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||585 BC: A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
||585 BC: A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.


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||1830: U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. Pic.
||1830: U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. Pic.
||1831: Henri Jean-Baptiste Grégoire (often referred to as the Abbé Grégoire) dies ... was French Catholic priest, Constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader. He was an ardent abolitionist of human slavery and supporter of universal suffrage. He was a founding member of the Bureau des longitudes, the Institut de France, and the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. Pic.


||1836: Alexander Mitscherlich born ... chemist and academic. His most important work was in the field of processing wood to create cellulose. He patented an early version of the sulfite process in 1882. Pic.
||1836: Alexander Mitscherlich born ... chemist and academic. His most important work was in the field of processing wood to create cellulose. He patented an early version of the sulfite process in 1882. Pic.
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File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] submits ''On Computable Numbers'' for publication.
File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] submits ''On Computable Numbers'' for publication.
File:Euglena Junction.jpg|link=Euglena Junction|1974: ''[[Euglena Junction]]'' wins the Prime Time Emmy for Best New Show. Broadcasting live from the Pantages Theater via NBC, host Johnny Carson calls it "an extraordinary study of the genus ''[[Euglena (nonfiction)|Euglena]]'', and a brilliant parody of ''[[Petticoat Junction (nonfiction)|Petticoat Junction]]''."


||1980: Rolf Nevanlinna dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
||1980: Rolf Nevanlinna dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
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||2003: Ilya Prigogine dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||2003: Ilya Prigogine dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||2003: Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov dies ... engineer and astronaut. Pic.
||2004: Francis Brunn dies ... juggler. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Francis+Brunn


||2008: Daihachiro Sato dies ... mathematician who was awarded the Lester R. Ford Award in 1976 for his work in number theory, specifically on his work in the Diophantine representation of prime numbers. Pic.
||2008: Daihachiro Sato dies ... mathematician who was awarded the Lester R. Ford Award in 1976 for his work in number theory, specifically on his work in the Diophantine representation of prime numbers. Pic.
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File:Claire Kelly Schultz.jpg|link=Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|2015: Information scientist [[Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|Claire Kelly Schultz]] dies.
File:Claire Kelly Schultz.jpg|link=Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|2015: Information scientist [[Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|Claire Kelly Schultz]] dies.


File:Ringmaster-img075-1.jpg|link=Ringmaster (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Ringmaster (nonfiction)|Ringmaster]]'' stolen from the Guggenheim by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.
||2018: Jens Christian Skou dies ... chemist and physiologist. In 1997 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (together with Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker) for his discovery of Na+,K+-ATPase. Pic.


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  • 1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.

    1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.

  • 1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

    1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

  • 2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.

    2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.

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