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File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1768: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] born. He will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1768: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] born. He will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.


||1772: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin dies ... geographer and cartographer.
||1772: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin dies ... geographer and cartographer. No DOB. Pic: map.


||1806: Cosimo Alessandro Collini dies ... historian and Voltaire's secretary from 1752 to 1756. Pic.
||1806: Cosimo Alessandro Collini dies ... historian and Voltaire's secretary from 1752 to 1756. Pic.
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||1864: Luke Howard dies ... chemist and meteorologist. His lasting contribution to science is a nomenclature system for clouds, which he proposed in an 1802 presentation to the Askesian Society. Pic.
||1864: Luke Howard dies ... chemist and meteorologist. His lasting contribution to science is a nomenclature system for clouds, which he proposed in an 1802 presentation to the Askesian Society. Pic.


||1866: Antonia Maury born ... astronomer and astrophysicist.
||1866: Antonia Maury born ... astronomer and astrophysicist. Pic.


||1888: Arthur Batcheller born ... pioneer in early radio. Pic.
||1888: Arthur Batcheller born ... pioneer in early radio. Pic.
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||1892: Annibale de Gasparis dies ... astronomer, discovered asteroids. Pic.
||1892: Annibale de Gasparis dies ... astronomer, discovered asteroids. Pic.


||1894: Rudolf Nebel born ... spaceflight advocate active in Germany's amateur rocket group, the ''Verein für Raumschiffahrt'' (VfR – "Spaceflight Society") in the 1930s and in rebuilding German rocketry following World War II.
||1894: Rudolf Nebel born ... spaceflight advocate active in Germany's amateur rocket group, the ''Verein für Raumschiffahrt'' (VfR – "Spaceflight Society") in the 1930s and in rebuilding German rocketry following World War II. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=rudolf+nebel


||1896: Friedrich Waismann born ... mathematician, physicist, and philosopher from the Vienna Circle. No pic.
||1896: Friedrich Waismann born ... mathematician, physicist, and philosopher from the Vienna Circle. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=friedrich+waismann


File:Tesla with ray gun.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla|1901: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Nikola Tesla]] predicts that mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] will be "one of the great [[Crimes against mathematical constants|crime fighters]] of his generation."
File:Tesla with ray gun.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla|1901: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Nikola Tesla]] predicts that mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] will be "one of the great [[Crimes against mathematical constants|crime fighters]] of his generation."


||1911: Walter Lincoln Hawkins born ... scientist and inventor.
||1911: Walter Lincoln Hawkins born ... scientist and inventor. Hawkins was a pioneer of polymer chemistry. For thirty-four years he worked at Bell Laboratories, where he was instrumental in designing a long-lasting plastic to sheath telephone cable. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=walter+lincoln+hawkins


||1913: Guillermo Haro Barraza born ... astronomer. Through his own astronomical research and the formation of new institutions, Haro was influential in the development of modern observational astronomy in Mexico. Internationally, he is best known for his contribution to the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic.
||1913: Guillermo Haro Barraza born ... astronomer. Through his own astronomical research and the formation of new institutions, Haro was influential in the development of modern observational astronomy in Mexico. Internationally, he is best known for his contribution to the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic.
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||1920: John Michael Hammersley born ... mathematician best known for his foundational work in the theory of self-avoiding walks and percolation theory.  Pic.
||1920: John Michael Hammersley born ... mathematician best known for his foundational work in the theory of self-avoiding walks and percolation theory.  Pic.


||1923: Nizar Qabbani born ... poet, publisher, and diplomat.
||1923: Nizar Qabbani born ... poet, publisher, and diplomat. His poetic style combines simplicity and elegance in exploring themes of love, eroticism, feminism, religion, and Arab nationalism. Qabbani is one of the most revered contemporary poets in the Arab world, and is considered to be Syria's National Poet. Pic.


File:Harry Lehmann.jpg|link=Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|1924: Physicist [[Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|Harry Lehmann]] born. He will contribute to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
File:Harry Lehmann.jpg|link=Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|1924: Physicist [[Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|Harry Lehmann]] born. He will contribute to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
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||1936: Thomas William Hungerford born ... mathematician who worked in algebra and mathematics education. Pic.
||1936: Thomas William Hungerford born ... mathematician who worked in algebra and mathematics education. Pic.


||1942: Patcha Ramachandra born ... metallurgist, educator and administrator.
||1942: Patcha Ramachandra born ... metallurgist, educator and administrator. Pic.


||1943: Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
||1943: Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion. Pic.


||1954: Pál Selényi dies. He was a pioneer of xerography. Pic.
||1954: Pál Selényi dies. He was a pioneer of xerography. Pic.
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||1970: The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.
||1970: The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.


||1980: Peter Stoner dies ... mathematician and astronomer. No pic.
||1980: Peter Stoner dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=peter+stoner+mathematician


||1980: US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
||1980: US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Pic.


||1983: The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
||1983: The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
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||1998: Rose Pauline Peltesohn dies ... mathematician.  She solved the Difference Problems of Lothar Heffter (de) (1896) in combinatorics in 1939. Pic.  
||1998: Rose Pauline Peltesohn dies ... mathematician.  She solved the Difference Problems of Lothar Heffter (de) (1896) in combinatorics in 1939. Pic.  


||1999: Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
||1999: Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. Pic.


||2009: Thierry Aubin dies ... mathematician who worked at the Centre de Mathématiques de Jussieu, and was a leading expert on Riemannian geometry and non-linear partial differential equations. Pic.
||2009: Thierry Aubin dies ... mathematician who worked at the Centre de Mathématiques de Jussieu, and was a leading expert on Riemannian geometry and non-linear partial differential equations. Pic.


||2012: Yuri Razuvaev dies ... chess player and trainer.
||2012: Yuri Razuvaev dies ... chess player and trainer. Pic (chess!).


||2015: Hans Erni dies ... painter, sculptor, and illustrator.
||2015: Hans Erni dies ... painter, sculptor, and illustrator. Erni is known for having illustrated postage stamps, his lithographs for the Swiss Red Cross, his participation on the Olympic Committee as well as his activism. Pic.


File:Green Ring 2.png|link=Green Ring 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Green Ring 2 (nonfiction)|Green Ring 2]]'' reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of the color [[Green (nonfiction)|green]].
File:Green Ring 2.png|link=Green Ring 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Green Ring 2 (nonfiction)|Green Ring 2]]'' reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of the color [[Green (nonfiction)|green]].


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  • 1768: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier born. He will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.

    1768: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier born. He will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.

  • 1882: Mark Twain admits to experiencing great fear during his famous interview with Wallace War-Heels.

    1882: Mark Twain admits to experiencing great fear during his famous interview with Wallace War-Heels.

  • 1884: Mathematician George David Birkhoff born. He will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics of his generation.

    1884: Mathematician George David Birkhoff born. He will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics of his generation.

  • 1901: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Nikola Tesla predicts that mathematician George David Birkhoff will be "one of the great crime fighters of his generation."

    1901: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Nikola Tesla predicts that mathematician George David Birkhoff will be "one of the great crime fighters of his generation."

  • 1924: Physicist Harry Lehmann born. He will contribute to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.

    1924: Physicist Harry Lehmann born. He will contribute to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.

  • 1928: Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.

    1928: Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.

  • 1963: Film rights to Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press sell for nearly a million dollars.

    1963: Film rights to Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press sell for nearly a million dollars.

  • 1965: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.

    1965: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.

  • 2016: Chromatographic analysis of Green Ring 2 reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of the color green.

    2016: Chromatographic analysis of Green Ring 2 reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of the color green.

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