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||1852: Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist dies. Pic: stamp.
||1852: Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist dies. Pic: stamp.
File:Robert Bunsen.jpg|link=Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|1888: Chemist and crime-fighter [[Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|Robert Bunsen]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on the emission spectra of heated elements which detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]].


||1889: Elias Loomis dies ... mathematician. Pic.
||1889: Elias Loomis dies ... mathematician. Pic.
File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1891: Signed first edition of ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' sells for ninety thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1892: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] born.  He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.
File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1892: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] born.  He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.
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||1932: Robert L. Forward dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
||1932: Robert L. Forward dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|1946: Signed first edition of ''Janet Beta at ENIAC'' stolen from the Library of Congress.


||1951: Sidney Michael Dancoff dies ... an American theoretical physicist best known for the Tamm–Dancoff approximation method and for nearly developing a renormalization method for solving quantum electrodynamics (QED). Pic search.
||1951: Sidney Michael Dancoff dies ... an American theoretical physicist best known for the Tamm–Dancoff approximation method and for nearly developing a renormalization method for solving quantum electrodynamics (QED). Pic search.
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||1971: President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
||1971: President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
File:Rabbi Dr. Eliezer (Leon) Ehrenpreis.jpg|link=Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician, academic, and rabbinical private detective [[Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis]] uses the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem to break up a [[Transdimensional corporation|transdimensional gang]] of antisemitic [[Crimes against mathematical constants|math thieves]].


File:Wow signal.jpg|link=Wow! signal (nonfiction)|1977: The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "[[Wow! signal (nonfiction)|Wow! signal]]" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
File:Wow signal.jpg|link=Wow! signal (nonfiction)|1977: The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "[[Wow! signal (nonfiction)|Wow! signal]]" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.


||1978: Viggo Brun dies ... professor, mathematician and number theorist. In 1915, he introduced a new method, based on Legendre's version of the sieve of Eratosthenes, now known as the Brun sieve, which addresses additive problems such as Goldbach's conjecture and the twin prime conjecture. He used it to prove that there exist infinitely many integers n such that n and n+2 have at most nine prime factors, and that all large even integers are the sum of two numbers with at most nine prime factors. Pic.
||1978: Viggo Brun dies ... professor, mathematician and number theorist. In 1915, he introduced a new method, based on Legendre's version of the sieve of Eratosthenes, now known as the Brun sieve, which addresses additive problems such as Goldbach's conjecture and the twin prime conjecture. He used it to prove that there exist infinitely many integers n such that n and n+2 have at most nine prime factors, and that all large even integers are the sum of two numbers with at most nine prime factors. Pic.
File:Olive My Love.jpg|link=Olive My Love|1979: Led Zeppelin releases"'''[[Olive My Love]]'''".


||1984: Lake Monoun limnic eruption: West Province, Cameroon: the lake exploded in a limnic eruption, which resulted in the release of a large amount of carbon dioxide that killed 37 people. At first, the cause of the deaths was a mystery, and causes such as terrorism were suspected. Further investigation and a similar event two years later at Lake Nyos led to the currently accepted explanation.
||1984: Lake Monoun limnic eruption: West Province, Cameroon: the lake exploded in a limnic eruption, which resulted in the release of a large amount of carbon dioxide that killed 37 people. At first, the cause of the deaths was a mystery, and causes such as terrorism were suspected. Further investigation and a similar event two years later at Lake Nyos led to the currently accepted explanation.
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||2001: Kateryna Yushchenko dies ... computer scientist ad academic. Pic.
||2001: Kateryna Yushchenko dies ... computer scientist ad academic. Pic.


||2001: Peter Mazur ... an Austrian-born, Dutch physicist and one of the founders of the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. He is the father of Harvard University physics professor Eric Mazur. Pic (dynamic).
File:Peter Mazur.jpg|link=Peter Mazur (nonfiction)|1922: Physicist [[Peter Mazur (nonfiction)|Peter Mazur]] dies. Mazur was a pioneer the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics.


||2004: Biochemist and academic Sune Bergström dies.  Bergström shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982, for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances. Pic.
||2004: Biochemist and academic Sune Bergström dies.  Bergström shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982, for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances. Pic.
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||India: Three die as kite string slits their throats ... http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37103668 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manja_(kite)
||India: Three die as kite string slits their throats ... http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37103668 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manja_(kite)
File:Umberto Eco 1984.jpg|link=Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|2015: Author, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|Umberto Eco]] publishes influential monograph on the origins and early development of [[high-energy literature]].
File:Pinwheel Diagram.jpg|link=Pinwheel Diagram|2016: ''[[Pinwheel Diagram (nonfiction)|Pinwheel Diagram]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.


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  • 1758: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer dies. He is known as "the father of naval architecture".

    1758: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer dies. He is known as "the father of naval architecture".

  • 1863: Mathematician and naval engineer Aleksey Krylov born. Fame will come to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship becomes internationally known.

    1863: Mathematician and naval engineer Aleksey Krylov born. Fame will come to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship becomes internationally known.

  • 1892: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie born. He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.

    1892: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie born. He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.

  • 1977: The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.

    1977: The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.

  • 1979: Led Zeppelin releases"Olive My Love".

    1979: Led Zeppelin releases"Olive My Love".

  • 1922: Physicist Peter Mazur dies. Mazur was a pioneer the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

    1922: Physicist Peter Mazur dies. Mazur was a pioneer the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

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