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File:Albertus Magnus.jpg|link=Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher [[Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|Albertus Magnus]] dies. He was known during his lifetime as ''doctor universalis'' and ''doctor expertus'' and, late in his life, the term ''magnus'' was appended to his name.
File:Albertus Magnus.jpg|link=Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher [[Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|Albertus Magnus]] dies. He was known during his lifetime as ''doctor universalis'' and ''doctor expertus'' and, late in his life, the term ''magnus'' was appended to his name.
||1793: Michel Floréal Chasles born ... mathematician.


File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes Fighting|1797: Philosopher and crime-fighter ''[[Red Eyes Fighting]]'' defeats gang of [[Crimes against mathematical constants|math criminals]] in close-quarters combat.
File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes Fighting|1797: Philosopher and crime-fighter ''[[Red Eyes Fighting]]'' defeats gang of [[Crimes against mathematical constants|math criminals]] in close-quarters combat.
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File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] born. He discovered laws of planetary motion.
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] born. He discovered laws of planetary motion.


||1688: Louis Bertrand Castel born ... mathematician and philosopher.
||1688: Louis Bertrand Castel born ... mathematician and philosopher. Ocular organ (stained glass keyboard). Pic (caricature).


||1738: William Herschel born ... astronomer and composer.
||1738: William Herschel born ... astronomer and composer.


||1793: Michel Chasles born ... mathematician and academic.
||1793: Michel Chasles born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1819: Daniel Rutherford dies ... chemist and physician.
||1819: Daniel Rutherford dies ... chemist and physician.
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||1988: In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
||1988: In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
||1988: Collapse of the first Green Bank telescope, a 90.44 m paraboloid erected in 1962. The telescope collapsed due to the sudden loss of a gusset plate in the box girder assembly, which was a key component for the structural integrity of the telescope.


||1990: Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
||1990: Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.

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