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||120 – Vettius Valens, Greek astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer (d. 175)
||120: Vettius Valens born ... astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer.


||412 – Proclus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (d. 485)
||412: Proclus born ... mathematician and philosopher.


||1575 – Leiden University is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
||1575: Leiden University is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.


||1577 – Robert Burton, English priest, physician, and scholar (d. 1640)
||1577: Robert Burton born ... priest, physician, and scholar.


|File:Giulio Cesare Vanini.jpg|link=Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|1619: Physician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|Lucilio Vanini]] is put to death after being found guilty of atheism and blasphemy. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.
|File:Giulio Cesare Vanini.jpg|link=Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|1619: Physician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|Lucilio Vanini]] is put to death after being found guilty of atheism and blasphemy. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.
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File:Daniel Bernoulli.jpg|link=Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1700: Mathematician and physicist [[Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Daniel Bernoulli]] born. He will be particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.
File:Daniel Bernoulli.jpg|link=Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1700: Mathematician and physicist [[Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Daniel Bernoulli]] born. He will be particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.


||1777 – Bernard Courtois, French chemist and academic (d. 1838)
||1777: Bernard Courtois born ... chemist and academic.


||1825 – Henry Walter Bates, English geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1892) Mimicry
||1825: Henry Walter Bates born ... geographer, biologist, and explorer ... Mimicry


||1825: Baptiste Jules Henri Jacques Giffard born ... engineer. In 1852 he invented the steam injector and the powered Giffard dirigible airship. Pic.
||1825: Baptiste Jules Henri Jacques Giffard born ... engineer. In 1852 he invented the steam injector and the powered Giffard dirigible airship. Pic.


||1834 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (d. 1907)
||1834: Dmitri Mendeleev born ... chemist and academic.


File:Moses Gomberg.jpg|link=Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|1866: Chemist [[Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|Moses Gomberg]] born. He  will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.
File:Moses Gomberg.jpg|link=Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|1866: Chemist [[Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|Moses Gomberg]] born. He  will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.
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File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1879: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1879: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.


||1906 – Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer, invented Xerography (d. 1968)
||1906: Chester Carlson born ... physicist and lawyer, invented Xerography.


||1907 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1854)
||1907: Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom dies ... chemist and academic.


||1907: William Markowitz born ... astronomer, principally known for his work on the standardization of time. Pic: https://aas.org/obituaries/william-markowitz-1907-1998
||1907: William Markowitz born ... astronomer, principally known for his work on the standardization of time. Pic: https://aas.org/obituaries/william-markowitz-1907-1998


||1914 – Bill Finger, American author and screenwriter, co-created Batman (d. 1974)
||1914: Bill Finger born ... author and screenwriter, co-created Batman.


||1915 – D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
||1915: D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.


||Gaetano Fichera (b. 8 February 1922) was an Italian mathematician, working in mathematical analysis, linear elasticity, partial differential equations and several complex variables.  Pic.
||1922: Gaetano Fichera born ... mathematician, working in mathematical analysis, linear elasticity, partial differential equations and several complex variables.  Pic.


||1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
||1924: Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.


||1928 – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (b. 1857).
||1928: Theodor Curtius dies ... chemist..


||Ennio De Giorgi (b. 8 February 1928) was an Italian mathematician, member of the House of Giorgi, who worked on partial differential equations and the foundations of mathematics. Pic.
||1928: Ennio De Giorgi born ... mathematician, member of the House of Giorgi, who worked on partial differential equations and the foundations of mathematics. Pic.


File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] found responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations.
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] found responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations.


||Julius Wolff (d. 8 February 1945 in Bergen-Belsen) was a Dutch mathematician, known for the Denjoy–Wolff theorem and for his boundary version of the Schwarz lemma.
||1945: Julius Wolff dies ... mathematician, known for the Denjoy–Wolff theorem and for his boundary version of the Schwarz lemma.


||1945 -- Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111.
||1945: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111.


||Felix Hoffmann (d. 8 February 1946) was a German chemist notable for re-synthesizing diamorphine (independently from C.R. Alder Wright who synthesized it 23 years earlier), which was popularized under the Bayer trade name of "heroin".  
||1946: Felix Hoffmann dies ... chemist notable for re-synthesizing diamorphine (independently from C.R. Alder Wright who synthesized it 23 years earlier), which was popularized under the Bayer trade name of "heroin".  


||1950 – The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
||1950: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.


File:John von Neumann.gif|link=John von Neumann (nonfiction)|1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist [[John von Neumann (nonfiction)|John von Neumann]] dies. He was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.  
File:John von Neumann.gif|link=John von Neumann (nonfiction)|1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist [[John von Neumann (nonfiction)|John von Neumann]] dies. He was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.  


||1957 – Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
||1957: Walther Bothe dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1960 – Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and engineer, designed the Red telephone box and Liverpool Cathedral (b. 1880)
||1960: Giles Gilbert Scott dies ... architect and engineer, designed the Red telephone box and Liverpool Cathedral.


||1962 – Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
||1962: Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.


||1968 – American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
||1968: American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.


||1971 – The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
||1971: The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.


||1974 – After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
File:Dennis Gabor.jpg|link=Dennis Gabor (nonfiction)|1973: Physicist, engineer, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Dennis Gabor (nonfiction)|Dennis Gabor]] invents new form of holography which detects and prevents [[crimes against light]].


||Fritz Zwicky (d. February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where he made many important contributions in theoretical and observational astronomy. In 1933, Zwicky was the first to use the virial theorem to infer the existence of unseen dark matter, describing it as "dunkle Materie".
||1974: After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.


||1975 – Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
||1974: Fritz Zwicky dies ... astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where he made many important contributions in theoretical and observational astronomy. In 1933, Zwicky was the first to use the virial theorem to infer the existence of unseen dark matter, describing it as "dunkle Materie".


||1979 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
||1975: Robert Robinson dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


|File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|2012: The Eel receives [[The Eel's henchmen|news from informants]].
||2015: Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde dies ... physician and parapsychologist.


||2015 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (b. 1939)
||2017: Peter Mansfield dies ... physicist, Nobel laureate.


||2017 – Peter Mansfield, English physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1933)
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  • 1700: Mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli born. He will be particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.

    1700: Mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli born. He will be particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.

  • 1866: Chemist Moses Gomberg born. He will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.

    1866: Chemist Moses Gomberg born. He will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.

  • 1867: Didacus automaton develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1867: Didacus automaton develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • 1879: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.

    1879: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.

  • 1933: Carnivorous dirigibles found responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations.

    1933: Carnivorous dirigibles found responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations.

  • 1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist John von Neumann dies. He was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.

    1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist John von Neumann dies. He was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.

  • 1973: Physicist, engineer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Dennis Gabor invents new form of holography which detects and prevents crimes against light.

    1973: Physicist, engineer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Dennis Gabor invents new form of holography which detects and prevents crimes against light.

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