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||1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
||1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.


||Marcel Riesz (b. 4 September 1969) was a Hungarian-born mathematician, known for work on summation methods, potential theory, and other parts of analysis, as well as number theory, partial differential equations, and Clifford algebras.
||1969: Marcel Riesz born ... mathematician, known for work on summation methods, potential theory, and other parts of analysis, as well as number theory, partial differential equations, and Clifford algebras.


||1970 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
||1970: Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.


File:Vanitas Still life with Books, a Globe, a Skull, a Violin and a Fan.jpg|link=1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery (nonfiction)|1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are [[1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery (nonfiction)|stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts]].
File:Vanitas Still life with Books, a Globe, a Skull, a Violin and a Fan.jpg|link=1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery (nonfiction)|1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are [[1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery (nonfiction)|stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts]].


||1985 – The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
||1985: The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.


||Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg (February 1, 1905 – September 4, 1984) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist, regarded as one of the most eminent physicists of the 20th century. Despite making key advances in theoretical physics, including the exchange particle model of fundamental forces, causal S-matrix theory, and the renormalization group, his idiosyncratic style and publication in minor journals led to his work being unrecognized until the mid-1990s. Pic.
||1984: Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg dies ... mathematician and physicist, regarded as one of the most eminent physicists of the 20th century. Despite making key advances in theoretical physics, including the exchange particle model of fundamental forces, causal S-matrix theory, and the renormalization group, his idiosyncratic style and publication in minor journals led to his work being unrecognized until the mid-1990s. Pic.


||1996 – Joan Clarke, English cryptanalyst and numismatist (b. 1917)
||1996: Joan Clarke dies ... cryptanalyst and numismatist/


||1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
||1998: Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.


||Bernard A. Galler (d. September 4, 2006) was an American mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Michigan who was involved in the development of large-scale operating systems and computer languages including the MAD programming language and the Michigan Terminal System operating system. Pic.
||2003: David Peter Robbins dies ... mathematician. He is most famous for introducing alternating sign matrices. He is also known for his work on generalizations of Heron's formula on the area of polygons, due to which Robbins pentagons (cyclic pentagons with integer side lengths and areas) were named after him. Pic: https://www.maa.org/news/maa-establishes-a-prize-to-honor-david-robbins
 
||2006: Bernard A. Galler dies ... mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Michigan who was involved in the development of large-scale operating systems and computer languages including the MAD programming language and the Michigan Terminal System operating system. Pic.


File:Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter]]'' sells for ten million dollars.
File:Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter]]'' sells for ten million dollars.


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  • 1784: Astronomer and cartographer César-François Cassini de Thury dies. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates are known as the Cassini map.

    1784: Astronomer and cartographer César-François Cassini de Thury dies. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates are known as the Cassini map.

  • 1881: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes arrives at New Minneapolis, where he will write his well-known essay, A Noble Experiment.

    1881: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes arrives at New Minneapolis, where he will write his well-known essay, A Noble Experiment.

  • 1882: Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.

    1882: Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.

  • 1883: Physicist and crime-fighter Gustav Kirchhoff uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1883: Physicist and crime-fighter Gustav Kirchhoff uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

    1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

  • 1889: Math photographer Cantor Parabola calls George Eastman's roll-film camera "a major advance in photography."

    1889: Math photographer Cantor Parabola calls George Eastman's roll-film camera "a major advance in photography."

  • 1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

    1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter sells for ten million dollars.

    2017: Signed first edition of Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter sells for ten million dollars.

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