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||1440: Hartmann Schedel born ... physician, humanist, historian, and one of the first cartographers to use the printing press.  Pic: illustration.
||1440: Hartmann Schedel born ... physician, humanist, historian, and one of the first cartographers to use the printing press.  Pic: illustration.


||1523: Valentin Naboth born ... astronomer and mathematician.
||1523: Valentin Naboth born ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic: book cover.


||1633: Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
||1616: Priest and historian Anders Sørensen Vedel dies. He translated the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus into Danish in 1575, and published the influential "Hundredvisebogen" in 1591. Tutor of Tycho Brahe. Pic.
 
||1633: Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. TO_DO


||1672: Étienne François Geoffroy born ... physician and chemist. Pic.
||1672: Étienne François Geoffroy born ... physician and chemist. Pic.


||1728: John Hunter born ... surgeon and anatomist.
||1728: John Hunter born ... surgeon and anatomist. Pic.


File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1787: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] dies. He was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1787: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] dies. Boscovich was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.


File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1805: Mathematician [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]] born. He will important make contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet will be one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.
||1804: French Army officer and inventor Claude-Etienne Minié born. He will gain fame for solving the problem of designing a reliable muzzle-loading rifle by inventing the Minié ball in 1846, and the Minié rifle in 1849. Pic.


||1852: John Louis Emil Dreyer born ... astronomer.
File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1805: Mathematician [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]] born. Dirichlet will important make contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. He will also be one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.


File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1835: Mathematician, scholar, and crime-fighter [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]] helps mathematician Peter Dirichlet break up [[math crime]] gang.
||1852: John Louis Emil Dreyer born ... astronomer. Pic.


||1865: Dugald Caleb Jackson born ... electrical engineer. He received the IEEE Edison Medal for "outstanding and inspiring leadership in engineering education and in the field of generation and distribution of electric power".
||1865: Dugald C. Jackson born ... electrical engineer. He received the IEEE Edison Medal for "outstanding and inspiring leadership in engineering education and in the field of generation and distribution of electric power". Pic.


||1865: Theodor Kober born ... aviation engineer who contributed to the building of the first Zeppelin. Pic: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Kober
||1865: Theodor Kober born ... aviation engineer who contributed to the building of the first Zeppelin. Pic: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Kober


||1880: Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
||1880: Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect. TO_DO
 
||1883: Mathematician Henry Wilbraham dies. He is known for discovering and explaining the Gibbs phenomenon nearly fifty years before J. Willard Gibbs did. Gibbs and Maxime Bôcher, as well as nearly everyone else, were unaware of Wilbraham's work on the Gibbs phenomenon. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=henry+wilbraham


||1900: Abraham Plessner born ... mathematician. He published a paper containing what is now called Plessner's theorem, concerning the boundary behavior of functions meromorphic in the unit disk. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Abraham-E-Plessner/6000000000601380840
||1900: Abraham Plessner born ... mathematician. He published a paper containing what is now called Plessner's theorem, concerning the boundary behavior of functions meromorphic in the unit disk. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Abraham-E-Plessner/6000000000601380840
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File:William Shockley.jpg|link=William Shockley (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist and inventor [[William Shockley (nonfiction)|William Shockley]] born. He will share the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the [[Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|point-contact transistor]].  
File:William Shockley.jpg|link=William Shockley (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist and inventor [[William Shockley (nonfiction)|William Shockley]] born. He will share the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the [[Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|point-contact transistor]].  


File:David Hilbert.jpg|link=David Hilbert (nonfiction)|1911: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[David Hilbert (nonfiction)|David Hilbert]] publishes new synthesis of invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry which detects and prevents [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1919: William Nierenberg born ... physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1965 through 1986. Pic.


||1919: William Aaron Nierenberg born ... physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1965 through 1986. Pic.
||1923: Chuck Yeager born ... American general and pilot; first test pilot to break the sound barrier. (Alive July 2019.) Pic.
 
||1923: Chuck Yeager born ... American general and pilot; first test pilot to break the sound barrier


File:Fay Ajzenberg-Selove.jpg|link=Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (nonfiction)|1926: Nuclear physicist [[Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (nonfiction)|Fay Ajzenberg-Selove]] born. She will do 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)|1926: Nuclear physicist [[Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (nonfiction)|Fay Ajzenberg-Selove]] born. She will do important experimental work in nuclear spectroscopy of light elements, authoring annual reviews of the energy levels of light atomic nuclei.
File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1933: Physicist and engineer [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]] uses radio astronomy antenna to detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants]].


||1947: Erich Hecke dies ... mathematician. Pic.
||1947: Erich Hecke dies ... mathematician. Pic.
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||1961: An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
||1961: An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.


File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg|link=Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1956: Mathematician and philosopher [[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]] dies.  He thought innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle.
File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg|link=Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1956: Mathematician and philosopher [[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]] dies.  Łukasiewicz' innovative thinking about the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle extended the bounds of traditional propositional logic.
 
File:Canopic Snickers Really Immortalizes.jpg|link=Canopic Snickers|1963: Discovery of '''[[Canopic Snickers]]''' an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which manifests itself as an ancient Egyptian candy bar with alleged life extension properties.


||1967: American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
||1967: American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain. TO_DO


||1974: Sagittarius A* discovered.  It is a bright and very compact astronomical radio source at the center of the Milky Way, near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius. It is part of a larger astronomical feature known as Sagittarius A. Sagittarius A* is thought to be the location of a supermassive black hole, like those that are now generally accepted to be at the centers of most spiral and elliptical galaxies.
||1974: Sagittarius A* discovered.  It is a bright and very compact astronomical radio source at the center of the Milky Way, near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius. It is part of a larger astronomical feature known as Sagittarius A. Sagittarius A* is thought to be the location of a supermassive black hole, like those that are now generally accepted to be at the centers of most spiral and elliptical galaxies.
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||1980: Marian Adam Rejewski dies ... mathematician and cryptologist who reconstructed the Nazi German military Enigma cipher machine sight-unseen in 1932. The cryptologic achievements of Rejewski and colleagues Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski enabled the British to begin reading German Enigma-encrypted messages at the start of World War II.  Pic.
||1980: Marian Adam Rejewski dies ... mathematician and cryptologist who reconstructed the Nazi German military Enigma cipher machine sight-unseen in 1932. The cryptologic achievements of Rejewski and colleagues Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski enabled the British to begin reading German Enigma-encrypted messages at the start of World War II.  Pic.


||1992: Nikolay Bogolyubov dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. His method of teaching, based on creation of a warm atmosphere, politeness and kindness, is famous in Russia and is known as the "Bogoliubov approach".
File:Nikolay_Bogolyubov.jpg|link=Nikolay Bogolyubov (nonfiction)|1992: Mathematician and physicist [[Nikolay Bogolyubov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Bogolyubov]] dies. His method of teaching, based on creation of a warm atmosphere, politeness, and kindness, is renowned in Russia as the "Bogolyubov approach".


||1997: Robert Klark Graham dies ... eugenicist and businessman (b. 1906)
||1997: Robert Klark Graham dies ... eugenicist and businessman. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+klark+graham


||1997: Mark Krasnosel'skii dies ... mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
||1997: Mark Krasnosel'skii dies ... mathematician and academic ... nonlinear functional analysis and its applications. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mark+Krasnosel%27skii


|File:Sir Tony Hoare 2011.jpg|link=Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|1997: Computer scientist and crime-fighter [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Sir Tony Hoare 2011.jpg|link=Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|1997: Computer scientist and crime-fighter [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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||2016: Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman FRS dies ... mathematician, known for his work in geometric topology and singularity theory. Pic.
||2016: Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman FRS dies ... mathematician, known for his work in geometric topology and singularity theory. Pic.


File:Pale Blue Dot.png|link=Pale Blue Dot (nonfiction)|2017: Steganographic analysis of the famous ''[[Pale Blue Dot (nonfiction)|Pale Blue Dot]]'' photograph unexpectedly reveals "nearly a terabyte" of encrypted data.


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  • 1787: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich dies. Boscovich was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.

    1787: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich dies. Boscovich was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.

  • 1805: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet born. Dirichlet will important make contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. He will also be one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

    1805: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet born. Dirichlet will important make contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. He will also be one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

  • 1910: Physicist and inventor William Shockley born. He will share the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the point-contact transistor.

    1910: Physicist and inventor William Shockley born. He will share the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the point-contact transistor.

  • 1926: Nuclear physicist Fay Ajzenberg-Selove born. She will do important experimental work in nuclear spectroscopy of light elements, authoring annual reviews of the energy levels of light atomic nuclei.

    1926: Nuclear physicist Fay Ajzenberg-Selove born. She will do important experimental work in nuclear spectroscopy of light elements, authoring annual reviews of the energy levels of light atomic nuclei.

  • 1956: Mathematician and philosopher Jan Łukasiewicz dies. Łukasiewicz' innovative thinking about the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle extended the bounds of traditional propositional logic.

    1956: Mathematician and philosopher Jan Łukasiewicz dies. Łukasiewicz' innovative thinking about the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle extended the bounds of traditional propositional logic.

  • 1963: Discovery of Canopic Snickers an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which manifests itself as an ancient Egyptian candy bar with alleged life extension properties.

    1963: Discovery of Canopic Snickers an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which manifests itself as an ancient Egyptian candy bar with alleged life extension properties.

  • 1992: Mathematician and physicist Nikolay Bogolyubov dies. His method of teaching, based on creation of a warm atmosphere, politeness, and kindness, is renowned in Russia as the "Bogolyubov approach".

    1992: Mathematician and physicist Nikolay Bogolyubov dies. His method of teaching, based on creation of a warm atmosphere, politeness, and kindness, is renowned in Russia as the "Bogolyubov approach".

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