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File:John Winthrop.jpg|link=John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|John Winthrop]] publishes an analysis of [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project]].
File:John Winthrop.jpg|link=John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|John Winthrop]] publishes an analysis of [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project]].


||1760 Christian Kramp, French mathematician and academic (d. 1826)
||1760: Christian Kramp born ... mathematician and academic (d. 1826)


File:Dominique Jean Larrey.jpg|link=Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|1766: Physician and surgeon [[Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|Dominique Jean Larrey]] born.  He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.
File:Dominique Jean Larrey.jpg|link=Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|1766: Physician and surgeon [[Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|Dominique Jean Larrey]] born.  He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.
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File:Anna Manzolini.jpg|link=Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|1767: Anatomist, anatomical wax modeler, and crime-fighter [[Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|Anna Morandi Manzolini]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[Organic golem]] generation.
File:Anna Manzolini.jpg|link=Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|1767: Anatomist, anatomical wax modeler, and crime-fighter [[Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|Anna Morandi Manzolini]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[Organic golem]] generation.


||1784 Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1735)
||1784: Torbern Bergman dies ... chemist and mineralogist.


||Torbern Olaf (Olof) Bergman (KVO) (20 March 1735 – 8 July 1784) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published. Bergman was the first chemist to use the A, B, C, etc., system of notation for chemical species.
||1784: Torbern Olaf (Olof) Bergman dies ... chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published. Bergman was the first chemist to use the A, B, C, etc., system of notation for chemical species.


||1831 John Pemberton, American chemist and pharmacist, invented Coca-Cola (d. 1888)
||1831: John Pemberton born ... chemist and pharmacist, invented Coca-Cola.


||1838 Eli Lilly, American soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company (d. 1898)
||1838: Eli Lilly born ... soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company.


||1838 Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company (d. 1917)
||1838: Ferdinand von Zeppelin born ... general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company.


||1876 – White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina.
||1842: Nikolay Nikolayevich Benardos born ... inventor of Greek origin who in 1881 introduced carbon arc welding, which was the first practical arc welding method. Pic.


||1879 – Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
||1876: White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina.


||1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
||1879: Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.


||1894 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
||1889: The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.


||1895 Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (b. 1821)
||1894: Pyotr Kapitsa born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1895: Johann Josef Loschmidt dies ... chemist and physicist.


||1895: Igor Tamm born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1895: Igor Tamm born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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File:Gary Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1960: Pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
File:Gary Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1960: Pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.


||1970 Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
||1970: Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
 
||1971: Kurt Reidemeister dies ... mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle.


||1971 – Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (b. 1893)
||1979: Shin'ichirō Tomonaga dies ... physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. Pic.


||Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (d. July 8, 1979), usually cited as Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in English, was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. Pic.
||1979: Robert Burns Woodward dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1979 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
||2002: Ward Kimball dies ... animator and trombonist.


||2002 – Ward Kimball, American animator and trombonist (b. 1914)
||2008: Sixto Ríos García dies ... mathematician, known as the father of Spanish statistics.


||Sixto Ríos García (d. July 8, 2008), was a Spanish mathematician, known as the father of Spanish statistics.
||2011: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.


||2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
||2013: Rubby Sherr dies ... physicist and academic.


||2013 – Rubby Sherr, American physicist and academic (b. 1913)
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