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||1587: Johannes Fabricius born ... astronomer and academic. Pic search book cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=Johannes+Fabricius
||1587: Johannes Fabricius born ... astronomer and academic. Pic search book cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=Johannes+Fabricius


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||1742: Philip Astley born ... equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus". The circus industry, as a presenter of an integrated entertainment experience that includes music, domesticated animals, acrobats, and clowns, traces its heritage to Astley's Amphitheatre, a riding school that Astley founded in London following the success of trick-riding displays given by him and his wife Patty Jones in 1768. PIc.
||1742: Philip Astley born ... equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus". The circus industry, as a presenter of an integrated entertainment experience that includes music, domesticated animals, acrobats, and clowns, traces its heritage to Astley's Amphitheatre, a riding school that Astley founded in London following the success of trick-riding displays given by him and his wife Patty Jones in 1768. PIc.
File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi engraving.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1774: Mathematician,  philosopher, theologian, and crime-fighter [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] uses a new synthesis of differential and integral calculus to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1775: John Baskerville dies ... printer and type designer.
||1775: John Baskerville dies ... printer and type designer.


||1823: Alfred Russel Wallace born ... geographer, biologist, and explorer.
||1823: Alfred Russel Wallace born ... geographer, biologist, and explorer. Pic


||1825: Eli Whitney dies ... engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin.
||1825: Eli Whitney dies ... engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin. Pic.


||1829: Heinrich Eduard Schröter born ... mathematician, who studied geometry in the tradition of Jakob Steiner. Pic.
||1829: Heinrich Eduard Schröter born ... mathematician, who studied geometry in the tradition of Jakob Steiner. Pic.
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||1835: The United States national debt is zero for the only time.
||1835: The United States national debt is zero for the only time.


||1852: Giovanni Frattini born ... mathematician, noted for his contributions to group theory.
||1852: Giovanni Frattini born ... mathematician, noted for his contributions to group theory. Pic.


||1868: Sir Frank Watson Dyson born ... astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity. Pic.
||1868: Sir Frank Watson Dyson born ... astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity. Pic.
||1880: Joshua Abraham Norton, known as Emperor Norton, dies ... Norton was a citizen of San Francisco, California, who proclaimed himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States" in 1859. In 1863 he took the secondary title of "Protector of Mexico" after Napoleon III invaded the country. Pic.


File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] born.  He will co-write ''What is Mathematics?''.
File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] born.  He will co-write ''What is Mathematics?''.


File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1889: [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1889: [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
File:Charles-Émile Reynaud.jpg|link=Charles-Émile Reynaud (nonfiction)|1890: Scientist, inventor, and [[APTO]] marketing director [[Charles-Émile Reynaud (nonfiction)|Charles-Émile Reynaud]] discovers a previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] function which causes a Praxinoscope to function as a simple [[scrying engine]].


||1891: Walther Bothe born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1891: Walther Bothe born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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||1902: Karl Brandt born ... German SS officer ... T4. Pic.
||1902: Karl Brandt born ... German SS officer ... T4. Pic.


||1905: Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel born ... writer and philosopher. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the raven paradox (also known as "Hempel's paradox").
||1905: Carl Gustav Hempel born ... writer and philosopher. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the raven paradox (also known as "Hempel's paradox"). Pic.


||1915: Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik born ... mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. Pic.
||1915: Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik born ... mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. Pic.
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||1918: William Edwin Gordon born ... physicist and astronomer. He is referred to as the "father of the Arecibo Observatory". Pic.
||1918: William Edwin Gordon born ... physicist and astronomer. He is referred to as the "father of the Arecibo Observatory". Pic.


||1922: Dale D. Myers born ... engineer.
||1920: Osamu Hayaishi dies ... biochemist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Osamu+Hayaishi
 
||1922: Dale D. Myers born ... engineer. Pic.


||1922: Georgy Maximovich Adelson-Velsky born ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic: https://memim.com/georgy-adelson-velsky.html
||1922: Georgy Maximovich Adelson-Velsky born ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic: https://memim.com/georgy-adelson-velsky.html
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File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
File:Nostromo Cafe.jpg|link=Nostromo Cafe|The '''[[Nostromo Cafe]]''' opens.  It is the first known take-out restaurant aboard a spaceship.


||1980: John Mauchly dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Mauchly
||1980: John Mauchly dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Mauchly
File:Marhall Harvey Stone Zurich 1932.jpg|link=Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|1981: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|Marshall Harvey Stone]] publishes new class of  Boolean algebra structures which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1981: A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
||1981: A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
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||1989: Ronald J. DiPerna dies ... mathematician, who worked on nonlinear partial differential equations. Pic.
||1989: Ronald J. DiPerna dies ... mathematician, who worked on nonlinear partial differential equations. Pic.


||1994: Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
||1994: Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space. (Alive December 2019.) Pic.


||1997: Melvin Calvin dies ... biochemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic.
||1997: Melvin Calvin dies ... biochemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic.
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||2002: Alexander Prokhorov dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||2002: Alexander Prokhorov dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||2002: Maurice Stevenson Bartlett dies ... statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns. He is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis. Pic.
File:M._S._Bartlett.png|link=M. S. Bartlett (nonfiction)|2002: Statistician [[M. S. Bartlett (nonfiction)|Maurice Stevenson Bartlett]] dies. Bartlett made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns, and is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis.
 
||2005: The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.


File:Pond At Dawn.jpg|link=Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|2010: ''[[Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|Pond At Dawn]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
||2005: The nuclear sub ''USS San Francisco'' collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.


||2012: Bernhard Schrader dies ... chemist and academic ... pioneer of experimental molecular spectroscopy in Germany, especially of Raman- and Infrared spectroscopy and its routine application in chemical analysis. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Bernhard+Schrader+chemist
||2012: Bernhard Schrader dies ... chemist and academic ... pioneer of experimental molecular spectroscopy in Germany, especially of Raman- and Infrared spectroscopy and its routine application in chemical analysis. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Bernhard+Schrader+chemist


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  • 1602: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1602: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1642: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei dies. He has been called the "father of modern physics".

    1642: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei dies. He has been called the "father of modern physics".

  • 1888: Mathematician Richard Courant born. He will co-write What is Mathematics?.

    1888: Mathematician Richard Courant born. He will co-write What is Mathematics?.

  • 1889: Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.

    1889: Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.

  • 1896: Geologist Sekiya Seikei dies. He was one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.

    1896: Geologist Sekiya Seikei dies. He was one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.

  • 1923: Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum born. He will become one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.

    1923: Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum born. He will become one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.

  • 1973: Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

    1973: Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

  • The Nostromo Cafe opens. It is the first known take-out restaurant aboard a spaceship.

    The Nostromo Cafe opens. It is the first known take-out restaurant aboard a spaceship.

  • 2002: Statistician Maurice Stevenson Bartlett dies. Bartlett made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns, and is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis.

    2002: Statistician Maurice Stevenson Bartlett dies. Bartlett made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns, and is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis.

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