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||1660: At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
||1660: At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
||1682: Valentine Greatrakes dies ... faith healer who toured England in 1666, claiming to cure people by the laying on of hands. Pic.


||1700: Nathaniel Bliss born ... astronomer and mathematician.
||1700: Nathaniel Bliss born ... astronomer and mathematician.
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||1914: Johann Wilhelm Hittorf dies ... physicist who was born in Bonn and died in Münster, Germany. Hittorf was the first to compute the electricity-carrying capacity of charged atoms and molecules (ions), an important factor in understanding electrochemical reactions. He formulated ion transport numbers and the first method for their measurements.
||1914: Johann Wilhelm Hittorf dies ... physicist who was born in Bonn and died in Münster, Germany. Hittorf was the first to compute the electricity-carrying capacity of charged atoms and molecules (ions), an important factor in understanding electrochemical reactions. He formulated ion transport numbers and the first method for their measurements.


||Wilfred Kaplan (b. November 28, 1915) was a professor of mathematics. His research focused on dynamical systems, the topology of curve families, complex function theory, and differential equations.  Pic.
||1915: Wilfred Kaplan born ... professor of mathematics. His research focused on dynamical systems, the topology of curve families, complex function theory, and differential equations.  Pic.


||Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot (d. 28 November 1925) was a French physicist.
||1925: Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot dies physicist.


||1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the ''WSM Barn Dance''.
||1925: The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the ''WSM Barn Dance''.


||1948 – Alan Lightman, American physicist, novelist, and academician
||1948: Alan Lightman born ... American physicist, novelist, and academician. (Alive Sept. 2018.)


||1953 – Frank Olson, American biologist and chemist (b. 1910)
||1953: Frank Olson dies ... biologist and chemist.


File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1953: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]] testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1953: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]] testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
||1954 – Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)


File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1954: Physicist [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1954: Physicist [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".


||Hans Heinrich von Halban (d. 1964) was a French physicist, of Austrian-Jewish descent.
||1964: Hans Heinrich von Halban dies ... physicist.


||1964 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
||1964: Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.


File:Boris_Podolsky.jpg|link=Boris Podolsky (nonfiction)|1966: Physicist [[Boris Podolsky (nonfiction)|Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky]] dies.  He worked with [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] and [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] on entangled wave functions and the [[EPR paradox (nonfiction)|EPR paradox]].
File:Boris_Podolsky.jpg|link=Boris Podolsky (nonfiction)|1966: Physicist [[Boris Podolsky (nonfiction)|Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky]] dies.  He worked with [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] and [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] on entangled wave functions and the [[EPR paradox (nonfiction)|EPR paradox]].


||1967 – The first pulsar known as PSR B1919+21 in the constellation of Vulpecula was discovered by two astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.
||1967: The first pulsar known as PSR B1919+21 in the constellation of Vulpecula was discovered by two astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.
 
||1987 – Choh Hao Li, Chinese-American biologist and chemist (b. 1913)
 
|File:Mathematical function.svg|link=Mathematical function (nonfiction)|1954: Some [[Mathematical function (nonfiction)|Mathematical functions]] are "all input and no output," according to alleged supervillain [[Abomynous]].


|File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1955: Supervillain [[Abomynous]] accused of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1987: Choh Hao Li dies ... biologist and chemist.


||Lloyd John Old (d. November 28, 2011) was one of the founders and standard-bearers of the field of cancer immunology.
||2011: Lloyd John Old dies ... cancer immunology.


||Thomas William Hungerford (d. November 28, 2014) was an American mathematician who worked in algebra and mathematics education. Pic.
||2014: Thomas William Hungerford dies ... mathematician who worked in algebra and mathematics education. Pic.


||Janez Strnad (d. November 28, 2015) was a Slovene physicist and popularizer of natural science.
||2015: Janez Strnad dies ... physicist and popularizer of natural science.


|File:The Source London Stock Exchange.jpg|link=Transdimensional trust|2016: [[Transdimensional trust]] opens for business in empty lobby at The London Stock Exchange.
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  • 1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake born.

    1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake born.

  • 1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

    1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

  • 1953: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

    1953: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

  • 1954: Physicist Enrico Fermi dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".

    1954: Physicist Enrico Fermi dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".

  • 1966: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky dies. He worked with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.

    1966: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky dies. He worked with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.

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