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| ||1547: Rudolph Goclenius born ... philosopher and lexicographer. Pic.
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| File:Jean-Charles della Faille by Anthony van Dyck.jpg|link=Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|1597: Priest and mathematician [[Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles della Faille]] born. He will publish a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle. | | File:Jean-Charles della Faille by Anthony van Dyck.jpg|link=Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|1597: Priest and mathematician [[Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles della Faille]] born. He will publish a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle. |
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| File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1611: Mathematician [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] born. He will expand the scope of algebra in the theory of equations. | | File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1611: Mathematician [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] born. He will expand the scope of algebra in the theory of equations. |
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| ||1692: Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
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| ||1697: Francesco Redi dies ... physician and poet. Pic.
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| ||1829: Thomas Earnshaw dies ... watchmaker who, following John Arnold's earlier work, further simplified the process of marine chronometer production, making them available to the general public. He is also known for his improvements to the transit clock at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London and his invention of a chronometer escapement and a form of bimetallic compensation balance. Pic.
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| ||1859: Frederick Peterson born ... neurologist and poet. Peterson was at the forefront of psychoanalysis in the United States, publishing one of the first articles of Freud and Jung's theories of Free Association in 1909. Pic.
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| ||1862: Peter Barlow dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic.
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| ||1884: Isaac Todhunter dies ... mathematician and academic ... best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history. Pic.
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| ||1870: E. M. Antoniadi born ... astronomer and academic. Pic.
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| File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1871: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]], uses it to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1873: E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter. Pic.
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| ||1879: Robert Daniel Carmichael born ... mathematician ... known for his research in what are now called the Carmichael numbers (a subset of Fermat pseudoprimes, numbers satisfying properties of primes described by Fermat's Little Theorem although they are not primes), Carmichael's totient function conjecture, Carmichael's theorem, and the Carmichael function, all significant in number theory and in the study of the prime numbers. Pic: http://matematica.unibocconi.it/autore/robert-daniel-carmichael
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| ||1881: The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down due to a fire.
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| File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1893: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri. | | File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1893: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri. |
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| ||1896: Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay. Pic.
| | File:Castle_Bravo_mushroom_cloud.jpg|link=Castle Bravo (nonfiction)|1954: [[Castle Bravo (nonfiction)|Castle Bravo]], a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States. |
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| ||1908: Heinrich Maschke dies ... mathematician who proved Maschke's theorem. Pic.
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| ||1910: Archer Martin born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| ||1911: Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... highly influential theoretical chemist of his time, van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic.
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| ||1911: Harry Golombek born ... chess grandmaster, chess arbiter, chess author, and wartime codebreaker. Pic.
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| ||1912: Boris Chertok born ... rocket engineer and academic. Pic.
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| ||1913: Mario Pieri dies ... mathematician who is known for his work on foundations of geometry. Pic.
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| ||1914: Edwin J. Houston dies ... businessman, professor, consulting electrical engineer, inventor and author. Pic.
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| ||1915: Gustave Choquet born ... mathematician. His contributions include work in functional analysis, potential theory, topology and measure theory. He is known for creating the Choquet theory, the Choquet integral and the theory of capacities. Pic.
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| ||1917: The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
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| ||1925: Solomon Marcus born ... mathematician, member of the Mathematical Section of the Romanian Academy (full member since 2001) and emeritus professor of the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Mathematics. His main research was in the fields of mathematical analysis, mathematical and computational linguistics and computer science. Pic.
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| ||1936: The Hoover Dam is completed.
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| ||1943: Alexandre Yersin dies ... physician and bacteriologist. Pic.
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| ||1945: First test of the Bachem Ba 349 Natter (English: Colubrid, grass-snake), a World War II German point-defence rocket-powered interceptor, ends in the death of the test pilot, Lothar Sieber. Pic.
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| File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1945: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list. | |
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| ||1946: The Bank of England is nationalized.
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| ||1947: The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
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| ||1950: Alfred Korzybski dies ... mathematician, linguist, and philosopher. He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality. His best known dictum is "The map is not the territory". Pic.
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| |link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1950: Cold War: [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
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| ||1951: Sergei Kourdakov born ... Russian-American KGB agent. Pic.
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| ||1952: Mariano Azuela dies ... physician and author ... best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," and he influenced other Mexican novelists of social protest. Pic.
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| ||1954: Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
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| ||1956: The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
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| ||1966: Fritz Houtermans dies ... physicist and academic. Pic: http://blog.eag.eu.com/general/houtermans/
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| ||1966: Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
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| File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|1973: ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' released. It will go on to become one of the most successful albums ever. | | File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|1973: ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' released. It will go on to become one of the most successful albums ever. |
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| File:Humpty Dumpty At Bat.jpg|link=Humpty Dumpty At Bat|1974: Signed first edition of ''[[Humpty Dumpty At Bat]]'' sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against physical constants]]. | | File:Humpty Dumpty At Bat.jpg|link=Humpty Dumpty At Bat|1974: Signed first edition of ''[[Humpty Dumpty At Bat]]'' sells for "an undisclosed amount" to "a prominent Gnomon algorithm theorist from New Minneapolis, Canada during charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against physical constants. |
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| File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
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| File:Skip Digits, Conductor.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1974: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] performs benefit concert to raise money for the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|seven persons indicted for their roles in the Watergate scandal]].
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| ||1978: Kiyoshi Oka dies ... mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of several complex variables. Pic.
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| ||1990: Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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| ||1991: Edwin H. Land dies ... scientist and businessman, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation. Pic.
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| ||2003: Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
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| ||2003: Roger Michael Needham dies ... computer scientist. Pic.
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| ||2005: Sergio Campanato dies ... mathematician who studied the theory of regularity for elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sergio+Campanato
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| ||2015: Georg Kreisel dies ... mathematical logician. Pic: http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/112463880322/georg-kreisel-rip
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