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| File:Diamond Sutra.jpg|link=Diamond Sutra (nonfiction)|868: A copy of the ''[[Diamond Sutra (nonfiction)|Diamond Sutra]]'' is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book. | | File:Diamond Sutra.jpg|link=Diamond Sutra (nonfiction)|868: A copy of the ''[[Diamond Sutra (nonfiction)|Diamond Sutra]]'' is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book. |
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| File:Matteo_Ricci.jpg|link=Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|1610: Priest and mathematician [[Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|Matteo Ricci]] dies. He translating ''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. |
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| ||1686: Otto von Guericke dies ... physicist and politician.
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| ||1722: Petrus Camper born ... physician, anatomist, and physiologist.
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| File:Jacques Binet.jpg|link=Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|1845: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|Jacques Philippe Marie Binet]] publishes new theory of [[crimes against mathematical constants]] using fundamental principles of matrix algebra.
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| 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. |
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| ||1871: Frank Schlesinger born ... astronomer and author. | | 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. |
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| ||1871: John Herschel dies ... mathematician, astronomer, and chemist.
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| ||1881: Theodore von Kármán born ... mathematician, physicist, and engineer.
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| ||1885: Richard Baldus born ... mathematician, specializing in geometry. Pic.
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| ||1887: Jean-Baptiste Boussingault dies ... chemist and academic.
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| ||1887: Griffith Conrad Evans born ... 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.
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| ||1891: Edmond Becquerel dies ... physicist and academic.
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| File:Electrocuting_an_Elephant.png|link=Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|1903: Public outrage in response to the short film ''[[Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|Electrocuting an Elephant]]'' triggers a worldwide outbreak of [[Scrimshaw abuse]].
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| |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]].
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| ||1912: Sergei Chernikov born ... mathematician who contributed significantly to the development of infinite group theory and linear inequalities.
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| ||1916: Karl Schwarzschild dies ... astronomer and physicist.
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| File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1918: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] born. He will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
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| ||1920: James Colosimo dies ... mob boss.
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| ||1924: Eugene Dynkin born ... mathematician and theorist.
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| ||1930: Edsger W. Dijkstra born ... computer scientist and academic, co-developed THE multiprogramming system.
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| ||1934: Orest Khvolson dies ... physicist and academic.
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| ||1943: Clarence Ellis born ... computer scientist and academic.
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| ||1951: Carlo Severini dies ... mathematician.
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| ||1955: Nikolay Krylov dies ... mathematician known for works on interpolation, non-linear mechanics, and numerical methods for solving equations of mathematical physics. Pic.
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| ||1960: In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
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| ||1963: Herbert Spencer Gasser dies ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||1972: The United States performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, which was part of the series Operation Grommet and Operation Toggle.
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| ||1981: Odd Hassel dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||1985: Chester Gould dies ... cartoonist, created Dick Tracy.
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| ||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.
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| ||1995: More than 170 countries extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
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| ||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.
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| ||1998: India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.
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| ||2002: Joseph Bonanno dies ... mob boss.
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| ||2011: Maurice Goldhaber dies ... physicist and academic.
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| File:Havelock With Portable Gnomon Algorithm Amplifier.jpg|link=Havelock With Portable Gnomon Algorithm Amplifier|2018: ''[[Havelock With Portable Gnomon Algorithm Amplifier]]'' is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
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| File:Spiral Rings 2.jpg|link=Spiral Rings 2 (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Spiral Rings 2 (nonfiction)|Spiral Rings 2]]'' reveals "eight hundred kilobytes, give or take" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.
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