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File:Matteo_Ricci.jpg|link=Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|1610: Priest and mathematician [[Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|Matteo Ricci]] dies. Ricci translated Euclid's ''Elements'' into Chinese, as well as the Confucian classics into Latin, for the first time.
File:Matteo_Ricci.jpg|link=Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|1610: Priest and mathematician [[Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|Matteo Ricci]] dies. Ricci translated Euclid's ''Elements'' into Chinese, as well as the Confucian classics into Latin, for the first time.
||1702: Isaac Greenwood born ... first Hollisian Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard College. During his tenure, he wrote anonymously the first natively-published American book on mathematics – the Greenwood Book, published in 1729. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=isaac+greenwood
||1722: Petrus Camper born ... physician, anatomist, and physiologist. Pic.
||1752: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach born ... physician, physiologist, and anthropologist. Pic.


File:Minnesota Quaternary geologic map.jpg|link=Minnesota (nonfiction)|1858: [[Minnesota (nonfiction)|Minnesota]] is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
File:Minnesota Quaternary geologic map.jpg|link=Minnesota (nonfiction)|1858: [[Minnesota (nonfiction)|Minnesota]] is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
||1871: Frank Schlesinger born ... astronomer and author. His work concentrated on using photographic plates rather than direct visual studies for astronomical research. Pic.
||1871: John Herschel dies ... mathematician, astronomer, and chemist. Pic.
||1881: Theodore von Kármán born ... mathematician, physicist, and engineer. Pic.
||1885: Richard Baldus born ... mathematician, specializing in geometry. Pic.
||1802: Jean-Baptiste Boussingault born ... chemist and academic ... made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy. Pic.
||1887: Griffith Conrad Evans dies ... mathematician working for much of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He is largely credited with elevating Berkeley's mathematics department to a top-tier research department, having recruited many notable mathematicians in the 1930s and 1940s.
||1891: Edmond Becquerel dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
||1891: Angus MacFarlane-Grieve born ... academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier. No pics online.
|File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1904: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and reverse [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1912: Sergei Nikolaevich Chernikov born ... mathematician who contributed significantly to the development of infinite group theory and linear inequalities. Pic.
||1914: Haroun Tazieff born ... volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books on volcanoes. Pic.
||1916: Karl Schwarzschild dies ... astronomer and physicist. Pic.


File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1918:  Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] born. Feynmann will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1918:  Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] born. Feynmann will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
||1920: James Colosimo dies ... mob boss.
||1924: Eugene Dynkin born ... mathematician and theorist.
||1930: Edsger W. Dijkstra born ... computer scientist and academic, co-developed THE multiprogramming system.
||1934: Orest Khvolson dies ... physicist and academic.
||1943: Clarence Ellis born ... computer scientist and academic. Ellis was a pioneer in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Groupware. He and his team at Xerox PARC created OfficeTalk, one of the first groupware systems. Ellis also pioneered Operational Transformation, which is a set of techniques that enables real-time collaborative editing of documents. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=clarence+ellis+computer+scientist
||1948: Ed Ricketts dies ... marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher. He is best known for Between Pacific Tides (1939), a pioneering study of intertidal ecology, and for his influence on writer John Steinbeck, which resulted in their collaboration on the Sea of Cortez, later republished as The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951). Pic.
||1951: Carlo Severini dies ... mathematician. Pic search limited (tomb): https://www.google.com/search?q=carlo+severini
||1955: Nikolay Krylov dies ... mathematician known for works on interpolation, non-linear mechanics, and numerical methods for solving equations of mathematical physics. Pic.
||1960: In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
||1963: Herbert Spencer Gasser dies ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1972: The United States performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, which was part of the series Operation Grommet and Operation Toggle.
||1981: Odd Hassel dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1985: Chester Gould dies ... cartoonist, created Dick Tracy. Pic: strip.
||1995: Leo Zippin dies ... mathematician. He is best known for solving Hilbert's Fifth Problem with Deane Montgomery and Andrew M. Gleason in 1952. Pic.
||1995: More than 170 countries extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
||1997: Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
||1998: India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.
||2002: Joseph Bonanno dies ... mob boss. Pic.
||2011: Maurice Goldhaber dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.


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