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1656: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1746: Priest, physicist, and practical joker Jean-Antoine Nollet discharges a battery of Leyden jars through a human chain, unexpectedly generating gray light, although the causes of gray light (in this case, electrical stimulation of a group of mathematicians) are poorly understood at the time.
1863: Printer, inventor, and crime-fighter Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville patents new type of phonoautograph, which records crimes against mathematical constants as photographic images.
1914: The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1915: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
2016: Signed first edition of Two Creatures 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops spontaneous artificial intelligence.

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 ||1947: Roger D. Kornberg born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. (Alive August 2018.)
-||1952: Hendrik Anthony "Hans" Kramers dies ... physicist who worked with Niels Bohr to understand how electromagnetic waves interact with matter.
+||1952: Hans Kramers dies ... physicist who worked with Niels Bohr to understand how electromagnetic waves interact with matter. Pic.
 File:Soyuz 1 patch.png|link=Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in [[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]] when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.