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||1605: Clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer Nathaniel Torporley - Just after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, Torporley was examined by the council for having cast the king's nativity. Pic search French wiki: https://www.google.com/search?q=Nathaniel+Torporley
||1605: Clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer Nathaniel Torporley - Just after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, Torporley was examined by the council for having cast the king's nativity. Pic search French wiki: https://www.google.com/search?q=Nathaniel+Torporley


||1701: Anders Celsius born ... astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. Pic.
File:Anders_Celsius.jpg|link=Anders Celsius (nonfiction)|1701: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician [[Anders Celsius (nonfiction)|Anders Celsius]] born. In 1742 he will propose the Celsius temperature scale which today bears his name.


||1703: Henry Winstanley dies ... painter and engineer.
||1703: Henry Winstanley dies ... painter and engineer. Pic.


||1715: Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost born ... doctor and theologian who first described the scientific phenomenon eponymously named the Leidenfrost effect. Pic.
||1715: Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost born ... doctor and theologian who first described the scientific phenomenon eponymously named the Leidenfrost effect. Pic.


File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1754: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] dies. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', is prized by gamblers.
File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1754: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] dies. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', was prized by gamblers of his day.


File:Berners_Street_Hoax_caricature.jpg|1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
File:Berners_Street_Hoax_caricature.jpg|link=Berners Street hoax (nonfiction)|1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.


||1811: Andrew Meikle dies ... engineer, designed the threshing machine.
||1811: Andrew Meikle dies ... engineer, designed the threshing machine. Pic.
 
||1848: Physicist Charles S. Hastings born. known for his work in optics. Pic search.


||1849: Ruan Yuan dies ... the most prominent Chinese scholar during the first half of the 19th century. He was known for his work ''Biographies of Astronomers and Mathematicians''. Pic.
||1849: Ruan Yuan dies ... the most prominent Chinese scholar during the first half of the 19th century. He was known for his work ''Biographies of Astronomers and Mathematicians''. Pic.
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||1871: Giovanni Giorgi born ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
||1871: Giovanni Giorgi born ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
|File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship [[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]] attacked by [[Neptune Slaughter]] in mid-ocean.


||1873: Auguste Arthur de la Rive born ... physicist. Pic.
||1873: Auguste Arthur de la Rive born ... physicist. Pic.
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||1874: Chaim Weizmann born ... chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel. Pic.
||1874: Chaim Weizmann born ... chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel. Pic.


||1875: Richard Christopher Carrington dies ... amateur astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot observations revealed the differential rotation of the Sun. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Richard+Christopher+Carrington
||1875: Richard Christopher Carrington dies ... amateur astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot observations revealed the differential rotation of the Sun. Pic search.


||1876: Viktor Kaplan born ... engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine. Pic.
||1876: Viktor Kaplan born ... engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine. Pic.


||1895: At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
||1895: At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies. Pic.


||1897: Vito Genovese born ... mob boss. Pic.
||1897: Vito Genovese born ... mob boss. Pic.
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||1903: Lars Onsager born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1903: Lars Onsager born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1904: Paul Tannery dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was the older brother of mathematician Jules Tannery, to whose Notions Mathématiques he contributed an historical chapter. Though Tannery's career was in the tobacco industry, he devoted his evenings and his life to the study of mathematicians and mathematical development.
||1904: Paul Tannery dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was the older brother of mathematician Jules Tannery, to whose Notions Mathématiques he contributed an historical chapter. Though Tannery's career was in the tobacco industry, he devoted his evenings and his life to the study of mathematicians and mathematical development. Pic.


||1909: Anatoly Maltsev born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Anatoly+Maltsev+mathematician
||1909: Anatoly Maltsev born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search.


||1923: J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. born ... nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician. Pic.
||1923: J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. born ... nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician. Pic.
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||1924: George Chandler Whipple dies ... civil engineer and an expert in the field of sanitary microbiology. His career extended from 1889 to 1924 and he is best known as a co-founder of the Harvard School of Public Health. Whipple published some of the most important books in the early history of public health and applied microbiology. Pic.
||1924: George Chandler Whipple dies ... civil engineer and an expert in the field of sanitary microbiology. His career extended from 1889 to 1924 and he is best known as a co-founder of the Harvard School of Public Health. Whipple published some of the most important books in the early history of public health and applied microbiology. Pic.


||1925: John Maddox born ... chemist, physicist, and journalist.
||1925: John Maddox born ... chemist, physicist, and journalist. Pic search.
 
||1928: Josh Kirby born ... painter and illustrator.
 
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.


||1942: World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
||1942: World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
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File:Mars 2 and 3.jpg|link=Mars 2 (nonfiction)|1971: The The [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2 landing module]] crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.  
File:Mars 2 and 3.jpg|link=Mars 2 (nonfiction)|1971: The The [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2 landing module]] crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.  


||1978: In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
||1978: In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White. Pic.
 
||1983: Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey dies ... mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics.


||1988: Jan Hein Donner dies ... chess player and author.
||1983: Harrie Massey dies ... mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics. Pic.


||1990: Basilis C. Xanthopoulos dies ... physicist and academic.
||1990: Basilis C. Xanthopoulos murdered ... physicist and academic ...  contributions to the study of colliding plane waves in general relativity. No DOB. Pic.


||2001: A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
||2001: A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

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  • 1701: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Anders Celsius born. In 1742 he will propose the Celsius temperature scale which today bears his name.

    1701: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Anders Celsius born. In 1742 he will propose the Celsius temperature scale which today bears his name.

  • 1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, was prized by gamblers of his day.

    1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, was prized by gamblers of his day.

  • 1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.

    1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.

  • 1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.

    1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.

  • 1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.

    1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.

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