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||1588 | ||1588: Mimar Sinan dies ... architect and engineer, designed the Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque and Süleymaniye Mosque. | ||
||1698 | ||1698: Pierre Louis Maupertuis born ... mathematician and philosopher. | ||
||1791 | ||1791: Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people. | ||
||1794 | ||1794: John Roebuck dies ... chemist and businessman. | ||
||1839 | ||1839: Ephraim Shay born ... engineer, invented the Shay locomotive. | ||
File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1845: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. | File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1845: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. | ||
|| Archibald Henderson | ||1877: Archibald Henderson born ... professor of mathematics who wrote on a variety of subjects, including drama and history. He is well known for his friendship with George Bernard Shaw. Pic. | ||
||1894 | ||1894: Georges Lemaître born ... priest, astronomer, and cosmologist. | ||
||1910 | ||1910: Frank Olson born ... chemist and microbiologist. | ||
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1911: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] criticized for his unpatriotic opinions. | File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1911: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] criticized for his unpatriotic opinions. | ||
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File:The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling.jpg|link=The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|1913: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling]]'' sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling.jpg|link=The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|1913: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling]]'' sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||Giuseppe Veronese | ||1917: Giuseppe Veronese dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|1920: Physicist and academic [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] born. He will invent and name the laser. | File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|1920: Physicist and academic [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] born. He will invent and name the laser. | ||
||Heinrich Rubens | ||1922: Heinrich Rubens dies ... physicist. He is known for his measurements of the energy of black-body radiation which led Max Planck to the discovery of his radiation law. This was the genesis of quantum theory. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1927: Mathematician Maria Wonenburger born ... She will work on group theory, the theory of Lie algebras, and the orthogonal group and its corresponding projective group. Pic. | ||
File:Nakaya Ukichiro in 1946.jpg|link=Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|1929: Physicist and academic [[Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|Ukichiro Nakaya]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to create artificial snowflakes which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Nakaya Ukichiro in 1946.jpg|link=Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|1929: Physicist and academic [[Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|Ukichiro Nakaya]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to create artificial snowflakes which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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File:William James Sidis 1914.jpg|link=William James Sidis (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician and anthropologist [[William James Sidis (nonfiction)|William James Sidis]] dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. | File:William James Sidis 1914.jpg|link=William James Sidis (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician and anthropologist [[William James Sidis (nonfiction)|William James Sidis]] dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. | ||
||Henri Farman | ||1958: Henri Farman dies ... aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman. Pic. | ||
||1962: Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site. | |||
|| | ||1975: Donald Bruce Gillies dies ... mathematician and computer scientist, known for his work in game theory, computer design, and minicomputer programming environments. Pic. | ||
||1975 | ||1975: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations. | ||
||1980 | ||1980: Boris Delaunay dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||Adolph-Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich | ||1993: Adolph-Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich dies ... historian of mathematics, leading expert in medieval mathematics of the East and the work of Leonhard Euler. Pic. | ||
||Robert Alden Cornog | ||1998: Robert Alden Cornog dies ... physicist and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb and missile systems from the Snark to the Minuteman. Pic. | ||
||2003 | ||2003: Walter Zapp dies ... inventor, invented the Minox. Pic. | ||
||Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova | ||2005: Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova dies ... historian of mathematics. Pic. | ||
File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|2015: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage. | File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|2015: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage. | ||
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1845: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
1911: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes criticized for his unpatriotic opinions.
1912: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer Henri Poincaré dies. He made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
1913: Signed first edition of The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1920: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould born. He will invent and name the laser.
1929: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to create artificial snowflakes which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: The Port Chicago disaster: Munitions detonate while being loaded onto a cargo vessel bound for the Pacific Theater of Operations, killing 320 sailors and civilians and injuring 390 others at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, United States.
1944: Mathematician and anthropologist William James Sidis dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.
2015: Transdimensional corporation spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.