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File:Johann Benedict Listing.jpg|link=Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|1808: Mathematician [[Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|Johann Benedict Listing]] born. He will introduce the term "topology", first in correspondence, then in a famous article published in 1847.
File:Johann Benedict Listing.jpg|link=Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|1808: Mathematician [[Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|Johann Benedict Listing]] born. He will introduce the term "topology", first in correspondence, then in a famous article published in 1847.


||1825: Mathematician Henry Wilbraham born. He is known for discovering and explaining the Gibbs phenomenon nearly fifty years before J. Willard Gibbs did. Gibbs and Maxime Bôcher, as well as nearly everyone else, were unaware of Wilbraham's work on the Gibbs phenomenon. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=henry+wilbraham
||1825: Mathematician Henry Wilbraham born. He is known for discovering and explaining the Gibbs phenomenon nearly fifty years before J. Willard Gibbs did. Gibbs and Maxime Bôcher, as well as nearly everyone else, were unaware of Wilbraham's work on the Gibbs phenomenon. Pic search.


File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|1837: The first commercial use of an [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|electrical telegraph]] is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|1837: The first commercial use of an [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|electrical telegraph]] is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
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||1913: British civil servant, intelligence officer, and spy John Cairncross born. During the Second World War, he passed the information to the Soviets that influenced the Battle of Kursk. He was alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five spy ring. Pic.
||1913: British civil servant, intelligence officer, and spy John Cairncross born. During the Second World War, he passed the information to the Soviets that influenced the Battle of Kursk. He was alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five spy ring. Pic.
||1916: Fred Lasswell born ... cartoonist, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. Pic (cartoon).


File:Gottlob Frege.jpg|link=Gottlob Frege (nonfiction)|1919: Mathematician, logician, and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Gottlob Frege (nonfiction)|Gottlob Frege]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorith]] functions which use predicate logic to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Gottlob Frege.jpg|link=Gottlob Frege (nonfiction)|1919: Mathematician, logician, and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Gottlob Frege (nonfiction)|Gottlob Frege]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorith]] functions which use predicate logic to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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||1920: The first trans-Atlantic two-way radio broadcast was made. Source needed.
||1920: The first trans-Atlantic two-way radio broadcast was made. Source needed.


||2013: Dennis Lindley dies ... statistician, decision theorist, and academic. Lindley was a leading advocate of Bayesian statistics. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=dennis+lindley
||1923: Dennis Lindley born ... statistician, decision theorist, and academic. Lindley was a leading advocate of Bayesian statistics. Pic search.


||1923: Edgar Gilbert born ... mathematician and theorist. He contributed to the understanding of the relation between molecular electronic structure and electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra during the period of 1955 through 1965. After that, he developed the technique of spin-labels, whereby electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra can be used to study the structure and kinetics of proteins and membranes. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Edgar-Gilbert
||1923: Edgar Gilbert born ... mathematician and theorist. He contributed to the understanding of the relation between molecular electronic structure and electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra during the period of 1955 through 1965. After that, he developed the technique of spin-labels, whereby electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra can be used to study the structure and kinetics of proteins and membranes. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Edgar-Gilbert
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||1984: Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
||1984: Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.


||1987: Charles Stark Draper dies ... scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=charles+stark+draper
||1987: Charles Stark Draper dies ... scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA. Pic search.


||1993: Vincent Schaefer dies ... chemist and meteorologist who developed cloud seeding. On November 13, 1946, while a researcher at the General Electric Research Laboratory, Schaefer modified clouds in the Berkshire Mountains by seeding them with dry ice. Pic seach yes cool: https://www.google.com/search?q=vincent+schaefer
||1993: Vincent Schaefer dies ... chemist and meteorologist who developed cloud seeding. On November 13, 1946, while a researcher at the General Electric Research Laboratory, Schaefer modified clouds in the Berkshire Mountains by seeding them with dry ice. Pic seach cool.


||1995: Toru Kumon dies ... mathematician, academic, educator. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=toru+kumon&oq=Toru+Kumon
||1995: Toru Kumon dies ... mathematician, academic, educator. Pic search.


||2003: Ludwig Bölkow dies ... aero engineer ... Messer-262. Pic.
||2003: Ludwig Bölkow dies ... aero engineer ... Messer-262. Pic.


||2008: Tracy Hall dies ... chemist and academic ... synth diamond. Pic search yes cool: https://www.google.com/search?q=tracy+hall
||2008: Tracy Hall dies ... chemist and academic ... synth diamond. Pic search cool.


||2008: Randy Pausch dies ... computer scientist and educator ... interface design. Pic.
||2008: Randy Pausch dies ... computer scientist and educator ... interface design. Pic.


||2013: Hugh Huxley dies ... molecular biologist and academic ... made important discoveries in the physiology of muscle. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hugh+Huxley
||2013: Hugh Huxley dies ... molecular biologist and academic ... made important discoveries in the physiology of muscle. Pic search.


File:Lend a Hand.jpg|link=Lend a Hand (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Lend a Hand (nonfiction)|Lend a Hand]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment unexpectedly generates "at least two, probably four, and perhaps as many as eight" [[organic golems]].
File:Lend a Hand.jpg|link=Lend a Hand (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Lend a Hand (nonfiction)|Lend a Hand]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment unexpectedly generates "at least two, probably four, and perhaps as many as eight" [[organic golems]].

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