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File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.
File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.


||1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (d. 1999) Sidney Gottlieb (born Joseph Scheider; August 3, 1918 – March 7, 1999) was an American chemist and spymaster best known for his involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s and '60s assassination attempts and mind control program, known as Project MKUltra.
||1918: Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (d. 1999) Sidney Gottlieb (born Joseph Scheider; August 3, 1918 – March 7, 1999) was an American chemist and spymaster best known for his involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s and '60s assassination attempts and mind control program, known as Project MKUltra.


||1929 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857)
||1929: Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857)


||1929 – Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851) Emile Berliner (d.  August 3, 1929), originally Emil Berliner, was a German-born American inventor. He is best known for inventing the flat disc phonograph record (called a gramophone record in British English and originally also in American English) and the Gramophone.  
||1929: Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851) Emile Berliner (d.  August 3, 1929), originally Emil Berliner, was a German-born American inventor. He is best known for inventing the flat disc phonograph record (called a gramophone record in British English and originally also in American English) and the Gramophone.  


||Jenifer Haselgrove (b. 3 August 1930) was a British physicist and computer scientist. She is most noted for her formulation of ray tracing equations in a cold magneto-plasma, now widely known in the radio science community as Haselgrove's Equations. Nopic.
||1030: Jenifer Haselgrove born ... physicist and computer scientist. She is most noted for her formulation of ray tracing equations in a cold magneto-plasma, now widely known in the radio science community as Haselgrove's Equations. Nopic.


||1936 – Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
||1936: Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.


||1942 – Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
||1942: Richard Willstätter dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1943: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1943: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1948 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
||1948: Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.


||1958 – US Nuclear submarine, Nautiluss, the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole.
||1958: US Nuclear submarine, Nautiluss, the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole.


||1977 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
||1959: Jakob Nielsen dies ... mathematician known for his work on automorphisms of surfaces. Nielsen transformations are certain automorphisms of a free group which are a non-commutative analogue of row reduction and one of the main tools used in studying free groups, introduced by Nielsen to prove that every subgroup of a free group is free (the Nielsen–Schreier theorem), now used in a variety of mathematics, including computational group theory, k-theory, and knot theory.


||Egon Orowan FRS (d. August 3, 1989) was a Hungarian/British/U.S. physicist and metallurgist.
||1977: Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.


||Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh (d. August 3, 2008) was an Indian-American statistician especially known for his contributions to sequential analysis. Pic.
||1989: Egon Orowan dies ... physicist and metallurgist.


||2012 – Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist and academic (b. 1927)
||2008: Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh dies ... statistician especially known for his contributions to sequential analysis. Pic.
 
||2012: Martin Fleischmann dies ... chemist and academic.


File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' feels more green than ever, according to new [[Chromatography (nonfiction)|chromatographic analysis]].
File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' feels more green than ever, according to new [[Chromatography (nonfiction)|chromatographic analysis]].


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