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||1169: Guido of Ravenna dies ... cartographer, entomologist and historian. No DOB. No pics online.
||1169: Guido of Ravenna dies ... cartographer, entomologist and historian. No DOB. No pics online.


||1730: Issachar Berend Lehmann dies ... banker, merchant and diplomat. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=Issachar+Berend+Lehmann
||1730: Issachar Berend Lehmann dies ... banker, merchant and diplomat. Pic search.


||1766: Jacob Perkins born ... inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith. He soon made himself known with a variety of useful mechanical inventions and eventually had twenty-one American and nineteen English patents. He is known as the father of the refrigerator. Pic.
||1766: Jacob Perkins born ... inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith. He soon made himself known with a variety of useful mechanical inventions and eventually had twenty-one American and nineteen English patents. He is known as the father of the refrigerator. Pic.
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||1819: Elias Howe born ... inventor, invented the sewing machine. Pic.
||1819: Elias Howe born ... inventor, invented the sewing machine. Pic.
File:Thomas Seebeck.jpg|link=Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|1824: Physicist and academic [[Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|Thomas Johann Seebeck]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use the thermoelectric effect to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Paul Broca.jpg|link=Paul Broca (nonfiction)|1824: Physician, anatomist, and anthropologist [[Paul Broca (nonfiction)|Paul Broca]] born.  He will discover that the brains of patients suffering from aphasia contain lesions in a particular part of the cortex, in the left frontal region -- the first anatomical proof of the localization of brain function.
File:Paul Broca.jpg|link=Paul Broca (nonfiction)|1824: Physician, anatomist, and anthropologist [[Paul Broca (nonfiction)|Paul Broca]] born.  He will discover that the brains of patients suffering from aphasia contain lesions in a particular part of the cortex, in the left frontal region -- the first anatomical proof of the localization of brain function.
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||1896: William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Pic.
||1896: William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Pic.


||1903: Alphonse François Renard dies ... geologist and photographer. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Alphonse+François+Renard
||1903: Alphonse François Renard dies ... geologist and photographer. Pic search.


File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|1911: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] born. He will link the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coin the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".
File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|1911: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] born. He will link the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coin the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".
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||1929: Elon Lages Lima born ... mathematician whose research concerned differential topology, algebraic topology, and differential geometry. Lima was an influential figure in the development of mathematics in Brazil. Pic.
||1929: Elon Lages Lima born ... mathematician whose research concerned differential topology, algebraic topology, and differential geometry. Lima was an influential figure in the development of mathematics in Brazil. Pic.


File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1931: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] announces the New Fields Medal for outstanding accomplishment in fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1932: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] makes record-breaking hot air balloon flight. ???
 
File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1932: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] makes record-breaking hot air balloon flight.


||1933: Oliver Sacks born ... neurologist and writer. Many of his books relate case histories of neurologically damaged people. His empathy with those afflicted with strange conditions, including. Tourette's syndrome, amnesia, and autism, has been the hallmark of his writings. In his first book, Migraine: Evolution of a Common Disorder(1970, he began his approach of considering mental and emotional states while stressing links between them and physical afflictions. In the late 1960s in New York, he encountered some 80 people suffering from a “sleeping sickness” (known from its spread around the world about 1916-20). He experimented by giving some of them the drug L-DOPA and obtained seemingly amazing results, an “awakening,” but most soon regressed. Pic.
||1933: Oliver Sacks born ... neurologist and writer. Many of his books relate case histories of neurologically damaged people. His empathy with those afflicted with strange conditions, including. Tourette's syndrome, amnesia, and autism, has been the hallmark of his writings. In his first book, Migraine: Evolution of a Common Disorder(1970, he began his approach of considering mental and emotional states while stressing links between them and physical afflictions. In the late 1960s in New York, he encountered some 80 people suffering from a “sleeping sickness” (known from its spread around the world about 1916-20). He experimented by giving some of them the drug L-DOPA and obtained seemingly amazing results, an “awakening,” but most soon regressed. Pic.
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||1967: Eugen Fischer dies ...  physician and academic ... Nazi. Pic (chilling).
||1967: Eugen Fischer dies ...  physician and academic ... Nazi. Pic (chilling).
||1970: Jones Orin York dies ... recruited in California by Soviet spy Stanislau Shumovskij approximately in 1935. In 1950 York told the FBI that he had passed secrets to the KGB since the mid-1930s, including plans for a new airplane engine of his own design and documents on the newest fighter developed by Northrop Corporation. York told the FBI that his KGB handler during 1941-42 had been Bill Weisband, who had helped him buy a camera for photographing documents. York admitted he was in it for the money, although he received very little. TO_DO confirm DOD: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/York-3730 Pic search.


||1979: A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt. Serge alive (Feb. 2019). Pic.
||1979: A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt. Serge alive (Feb. 2019). Pic.
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||1980: Arend Heyting dies ... mathematician and logician. He gave the first formal development of intuitionistic logic in order to codify Brouwer's way of doing mathematics. Pic.
||1980: Arend Heyting dies ... mathematician and logician. He gave the first formal development of intuitionistic logic in order to codify Brouwer's way of doing mathematics. Pic.


||1996: Edward P. Ney dies ... physicist who made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy. He was a discoverer of cosmic ray heavy nuclei and of solar proton events. He pioneered the use of high altitude balloons for scientific investigations and helped to develop procedures and equipment that underlie modern scientific ballooning. He was one of the first researchers to put experiments aboard spacecraft. Pic.  
File:Edward Purdy Ney.jpg|link=Edward P. Ney (nonfiction)|1996: Physicist [[Edward P. Ney (nonfiction)|Edward P. Ney]] dies. Ney made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy, discovering cosmic ray heavy nuclei and solar proton events. He pioneered the use of high altitude balloons for scientific investigations, and was one of the first researchers to put experiments aboard spacecraft.
 
||2005: Byron Preiss dies ... writer, editor, and publisher. He founded and served as president of Byron Preiss Visual Publications, and later of ibooks Inc. Weird Heroes, The Stars My Destination. Pic.


||2008: Under the belief that Israel and the United States were planning to attack its nuclear program, Iran conducted the Great Prophet III missile test and war games exercise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Prophet_III
||2008: Under the belief that Israel and the United States were planning to attack its nuclear program, Iran conducted the Great Prophet III missile test and war games exercise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Prophet_III


||2009: Michel André dies ... mathematician, specializing in non-commutative algebra and its applications to topology. He is known for André–Quillen cohomology. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Michel+André+(mathematician)
||2009: Michel André dies ... mathematician, specializing in non-commutative algebra and its applications to topology. He is known for André–Quillen cohomology. Pic search.


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  • 1774: Anatomist and anatomical wax modeler Anna Morandi Manzolini dies. Her collection of wax models gained fame throughout Europe as Supellex Manzoliniana; it was sought after to aid in the study of anatomy.

    1774: Anatomist and anatomical wax modeler Anna Morandi Manzolini dies. Her collection of wax models gained fame throughout Europe as Supellex Manzoliniana; it was sought after to aid in the study of anatomy.

  • 1824: Physician, anatomist, and anthropologist Paul Broca born. He will discover that the brains of patients suffering from aphasia contain lesions in a particular part of the cortex, in the left frontal region -- the first anatomical proof of the localization of brain function.

    1824: Physician, anatomist, and anthropologist Paul Broca born. He will discover that the brains of patients suffering from aphasia contain lesions in a particular part of the cortex, in the left frontal region -- the first anatomical proof of the localization of brain function.

  • 1911: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler born. He will link the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coin the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".

    1911: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler born. He will link the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coin the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".

  • 1918: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn born. He will make contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic.

    1918: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn born. He will make contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic.

  • 1996: Physicist Edward P. Ney dies. Ney made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy, discovering cosmic ray heavy nuclei and solar proton events. He pioneered the use of high altitude balloons for scientific investigations, and was one of the first researchers to put experiments aboard spacecraft.

    1996: Physicist Edward P. Ney dies. Ney made major contributions to cosmic ray research, atmospheric physics, heliophysics, and infrared astronomy, discovering cosmic ray heavy nuclei and solar proton events. He pioneered the use of high altitude balloons for scientific investigations, and was one of the first researchers to put experiments aboard spacecraft.

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