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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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| ||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
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| ||1722: Petrus Camper born ... physician, anatomist, and physiologist. Pic.
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| ||1752: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach born ... physician, physiologist, and anthropologist. Pic.
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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. His work concentrated on using photographic plates rather than direct visual studies for astronomical research. 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. |
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| ||1871: John Herschel dies ... mathematician, astronomer, and chemist. Pic.
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| ||1881: Theodore von Kármán born ... mathematician, physicist, and engineer. Pic.
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| ||1885: Richard Baldus born ... mathematician, specializing in geometry. Pic.
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| ||1802: Jean-Baptiste Boussingault born ... chemist and academic ... made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy. Pic.
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| ||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.
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| ||1891: Edmond Becquerel dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
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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 Nikolaevich Chernikov born ... mathematician who contributed significantly to the development of infinite group theory and linear inequalities. Pic.
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| ||1916: Karl Schwarzschild dies ... astronomer and physicist. Pic.
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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. 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
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| ||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.
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| ||1951: Carlo Severini dies ... mathematician. Pic search limited (tomb): https://www.google.com/search?q=carlo+severini
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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. Pic.
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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. Pic.
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| ||1985: Chester Gould dies ... cartoonist, created Dick Tracy. Pic: strip.
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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. Pic.
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| ||2011: Maurice Goldhaber dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
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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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