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File:Jost Bürgi.jpg|link=Jost Bürgi (nonfiction)|1632: Clockmaker and mathematician [[Jost Bürgi (nonfiction)|Jost Bürgi]] dies.  He was recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.
File:Jost Bürgi.jpg|link=Jost Bürgi (nonfiction)|1632: Clockmaker and mathematician [[Jost Bürgi (nonfiction)|Jost Bürgi]] dies.  He was recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.
File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1638: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1715: The 1715 Treasure Fleet was a Spanish treasure fleet returning from the New World to Spain. At two in the morning on Wednesday, July 31, 1715, seven days after departing from Havana, Cuba, under the command of Juan Esteban de Ubilla, eleven of the twelve ships of this fleet were lost in a hurricane near present-day Vero Beach, Florida. Because the fleet was carrying silver, it is also known as the 1715 Plate Fleet (plata being the Spanish word for silver). Around 1,500 (confirmed by Cuban records) sailors perished while a small number survived on lifeboats.
||1715: The 1715 Treasure Fleet was a Spanish treasure fleet returning from the New World to Spain. At two in the morning on Wednesday, July 31, 1715, seven days after departing from Havana, Cuba, under the command of Juan Esteban de Ubilla, eleven of the twelve ships of this fleet were lost in a hurricane near present-day Vero Beach, Florida. Because the fleet was carrying silver, it is also known as the 1715 Plate Fleet (plata being the Spanish word for silver). Around 1,500 (confirmed by Cuban records) sailors perished while a small number survived on lifeboats.
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||1868: Theodore William Richards born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic (cool tech).
||1868: Theodore William Richards born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic (cool tech).
File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1869:  Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] uses the Navier–Stokes equations to defeat aquatic cryptic and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] in single combat.


||1881: Irving Langmuir born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1881: Irving Langmuir born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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||1932: Physicist Charles S. Hastings born. known for his work in optics. Pic search.
||1932: Physicist Charles S. Hastings born. known for his work in optics. Pic search.
File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1933: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] uses the [[Uncertainty principle (nonfiction)|uncertainty principle]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1934: Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville dies ... mathematician and astronomer. He compiled a bibliography on non-Euclidean geometry and also wrote a leading textbook in that field. He also wrote Introduction to the Geometry of N Dimensions, advancing the study of polytopes. Pic.
||1934: Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville dies ... mathematician and astronomer. He compiled a bibliography on non-Euclidean geometry and also wrote a leading textbook in that field. He also wrote Introduction to the Geometry of N Dimensions, advancing the study of polytopes. Pic.
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||1954: Edwin Howard Armstrong dies ... electrical engineer and inventor, best known for developing FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. Pic.
||1954: Edwin Howard Armstrong dies ... electrical engineer and inventor, best known for developing FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. Pic.
File:The Man Who Knew to Mulch.jpg|link=The Man Who Knew to Mulch|1956: Premiere of '''''[[The Man Who Knew to Mulch]]''''', an American suspense agriculture film about an American family vacationing in French Morocco who become involved in a complex plan to improve agricultural yields using imported machinery and cheap local labor.


||1958: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt. 1958 Explorer 1 was launched on January 31, 1958 at 22:48 Eastern Time (equal to February 1, 03:48 UTC because the time change goes past midnight). It was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, returning data until its batteries were exhausted after nearly four months. It remained in orbit until 1970, and has been followed by more than 90 scientific spacecraft in the Explorer series. *Wik   
||1958: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt. 1958 Explorer 1 was launched on January 31, 1958 at 22:48 Eastern Time (equal to February 1, 03:48 UTC because the time change goes past midnight). It was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, returning data until its batteries were exhausted after nearly four months. It remained in orbit until 1970, and has been followed by more than 90 scientific spacecraft in the Explorer series. *Wik   
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||1980: Emanuel Sperner dies ... mathematician. He proposed Sperner's theorem, which says that the size of an antichain in the power set of an n-set (a Sperner family) is at most the middle binomial coefficient(s). Pic.
||1980: Emanuel Sperner dies ... mathematician. He proposed Sperner's theorem, which says that the size of an antichain in the power set of an n-set (a Sperner family) is at most the middle binomial coefficient(s). Pic.
File:M247 Sergeant York.png|link=M247 Sergeant York (nonfiction)|1982: [[M247 Sergeant York (nonfiction)|M247 has bad feeling about big presentation in February.]]


||1995: George Stibitz dies ... Bell Labs researcher internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern first digital computer. He was known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element. Pic.
||1995: George Stibitz dies ... Bell Labs researcher internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern first digital computer. He was known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element. Pic.


File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|2001: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] dies. Kane pioneered graphic novels with his books ''His Name is...Savage'' (1968) and ''Blackmark'' (1971).
File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|2001: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] dies. Kane pioneered graphic novels with his books ''His Name is...Savage'' (1968) and ''Blackmark'' (1971).
File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|2002: [[Anarchimedes]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||2004: Edwin Albert Power dies ... physicist and an emeritus professor of applied mathematics. He made several contributions to the field of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics (NRQED). Pic.
||2004: Edwin Albert Power dies ... physicist and an emeritus professor of applied mathematics. He made several contributions to the field of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics (NRQED). Pic.
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File:Dick Cavett.jpg|link=Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|2008: Talk show host [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] attends the 2008 Amfar Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.
File:Dick Cavett.jpg|link=Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|2008: Talk show host [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] attends the 2008 Amfar Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.


File:Creature.jpg|link=Creature (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Creature (nonfiction)|Creature]]'' unexpectedly generates non-Euclidean [[cryptographic numina]] during an otherwise routine annual steganographic checkup.


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  • 1632: Clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi dies. He was recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.

    1632: Clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi dies. He was recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.

  • 1929: Physicist and academic Rudolf Mössbauer born. He will be awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1957) of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence (now known as the Mössbauer effect), the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.

    1929: Physicist and academic Rudolf Mössbauer born. He will be awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1957) of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence (now known as the Mössbauer effect), the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.

  • 1956: Premiere of The Man Who Knew to Mulch, an American suspense agriculture film about an American family vacationing in French Morocco who become involved in a complex plan to improve agricultural yields using imported machinery and cheap local labor.

    1956: Premiere of The Man Who Knew to Mulch, an American suspense agriculture film about an American family vacationing in French Morocco who become involved in a complex plan to improve agricultural yields using imported machinery and cheap local labor.

  • 1971: The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.

    1971: The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.

  • 2001: American comic book artist Gil Kane dies. Kane pioneered graphic novels with his books His Name is...Savage (1968) and Blackmark (1971).

    2001: American comic book artist Gil Kane dies. Kane pioneered graphic novels with his books His Name is...Savage (1968) and Blackmark (1971).

  • 2008: Talk show host Dick Cavett attends the 2008 Amfar Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.

    2008: Talk show host Dick Cavett attends the 2008 Amfar Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.

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