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| ||1484: Julius Caesar Scaliger born ... physician and scholar. Pic.
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| ||1704: Johannes Hudde dies ... a mathematician and governor of the Dutch East India Company. He is the namesake of Hudde's rules regarding two properties of polynomial roots. Pic.
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| ||1635: The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
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| File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1640: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] uses the trigonometric functions tangent and secant to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1661: Issachar Berend Lehmann born ... banker, merchant and diplomat. Pic search.
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| ||1792: Rev John Thomas Romney Robinson born ... astronomer and physicist. He was the longtime director of the Armagh Astronomical Observatory, one of the chief astronomical observatories in the UK of its time. Robinson will invent the 4-cup anemometer. Pic.
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| ||1856: Granville Woods born ... inventor and engineer ... he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars. One of his notable inventions was the Multiplex Telegraph, a device that sent messages between train stations and moving trains. Pic.
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| File:Max Planck 1878.gif|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1858: Physicist and academic [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] born. He will make many contributions to theoretical physics, earning fame as the originator of quantum theory. | | File:Max Planck 1878.gif|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1858: Physicist and academic [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] born. He will make many contributions to theoretical physics, earning fame as the originator of quantum theory. |
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| File:Gnotilus_Klein_bottles.jpg|link=Gnotilus|1859: Artificial intelligence and alleged supervillain [[Gnotilus]] manifests itself as three-stage [[Klein bottle (nonfiction)|Klein bottle]]. This will quickly lead to a major spike in [[crimes against mathematical constants]], as well as outbreaks of [[Scrimshaw abuse]].
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| ||1863: Edward Joshua Cooper dies ... landowner, politician and astronomer from Markree Castle in County Sligo. He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1841 and from 1857 to 1859, but is best known for his astronomy, and as the creator of Markree Observatory. No DOB. Pic.
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| ||1867: Johannes Fibiger born ... physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| File:Hebern_electric_code_machine.jpg|link=Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|1869: Inventor [[Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|Edward Hugh Hebern]] born. He will be a pioneer of rotor encryption machines. | | File:Hebern_electric_code_machine.jpg|link=Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|1869: Inventor [[Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|Edward Hugh Hebern]] born. He will be a pioneer of rotor encryption machines. |
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| ||1869: Boris Lvovich Rosing born ... scientist and inventor in the field of television Pic.
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| ||1895: Carl Ludwig dies ... physician and physiologist. His work as both a researcher and teacher had a major influence on the understanding, methods and apparatus used in almost all branches of physiology. Pic.
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| ||1899: Minoru Shirota born ... physician and microbiologist ... In the 1920s Shirota identified a strain of lactic acid bacteria that is part of normal gut flora that he originally called Lactobacillus casei Shirota; it appeared to help contain the growth of harmful bacteria in the gut. Pic.
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| ||1901: E. B. Ford born ... biologist and geneticist ... Ford investigated the role of natural selection in nature ... studied the genetics of natural populations, and invented the field of ecological genetics. Pic.
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| ||1902: Boyd Crumrine Patterson born ... was a mathematician and the 9th president of Washington & Jefferson College. During his presidency, the college's endowment expanded from $2.3 million to nearly $11 million. Pic.
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| ||1908: Solomon Grigor'evich Mikhlin born ... mathematician of who worked in the fields of linear elasticity, singular integrals and numerical analysis: he is best known for the introduction of the concept of "symbol of a singular integral operator", which eventually led to the foundation and development of the theory of pseudodifferential operators. Pic.
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| File:Franck–Hertz experiment using neon.png|link=Franck–Hertz experiment (nonfiction)|1914: The day before the famous [[Franck–Hertz experiment (nonfiction)|Franck–Hertz experiment]], is presented to the German Physical Society, [[APTO]] field engineers discover a [[time bomb]] bomb within the experiment. The engineers will disable the bomb by cutting both the red and the blue wires, moments before Franck and Hertz begin the experiment.
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| ||1915: Arnold Alexander Hall, English engineer, academic, and businessman. Pic.
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| ||1919: Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky born ... codenamed HERO, was a Soviet military intelligence (GRU) colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Penkovsky was responsible for informing the United Kingdom about the Soviet emplacement of missiles in Cuba, thus providing both the UK and the United States with the precise knowledge necessary to address rapidly developing military tensions with Soviet Russia. Pic.
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| ||1930: Henry Ernest Dudeney dies ... author and mathematician who specialized in logic puzzles and mathematical games. He is known as one of the country's foremost creators of mathematical puzzles. Pic.
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| File:Annie Easley.jpg|link=Annie Easley (nonfiction)|1933: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer [[Annie Easley (nonfiction)|Annie Easley]] born. She will be a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA. | | File:Annie Easley.jpg|link=Annie Easley (nonfiction)|1933: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer [[Annie Easley (nonfiction)|Annie Easley]] born. She will be a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA. |
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| File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1933: Mathematician and crime fighter [[Alice Beta]] stops the [[Forbidden Ratio]] from kidnapping newborn infant [[Annie Easley (nonfiction)|Annie Easley]]. The [[Forbidden Ratio]] is one of several criminal [[Function (nonfiction)|mathematical functions]] which prey upon [[mathematicians]] and other scientists.
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| ||1938: Stefan Drzewiecki dies ... scientist, journalist, engineer, constructor and inventor, working in France and the Russian Empire. He built the first submarine in the world with electric battery-powered propulsion (1884). Pic.
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| ||1940: The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
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| File:Ray Tomlinson.jpg|link=Ray Tomlinson (nonfiction)|1941: Computer programmer and engineer [[Ray Tomlinson (nonfiction)|Ray Tomlinson]] born. He will implement the first email system on the the ARPANET system, including the "@" separator which is still in use today. | | File:Ray Tomlinson.jpg|link=Ray Tomlinson (nonfiction)|1941: Computer programmer and engineer [[Ray Tomlinson (nonfiction)|Ray Tomlinson]] born. He will implement the first email system on the the ARPANET system, including the "@" separator which is still in use today. |
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| ||1942: Jack Howard Silver born ... set theorist, logician, and academic. He made several contributions to set theory in the areas of large cardinals and the constructible universe L. Pic.
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| ||1945: World War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz. Pic.
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| ||1947: Édouard Chatton dies ... biologist who first characterized the distinction between the eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems of cellular organization. Pic.
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| ||1951: American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia. Pic.
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| File:Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division).jpg|link=Flying Diner|1955: The [[Flying Diner]] begins twice-daily breakfast and lunch flights between Saint Paul, Minnesota and [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
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| File:Harry_Hinsley,_Edward_Travis,_and_John_Tiltman_in_Washington,_November_1945.jpg|link=Edward Travis (nonfiction)|1956: Cryptographer and intelligence officer [[Edward Travis (nonfiction)|Edward Travis]] dies. Travis became the operational head of Bletchley Park during World War II, and was later the head of GCHQ.
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| ||1964: Art historian and Soviet spy Anthony Blunt confesses to MI5. Queen Elizabeth II is informed shortly thereafter. In return for Blunt's full confession, the British government agreed to keep his spying career an official secret for fifteen years, and granted him full immunity from prosecution; Blunt's life was little affected. Pic.
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| ||1965: George Adamski dies ... ufologist and author ... became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he claimed to have photographed spaceships from other planets, met with friendly Nordic alien Space Brothers, and to have taken flights with them to the Moon and other planets. Adamski was the first, and most famous, of the so-called contactees of the 1950s. Pic.
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| File:Soyuz 1 patch.png|link=Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|1967: Soviet space program: [[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]] (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit. | | File:Soyuz 1 patch.png|link=Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|1967: Soviet space program: [[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]] (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit. |
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| ||1971: Robert Brainard Corey dies ... biochemist, mostly known for his role in discovery of the α-helix and the β-sheet with Linus Pauling. Pic search.
| | File:World War X.jpg|link=World War X|'''''[[World War X]]''''' is a 2013 documentary film about the Biblical story of Moses (Brad Pitt), a United Nations locust researcher adopted by Pharaoh (Charlton Heston) who accidentally releases a religious zombie pandemic. |
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| ||1998: James Earl Ray dies ... assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. Pic. | |
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| ||1998: Archimedes Patti dies ... was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army and former Office of Strategic Services officer who headed operations in Kunming and Hanoi in 1945. Patti is known for having worked closely with the Viet Minh and Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Vietnamese independence movement and future president of North Vietnam. Pic search.
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| ||2013: Frank W. J. Olver dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
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| File:Spiral.jpg|link=Spiral (image) (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Spiral (image) (nonfiction)|Spiral]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least a hundred kilobytes" of encrypted data, "probably some new function in the [[Gnomon algorithm]] family."
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