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|File:Dionysos kantharos.jpg|link=Dionysus (nonfiction)|500 BC: [[Dionysus (nonfiction)|Dionysus]] gives invites [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] to participate in symposium. | |File:Dionysos kantharos.jpg|link=Dionysus (nonfiction)|500 BC: [[Dionysus (nonfiction)|Dionysus]] gives invites [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] to participate in symposium. | ||
|File:Federico Commandino.jpg|link=Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|1532: Publication of mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]]'s translation of [[Gnomon algorithm]] textbooks from Latin to Arabic. | |File:Federico Commandino.jpg|link=Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|1532: Publication of mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]]'s translation of [[Gnomon algorithm]] textbooks from Latin to Arabic. | ||
||1679: Jacques de Billy dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: book cover. | ||1679: Jacques de Billy dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: book cover. | ||
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||1875: Albert Schweitzer born ... physician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1875: Albert Schweitzer born ... physician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1885: Benjamin Silliman Jr. dies ... professor of chemistry at Yale University and instrumental in developing the oil industry. Pic. | ||1885: Benjamin Silliman Jr. dies ... professor of chemistry at Yale University and instrumental in developing the oil industry. Pic. | ||
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||1938: Gust Avrakotos born ... American case officer and Afghan Task Force Chief for the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Pic. | ||1938: Gust Avrakotos born ... American case officer and Afghan Task Force Chief for the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Pic. | ||
||1943: World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill. | ||1943: World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill. | ||
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||2014: Milutin Dostanić dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to functional analysis and operator theory. Pic. | ||2014: Milutin Dostanić dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to functional analysis and operator theory. Pic. | ||
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1867: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
1874: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.
1887: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus born. He will "discover" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he will make notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.
1898: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll dies. He wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
1901: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred Tarski born. He will be a prolific author, contributing to model theory, metamathematics, algebraic logic, abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and analytic philosophy.
1901: Mathematician Charles Hermite dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.
1978: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Kurt Gödel dies. His two incompleteness theorems had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.