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File:Christiaan Huygens.jpg|link=Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]] publishes his long-awaited autobiography, in which he reveals that he uses statistical analysis and games of chance to catch [[math criminals]] in the act.


File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1752: Weaver and merchant [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] born. He will invent the [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]], an early type of programmable machine.
File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1752: Weaver and merchant [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] born. He will invent the [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]], an early type of programmable machine.
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||1865: Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
||1865: Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.


||1905: Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin born ... mathematician ... an expert on fluid mechanics and abstract algebra. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Marie-Louise+Dubreil-Jacotin
||1870: Lilian Vaughan Morgan born ... 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.
 
||1905: Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin born ... mathematician ... an expert on fluid mechanics and abstract algebra. Pic search.


||1906: William Feller born ... mathematician and academic ... probability. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=william+feller
||1906: William Feller born ... mathematician and academic ... probability. Pic search.


||1907: László Tisza born ... physicist and academic ... initiated the two-fluid theory of liquid helium. Pic.
||1907: László Tisza born ... physicist and academic ... initiated the two-fluid theory of liquid helium. Pic.
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||1912: Robert Alden Cornog born ... physicist and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb and missile systems from the Snark to the Minuteman. Pic.
||1912: Robert Alden Cornog born ... physicist and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb and missile systems from the Snark to the Minuteman. Pic.
||2013: Chia-Chiao Lin dies ... mathematician and academic ... made contributions to the theory of hydrodynamic stability, turbulent flow, mathematics, and astrophysics. Pic search.


||1918: George Mary Searle dies ... astronomer and Catholic priest. Pic.
||1918: George Mary Searle dies ... astronomer and Catholic priest. Pic.
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File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1946: Aviator [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1946: Aviator [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.


File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1947: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] announces plan to sell shares in the career of Joseph McCarthy, calls it "a new day in political campaigning."
||1959: Ben Linder born ... engineer and activist ... Linder will be killed by Contras. Pic.


||1959: Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
||1959: Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.


||1975: William Vallance Douglas Hodge dies ... mathematician, specifically a geometer. His discovery of far-reaching topological relations between algebraic geometry and differential geometry—an area now called Hodge theory and pertaining more generally to Kähler manifolds—has been a major influence on subsequent work in geometry. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Vallance+Douglas+Hodge
||1975: William Vallance Douglas Hodge dies ... mathematician, specifically a geometer. His discovery of far-reaching topological relations between algebraic geometry and differential geometry—an area now called Hodge theory and pertaining more generally to Kähler manifolds—has been a major influence on subsequent work in geometry. Pic search.


||1997: Raghu Raj Bahadur dies ... statistician considered by peers to be "one of the architects of the modern theory of mathematical statistics". Pic.
||1997: Raghu Raj Bahadur dies ... statistician considered by peers to be "one of the architects of the modern theory of mathematical statistics". Pic.
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||1982: Raymond Louis Wilder dies ... mathematician, who specialized in topology and gradually acquired philosophical and anthropological interests. Pic.
||1982: Raymond Louis Wilder dies ... mathematician, who specialized in topology and gradually acquired philosophical and anthropological interests. Pic.


||1983: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle dies ... mathematician specializing in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph+LaSalle+mathematician
||1983: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle dies ... mathematician specializing in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name. Pic search yes.


||1983: Herman Kahn dies ... founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century ... founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation. He became known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability, making him one of three historical inspirations for the title character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove. Pic.
||1983: Herman Kahn dies ... founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century ... founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation. He became known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability, making him one of three historical inspirations for the title character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove. Pic.


||1984: Richard E. Bellman dies ... applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics. Pic.
||1984: Richard E. Bellman dies ... applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics. Pic.
||1985: John Scarne dies ... magician and author. Pic (cool).


||2003: NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
||2003: NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.

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