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|File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1562: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] demonstrates new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Abraham Sharp (d. 18 July 1742) was an English mathematician and astronomer. Pic.
||1742: Abraham Sharp dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic.


||Thomas Jones (d. 18 July 1807) was Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics.
||1807: Thomas Jones dies ... Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics.


||1853 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
||1832: Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans dies ... inventor of early (perhaps earliest) steamboat. Pic: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Claude_Fran%C3%A7ois_Doroth%C3%A9e_marquis_de_Jouffroy_d%27Abbans.png
 
||1853: Hendrik Lorentz born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


Hendrik_Antoon_Lorentz.jpg|link=Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|1853: Physicist and academic [[Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|Hendrik Lorentz]] born. He will share the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
Hendrik_Antoon_Lorentz.jpg|link=Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|1853: Physicist and academic [[Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|Hendrik Lorentz]] born. He will share the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
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File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1872: In a lecture to the Berlin Academy, mathematician [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] gives the classic example of a continuous nowhere differential function.  
File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1872: In a lecture to the Berlin Academy, mathematician [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] gives the classic example of a continuous nowhere differential function.  


||Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (d. July 18, 1890) was a German–American astronomer, and a pioneer in the study of asteroids.
||1890: Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters dies ... astronomer, and a pioneer in the study of asteroids.


||1900: Johan Gustav Christoffer Thorsager Kjeldahl dies ... chemist who developed a method for determining the amount of nitrogen in certain organic compounds using a laboratory technique which was named the Kjeldahl method after him. Pic.
||1900: Johan Gustav Christoffer Thorsager Kjeldahl dies ... chemist who developed a method for determining the amount of nitrogen in certain organic compounds using a laboratory technique which was named the Kjeldahl method after him. Pic.


||Edwin Ford Beckenbach (b. 18 July 1906) was an American mathematician.
||1906: Edwin Ford Beckenbach born ... mathematician.


||Sidney Darlington (b. July 18, 1906) was an electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration in 1953, the Darlington pair. He advanced the state of network theory, developing the insertion-loss synthesis approach, and invented chirp radar, bombsights, and gun and rocket guidance. Pic.
||1906: Sidney Darlington born ... electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration in 1953, the Darlington pair. He advanced the state of network theory, developing the insertion-loss synthesis approach, and invented chirp radar, bombsights, and gun and rocket guidance. Pic.


||1908 – Beatrice Aitchison, American mathematician, statistician, and transportation economist (d. 1997)
||1908: Beatrice Aitchison born ... mathematician, statistician, and transportation economist.


||1914 – The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
||1914: The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.


||1922 – Thomas Kuhn, American physicist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1996)
||1922: Thomas Kuhn born ... physicist, historian, and philosopher.


||1937 – Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2005)
||1937: Hunter S. Thompson born ... journalist and author.


||Arthur Edwin Kennelly (d. June 18, 1939), was an Irish[citation needed]-American electrical engineer.
||1939: Arthur Edwin Kennelly dies ... electrical engineer.


||1942 – The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
||1942: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.


File:Ralph Hartley.jpg|link=Ralph Hartley (nonfiction)|1960:  Electronics researcher [[Ralph Hartley (nonfiction)|Ralph Hartley]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] with a wide range of applications in electronic devices used to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Ralph Hartley.jpg|link=Ralph Hartley (nonfiction)|1960:  Electronics researcher [[Ralph Hartley (nonfiction)|Ralph Hartley]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] with a wide range of applications in electronic devices used to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||July 18, 1963: Operation Blowdown was an explosives test carried out in the Iron Range jungle of Australia's Cape York Peninsula in 1963, to simulate the effects of a nuclear weapon on tropical rainforest. It was conducted by the Australian Army, the Department of Supply, and the Defence Standards Laboratory with participation from the United Kingdom, Canada and United States. In addition, blast effects on military material, field fortifications, supply points, and foot and vehicle movement were examined in a rain forest environment.  
||1963: Operation Blowdown was an explosives test carried out in the Iron Range jungle of Australia's Cape York Peninsula in 1963, to simulate the effects of a nuclear weapon on tropical rainforest. It was conducted by the Australian Army, the Department of Supply, and the Defence Standards Laboratory with participation from the United Kingdom, Canada and United States. In addition, blast effects on military material, field fortifications, supply points, and foot and vehicle movement were examined in a rain forest environment.  


File:Gemini-10 Agena firing.jpg|link=Gemini 10 (nonfiction)|1966: Human spaceflight: [[Gemini 10 (nonfiction)|Gemini 10]] is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
File:Gemini-10 Agena firing.jpg|link=Gemini 10 (nonfiction)|1966: Human spaceflight: [[Gemini 10 (nonfiction)|Gemini 10]] is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
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File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1967: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller [[Henrietta Bolt]] tells fellow astronauts that [[Gemini 10 (nonfiction)|Gemini 10]] "was an inspiration to us all."
File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1967: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller [[Henrietta Bolt]] tells fellow astronauts that [[Gemini 10 (nonfiction)|Gemini 10]] "was an inspiration to us all."


||1987 – Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (b. 1907)
||1987: Gilberto Freyre dies ... sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman.


File:Eugene Shoemaker.jpg|link=Eugene Merle Shoemaker (nonfiction)|1997: Geologist and astronomer [[Eugene Merle Shoemaker (nonfiction)|Eugene Merle Shoemaker]] dies. Shoemaker was the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.
File:Eugene Shoemaker.jpg|link=Eugene Merle Shoemaker (nonfiction)|1997: Geologist and astronomer [[Eugene Merle Shoemaker (nonfiction)|Eugene Merle Shoemaker]] dies. Shoemaker was the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.

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  • 1853: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz born. He will share the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.

    1853: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz born. He will share the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.

  • 1872: In a lecture to the Berlin Academy, mathematician Karl Weierstrass gives the classic example of a continuous nowhere differential function.

    1872: In a lecture to the Berlin Academy, mathematician Karl Weierstrass gives the classic example of a continuous nowhere differential function.

  • 1960: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions with a wide range of applications in electronic devices used to fight crimes against mathematical constants.

    1960: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions with a wide range of applications in electronic devices used to fight crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1966: Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.

    1966: Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.

  • 1967: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tells fellow astronauts that Gemini 10 "was an inspiration to us all."

    1967: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tells fellow astronauts that Gemini 10 "was an inspiration to us all."

  • 1997: Geologist and astronomer Eugene Merle Shoemaker dies. Shoemaker was the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.

    1997: Geologist and astronomer Eugene Merle Shoemaker dies. Shoemaker was the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.

  • 2017: Judge Havelock With Glass wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "a prescient study of emerging information technologies in mid-1800's America."

    2017: Judge Havelock With Glass wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "a prescient study of emerging information technologies in mid-1800's America."

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