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||1701: Anders Celsius born ... astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. Pic.
||1701: Anders Celsius born ... astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. Pic.


||1703: Henry Winstanley dies ... painter and engineer.
||1703: Henry Winstanley dies ... painter and engineer. Pic.


||1715: Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost born ... doctor and theologian who first described the scientific phenomenon eponymously named the Leidenfrost effect. Pic.
||1715: Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost born ... doctor and theologian who first described the scientific phenomenon eponymously named the Leidenfrost effect. Pic.
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File:Berners_Street_Hoax_caricature.jpg|1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
File:Berners_Street_Hoax_caricature.jpg|1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.


||1811: Andrew Meikle dies ... engineer, designed the threshing machine.
||1811: Andrew Meikle dies ... engineer, designed the threshing machine. Pic.


||1849: Ruan Yuan dies ... the most prominent Chinese scholar during the first half of the 19th century. He was known for his work ''Biographies of Astronomers and Mathematicians''. Pic.
||1849: Ruan Yuan dies ... the most prominent Chinese scholar during the first half of the 19th century. He was known for his work ''Biographies of Astronomers and Mathematicians''. Pic.
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||1871: Giovanni Giorgi born ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
||1871: Giovanni Giorgi born ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
|File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship [[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]] attacked by [[Neptune Slaughter]] in mid-ocean.


||1873: Auguste Arthur de la Rive born ... physicist. Pic.
||1873: Auguste Arthur de la Rive born ... physicist. Pic.
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||1876: Viktor Kaplan born ... engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine. Pic.
||1876: Viktor Kaplan born ... engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine. Pic.


||1895: At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
||1895: At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies. Pic.


||1897: Vito Genovese born ... mob boss. Pic.
||1897: Vito Genovese born ... mob boss. Pic.
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||1903: Lars Onsager born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1903: Lars Onsager born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1904: Paul Tannery dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was the older brother of mathematician Jules Tannery, to whose Notions Mathématiques he contributed an historical chapter. Though Tannery's career was in the tobacco industry, he devoted his evenings and his life to the study of mathematicians and mathematical development.
||1904: Paul Tannery dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was the older brother of mathematician Jules Tannery, to whose Notions Mathématiques he contributed an historical chapter. Though Tannery's career was in the tobacco industry, he devoted his evenings and his life to the study of mathematicians and mathematical development. Pic.


||1909: Anatoly Maltsev born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Anatoly+Maltsev+mathematician
||1909: Anatoly Maltsev born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Anatoly+Maltsev+mathematician
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||1924: George Chandler Whipple dies ... civil engineer and an expert in the field of sanitary microbiology. His career extended from 1889 to 1924 and he is best known as a co-founder of the Harvard School of Public Health. Whipple published some of the most important books in the early history of public health and applied microbiology. Pic.
||1924: George Chandler Whipple dies ... civil engineer and an expert in the field of sanitary microbiology. His career extended from 1889 to 1924 and he is best known as a co-founder of the Harvard School of Public Health. Whipple published some of the most important books in the early history of public health and applied microbiology. Pic.


||1925: John Maddox born ... chemist, physicist, and journalist.
||1925: John Maddox born ... chemist, physicist, and journalist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=john+maddox
 
||1928: Josh Kirby born ... painter and illustrator.


File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
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File:Mars 2 and 3.jpg|link=Mars 2 (nonfiction)|1971: The The [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2 landing module]] crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.  
File:Mars 2 and 3.jpg|link=Mars 2 (nonfiction)|1971: The The [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2 landing module]] crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.  


||1978: In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
||1978: In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White. Pic.
 
||1983: Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey dies ... mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics.


||1988: Jan Hein Donner dies ... chess player and author.
||1983: Harrie Massey dies ... mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics. Pic.


||1990: Basilis C. Xanthopoulos dies ... physicist and academic.
||1990: Basilis C. Xanthopoulos dies ... physicist and academic ...  contributions to the study of colliding plane waves in general relativity. Pic.


||2001: A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
||2001: A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

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  • 1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, is prized by gamblers.

    1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, is prized by gamblers.

  • 1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.

    1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.

  • 1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.

    1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.

  • 1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.

    1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.

  • 1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.

    1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.

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