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File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1713: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.
File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1713: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.


||1769: Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt born ... polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.
||1769: Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt born ... polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. Pic.


||1837: Nikolai Bugaev born ... mathematician and philosopher.
||1837: Nikolai Bugaev born ... mathematician and philosopher. PIc.


||1847: William Edward Ayrton born ... physicist and electrical engineer.
||1847: William Edward Ayrton born ... physicist and electrical engineer. Pic.


||1870: Carl August von Steinheil dies ... physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer. Pic.
||1870: Carl August von Steinheil dies ... physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer. Pic.


||1879: Karl Heinrich Emil Becker born ... weapons engineer and artillery general. He advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development.
||1879: Karl Heinrich Emil Becker born ... weapons engineer and artillery general. He advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development. Pic.


||1887: Karl Taylor Compton born ... physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948
||1887: Karl Taylor Compton born ... physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948. Pic.


||1891: Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov born ... mathematician and academic ... one of the creators of modern analytic number theory.
||1891: Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov born ... mathematician and academic ... one of the creators of modern analytic number theory. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=ivan+vinogradov


File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1894: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1894: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
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||1901: Chemist Richard Helmuth Frederick Manske born.  First synthesized DMT.  Pic: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89667801/richard-helmuth_frederick-manske
||1901: Chemist Richard Helmuth Frederick Manske born.  First synthesized DMT.  Pic: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89667801/richard-helmuth_frederick-manske


||1906: Franz Rellich born ... mathematician. He made important contributions in mathematical physics, in particular for the foundations of quantum mechanics and for the theory of partial differential equations. The Rellich–Kondrachov theorem is named after him.
||1906: Franz Rellich born ... mathematician. He made important contributions in mathematical physics, in particular for the foundations of quantum mechanics and for the theory of partial differential equations. The Rellich–Kondrachov theorem is named after him. Pic.


||1913: Rubby Sherr born ... physicist and academic.
||1913: Rubby Sherr born ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Rubby+Sherr


||1916: José Echegaray dies ... engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1916: José Echegaray dies ... engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:Pierre Duhem.jpg|link=Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian [[Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|Pierre Duhem]] dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
File:Pierre Duhem.jpg|link=Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian [[Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|Pierre Duhem]] dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
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||1918: Mathematician C. S. Venkataraman born. He specialised in the Theory of numbers and his forte was the Theory of Arithmetic Functions. Pic.
||1918: Mathematician C. S. Venkataraman born. He specialised in the Theory of numbers and his forte was the Theory of Arithmetic Functions. Pic.


||1920: Alberto Calderón born ... mathematician and academic.
||1920: Alberto Calderón born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1926: John Louis Emil Dreyer dies ... astronomer.
||1926: John Louis Emil Dreyer dies ... astronomer. Pic.


||1930: Eugene I. Gordon born ... physicist and engineer.
||1930: Eugene I. Gordon born ... physicist and engineer. Pic.


||1954: In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village. == A tactical weapon based on the RDS-4 was also used on September 14, 1954 during Snowball military exercise near Totskoye (similar to Western Desert Rock exercises), when the bomb was dropped by the Tu-4 bomber (the copy of American B-29 bomber). The purpose of this exercise was not to test the bomb itself, but the ability of using it while breaking through enemy defenses (presumably in West Germany).
||1954: In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village. == A tactical weapon based on the RDS-4 was also used on September 14, 1954 during Snowball military exercise near Totskoye (similar to Western Desert Rock exercises), when the bomb was dropped by the Tu-4 bomber (the copy of American B-29 bomber). The purpose of this exercise was not to test the bomb itself, but the ability of using it while breaking through enemy defenses (presumably in West Germany).


||1959: The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
||1959: The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
||1960: Arthur Percy Morris Fleming dies ... electrical engineer, researcher director, and engineering educator. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Arthur+Percy+Morris+Fleming


File:Flag of OPEC.svg|link=Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|1960: The [[Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries]] (OPEC) is founded.
File:Flag of OPEC.svg|link=Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|1960: The [[Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries]] (OPEC) is founded.


||1982: Alberto González Domínguez dies ... mathematician working on analysis, probability theory and quantum field theory.
||1982: Alberto González Domínguez dies ... mathematician working on analysis, probability theory and quantum field theory. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Alberto+González+Domínguez


File:Hans Weinberger.jpg|link=Hans Weinberger (nonfiction)|2009: Mathematician and academic [[Hans Weinberger (nonfiction)|Hans F. Weinberger]] visits the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]], where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of variational methods for eigenvalue problems in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Hans Weinberger.jpg|link=Hans Weinberger (nonfiction)|2009: Mathematician and academic [[Hans Weinberger (nonfiction)|Hans F. Weinberger]] visits the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]], where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of variational methods for eigenvalue problems in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].

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  • 1712: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini dies. He discovered four satellites of the planet Saturn and noted the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division was named after him.

    1712: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini dies. He discovered four satellites of the planet Saturn and noted the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division was named after him.

  • 1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.

    1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.

  • 1894: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

    1894: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

  • 1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."

    1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."

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

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

  • 1960: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

    1960: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

  • 2009: Mathematician and academic Hans F. Weinberger visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of variational methods for eigenvalue problems in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

    2009: Mathematician and academic Hans F. Weinberger visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of variational methods for eigenvalue problems in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2018: Pilgrim declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2018: Pilgrim declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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