Rhine who founded parapsychology as a branch of psychology, founding the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the Journal of Parapsychology, the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, and the Parapsychological Association. Pic.


||1898: Trofim Denisovich Lysenko born ... agronomist and biologist. Lysenko was a strong proponent of soft inheritance and rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of pseudoscientific ideas termed Lysenkoism. Pic.
||1898: Trofim Denisovich Lysenko born ... agronomist and biologist. Lysenko was a strong proponent of soft inheritance and rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of pseudoscientific ideas termed Lysenkoism. Pic.
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File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1901: Physicist [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] born.  He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1901: Physicist [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] born.  He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".


||1913: Rudolf Diesel dies ... engineer, invented the diesel engine.
||1902: Howard Walter Gilmore born - submarine commander in the United States Navy who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his self-sacrifice during World War II. Pic.
 
||1913: Rudolf Diesel dies ... engineer, invented the diesel engine. Pic.


||1920: Peter Mitchell born ... biochemist who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the chemiosmotic mechanism of ATP synthesis. Pic.
||1920: Peter Mitchell born ... biochemist who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the chemiosmotic mechanism of ATP synthesis. Pic.


||1925: Paul B. MacCready Jr. born ... aeronautical engineer. He was the founder of AeroVironment and the designer of the human-powered aircraft that won the first Kremer prize. He devoted his life to developing more efficient transportation vehicles that could "Do more with less". Pic.
||1925: Paul B. MacCready Jr. born ... aeronautical engineer. He was the founder of AeroVironment and the designer of the human-powered aircraft that won the first Kremer prize. He devoted his life to developing more efficient transportation vehicles that could "Do more with less". Pic.
||1927: Willem Einthoven dies ... physician, physiologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.  He invented the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) in 1895 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924 for it ("for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram"). Pic.


||1928: Ernst Steinitz dies ... mathematician. Pic: https://ztfnews.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/%EF%BB%BFernst-steinitz%EF%BB%BF-1871-1928/
||1928: Ernst Steinitz dies ... mathematician. Pic: https://ztfnews.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/%EF%BB%BFernst-steinitz%EF%BB%BF-1871-1928/
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||1954: The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
||1954: The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1957: Industrialist and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] authorizes the [[Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)]].


File:Kyshtym disaster map.png|link=Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)|1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See [[Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)]].
File:Kyshtym disaster map.png|link=Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)|1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See [[Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)]].


File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1957: Investor and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] tell resporters that he "had nothing to do with the [[Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)]]."
||1974: Carl B. Allendoerfer dies ... mathematician in the mid-twentieth century, known for his work in topology and mathematics education. Pic.


||Carl Barnett Allendoerfer (d. September 29, 1974) was an American mathematician in the mid-twentieth century, known for his work in topology and mathematics education.
||1983: R. G. D. Allen born ... economist, mathematician, and statistician. Pic.


||Beniamin Markarian (died 29 September 1985 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR) was an Armenian astrophysicist. Markarian's Chain (of galaxies) was named after him when he discovered that this string of galaxies moves with a common motion.  Pic.
||1985: Beniamin Markarian dies ... astrophysicist. Markarian's Chain (of galaxies) was named after him when he discovered that this string of galaxies moves with a common motion.  Pic.


||1988: Charles Addams dies ... cartoonist.
||1988: Charles Addams dies ... cartoonist. Pic.


||2007: Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
||2007: Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
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||2010: Georges Charpak dies ... physicist from a Jewish family who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992. Pic.
||2010: Georges Charpak dies ... physicist from a Jewish family who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992. Pic.


||2013: Harold Agnew dies ... physicist and engineer.
||2013: Harold Agnew dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
 
File:Two Creatures 3.jpg|link=Two Creatures 3 (nonfiction)|2015: ''[[Two Creatures 3 (nonfiction)|Two Creatures 3]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.

    1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.

  • 1901: Physicist Enrico Fermi born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".

    1901: Physicist Enrico Fermi born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".

  • 1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).

    1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).

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