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File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1604: [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] discovers new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1604: [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] discovers new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1794 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician and engineer (d. 1847) | ||1794 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician and engineer (d. 1847) | ||
File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1805: Emperor Napoleon and Empress Josephine visit Lyon and viewed [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]]'s new [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|programmable loom]]. | |File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1805: Emperor Napoleon and Empress Josephine visit Lyon and viewed [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]]'s new [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|programmable loom]]. | ||
File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1817: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]] dies. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects". | File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1817: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]] dies. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects". | ||
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||2013 – Robert Byrne, American chess player and author (b. 1928) | ||2013 – Robert Byrne, American chess player and author (b. 1928) | ||
File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2016: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]]. | |File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2016: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]]. | ||
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] wins Pulitzer Prize for series of quantum timeline photographs. | File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] wins Pulitzer Prize for series of quantum timeline photographs. | ||
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1817: Astronomer Charles Messier dies. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1852: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann born. He will prove (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
1947: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to manufacture high-grade clandestiphrine.
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight (Vostok 1).
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for series of quantum timeline photographs.