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||1120 – Gerard Thom (The Blessed Gerard), founder of the Knights Hospitaller (b. c. 1040)
||1120: Gerard Thom (The Blessed Gerard), founder of the Knights Hospitaller (b. c. 1040)


||1596 – Nicola Amati, Italian instrument maker (d. 1684)
||1596: Nicola Amati born ... instrument maker.
 
||1650 – Third English Civil War: In the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles II of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark.


File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1658: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] dies.  He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1658: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] dies.  He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.


||1704 – Joseph de Jussieu, French explorer, geographer, and mathematician, (d. 1779)
||1704: Joseph de Jussieu born ... explorer, geographer, and mathematician.


||1710 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss biologist and zoologist (d. 1784) Father of Biology
||1710: Abraham Trembley born ... biologist and zoologist. "Father of Biology"


||Matthew Boulton FRS (b. 3 September 1728) was an English manufacturer and business partner of Scottish engineer James Watt. In the final quarter of the 18th century, the partnership installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines, which were a great advance on the state of the art, making possible the mechanisation of factories and mills. Boulton applied modern techniques to the minting of coins, striking millions of pieces for Britain and other countries, and supplying the Royal Mint with up-to-date equipment. Pic.
||1728: Matthew Boulton born ... manufacturer and business partner of Scottish engineer James Watt. In the final quarter of the 18th century, the partnership installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines, which were a great advance on the state of the art, making possible the mechanisation of factories and mills. Boulton applied modern techniques to the minting of coins, striking millions of pieces for Britain and other countries, and supplying the Royal Mint with up-to-date equipment. Pic.


File:James Joseph Sylvester.jpg|link=James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|1814: Mathematician and academic [[James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|James Joseph Sylvester]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
File:James Joseph Sylvester.jpg|link=James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|1814: Mathematician and academic [[James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|James Joseph Sylvester]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.


||1869 – Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930
||1829: Adolf Eugen Fick dies ... physiologist who made several physiological measurment devices, including the first practical opthalmotonometer for the measurement of intraocular pressure. He developed fundamental laws of diffusion in living organisms (published in Die medizinische Physik, 1856) and is remembered for Fick's Law which enables calculation of the cardiac output. Pic.
 
||1869: Fritz Pregl born ... chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Solomon Lefschetz (b. 3 September 1884) was an American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations.
||1884: Solomon Lefschetz born ... mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations.


||1905 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
||1905: Carl David Anderson born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1908 – Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1988)
||1908: Lev Pontryagin born ... mathematician and academic.


File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1916: Archaeologist and crime-fighter [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] uses archaeological expedition to Mexico during World War I as cover story for secret investigation into alleged Maya-related [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1916: Archaeologist and crime-fighter [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] uses archaeological expedition to Mexico during World War I as cover story for secret investigation into alleged Maya-related [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1925 – USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.
||1925: USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.


File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1928: Inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] demonstrates his electronic television system to the press.
File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1928: Inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] demonstrates his electronic television system to the press.
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|File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1929: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes retro-temporal pictures of inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] demonstrating his electronic television system, revealing unexpected correspondences with other timelines.  
|File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1929: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes retro-temporal pictures of inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] demonstrating his electronic television system, revealing unexpected correspondences with other timelines.  


||Max Ernst August Bodenstein (d. September 3, 1942) was a German physical chemist known for his work in chemical kinetics. He was first to postulate a chain reaction mechanism and that explosions are branched chain reactions, later applied to the atomic bomb. Pic.
||1042: Max Ernst August Bodenstein dies ... physical chemist known for his work in chemical kinetics. He was first to postulate a chain reaction mechanism and that explosions are branched chain reactions, later applied to the atomic bomb. Pic.


File:Humpty Dumpty At Bat.jpg|link=Humpty Dumpty At Bat|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Humpty Dumpty At Bat]]'' sells for two hundred thousand dollars.
File:Humpty Dumpty At Bat.jpg|link=Humpty Dumpty At Bat|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Humpty Dumpty At Bat]]'' sells for two hundred thousand dollars.


||1954 – The German submarine U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
||1954: The German submarine U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.


File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: The [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: The [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].


||Henrik Selberg (d. 1993) was a Norwegian mathematician. He was born in Bergen as the son of Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg and Anna Kristina Brigtsdatter Skeie. He was a brother of Sigmund, Arne and Atle Selberg. He was appointed professor at the University of Oslo from 1962 to 1973. He is best known for his works on complex functions and potential theory.
||1993: Henrik Selberg dies ... mathematician. He was born in Bergen as the son of Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg and Anna Kristina Brigtsdatter Skeie. He was a brother of Sigmund, Arne and Atle Selberg. He was appointed professor at the University of Oslo from 1962 to 1973. He is best known for his works on complex functions and potential theory.


File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] spacecraft landing at Utopia Planitia on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] spacecraft landing at Utopia Planitia on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].


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  • 1658: Oliver Cromwell dies. He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

    1658: Oliver Cromwell dies. He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

  • 1814: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.

    1814: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.

  • 1916: Archaeologist and crime-fighter Sylvanus Morley uses archaeological expedition to Mexico during World War I as cover story for secret investigation into alleged Maya-related crimes against mathematical constants.

    1916: Archaeologist and crime-fighter Sylvanus Morley uses archaeological expedition to Mexico during World War I as cover story for secret investigation into alleged Maya-related crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1928: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the press.

    1928: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the press.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Humpty Dumpty At Bat sells for two hundred thousand dollars.

    2017: Signed first edition of Humpty Dumpty At Bat sells for two hundred thousand dollars.

  • 1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.

    1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the Viking 2 spacecraft landing at Utopia Planitia on Mars.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the Viking 2 spacecraft landing at Utopia Planitia on Mars.

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