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File:Statue of Ibn Rushd in Cordoba.jpg|link=Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|1188: Polymath [[Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|Ibn Rushd]] (Averoess) publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Statue of Ibn Rushd in Cordoba.jpg|link=Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|1188: Polymath [[Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|Ibn Rushd]] (Averoess) publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1542 - Lisa del Giocondo, subject of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa (b. 1479) | |||
File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1573: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] born. He will be one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. | File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1573: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] born. He will be one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. | ||
| | ||1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. | ||
||1865 – Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist (d. 1945) | |||
||1915 – Albert Ghiorso, American chemist and academic (d. 2010) | |||
||1918 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003) | |||
||1919 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) | |||
||1921 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006) | |||
||1922 – Leon M. Lederman, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
||1926 – Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (d. 2015) | |||
||1928 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (d. 2012) | |||
||1930 – Stephen Smale, American mathematician and computer scientist | |||
||1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others. | |||
File:Wilhelm Wirtinger.jpg|link=Wilhelm Wirtinger (nonfiction)|1865: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Wirtinger (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Wirtinger]] born. He will contribute to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory. | File:Wilhelm Wirtinger.jpg|link=Wilhelm Wirtinger (nonfiction)|1865: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Wirtinger (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Wirtinger]] born. He will contribute to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory. | ||
File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" [[Wallace War-Heels]] defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat. | File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1866: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" [[Wallace War-Heels]] defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat. | ||
||1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets. | |||
|File:Janet Beta Accepts Commission (detail).jpg|link=Janet Beta|Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Janet Beta]] calls ''[[Janet Beta at ENIAC]]'' "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them." | |||
||2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day. | |||
||2006 – Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world. | |||
||2013 – John T. Riedl, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1962) | |||
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998: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī dies. His Almagest was widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.
1188: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1573: Architect Inigo Jones born. He will be one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
1865: Mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger born. He will contribute to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.
1866: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" Wallace War-Heels defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat.