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||1958: dies: Karl Lark-Horovitz was an American physicist known for his pioneering work in solid-state physics that played a role in the invention of the transistor. He brought the previously neglected Physics Department at Purdue University to prominence during his tenure there as department head from 1929 until his death in 1958. Pic.
||1958: dies: Karl Lark-Horovitz was an American physicist known for his pioneering work in solid-state physics that played a role in the invention of the transistor. He brought the previously neglected Physics Department at Purdue University to prominence during his tenure there as department head from 1929 until his death in 1958. Pic.


||1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
||1958: The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.


||1964 – Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (b. 1876)
||1964: Tatyana Afanasyeva dies ... mathematician and theorist.


||1964 – Rachel Carson, American biologist and author (b. 1907)
||1964: Rachel Carson dies ... biologist and author.


||1981 – STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight.
||1981 – STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight.


||2000 – Phil Katz, American computer programmer, co-created the zip file format (b. 1962)
||2000: Phil Katz dies ... computer programmer, co-created the zip file format.


||2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
||2003: The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.


||Robin John Popplestone (d. 14 April 2004) was a pioneer in the fields of machine intelligence and robotics. He is known for developing the COWSEL and POP programming languages, and for his work on Freddy II. Pic.
||2004: Robin John Popplestone dies ... pioneer in the fields of machine intelligence and robotics. He is known for developing the COWSEL and POP programming languages, and for his work on Freddy II. Pic.


||Saunders Mac Lane (d. 2005) was an American mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.
||2005: Saunders Mac Lane dies ... mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.


File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.


File:Golden Spiral.jpg|link=Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|''[[Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|Golden Spiral]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Picture of the Day.
File:Golden Spiral.jpg|link=Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Golden Spiral (nonfiction)|Golden Spiral]]'' is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1126: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) born. He will write on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, politics, music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.

    1126: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) born. He will write on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, politics, music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.

  • 1477: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci accepts commission to build a mechanical soldier powered by time crystals.

    1477: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci accepts commission to build a mechanical soldier powered by time crystals.

  • 1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens born. He will be a leading scientist of his time.

    1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens born. He will be a leading scientist of his time.

  • 1659: Proposals to flood the Sistine chapel "are equally useless to Science and Art," writes Christiaan Huygens in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII.

    1659: Proposals to flood the Sistine chapel "are equally useless to Science and Art," writes Christiaan Huygens in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII.

  • 1894: The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.

    1894: The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.

  • 1898: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.

    1898: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.

  • 1899: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan born. He will discover the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.

    1899: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan born. He will discover the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.

  • 1934: Author and alleged time-traveller John Brunner uses Lee and Turner scrying engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

    1934: Author and alleged time-traveller John Brunner uses Lee and Turner scrying engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1935: Mathematician Emmy Noether dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.

    1935: Mathematician Emmy Noether dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.

  • 2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.

    2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.

  • 2018: Golden Spiral is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2018: Golden Spiral is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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