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File:Otto_von_Guericke.jpg|link=Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|1663: [[Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|Otto von Guericke]] completes his book ''Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio'', comprising his famed Magdeburg hemispheres demonstration, other vacuum-related research, and his pioneering investigation of static electricity.
File:Otto_von_Guericke.jpg|link=Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|1663: [[Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|Otto von Guericke]] completes his book ''Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio'', comprising his famed Magdeburg hemispheres demonstration, other vacuum-related research, and his pioneering investigation of static electricity.


File:Pieter van Musschenbroek.jpg|link=Pieter van Musschenbroek (nonfiction)|1761: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher [[Pieter van Musschenbroek (nonfiction)|Pieter van Musschenbroek]] born. Van Musschenbroek will invent the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar.
File:Pieter van Musschenbroek.jpg|link=Pieter van Musschenbroek (nonfiction)|1761: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher [[Pieter van Musschenbroek (nonfiction)|Pieter van Musschenbroek]] born. Van Musschenbroek will invent the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar.
||1800: James Bogardus born ... inventor and architect. Pic.
||1819: Erik Edlund dies ... physicist. His scientific research was confined chiefly to the theory of electricity. He helped secure the introduction of weather stations to Sweden. Pic.
||1835: Giovanni Schiaparelli born ... astronomer and historian. Pic.
||1854:  Paul Ehrlich born ... bacteriologist, hematologist and immunologist whose pioneering work in chemotherapy included the discovery of Salvarsan (arsphenamine), the first effective treatment for syphilis against the spirochete ''Treponema pallidum''. His research in the histology of the blood established hematology as a field. Ehrlich also developed new staining methods for microscopic studies on live tissue. At a time when little was understood about the mechanism of disease caused by bacteria, he proposed the side-chain theory as a chemical explanation of immunity, the body's defenses against infection. Though broadly incorrect, the theory nevertheless stimulated further work on the problem. He shared the 1908 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Russian bacteriologist, Élie Metchnikoff. Pic.
||1860: Carl Ritter von Ghega dies ... engineer, designed the Semmering railway. Pic.
||1862: Vilhelm Bjerknes born ... physicist and meteorologist ... did much to found the modern practice of weather forecasting. Pic.
||1864: József Kürschák ... mathematician noted for his work on trigonometry and for his creation of the theory of valuations. He proved that every valued field can be embedded into a complete valued field which is algebraically closed. Pic.
||1874: Johann Heinrich von Mädler dies ... astronomer and selenographer. Pic.


File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist, engineer, and academic [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] born. Einstein will develop the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (the other pillar: quantum mechanics).
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist, engineer, and academic [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] born. Einstein will develop the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (the other pillar: quantum mechanics).


File:Wacław Sierpiński.jpg|link=Wacław Sierpiński (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician and academic [[Wacław Sierpiński (nonfiction)|Wacław Sierpiński]] born. Sierpiński  will make important contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, and topology.
File:Wacław Sierpiński.jpg|link=Wacław Sierpiński (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician and academic [[Wacław Sierpiński (nonfiction)|Wacław Sierpiński]] born. Sierpiński  will make important contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, and topology.
||1883: Karl Marx dies ... philosopher and theorist. Pic.
||1889: Oscar Chisini born ... mathematician and statistician. Pic.
||1900: The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
||1908: Lester Allan Pelton dies ... inventor who contributed significantly to the development of hydroelectricity and hydropower in the old West and world-wide. In the late 1870s, he invented the Pelton water wheel, at that time the most efficient design of the impulse water turbine. Pic.
||1908: Ed Heinemann born ... military aircraft designer for the Douglas Aircraft Company. Pic.
||1909: Robert Serber born ... physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project. Serber's lectures explaining the basic principles and goals of the project were printed and supplied to all incoming scientific staff, and became known as The Los Alamos Primer. The New York Times called him “the intellectual midwife at the birth of the atomic bomb.” Pic.
||1910: Johan Vaaler dies ... inventor, invented the paper clip. Pic.
||1912: Pierre Lelong born ... mathematician who introduced the Poincaré–Lelong equation, the Lelong number and the concept of plurisubharmonic function. Pic.
||1920: Hank Ketcham born ... author and cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace. Pic.
File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1932: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] takes his own life, after living with intense pain for two years from a degenerative spinal condition. Eastman founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
||1935: Tommy Bonnesen ... mathematician, known for Bonnesen's inequality. Pic.
||1935: Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch dies ... German chemist. Pic.
||1942: Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin. Pic: penicillin.


File:JNACC Record of Events - 1961 Yuba City crash.jpg|link=1961 Yuba City B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1961: A USAF B-52 bomber carrying two (or perhaps four) nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba City, California. The weapons' safety interlocks prevent both a nuclear explosion and release of radioactive material.
File:JNACC Record of Events - 1961 Yuba City crash.jpg|link=1961 Yuba City B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1961: A USAF B-52 bomber carrying two (or perhaps four) nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba City, California. The weapons' safety interlocks prevent both a nuclear explosion and release of radioactive material.
||1964: A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy. Pic.
||1968: Erwin Panofsky born ... art historian, whose academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime. Panofsky's work represents a high point in the modern academic study of iconography, which he used in hugely influential works like his "little book" Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art and his masterpiece, Early Netherlandish Painting. Pic.
||1972: Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate. Pic.
||1973: Chic Young born ... cartoonist: Blondie. Pic.
File:Howard Aiken.jpg|link=Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|1973: Physicist and computer scientist [[Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|Howard H. Aiken]] dies. Aiken designed the  Harvard Mark I computer, among other pioneering contributions to computer science.
||1984: Aurelio Peccei dies ... industrialist and philanthropist, best known as co-founder with Alexander King and first president of the Club of Rome, an organisation which attracted considerable public attention in 1972 with its report, The Limits to Growth. Pic.
||1994: Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
||1995: William Alfred Fowler dies ... physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||2016: John W. Cahn dies ... metallurgist and academic. Pic.


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