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File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1571: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] born. He will discover laws of planetary motion.
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1571: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] born. He will discover laws of planetary motion.
||1771 – Henri Pitot, French engineer, invented the Pitot tube (b. 1695)
File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1773: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] born.  He will do pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1773: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] born.  He will do pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
||1822 – Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (d. 1895)
||1831 – Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution.
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
||1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1884: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] publishes two-channel [[Gnomon algorithm|Gnomon algorithm communications protocol]] which virtualizes [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]].
File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1884: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] publishes two-channel [[Gnomon algorithm|Gnomon algorithm communications protocol]] which virtualizes [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]].
File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1891: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by hiding.
File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1891: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by hiding.
||1900 – William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, English engineer and businessman, founded Armstrong Whitworth (b. 1810)
||1914 – Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
||1922 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.
File:Gustave Eiffel 1888.jpg|link=Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|1923: Engineer [[Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|Gustave Eiffel]] dies. He designed the world-famous Eiffel Tower.
File:Gustave Eiffel 1888.jpg|link=Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|1923: Engineer [[Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|Gustave Eiffel]] dies. He designed the world-famous Eiffel Tower.
File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|1924: [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] born. She will be one of the original programmers for the [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] computer.
File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|1924: [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] born. She will be one of the original programmers for the [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] computer.
||1938 – Calvin Bridges, American geneticist and academic (b. 1889)


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.
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.
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File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|1942: ENIAC ("[[Empty Noise Into Alien Communication]]") uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to visualize the [[Wow! signal (nonfiction)|Wow! signal]].
File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|1942: ENIAC ("[[Empty Noise Into Alien Communication]]") uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to visualize the [[Wow! signal (nonfiction)|Wow! signal]].


||Allan Hills 84001 (commonly abbreviated ALH84001[1]) is a meteorite that was found in Allan Hills, Antarctica on December 27, 1984, by a team of U.S. meteorite hunters from the ANSMET project. On August 6, 1996,[3] ALH84001 became newsworthy when it was claimed that the meteorite may contain evidence of traces of life from Mars, as published in an article in Science by David S. McKay of NASA.
||1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.
 
||1974 – Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1898)
 
||Allan Hills 84001 (commonly abbreviated ALH84001) is a meteorite that was found in Allan Hills, Antarctica on December 27, 1984, by a team of U.S. meteorite hunters from the ANSMET project. On August 6, 1996, ALH84001 became newsworthy when it was claimed that the meteorite may contain evidence of traces of life from Mars, as published in an article in Science by David S. McKay of NASA.
 
||1993 – Feliks Kibbermann, Estonian chess player and philologist (b. 1902)
 
||1995 – Genrikh Kasparyan, Armenian chess player and composer (b. 1910)
 
||2004 – Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
 
||2012 – Tingye Li, Chinese-American physicist and engineer (b. 1931)
 
||2012 – Archie Roy, Scottish astronomer and academic (b. 1924)
 
||2013 – Richard Ambler, English-Scottish biologist and academic (b. 1933)


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