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||1559 – Robert Estienne, English-French printer and scholar (b. 1503)
||1559: Robert Estienne dies ... printer and scholar.


||1695 – Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end all English trading in India.
||1695: Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end all English trading in India.


|File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1865: Writer [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
||1707: Georges-Louis Leclerc born ... mathematician, cosmologist, and author.


||1707 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (d. 1788)
||1722: Ernst Anton Nicolai born ... physician and chemist. He will be a follower of Leibniz' concept of monadism, seeking solutions to medical problems based on the philosophic viewpoints of Gottfried Leibniz.


||Ernst Anton Nicolai (7 September 1722, Sondershausen) was a German physician and chemist. He will be a follower of Leibniz' concept of monadism, seeking solutions to medical problems based on the philosophic viewpoints of Gottfried Leibniz.
||1776: According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).


||1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
||1799: Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier dies ... botanist and physicist.


||1799 – Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (b. 1717)
||1829: August Kekulé, German chemist and academic born ... He was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure.


||1829 – August Kekulé, German chemist and academic (d. 1896) Friedrich August Kekulé, later Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (German: [ˈfriːdrɪç ˈaʊɡʊst ˈkekuːle fɔn ʃtraˈdoːnɪts]; 7 September 1829 – 13 July 1896), was a German organic chemist. From the 1850s until his death, Kekulé was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in theoretical chemistry. He was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure.
||1836: August Toepler born ... physicist and academic. Pic.


||1836 – August Toepler, German physicist and academic (d. 1912). Pic.
||1844: Charles Romley Alder Wright born ... chemistry and physics researcher.


||Charles Romley Alder Wright FCS, FRS (b. 7 September 1844) was an English chemistry and physics researcher
||1884: Georges Jean Marie Valiron born ... mathematician, notable for his contributions to analysis, in particular, the asymptotic behavior of entire functions of finite order and Tauberian theorems.


||Georges Jean Marie Valiron (7 September 1884) was a French mathematician, notable for his contributions to analysis, in particular, the asymptotic behavior of entire functions of finite order and Tauberian theorems.
||1905: Karl Walter Schröter born ... mathematician and logician. Later on, after the war, he made important contributions concerning semantic consequences (German: semantische Folgerungsrelationen) and provability logic (German: syntaktische Ableitbarkeitsrelationen). He worked as a mathematical theoretician and cryptanalyst for the civilian Pers Z S, the cipher bureau of the Foreign Office (German: Auswärtiges Amt), from Spring 1941 to the end of World War II. Pic.


||Karl Walter Schröter (b. 7 September 1905) was a German mathematician and logician. Later on, after the war, he made important contributions concerning semantic consequences (German: semantische Folgerungsrelationen) and provability logic (German: syntaktische Ableitbarkeitsrelationen). He worked as a mathematical theoretician and cryptanalyst for the civilian Pers Z S, the cipher bureau of the Foreign Office (German: Auswärtiges Amt), from Spring 1941 to the end of World War II. Pic.
||1909: Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
 
||1909 – Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.


File:James Van Allen.jpg|link=James Van Allen (nonfiction)|1914: Physicist and philosopher [[James Van Allen (nonfiction)|James Van Allen]] born. The Van Allen radiation belts will be named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.
File:James Van Allen.jpg|link=James Van Allen (nonfiction)|1914: Physicist and philosopher [[James Van Allen (nonfiction)|James Van Allen]] born. The Van Allen radiation belts will be named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.


||1915 – Kiyosi Itô, Japanese mathematician and academic (d. 2008)
||1915: Kiyosi Itô born ... mathematician and academic.


||1917 – John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
||1917: John Cornforth born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (d. 7 September 1918) was a Norwegian mathematician who proved foundational results in group theory.
||1918: Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow dies ... mathematician who proved foundational results in group theory.


||Alfred Schild (b. September 7, 1921) was a leading German-American physicist, well known for his contributions to the Golden age of general relativity (1960–1975).
||1921: Alfred Schild born ... physicist, well known for his contributions to the Golden age of general relativity (1960–1975).


||1923: The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed.
||1923: The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed.
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||1936: Marcel Grossmann dies ... mathematician and a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein. Pic.
||1936: Marcel Grossmann dies ... mathematician and a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein. Pic.


||1939: Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov ... lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. Pic.
||1939: Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov born ... lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. Pic.


||1940: World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights
||1940: World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights
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File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] dies.  He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] dies.  He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.


||Nelson James Dunford (d. September 7, 1986) was an American mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis, namely integration of vector valued functions, ergodic theory, and linear operators. The Dunford decomposition, Dunford–Pettis property, and Dunford-Schwartz theorem bear his name.
||1986: Nelson James Dunford dies ... mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis, namely integration of vector valued functions, ergodic theory, and linear operators. The Dunford decomposition, Dunford–Pettis property, and Dunford-Schwartz theorem bear his name.


||1991 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
||1991: Edwin McMillan dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2004: Ralph Eugene Lapp dies ... nuclear physicist and author who began his career in high-energy physics research with Arthur H. Compton. Lapp then worked at Chicago on the Manhattan Project. With 69 others, he signed Leo Szilard’s 17 Jul 1945 petition to President Truman, the month before the attack on Hiroshima. They urged that Japan should have an opportunity to surrender before use of the atom bomb. (Nevertheless, the actual attack was by surprise.) After the war, he researched the results in Japan. Lapp lectured across the U.S. He wrote 22 books on nuclear safety, including the dangers of nuclear fallout in The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon (1958). A Post book reviewer in 1956 called him “a one-man atomic truth squad and nuclear lie detector.” Pic: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/lapp_ralph_t.html See also https://www.c-span.org/video/?288934-1/mike-wallace-interview-ralph-lapp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2-tnC5doaI
||2004: Ralph Eugene Lapp dies ... nuclear physicist and author who began his career in high-energy physics research with Arthur H. Compton. Lapp then worked at Chicago on the Manhattan Project. With 69 others, he signed Leo Szilard’s 17 Jul 1945 petition to President Truman, the month before the attack on Hiroshima. They urged that Japan should have an opportunity to surrender before use of the atom bomb. (Nevertheless, the actual attack was by surprise.) After the war, he researched the results in Japan. Lapp lectured across the U.S. He wrote 22 books on nuclear safety, including the dangers of nuclear fallout in The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon (1958). A Post book reviewer in 1956 called him “a one-man atomic truth squad and nuclear lie detector.” Pic: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/lapp_ralph_t.html See also https://www.c-span.org/video/?288934-1/mike-wallace-interview-ralph-lapp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2-tnC5doaI

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