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||1565 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1522)
||1565: Lodovico Ferrari dies ... mathematician and academic.


File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1607: Assassins sent by Pope Paul V attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]], who survives fifteen stiletto thrusts.
File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1607: Assassins sent by Pope Paul V attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]], who survives fifteen stiletto thrusts.
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File:Denis Diderot by van Loo.jpg|link=Denis Diderot (nonfiction)|1713: Philosopher, art critic, and writer [[Denis Diderot (nonfiction)|Denis Diderot]] born. He will be a prominent figure during the Enlightenment, serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
File:Denis Diderot by van Loo.jpg|link=Denis Diderot (nonfiction)|1713: Philosopher, art critic, and writer [[Denis Diderot (nonfiction)|Denis Diderot]] born. He will be a prominent figure during the Enlightenment, serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.


||1740 – Jean-Philippe Baratier, German astronomer and scholar (b. 1721)
||1740: Jean-Philippe Baratier dies ... astronomer and scholar.


||1777 – Johann Andreas Segner, Slovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
||1777: Johann Andreas Segner dies ... mathematician, physicist, and physician.


||1781 – Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848) - Bernard Bolzano (/bɒlˈtsɑːnoʊ/; German: [bɔlˈtsaːno]; born Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano; 5 October 1781) was a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian extraction, also known for his antimilitarist views.
||1781: Bernard Bolzano born ... mathematician and philosopher ... logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian extraction, also known for his antimilitarist views.


||1869 – During construction, the Hennepin Island tunnel has a limestone cap breached and the rushing water breaks large chunks of land away and the St. Anthony Falls are nearly destroyed.
||1869: During construction, the Hennepin Island tunnel has a limestone cap breached and the rushing water breaks large chunks of land away and the St. Anthony Falls are nearly destroyed.


||Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner (b. October 5, 1877) was a Polish engineer and a pioneer of sound-on-film technology. Pic.
||1877: Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner born ... engineer and a pioneer of sound-on-film technology. Pic.


||William Lassell (d. 5 October 1880) was an English merchant and astronomer. He is remembered for his improvements to the reflecting telescope and his ensuing discoveries of four planetary satellites.
||1880: William Lassell dies ... merchant and astronomer. He is remembered for his improvements to the reflecting telescope and his ensuing discoveries of four planetary satellites.


||1882 – Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 1945)
||1882: Robert H. Goddard born ... physicist, engineer, and academic.


||Dirk Coster (October 5, 1889), was a Dutch physicist.
||1889: Dirk Coster (October 5, 1889), was a Dutch physicist.


||1899 – Elda Anderson, American physicist and health researcher (d. 1961)
||1899 – Elda Anderson, American physicist and health researcher (d. 1961)
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File:Nathan Jacobson.jpg|link=Nathan Jacobson (nonfiction)|1910: Mathematician [[Nathan Jacobson (nonfiction)|Nathan Jacobson]] born. He will conduct research on the structure theory of rings without finiteness conditions--a subject closely related to the theory of algebras--which will transform the approach to classical results and break ground for solutions to problems inaccessible by previous methods.
File:Nathan Jacobson.jpg|link=Nathan Jacobson (nonfiction)|1910: Mathematician [[Nathan Jacobson (nonfiction)|Nathan Jacobson]] born. He will conduct research on the structure theory of rings without finiteness conditions--a subject closely related to the theory of algebras--which will transform the approach to classical results and break ground for solutions to problems inaccessible by previous methods.


||1921 – The 1921 World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
||1921: The 1921 World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.


||1930 – Reinhard Selten, German economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
||1930: Reinhard Selten born ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1930 – British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
||1930: British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.


||1942 – Dorothea Klumpke, American astronomer (b. 1861)
||1942: Dorothea Klumpke dies ... astronomer.


||1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
||1947: The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.


||1966 – Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
||1966: Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.


||Solomon Lefschetz (d. 5 October 1972) 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.
||1972: Solomon Lefschetz dies ... mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations.


||1976 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
||1976: Lars Onsager dies ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Six Seconds to Hell.jpg|link=Six Seconds to Hell|1975: ''[[Six Seconds to Hell]]'' is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," says art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]].
File:Six Seconds to Hell.jpg|link=Six Seconds to Hell|1975: ''[[Six Seconds to Hell]]'' is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," says art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]].
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File:Harald Cramér.jpg|link=Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician and statistician [[Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|Harald Cramér]] dies. He helped found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."
File:Harald Cramér.jpg|link=Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician and statistician [[Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|Harald Cramér]] dies. He helped found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."


||Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim (November 7, 1899 in München – October 5, 1985 in La Jolla, California) was a German born Jewish American theoretical physicist.
||1985: Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim dies ... theoretical physicist.


||1986 – Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".
||1986: Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".


||1986 – James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1919)
||1986: James H. Wilkinson dies ... mathematician and computer scientist.


||1996: Seymour Cray dies ... engineer and businessman, founded CRAY Inc.


||1996 – Seymour Cray, American engineer and businessman, founded CRAY Inc (b. 1925)
||2004: William H. Dobelle dies ... biologist and academic.


||2004: Maurice Wilkins dies ... physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2004 – William H. Dobelle, American biologist and academic (b. 1941)
||2009: Israel Moiseevich Gelfand dies ... Soviet mathematician. Pic.
 
||2004 – Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
 
||Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand (d. 5 October 2009) was a prominent Soviet mathematician. Pic.


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]] orbiter's primary mission, at the beginning of the solar conjunction.
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]] orbiter's primary mission, at the beginning of the solar conjunction.


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  • 1607: Assassins sent by Pope Paul V attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi, who survives fifteen stiletto thrusts.

    1607: Assassins sent by Pope Paul V attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi, who survives fifteen stiletto thrusts.

  • 1713: Philosopher, art critic, and writer Denis Diderot born. He will be a prominent figure during the Enlightenment, serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

    1713: Philosopher, art critic, and writer Denis Diderot born. He will be a prominent figure during the Enlightenment, serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

  • 1910: Mathematician Nathan Jacobson born. He will conduct research on the structure theory of rings without finiteness conditions--a subject closely related to the theory of algebras--which will transform the approach to classical results and break ground for solutions to problems inaccessible by previous methods.

    1910: Mathematician Nathan Jacobson born. He will conduct research on the structure theory of rings without finiteness conditions--a subject closely related to the theory of algebras--which will transform the approach to classical results and break ground for solutions to problems inaccessible by previous methods.

  • 1975: Six Seconds to Hell is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," says art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel.

    1975: Six Seconds to Hell is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," says art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel.

  • 1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 orbiter primary mission ends at the beginning of solar conjunction. The extended mission will commence on 14 December 1976 after solar conjunction.

    1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 orbiter primary mission ends at the beginning of solar conjunction. The extended mission will commence on 14 December 1976 after solar conjunction.

  • 1985: Mathematician Karl Menger dies. He worked on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.

    1985: Mathematician Karl Menger dies. He worked on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.

  • 1985: Writer and crime-fighter Isaac Asimov publishes Two Plus Two Opens the Door, an introduction to Gnomon algorithm functions for children, which will influence a generation of mathematicians.

    1985: Writer and crime-fighter Isaac Asimov publishes Two Plus Two Opens the Door, an introduction to Gnomon algorithm functions for children, which will influence a generation of mathematicians.

  • 1985: Mathematician and statistician Harald Cramér dies. He helped found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."

    1985: Mathematician and statistician Harald Cramér dies. He helped found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the Viking 2 orbiter's primary mission, at the beginning of the solar conjunction.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the Viking 2 orbiter's primary mission, at the beginning of the solar conjunction.

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