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File:Maria Goeppert-Mayer.jpg|link=Maria Goeppert-Mayer (nonfiction)|1937: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Maria Goeppert-Mayer (nonfiction)|Maria Goeppert-Mayer]] publishes mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells which detects and prevents [[crimes against physical constants]].
File:Maria Goeppert-Mayer.jpg|link=Maria Goeppert-Mayer (nonfiction)|1937: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Maria Goeppert-Mayer (nonfiction)|Maria Goeppert-Mayer]] publishes mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells which detects and prevents [[crimes against physical constants]].


||Edmund Georg Hermann Landau (d. 19 February 1938) was a German born mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and complex analysis.
||1938: Edmund Georg Hermann Landau dies ... born mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and complex analysis.


||1942 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
||1942: World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.


||1942 – World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
||1942: World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.


||1946 – Karen Silkwood, American technician and activist (d. 1974)
||1946: Karen Silkwood born ... technician and activist.


||1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
||1949: Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.


||File:Eisenhower in the Oval Office February 1956.jpg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1958: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by [[transdimensional corporations]].
||File:Eisenhower in the Oval Office February 1956.jpg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1958: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by [[transdimensional corporations]].
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|File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1959: [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] spontaneously generate [[Extract of Radium]].
|File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1959: [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] spontaneously generate [[Extract of Radium]].


||1960 – China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
||1960: China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.


||1976 – Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.
||1976: Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.


||Wilhelm Otto Ludwig Specht (b. 22 September 1907) was a German mathematician who introduced Specht modules. He also proved the Specht criterion for unitary equivalence of matrices. Pic.
||1985: Wilhelm Otto Ludwig Specht dies mathematician ... introduced Specht modules. He also proved the Specht criterion for unitary equivalence of matrices. Pic.


||1988 – André Frédéric Cournand, French-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
||1988: André Frédéric Cournand ... physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)


||Milton Spinoza Plesset (d. 19 February 1991) was an American applied physicist who worked in the field of fluid mechanics and nuclear energy. Pic.
||Milton Spinoza Plesset (d. 19 February 1991) was an American applied physicist who worked in the field of fluid mechanics and nuclear energy. Pic.


||1993: Bernard Taub Feld dies .. professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He helped develop the atomic bomb, and later led an international movement among scientists to banish nuclear weapons. Pic: 126451
||1993: Bernard Taub Feld dies .. professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He helped develop the atomic bomb, and later led an international movement among scientists to banish nuclear weapons. Pic: https://academictree.org/physics/peopleinfo.php?pid=126451


||Robert Bigham Brode (d. February 19, 1986) was an American physicist, who during World War II led the group at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos laboratory that developed the fuses used in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Pic.
||1986: Robert Bigham Brode dies ... American physicist, who during World War II led the group at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos laboratory that developed the fuses used in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Pic.


||||2000: Samut Prakan radiation accident: retrieval operations begin.
||2000: Samut Prakan radiation accident: retrieval operations begin.


||2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
||2002: NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.


||Edmund Hlawka (d. February 19, 2009) was an Austrian mathematician. He was a leading number theorist. Pic.
||2009: Edmund Hlawka dies ... mathematician. He was a leading number theorist. Pic.


||2012 – Ruth Barcan Marcus, American philosopher and logician (b. 1921)
||2012: Ruth Barcan Marcus dies ... philosopher and logician.


||2013 – Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1937)
||2013: Robert Coleman Richardson dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2014 – Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1935)
||2014: Valeri Kubasov dies ... engineer and astronaut.


File:Woodward and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|2015: [[Extract of Radium]] sponsors re-enactment of the [[Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina]].
File:Woodward and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|2015: [[Extract of Radium]] sponsors re-enactment of the [[Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina]].

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  • 1473: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus born. He will formulate a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.

    1473: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus born. He will formulate a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.

  • 1596: Cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction) dies. The Vigenère cipher was misattributed to him; Vigenère himself devised a different, stronger cipher.

    1596: Cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction) dies. The Vigenère cipher was misattributed to him; Vigenère himself devised a different, stronger cipher.

  • 1600: The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.

    1600: The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.

  • 1799: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor Jean-Charles de Borda dies. He contributed to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement.

    1799: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor Jean-Charles de Borda dies. He contributed to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement.

  • 1897: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass dies. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".

    1897: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass dies. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".

  • 1937: Physicist and crime-fighter Maria Goeppert-Mayer publishes mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells which detects and prevents crimes against physical constants.

    1937: Physicist and crime-fighter Maria Goeppert-Mayer publishes mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells which detects and prevents crimes against physical constants.

  • 2015: Extract of Radium sponsors re-enactment of the Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina.

    2015: Extract of Radium sponsors re-enactment of the Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina.

  • 2016: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco dies. He cited James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who have influenced his work the most.

    2016: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco dies. He cited James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who have influenced his work the most.

  • 2017: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta Paragliding reveals encrypted data "almost certainly related to secret programs within the ENIAC program."

    2017: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta Paragliding reveals encrypted data "almost certainly related to secret programs within the ENIAC program."

  • 2017: Mathematician and dissident Igor Shafarevich dies. He made fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic algebraic geometry.

    2017: Mathematician and dissident Igor Shafarevich dies. He made fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic algebraic geometry.

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