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||837: Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). Pic.
||1018: Nizam al-Mulk born ... scholar and vizier. He wrote Siyasatnama ("Book of Government"), a political treatise that uses historical examples to discuss justice, effective rule, and the role of government in Islamic society. Pic search.
||1585: Pope Gregory XIII (Ugo Boncompagni) dies ... best known for commissioning and being the namesake for the Gregorian calendar, which remains the internationally accepted civil calendar to this day. Pic.
File:Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.jpg|link=Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|1651: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher [[Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus]] born. He will invent the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation.
||1713: John Whitehurst born ... geologist and clockmaker. Pic.
||1752: William Cheselden dies ... surgeon, anatomist, and academic. He was influential in establishing surgery as a scientific medical profession. Pic.
File:Giovanni Aldini.jpg|link=Giovanni Aldini (nonfiction)|1762: Physicist and academic [[Giovanni Aldini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Aldini]] born. Aldini will contribute to galvanism, anatomy and its medical applications, the construction and illumination of lighthouses, and the mitigation of the destructive effects of fire.  
File:Giovanni Aldini.jpg|link=Giovanni Aldini (nonfiction)|1762: Physicist and academic [[Giovanni Aldini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Aldini]] born. Aldini will contribute to galvanism, anatomy and its medical applications, the construction and illumination of lighthouses, and the mitigation of the destructive effects of fire.  
||1786: Louis Albert Necker de Saussure born ... crystallographer and geographer. He is best remembered for devising the optical illusion now known as the Necker cube. Pic: Necker cube.


File:Joseph-Louis Lagrange.jpg|link=Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|1813: Mathematician and astronomer [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|Joseph-Louis Lagrange]] dies. He made significant contributions to the fields of analysis, number theory, and both classical and celestial mechanics.
File:Joseph-Louis Lagrange.jpg|link=Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|1813: Mathematician and astronomer [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|Joseph-Louis Lagrange]] dies. He made significant contributions to the fields of analysis, number theory, and both classical and celestial mechanics.


File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1818:  Lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] publishes Circular No. 1, a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1818:  Lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] publishes Circular No. 1, a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
||1857: Henry Ernest Dudeney born ... author and mathematician who specialized in logic puzzles and mathematical games. He is known as one of the country's foremost creators of mathematical puzzles. Pic.
||1863: Giovanni Battista Amici dies ... astronomer, microscopist, and botanist. Pic.
||1884: Jean Baptiste André Dumas dies ... chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities. Pic.
||1900: Arnold Orville Beckman born ... chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist. While a professor at California Institute of Technology, he founded Beckman Instruments based on his 1934 invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity, later considered to have "revolutionized the study of chemistry and biology". Pic.
||1911: Samuel Loyd dies ... chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician. Pic.
||1913: Ernst Otto Schlick dies ... engineer and author ... naval gyroscope stabilization. Pic search.
||1917: Robert Burns Woodward born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1919: John Houbolt born ... engineer and academic. Pic.
File:Moritz Benedikt Cantor.jpg|link=Moritz Cantor (nonfiction)|1920: Mathematician and historian [[Moritz Cantor (nonfiction)|Moritz Cantor]] dies. He wrote ''Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik'', which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.
||1925: Linda Goodman born ... astrologer and author. Pic search.
||1927: Marshall Warren Nirenberg born ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate for "breaking the genetic code" and describing how it operates in protein synthesis. Pic.


File:Pineapple Primary.jpg|link=Pineapple Primary (nonfiction)|1928: The [[Pineapple Primary (nonfiction)|Pineapple Primary]] in Illinois, the culmination of a political campaign which was marked by numerous acts of violence, mostly in Chicago and elsewhere in Cook County. In the six months prior to the primary election, 62 bombings took place in the city, and at least two politicians were killed.
File:Pineapple Primary.jpg|link=Pineapple Primary (nonfiction)|1928: The [[Pineapple Primary (nonfiction)|Pineapple Primary]] in Illinois, the culmination of a political campaign which was marked by numerous acts of violence, mostly in Chicago and elsewhere in Cook County. In the six months prior to the primary election, 62 bombings took place in the city, and at least two politicians were killed.
||1930: William Edward Story dies ... mathematician. Pic.
||1945: Sondergerät SG 500 Jagdfaust ("hunting fist") or Jägerfaust ("hunter's fist") was an experimental airborne anti-bomber recoilless rifle designed for use in the Me 163 Komet rocket plane by the German Luftwaffe during World War II: Fritz Kelb downed an RAF Lancaster using it.
||1954: Arnold Dresden dies ... mathematician in the first part of the twentieth century, known for his work in the calculus of variations and collegiate mathematics education. Pic.
||1963: 129 American sailors die when the submarine USS ''Thresher'' sinks at sea. 1963, Thresher sank during deep-diving tests about 220 miles (350 km) east of Boston, Massachusetts, killing all 129 crew and shipyard personnel aboard in the deadliest submarine disaster ever. Her loss was a watershed for the U.S. Navy, leading to the implementation of a rigorous submarine safety program known as SUBSAFE. The first nuclear submarine lost at sea.
File:|link=Oscar Chisini (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician and statistician [[Oscar Chisini (nonfiction)|Oscar Chisini]] dies.


File:Nth Country Experiment.png|link=Nth Country Experiment (nonfiction)|1967: End of the [[Nth Country Experiment (nonfiction)|Nth Country Experiment]], in which three recent young physicists who had just received their PhDs, though had no prior weapons experience, to develop a working nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information, and with basic computational and technical support.
File:Nth Country Experiment.png|link=Nth Country Experiment (nonfiction)|1967: End of the [[Nth Country Experiment (nonfiction)|Nth Country Experiment]], in which three recent young physicists who had just received their PhDs, though had no prior weapons experience, to develop a working nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information, and with basic computational and technical support.
||1972: Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
||1972: Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
||1990: Wealthy Consuelo Babcock dies ... mathematician. She was an outstanding teacher at the University of Kansas for thirty years; she was also the mathematics department's librarian. Pic.
||1992: Peter Mitchell dies ... biochemist who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the chemiosmotic mechanism of ATP synthesis. Pic.
||1999: Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat dies ... biochemist and physician, virology. Pic.
||2007: Charles Philippe Leblond dies ... biologist and academic. Pic.
||2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash.
||2013: Andrei Vladlenovich Zelevinsky dies ... mathematician who made important contributions to algebra, combinatorics, and representation theory. Pic.


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  • 1762: Physicist and academic Giovanni Aldini born. Aldini will contribute to galvanism, anatomy and its medical applications, the construction and illumination of lighthouses, and the mitigation of the destructive effects of fire.

    1762: Physicist and academic Giovanni Aldini born. Aldini will contribute to galvanism, anatomy and its medical applications, the construction and illumination of lighthouses, and the mitigation of the destructive effects of fire.

  • 1813: Mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange dies. He made significant contributions to the fields of analysis, number theory, and both classical and celestial mechanics.

    1813: Mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange dies. He made significant contributions to the fields of analysis, number theory, and both classical and celestial mechanics.

  • 1818: Lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. publishes Circular No. 1, a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.

    1818: Lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. publishes Circular No. 1, a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.

  • 1928: The Pineapple Primary in Illinois, the culmination of a political campaign which was marked by numerous acts of violence, mostly in Chicago and elsewhere in Cook County. In the six months prior to the primary election, 62 bombings took place in the city, and at least two politicians were killed.

    1928: The Pineapple Primary in Illinois, the culmination of a political campaign which was marked by numerous acts of violence, mostly in Chicago and elsewhere in Cook County. In the six months prior to the primary election, 62 bombings took place in the city, and at least two politicians were killed.

  • 1967: End of the Nth Country Experiment, in which three recent young physicists who had just received their PhDs, though had no prior weapons experience, to develop a working nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information, and with basic computational and technical support.

    1967: End of the Nth Country Experiment, in which three recent young physicists who had just received their PhDs, though had no prior weapons experience, to develop a working nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information, and with basic computational and technical support.

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