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||AD 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
||AD 62: Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.


||1608 – Gaspar Schott, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1666)
||1608: Gaspar Schott born ... mathematician and physicist.


File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.


||1754 – Nicolaas Kruik, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1678)
||1754: Nicolaas Kruik dies ... astronomer and cartographer.


||Alexandre Brongniart (b. 5 February 1770) was a French chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris. Pic.
||1770: Alexandre Brongniart born ... chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris. Pic.


File:Joseph Priestley.jpg|link=Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|1789: Chemist, philosopher, educator, and crime-fighter [[Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|Joseph Priestley]] gives landmark sermon on the use of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against chemistry]].
File:Joseph Priestley.jpg|link=Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|1789: Chemist, philosopher, educator, and crime-fighter [[Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|Joseph Priestley]] gives landmark sermon on the use of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against chemistry]].


||1790 – William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710), Enlightenment figure. Pic.
||1790: William Cullen dies ... physician and chemist., Enlightenment figure. Pic.


||1795 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (d. 1871)
||1795 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (d. 1871)
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File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1958: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage, perhaps as a result of the Tybee Bomb event.
File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1958: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage, perhaps as a result of the Tybee Bomb event.


||1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
||1971: Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.


||1977 – Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1894)
||1977: Oskar Klein dies ... physicist and academic.


||1983 – Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, American chemist and academic (b. 1925)
||1980: Nachman Aronszajn dies ... mathematician. Aronszajn's main field of study was mathematical analysis. The existence of Aronszajn trees was proven by Aronszajn; Aronszajn lines, also named after him, are the lexicographic orderings of Aronszajn trees. Pic: https://www.knigozal.com/store/gb/book/nachman-aronszajn/isbn/978-613-1-15567-3
 
||1983: Margaret Oakley Dayhoff dies ... chemist and academic.


File:Dorothy Lewis Bernstein.jpg|link=Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|1988: Mathematician [[Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|Dorothy Lewis Bernstein]] dies. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.
File:Dorothy Lewis Bernstein.jpg|link=Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|1988: Mathematician [[Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|Dorothy Lewis Bernstein]] dies. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.


||Pedro Arrupe SJ (d. 5 February 1991) was a Spanish Basque Jesuit priest who served as the twenty-eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1965–83). Stationed as novice master outside Hiroshima in 1945, he used his medical background as a first responder to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. No pic.
||1991: Pedro Arrupe SJ dies ... Jesuit priest who served as the twenty-eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1965–83). Stationed as novice master outside Hiroshima in 1945, he used his medical background as a first responder to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. No pic.


||Alexander (Alec) Rawson Stokes (d. 5 February 2003) physicist DNA
||2003: Alexander (Alec) Rawson Stokes dies ... physicist ... DNA.


||2015 – Val Logsdon Fitch, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
||2015: Val Logsdon Fitch dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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