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File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist, chemist, and crime-fighter [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] condemns [[Extract of Radium]] as "a terrible hazard to health and sanity."
File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist, chemist, and crime-fighter [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] condemns [[Extract of Radium]] as "a terrible hazard to health and sanity."


||1908 – ''Fantasmagorie'', the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
||1906: Hazel Bishop born ... chemist and cosmetic executive who made an indelible mark on the cosmetics industry by inventing non-smear ("stays on you not on him") kissproof lipstick. During WW II, as senior organic chemist with Standard Oil, she discovered the cause of deposits affecting superchargers of aircraft engines. She never married. In 1949, after a long series of home experiments, in a kitchen fitted out as a laboratory, she perfected a lipstick that stayed on the lips longer than any other product then available, and began its manufacture. It was introduced at $1 a tube in the summer of the following year. In 1951, a partner forced her out of the $10 million company she created. Pic.


||1911 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and engineer (d. 1995) - computer chess
||1908: ''Fantasmagorie'', the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.


||1918 – Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
||1911: Mikhail Botvinnik born ... chess player and engineer (d. 1995) - computer chess


||Rudolf Haag (b. 17 August 1922) was a German physicist. He was best known for his contributions to the algebraic formulation of axiomatic quantum field theory (QFT), namely the Haag–Kastler axioms, and a central no-go theorem in QFT, Haag's theorem, which demonstrates the nonexistence of a unitary time-evolution operator in the interaction picture. Pic.
||1918: Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.


||Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn (b. February 3, 1898 – August 17, 1924) was a Soviet mathematician of Jewish origin who is best known for his contributions in dimension theory, and for developing Urysohn's Metrization Theorem and Urysohn's Lemma. Pic.
||1922: Rudolf Haag born ... physicist. He was best known for his contributions to the algebraic formulation of axiomatic quantum field theory (QFT), namely the Haag–Kastler axioms, and a central no-go theorem in QFT, Haag's theorem, which demonstrates the nonexistence of a unitary time-evolution operator in the interaction picture. Pic.
 
||1924: Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn dies ... mathematician of Jewish origin who is best known for his contributions in dimension theory, and for developing Urysohn's Metrization Theorem and Urysohn's Lemma. Pic.


File:Erik Ivar Fredholm.jpg|link=Erik Ivar Fredholm (nonfiction)|1927: Mathematician [[Erik Ivar Fredholm (nonfiction)|Erik Ivar Fredholm]] dies. He introduced and analyzed a class of integral equations now called Fredholm equations. Fredholm's work on integral equations and operator theory anticipated the theory of Hilbert spaces.  
File:Erik Ivar Fredholm.jpg|link=Erik Ivar Fredholm (nonfiction)|1927: Mathematician [[Erik Ivar Fredholm (nonfiction)|Erik Ivar Fredholm]] dies. He introduced and analyzed a class of integral equations now called Fredholm equations. Fredholm's work on integral equations and operator theory anticipated the theory of Hilbert spaces.  
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File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1929: Captain and pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] born.
File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1929: Captain and pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] born.


||1930: born: Bruce H. Mahan was a physical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley known for his work in the fundamentals of chemical reactions and devotion to chemistry education.
||1930: Bruce H. Mahan born ...  physical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley known for his work in the fundamentals of chemical reactions and devotion to chemistry education.


File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1930: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] begins shooting his film ''[[Spy Pilot]]''.
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1930: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] begins shooting his film ''[[Spy Pilot]]''.


|File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1933: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]].
||1942: Jerrold Eldon Marsden born ... mathematician. H was one of the world leading authorities in mathematical and theoretical classical mechanics. Marsden laid much of the foundation for symplectic topology. Pic.
 
||Jerrold Eldon Marsden (b. August 17, 1942), was a mathematician. H was one of the world leading authorities in mathematical and theoretical classical mechanics. Marsden laid much of the foundation for symplectic topology. Pic.


||1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.
||1943: World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.


||1945 – The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published.
||1945: The novella ''Animal Farm'' by George Orwell is first published.


||1953 – Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
||1953: The first meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.


||1958 – Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country.
||1958: Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country.


||1969 – Otto Stern, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
||1969: Otto Stern dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)


|File:Skip Digits.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1969: During a command performance at the White House, musician and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] gives the first public demonstration of the [[math virus]] which will later be known as the [[Watergate Scandal (virus)|Watergate Scandal virus]].
|File:Skip Digits.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1969: During a command performance at the White House, musician and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] gives the first public demonstration of the [[math virus]] which will later be known as the [[Watergate Scandal (virus)|Watergate Scandal virus]].
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File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] launched from Earth. It will become the first successful soft landing on another planet (Venus).
File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] launched from Earth. It will become the first successful soft landing on another planet (Venus).


||Cypra Cecilia Krieger-Dunaij (d. 17 August 1974) was mathematician ... well known for having translated two works of Wacław Sierpiński in general topology. Pic.
||1974: Cypra Cecilia Krieger-Dunaij dies ... mathematician ... well known for having translated two works of Wacław Sierpiński in general topology. Pic.


||1977 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
||1977: The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.


||1978 – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
||1978: Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.


||1993 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
||1993: Feng Kang dies ... mathematician.


File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1996: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] develops self-awareness, spontaneous seeks out and fights [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1996: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] develops self-awareness, spontaneous seeks out and fights [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Shizuo Kakutani (d. August 17, 2004) was a Japanese-American mathematician, best known for his eponymous fixed-point theorem. Pic.
||2004: Shizuo Kakutani dies ... mathematician, best known for his eponymous fixed-point theorem. Pic.


||2005 – John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1934) - best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem, the development of the Hubble Space Telescope and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
||2005: John N. Bahcall dies ... astrophysicist and academic ... best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem, the development of the Hubble Space Telescope and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.


||Victor L. Klee, Jr. (d. August 17, 2007) was a mathematician specialising in convex sets, functional analysis, analysis of algorithms, optimization, and combinatorics. Pic.
||2007: Victor L. Klee, Jr. dies ... mathematician specialising in convex sets, functional analysis, analysis of algorithms, optimization, and combinatorics. Pic.


||Andrew Mattei Gleason (d. 2008) was an American mathematician who as a young World War II naval officer broke German and Japanese military codes, then over the succeeding sixty years made fundamental contributions to widely varied areas of mathematics, including the solution of Hilbert's fifth problem, and was a leader in reform and innovation in math­e­mat­ics teaching at all levels. Pic.
||2008: Andrew Mattei Gleason dies ... mathematician who as a young World War II naval officer broke German and Japanese military codes, then over the succeeding sixty years made fundamental contributions to widely varied areas of mathematics, including the solution of Hilbert's fifth problem, and was a leader in reform and innovation in math­e­mat­ics teaching at all levels. Pic.


||Katharine Blodgett Gebbie (d. August 17, 2016) was an American astrophysicist and civil servant.
||2016: Katharine Blodgett Gebbie dies ... astrophysicist and civil servant.


||GW170817 was a gravitational wave signal observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration on 17 August 2017, and was the first gravitational wave event that was observed to have a simultaneous electromagnetic signal, thereby marking a significant breakthrough for multi-messenger astronomy.
||2017: GW170817 was a gravitational wave signal observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration on 17 August 2017, and was the first gravitational wave event that was observed to have a simultaneous electromagnetic signal, thereby marking a significant breakthrough for multi-messenger astronomy.


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  • 1807: Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.

    1807: Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.

  • 1904: Physicist, chemist, and crime-fighter Marie Curie condemns Extract of Radium as "a terrible hazard to health and sanity."

    1904: Physicist, chemist, and crime-fighter Marie Curie condemns Extract of Radium as "a terrible hazard to health and sanity."

  • 1927: Mathematician Erik Ivar Fredholm dies. He introduced and analyzed a class of integral equations now called Fredholm equations. Fredholm's work on integral equations and operator theory anticipated the theory of Hilbert spaces.

    1927: Mathematician Erik Ivar Fredholm dies. He introduced and analyzed a class of integral equations now called Fredholm equations. Fredholm's work on integral equations and operator theory anticipated the theory of Hilbert spaces.

  • 1929: Captain and pilot Francis Gary Powers born.

    1929: Captain and pilot Francis Gary Powers born.

  • 1930: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde begins shooting his film Spy Pilot.

    1930: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde begins shooting his film Spy Pilot.

  • 1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 launched from Earth. It will become the first successful soft landing on another planet (Venus).

    1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 launched from Earth. It will become the first successful soft landing on another planet (Venus).

  • 1996: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, spontaneous seeks out and fights crimes against mathematical constants.

    1996: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, spontaneous seeks out and fights crimes against mathematical constants.

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