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||1584: Grégoire de Saint-Vincent born ... Jesuit and mathematician. He is remembered for his work on quadrature of the hyperbola. Grégoire gave the "clearest early account of the summation of geometric series." He also resolved Zeno's paradox by showing that the time intervals involved formed a geometric progression and thus had a finite sum. Pic. Challenge AMA says born Sept. 9. Pic.
||1584: Grégoire de Saint-Vincent born ... Jesuit and mathematician. He is remembered for his work on quadrature of the hyperbola. Grégoire gave the "clearest early account of the summation of geometric series." He also resolved Zeno's paradox by showing that the time intervals involved formed a geometric progression and thus had a finite sum. Pic. Challenge AMA says born Sept. 9. Pic.


File:Marin Mersenne.jpg|link=Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|1588: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher [[Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|Marin Mersenne]] born. He will be remembered as the "father of acoustics".
File:Marin Mersenne.jpg|link=Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|1588: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher [[Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|Marin Mersenne]] born. He will be remembered as the "father of acoustics".
File:Adriaan Metius.jpg|link=Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|1635: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|Adriaan Metius]] manufactures precision optical instruments for detecting and preventing [[crimes against astronomical constants]].


File:Robert Fludd.jpg|link=Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]] dies.
File:Robert Fludd.jpg|link=Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]] dies.
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||1761: Bernard Forest de Bélidor dies ... mathematician and engineer. Pic.
||1761: Bernard Forest de Bélidor dies ... mathematician and engineer. Pic.


||1836: Arthur Williams Wright born ... physicist. His research, which ranged from electricity to astronomy, produced the first X-ray image and experimented with Röntgen rays.  Pic.
File:Arthur_Williams_Wright.jpg|link=Arthur Williams Wright (nonfiction)|1836: Physicist [[Arthur Williams Wright (nonfiction)|Arthur Williams Wright]] born. Wright will produce the first X-ray image, experiment with Röntgen rays, and make other contributions to electricity and astronomy.


||1848: Viktor Meyer born ... 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.
||1848: Viktor Meyer born ... 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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||1883: The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
||1883: The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.


||1888: In Spain, the first travel of Isaac Peral's submarine, was the first practical submarine ever made.
||1888: In Spain, the first travel of Isaac Peral's submarine, was the first practical submarine ever made. Pic.


||1894: Hermann von Helmholtz dies ... physician and physicist. Pic.
||1894: Hermann von Helmholtz dies ... physician and physicist. Pic.


||1904: Karl Hessenberg born ... mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=karl+hessenberg
||1897: Jimmy Rodgers born. Pic.
 
||1904: Karl Hessenberg born ... mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. Pic search.


||1914: William Lofland Dudley dies ... chemistry professor. Pic.
||1914: William Lofland Dudley dies ... chemistry professor. Pic.
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||1915: Yehoshua Bar-Hillel born ... philosopher, mathematician, and linguist. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in machine translation and formal linguistics. Pic.
||1915: Yehoshua Bar-Hillel born ... philosopher, mathematician, and linguist. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in machine translation and formal linguistics. Pic.


||1918: Derek Barton, born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1918: Derek Barton, born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic search.


||1923: Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
||1923: Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
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||1930: 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
||1930: 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.


||1935: Carl Weiss dies ... physician ... Assassin of Huey Long
||1935: Carl Weiss dies ... physician ... Assassin of Huey Long.


||1938: Derrick Norman Lehmer dies ... mathematician and number theorist. Pic.
||1938: Derrick Norman Lehmer dies ... mathematician and number theorist. Pic.


||1944: World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
||1944: World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
File:Edward Teller 1958.jpg|link=Edward Teller (nonfiction)|1959: While vacationing in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]], theoretical physicist [[Edward Teller (nonfiction)|Edward Teller]] visits the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse, where he engages the owners in a spirited debate on the merits of thermonuclear war.


||1960: In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
||1960: In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
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||1966: The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".
||1966: The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".


||1970: Percy Spencer dies ... engineer, invented the microwave oven. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Percy+Spencer
||1970: Percy Spencer dies ... engineer, invented the microwave oven. Pic search.
 
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1973: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for his next film by selling shares in the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|pardoning of Richard Nixon]].


File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: As a direct result of the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]], Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: As a direct result of the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]], Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.


File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he is "confident that President Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon."
||1979: Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan born ... physicist and academic ... will be assassinated ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists Pic search.
 
||1979: Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan born ... physicist and academic ... will be assassinated ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mostafa+Ahmadi-Roshan


||1980: Willard Libby dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1980: Willard Libby dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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||1981: Hideki Yukawa dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1981: Hideki Yukawa dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1988: Joseph Algernon Pearce dies ... astrophysicist and astronomer. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph+Algernon+Pearce
||1988: Joseph Algernon Pearce dies ... astrophysicist and astronomer. Pic search.


File:Genesis spacecraft in collection mode.jpg|link=Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft ''[[Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Genesis]]'' crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
File:Genesis spacecraft in collection mode.jpg|link=Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft ''[[Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Genesis]]'' crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
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||2009: Aage Bohr dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||2009: Aage Bohr dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
   
   
||2010: George Christopher Williams dies ... evolutionary biologist.
||2010: George C. Williams dies ... evolutionary biologist. Pic.
 
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2013: [[Rhizolith Group]] performs new work in remembrance of mathematician [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]].


File:Mad King.jpg|link=Mad King (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Mad King (nonfiction)|Mad King]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiments unexpectedly generates a clone of artist [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]].
||2016: OSIRIS-REx launched — NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission. Pic.


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  • 1588: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne born. He will be remembered as the "father of acoustics".

    1588: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne born. He will be remembered as the "father of acoustics".

  • 1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd dies.

    1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd dies.

  • 1836: Physicist Arthur Williams Wright born. Wright will produce the first X-ray image, experiment with Röntgen rays, and make other contributions to electricity and astronomy.

    1836: Physicist Arthur Williams Wright born. Wright will produce the first X-ray image, experiment with Röntgen rays, and make other contributions to electricity and astronomy.

  • 1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

    1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

  • 2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.

    2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.

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