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File:Pedro Mejía.jpg|link=Pedro Mexía (nonfiction)|1548: Writer, humanist, and historian [[Pedro Mexía (nonfiction)|Pedro Mexía]] appointed consulting crime-fighter to the court of Emperor Charles V. Mexia will discover and expose [[Crimes against mathematical constants|math crime conspiracy]] among the Emperor's ministers. | File:Pedro Mejía.jpg|link=Pedro Mexía (nonfiction)|1548: Writer, humanist, and historian [[Pedro Mexía (nonfiction)|Pedro Mexía]] appointed consulting crime-fighter to the court of Emperor Charles V. Mexia will discover and expose [[Crimes against mathematical constants|math crime conspiracy]] among the Emperor's ministers. | ||
||1552 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. 1626) | |||
||1641 – Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician and geographer (d. 1722) | |||
File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1707: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] born. He will make important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and will introduce much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function. | File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1707: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] born. He will make important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and will introduce much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function. | ||
||1710 – William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1790) | |||
||1754 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1676) | |||
||1755 – Samuel Johnson's ''A Dictionary of the English Language'' is published in London. | |||
File:Peder Horrebow.jpg|link=Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|1764: Astronomer and mathematician [[Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|Peder Horrebow]] dies. he invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars. | File:Peder Horrebow.jpg|link=Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|1764: Astronomer and mathematician [[Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|Peder Horrebow]] dies. he invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars. | ||
||1765 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian chemist and physicist (b. 1711) | |||
||1793 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian priest, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1718) | |||
||Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (b. 15 April 1793) was a German-Russian astronomer and geodesist from the famous Struve family. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor. | |||
File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1805: Emperor grants the patent for Jacquard’s loom to the city of Lyon. In return, Jacquard received a lifelong pension of 3,000 francs. | File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1805: Emperor grants the patent for Jacquard’s loom to the city of Lyon. In return, Jacquard received a lifelong pension of 3,000 francs. | ||
File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=|1854: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] uses [[scrying engine]] technology to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=|1854: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] uses [[scrying engine]] technology to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1854 – Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1773) | |||
||1874 – Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957) | |||
||1892 – Corrie ten Boom, Dutch-American clocksmith Nazi resister, and author (d. 1983) | |||
||1896 – Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986) | |||
||1910 – Miguel Najdorf, Polish-Argentinian chess player and theoretician (d. 1997) | |||
||1920 – Godfrey Stafford, English-South African physicist and academic (d. 2013) | |||
||1922 – U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal. | |||
||1923 – Robert DePugh, American activist, founded the Minutemen (an anti-Communist organization) (d. 2009) | |||
File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|1926: Aviator [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois. | File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|1926: Aviator [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois. | ||
||1927 – Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (d. 1999) | |||
File:Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research.jpg|link=Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|1936: ''[[Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research]]'' wins Pulitzer award for "most prescient illustration of the decade". | File:Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research.jpg|link=Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|1936: ''[[Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research]]'' wins Pulitzer award for "most prescient illustration of the decade". | ||
||1993 – John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908) | |||
||2009 – László Tisza, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1907) | |||
||2013 – Benjamin Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (b. 1930) | |||
||2014 – John Houbolt, American engineer and academic (b. 1919) lunar | |||
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53. | File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53. | ||
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1452: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci born. His areas of interest will include painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
1548: Writer, humanist, and historian Pedro Mexía appointed consulting crime-fighter to the court of Emperor Charles V. Mexia will discover and expose math crime conspiracy among the Emperor's ministers.
1707: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler born. He will make important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and will introduce much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.
1764: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow dies. he invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
1805: Emperor grants the patent for Jacquard’s loom to the city of Lyon. In return, Jacquard received a lifelong pension of 3,000 francs.
1854: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis uses scrying engine technology to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1926: Aviator Charles Lindbergh opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.
1936: Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research wins Pulitzer award for "most prescient illustration of the decade".
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.
