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File:Niccolò Zucchi.png|link=Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|1586: Astronomer and physicist [[Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|Niccolò Zucchi]] born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.
File:Niccolò Zucchi.png|link=Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|1586: Astronomer and physicist [[Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|Niccolò Zucchi]] born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1607: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and counteract [[geometry solvent]].


||1682: Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi born ... mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals.  Pic: book cover.
||1682: Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi born ... mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals.  Pic: book cover.
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||1876: Fred Duesenberg born ... businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company.
||1876: Fred Duesenberg born ... businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company.
||1879: Erastus Brigham Bigelow dies ... inventor, weaving machines. Pic.


||1884: Heinrich Scholz born ... logician, philosopher, and Protestant theologian. Pic.
||1884: Heinrich Scholz born ... logician, philosopher, and Protestant theologian. Pic.
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||1897: London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
||1897: London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.


||1900: George Eugene Uhlenbeck born ... theoretical physicist.
||1900: George Uhlenbeck born ... theoretical physicist. Pic.
 
||1901: Eliot Porter born ... photographer, chemist, and academic. Pic search.


||1904: Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
||1904: Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
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||1908: Herta Freitag born ... mathematician known for her work on the Fibonacci numbers. Pic.
||1908: Herta Freitag born ... mathematician known for her work on the Fibonacci numbers. Pic.


||1916: John L. Kelley born ... mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis.
||1916: John L. Kelley born ... mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis. Pic.


||1917: Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
||1917: Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
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||1928: The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
||1928: The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
||1931: John Evan Baldwin born ... contributed to the development of interferometry in Radio Astronomy, and later astronomical optical interferometry and lucky imaging; and made the first maps of the radio emission from the Andromeda Galaxy. Pic.


||1933: U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel ''Ulysses'' is not obscene.
||1933: U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel ''Ulysses'' is not obscene.
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||1949: Doug Marlette born ... author and cartoonist.
||1949: Doug Marlette born ... author and cartoonist.
||1952: Lilian Vaughan Morgan dies ... experimental biologist who made seminal contributions to the genetics of Drosophila melanogaster, which cemented its status as one of the most powerful model systems in biology. Pic.


||1953: Frans Michel Penning dies ... experimental physicist. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1923, and studied low pressure gas discharges at the Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, developing new electron tubes during World War II. Pic.
||1953: Frans Michel Penning dies ... experimental physicist. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1923, and studied low pressure gas discharges at the Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, developing new electron tubes during World War II. Pic.
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File:Erhard Schmidt.jpg|link=Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|1959: Mathematician [[Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|Erhard Schmidt]] dies. He made important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.
File:Erhard Schmidt.jpg|link=Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|1959: Mathematician [[Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|Erhard Schmidt]] dies. He made important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.
File:Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin.jpg|link=Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|1960: Astronomer, astrophysicist, and criminal investigator [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]] publishes new theory of stellar metallicity which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants]].


||1963: Archibald Henderson dies ... professor of mathematics who wrote on a variety of subjects, including drama and history. He is well known for his friendship with George Bernard Shaw. Pic.
||1963: Archibald Henderson dies ... professor of mathematics who wrote on a variety of subjects, including drama and history. He is well known for his friendship with George Bernard Shaw. Pic.


||1967: George Elbert Kimball dies ... professor of quantum chemistry, and a pioneer of operations research algorithms during World War II. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Elbert+Kimball
||1967: George Elbert Kimball dies ... professor of quantum chemistry, and a pioneer of operations research algorithms during World War II. Pic search.


||1973: Joseph L. Walsh dies ... mathematician who worked mainly in the field of analysis. The Walsh function and the Walsh–Hadamard code are named after him. The Grace–Walsh–Szegő coincidence theorem is important in the study of the location of the zeros of multivariate polynomials. Pic.
||1973: Joseph L. Walsh dies ... mathematician who worked mainly in the field of analysis. The Walsh function and the Walsh–Hadamard code are named after him. The Grace–Walsh–Szegő coincidence theorem is important in the study of the location of the zeros of multivariate polynomials. Pic.
||1974: Robert Ludvigovich Bartini dies ... aircraft designer and scientist, involved in the development of numerous successful and experimental aircraft projects. A pioneer of amphibious aircraft and ground effect vehicles, Bartini was one of the most famous engineers in the Soviet Union. Pic search.


||1980: Charles Deutsch dies ... engineer and businessman, co-founded DB.
||1980: Charles Deutsch dies ... engineer and businessman, co-founded DB.


||1990: Mathematician Lev Kaluznin dies. He contributed to group theory and abstract groups, notably the Sylow p-subgroups of symmetric groups; he also worked on mathematical linguistics and computer algebra. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lev+Kaluznin
||1990: Mathematician Lev Kaluznin dies. He contributed to group theory and abstract groups, notably the Sylow p-subgroups of symmetric groups; he also worked on mathematical linguistics and computer algebra. Pic search.


||2005: Richard Grimsdale dies ... electrical engineer and computer pioneer who helped to design the world's first transistorized computer. Pic: https://www.eg.org/wp/obituaries/
||2005: Richard Grimsdale dies ... electrical engineer and computer pioneer who helped to design the world's first transistorized computer. Pic: https://www.eg.org/wp/obituaries/
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File:Mars Global Surveyor.jpg|link=Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|2006: NASA reveals photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid water on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
File:Mars Global Surveyor.jpg|link=Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|2006: NASA reveals photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid water on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].


||File:Eel hates statue.jpg|link=The Eel Hates Peter Aal|2012: Supervillain and art critic [[The Eel]] condemns ''[[Bernd Maro (nonfiction)|Peter Aal]]''.
||2010: Norman Hetherington dies ... cartoonist and puppeteer. Pic.
 
||2013: Robert Mortimer Ellis dies - mathematician, specializing in topological dynamics. Pic search.


File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the eleventh anniversary of NASA revealing photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid water on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the eleventh anniversary of NASA revealing photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid water on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
File:Butterfly.jpg|link=Butterfly (image) (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Butterfly (image) (nonfiction)|Butterfly]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1586: Astronomer and physicist Niccolò Zucchi born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.

    1586: Astronomer and physicist Niccolò Zucchi born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.

  • 1788: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute dies. She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse, and constructed a group of catalogs for the stars.

    1788: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute dies. She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse, and constructed a group of catalogs for the stars.

  • 1919: Physicist Clyde Cowan born. Cowan, along with Frederick Reines, will discover the neutrino in 1956; Reines will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names.

    1919: Physicist Clyde Cowan born. Cowan, along with Frederick Reines, will discover the neutrino in 1956; Reines will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names.

  • 1959: Mathematician Erhard Schmidt dies. He made important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.

    1959: Mathematician Erhard Schmidt dies. He made important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.

  • 2006: NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

    2006: NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the eleventh anniversary of NASA revealing photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the eleventh anniversary of NASA revealing photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

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