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File:James Prescott Joule.jpg|link=James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|1889: Physicist and brewer [[James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|James Prescott Joule]] dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.
File:James Prescott Joule.jpg|link=James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|1889: Physicist and brewer [[James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|James Prescott Joule]] dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.


||1910 – Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic (d. 1997)
||1910: Cahit Arf born ... mathematician and academic.


||1910 – Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert–St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
||1910: Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert–St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.


File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916:  Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916:  Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.


||Harish-Chandra FRS (b. 11 October 1923) was an Indian American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.
||1923: Harish-Chandra born ... mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.


File:Vito Volterra.jpg|link=Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|1940: Mathematician and physicist [[Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|Vito Volterra]] dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.
File:Vito Volterra.jpg|link=Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|1940: Mathematician and physicist [[Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|Vito Volterra]] dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.


||1950 – Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
||1950: Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.


||Theodore Lyman (d. October 11, 1954) was a U.S. physicist and spectroscopist. He will make important studies in phenomena connected with diffraction gratings, on the wavelengths of vacuum ultraviolet light discovered by Victor Schumann and also on the properties of light of extremely short wavelength, on all of which he contributed valuable papers to the literature of physics in the proceedings of scientific societies. Pic.
||1954: Theodore Lyman dies ... physicist and spectroscopist. He will make important studies in phenomena connected with diffraction gratings, on the wavelengths of vacuum ultraviolet light discovered by Victor Schumann and also on the properties of light of extremely short wavelength, on all of which he contributed valuable papers to the literature of physics in the proceedings of scientific societies. Pic.


||1957 – Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik 1's booster rocket's orbit.
||1957: Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik 1's booster rocket's orbit.


||1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
||1958: Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).


File:Dorothea Lange 1936.jpg|link=Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|1965: Documentary photography and photojournalist [[Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|Dorothea Lange]] dies.
File:Dorothea Lange 1936.jpg|link=Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|1965: Documentary photography and photojournalist [[Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|Dorothea Lange]] dies.


||Berend George Escher (d. October 11, 1967 in Arnhem) was a Dutch geologist. Pic.
||1967: Berend George Escher dies ... geologist. Pic.


||Guido Kark Heinrich Hoheisel (14 July 1894 – 11 October 1968) was a German mathematician. Pic.
||1968: Guido Kark Heinrich Hoheisel dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
||1968: Gilles Holst dies ... physicist, known worldwide for his invention in 1932 of the low-pressure sodium lamp. Pic: http://www.biografischportaal.nl/en/persoon/02090115


||1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
||1968: Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.


||Jules Guéron (d. 1990) was a French physical chemist and atomic scientist who played a key role in the development of atomic energy in France.
||1984: Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.


||Lars Valerian Ahlfors (d. 11 October 1996) was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. Pic.
||1990: Jules Guéron ... physical chemist and atomic scientist who played a key role in the development of atomic energy in France.
 
||1996: Lars Valerian Ahlfors dies ... mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. Pic.


||Edwin Henry Spanier (d. October 11, 1996) was an American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley, working in algebraic topology. He co-invented Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology, and wrote what was for a long time the standard textbook on algebraic topology  
||Edwin Henry Spanier (d. October 11, 1996) was an American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley, working in algebraic topology. He co-invented Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology, and wrote what was for a long time the standard textbook on algebraic topology  

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  • 1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation.

    1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation.

  • 1851: Famed gem detective and crime-fighter Niles Cartouchian (1900s) accuses rival gem detective Egon Rhodomunde of trafficking in illegal time crystals.

    1851: Famed gem detective and crime-fighter Niles Cartouchian (1900s) accuses rival gem detective Egon Rhodomunde of trafficking in illegal time crystals.

  • 1889: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.

    1889: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.

  • 1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.

    1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.

  • 1940: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.

    1940: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.

  • 1965: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange dies.

    1965: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange dies.

  • 2002: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde accuses actor-crytographer Niles Cartouchian of trafficking in illegal time crystals.

    2002: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde accuses actor-crytographer Niles Cartouchian of trafficking in illegal time crystals.

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