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|File:Gnotilus-fighting-Heracles.jpg|link=Heracles (nonfiction)|525 BC: Supervillain [[Gnotilus]] defends himself after sneak attack by [[Heracles (nonfiction)|Heracles]].
|File:Gnotilus-fighting-Heracles.jpg|link=Heracles (nonfiction)|525 BC: Supervillain [[Gnotilus]] defends himself after sneak attack by [[Heracles (nonfiction)|Heracles]].


||1564 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright, poet and translator (d. 1593)
||1564: Christopher Marlowe born ... playwright, poet and translator.


||Niccolò Cabeo (February 26, 1586 – June 30, 1650), also known as Nicolaus Cabeus, was an Italian Jesuit philosopher, theologian, engineer and mathematician.
||1586: Niccolò Cabeo born ... Jesuit philosopher, theologian, engineer and mathematician.


||1616 – Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1616: Physicist and engineer [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.


File:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.jpg|link=Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|1638: Mathematician and linguist [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]] dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.  
File:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.jpg|link=Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|1638: Mathematician and linguist [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]] dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.  
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File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1648: [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] analyzes fossil trilobite using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques, finds evidence of [[crimes against geological constants]].
File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1648: [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] analyzes fossil trilobite using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques, finds evidence of [[crimes against geological constants]].


||1718 – Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop, botanist and zoologist (d. 1773) - first to suggest Northern lights caused by the sun
||1718: Johan Ernst Gunnerus born ... bishop, botanist and zoologist ... first to suggest Northern lights caused by the sun.


File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1786: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|François Arago]] born.  He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.  
File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1786: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|François Arago]] born.  He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.  
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||1799: Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron born ... French physicist and engineer. Pic.
||1799: Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron born ... French physicist and engineer. Pic.


||1842 – Camille Flammarion, French astronomer and author (d. 1925)
||1842: Camille Flammarion born ... French astronomer and author.


||Fr. Pietro Angelo Secchi SJ (d. 26 February 1878) was an Italian astronomer. He was Director of the Observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University (then called the Roman College) for 28 years. He was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
||1878: Fr. Pietro Angelo Secchi SJ dies ... astronomer. He was Director of the Observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University (then called the Roman College) for 28 years. He was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.


||1880 – Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish astronomer (d. 1972)
||1880: Kenneth Edgeworth born ... astronomer.


||1903 – Richard Jordan Gatling, American engineer, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818)
||1903: Richard Jordan Gatling dies ... engineer, invented the Gatling gun.


File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist and crime-fighter [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist and crime-fighter [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
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||1946: Ahmed Hassan Zewail born ... scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. Pic.
||1946: Ahmed Hassan Zewail born ... scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. Pic.


||1966 – Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
||1966: Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket.


||1985 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
||1985: Tjalling Koopmans dies ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1987 – Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
||1987: Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.


||1993 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.
||1993: World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.


||1995 – The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
||1995: The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.


File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|2005: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] dies.  He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|2005: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] dies.  He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.


||Petr Hájek (d. 26 December 2016) was a Czech scientist in the area of mathematical logic and a professor of mathematics. Pic.
||2011: Kenichi Honda dies ... chemist. He made a significant contribution to the discovery and characterization of photocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide (TiO2) Pic.
 
||2016: Petr Hájek dies ... scientist in the area of mathematical logic and a professor of mathematics. Pic.


File:Enter_or_Exit_midsize_sketch.jpg|2017: Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sequence from ''[[Table Manners]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data."
File:Enter_or_Exit_midsize_sketch.jpg|2017: Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sequence from ''[[Table Manners]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data."


||Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev (d. 26 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for the discovery of the Faddeev equations in the theory of the quantum mechanical three-body problem and for the development of path integral methods in the quantization of non-abelian gauge field theories, including the introduction (with Victor Popov) of Faddeev–Popov ghosts. Pic.
||2017: Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev dies ... theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for the discovery of the Faddeev equations in the theory of the quantum mechanical three-body problem and for the development of path integral methods in the quantization of non-abelian gauge field theories, including the introduction (with Victor Popov) of Faddeev–Popov ghosts. Pic.


||Lester Randolph Ford Jr. (d. February 26, 2017) was an American mathematician specializing in network flow problems. No pic.
||2017: Lester Randolph Ford Jr. dies ... mathematician specializing in network flow problems. No pic.


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  • 1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.

    1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.

  • 1648: Niels Steensen analyzes fossil trilobite using Gnomon algorithm techniques, finds evidence of crimes against geological constants.

    1648: Niels Steensen analyzes fossil trilobite using Gnomon algorithm techniques, finds evidence of crimes against geological constants.

  • 1786: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.

    1786: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.

  • 1904: Physicist and crime-fighter John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

    1904: Physicist and crime-fighter John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

  • 2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

    2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

  • 2017: Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sequence from Table Manners unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data."

    2017: Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sequence from Table Manners unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data."

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