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|File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1572: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to communicate with [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]]. | |File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1572: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to communicate with [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]]. | ||
||1599 – Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (b.1565) | |||
|File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1969: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] invents new class [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], prevents several [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1969: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] invents new class [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], prevents several [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1804 – Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding. | ||1804 – Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding. | ||
||1877 – Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945) | |||
||1895 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft (d. 1955) | |||
||1919 – Hilda Hänchen, German physicist and academic (d. 2013) | |||
||1939 – Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people. | |||
File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician and crime fighter [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] publishes new theory of modern functional analysis which enables mathematicians to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician and crime fighter [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] publishes new theory of modern functional analysis which enables mathematicians to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1972 – In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion. | |||
||1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h). | |||
||1979 – The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000 mi). | ||1979 – The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000 mi). | ||
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File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1982: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic. | File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1982: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic. | ||
||1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded. | |||
||1988 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) | |||
||1991 – Otl Aicher, German graphic designer and typographer (b. 1922) | ||1991 – Otl Aicher, German graphic designer and typographer (b. 1922) | ||
||2014 – Joseph Shivers, American chemist and academic, developed spandex (b. 1920) | |||
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1944: Mathematician and crime fighter Stefan Banach publishes new theory of modern functional analysis which enables mathematicians to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1982: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic.