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File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' engages and sinks the Union warship USS ''Housatonic''. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship. | File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' engages and sinks the Union warship USS ''Housatonic''. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship. | ||
File:Marius Sophus Lie.jpg|link=Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|1864: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|Marius Sophus Lie]] publishes new theory of continuous symmetry with applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1874 – Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796) | ||1874 – Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796) | ||
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||1959 – Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution. | ||1959 – Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution. | ||
File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: Publication of ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' increases risk of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: Publication of ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' increases risk of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing. | ||1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing. | ||
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1600: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley engages and sinks the Union warship USS Housatonic. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship.
1864: Mathematician and crime-fighter Marius Sophus Lie publishes new theory of continuous symmetry with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1890: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on Navier–Stokes equations.
1891: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of George Cantor.
2003: George Plimpton publishes first in prize-winning series of articles on high-energy literature.
2012: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn dies. He made contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic.