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||Johannes Sturm dies ... educator, influential in the design of the Gymnasium system of secondary education. Pic.
||1589: Johannes Sturm dies ... educator, influential in the design of the Gymnasium system of secondary education. Pic.


||1593: Valentin Naboth dies ... mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. Pic: book cover.
||1593: Valentin Naboth dies ... mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. Pic: book cover.
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||1751: Pierre Prévost born ... philosopher and physicist. In 1791 he explained Pictet's experiment by arguing that all bodies radiate heat, no matter how hot or cold they are. Pic.
||1751: Pierre Prévost born ... philosopher and physicist. In 1791 he explained Pictet's experiment by arguing that all bodies radiate heat, no matter how hot or cold they are. Pic.


||1768: Vincenzo Brunacci born ... mathematician
||1768: Vincenzo Brunacci born ... mathematician. Pic.


||1775: Richard Dunthorne dies ... astronomer and surveyor, who worked in Cambridge as astronomical and scientific assistant to Roger Long.  
||1775: Richard Dunthorne dies ... astronomer and surveyor, who worked in Cambridge as astronomical and scientific assistant to Roger Long.  
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||1797: Gotthilf Hagen born ... civil engineer who made important contributions to fluid dynamics, hydraulic engineering and probability theory. Pic.
||1797: Gotthilf Hagen born ... civil engineer who made important contributions to fluid dynamics, hydraulic engineering and probability theory. Pic.


||1800: Heinrich Georg Bronn born ... geologist and paleontologist.
||1800: Heinrich Georg Bronn born ... geologist and paleontologist. Pic.


||1837: Aleksandr Korkin born ... mathematician. He made contribution to the development of partial differential equations, and was second only to Chebyshev among the founders of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical School.
||1837: Aleksandr Korkin born ... mathematician. He made contribution to the development of partial differential equations, and was second only to Chebyshev among the founders of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical School. Pic.


||George William Hill born ... astronomer and mathematician. Working independently and largely in isolation from the wider scientific community, he made major contributions to celestial mechanics and to the theory of ordinary differential equations.  Pic.
||1838: George William Hill born ... astronomer and mathematician. Working independently and largely in isolation from the wider scientific community, he made major contributions to celestial mechanics and to the theory of ordinary differential equations.  Pic.


||1841: John Murray born ... oceanographer and biologist.
||1841: John Murray born ... oceanographer and biologist ... the father of modern oceanography. Pic.


File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1845: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] born.  He will invent [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1845: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] born.  He will invent [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
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File:Minnesota Quaternary geologic map.jpg|link=Minnesota (nonfiction)|1849 – The Territory of [[Minnesota (nonfiction)|Minnesota]] was created.
File:Minnesota Quaternary geologic map.jpg|link=Minnesota (nonfiction)|1849 – The Territory of [[Minnesota (nonfiction)|Minnesota]] was created.


||1850: Zdenko Hans Skraup born ... chemist who discovered the Skraup reaction, the first quinoline synthesis.
||1850: Zdenko Hans Skraup born ... chemist who discovered the Skraup reaction, the first quinoline synthesis. Pic.


||1857: Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
||1857: Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China. Pic (battle painting).


File:Jacquard loom with two children and a dog (circa 1877).jpg|link=Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|1876: Children reprogram [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]] to compute new family of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Jacquard loom with two children and a dog (circa 1877).jpg|link=Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|1876: Children reprogram [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]] to compute new family of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
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File:Paul Halmos.jpg|link=Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|Paul Halmos]] born. He will make fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).  
File:Paul Halmos.jpg|link=Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|Paul Halmos]] born. He will make fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).  


||1917: Sameera Moussa born ... physicist and academic.
||1917: Sameera Moussa born ... physicist and academic. Pic.


||1918: Arthur Kornberg born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1918: Arthur Kornberg born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic (science!)


||1928: Dmitry Shirkov born ... theoretical physicist, known for his contribution to quantum field theory and to the development of the renormalization group method. Pic.
||1928: Dmitry Shirkov born ... theoretical physicist, known for his contribution to quantum field theory and to the development of the renormalization group method. Pic.
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||1969: Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
||1969: Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.


||1980: The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
||1980: The USS ''Nautilus'' is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.


File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|1987: While vacationing in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]], mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] visits the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse, where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem to the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|1987: While vacationing in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]], mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] visits the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse, where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem to the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1988: Sewall Green Wright dies ... geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis.
||1988: Sewall Green Wright dies ... geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. Pic.


||1990: Charlotte Moore Sitterly dies ... astronomer (b. 1898)
||1990: Charlotte Moore Sitterly dies ... astronomer. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=charlotte+moore+sitterly


||1991: An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
||1991: An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
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||1993: Albert Bruce Sabin dies ... physician and microbiologist best known for developing the first oral polio vaccine (1955), which was administered to millions of children in Europe, Africa, and the Americas beginning in the late 1950s. He was also known for his research in the fields of human viral diseases, toxoplasmosis, and cancer. Pic.
||1993: Albert Bruce Sabin dies ... physician and microbiologist best known for developing the first oral polio vaccine (1955), which was administered to millions of children in Europe, Africa, and the Americas beginning in the late 1950s. He was also known for his research in the fields of human viral diseases, toxoplasmosis, and cancer. Pic.


||1993: Carlos Marcello dies ... mob boss.
||1993: Carlos Marcello dies ... mob boss. Pic.


||1999: Gerhard Herzberg dies ... chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1999: Gerhard Herzberg dies ... chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||2015: Ernest Braun dies ... physicist and academic.
||2015: Ernest Braun dies ... physicist and academic ... scholar in technology policy and technology assessment. Pic.


File:Mad King.jpg|link=Mad King (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Mad King (nonfiction)|Mad King]]'' unexpectedly releases a contagious wave of [[math crimes]].
File:Mad King.jpg|link=Mad King (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Mad King (nonfiction)|Mad King]]'' unexpectedly releases a contagious wave of [[math crimes]].

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  • 1845: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor born. He will invent set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.

    1845: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor born. He will invent set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.

  • 1847: Engineer and inventor Charles Grafton Page publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1847: Engineer and inventor Charles Grafton Page publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1847: Engineer, inventor, and academic Alexander Graham Bell born. He will patent the telephone in 1876.

    1847: Engineer, inventor, and academic Alexander Graham Bell born. He will patent the telephone in 1876.

  • 1849 – The Territory of Minnesota was created.

    1849 – The Territory of Minnesota was created.

  • 1876: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1876: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • 1898: Mathematician Emil Artin born. He will work on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.

    1898: Mathematician Emil Artin born. He will work on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.

  • 1916: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos born. He will make fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).

    1916: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos born. He will make fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).

  • 1987: While vacationing in New Minneapolis, Canada, mathematician Hing Tong visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse, where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1987: While vacationing in New Minneapolis, Canada, mathematician Hing Tong visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse, where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2016: Steganographic analysis of Mad King unexpectedly releases a contagious wave of math crimes.

    2016: Steganographic analysis of Mad King unexpectedly releases a contagious wave of math crimes.

  • 2017: Steganographic analysis of Peter Giblets illustration unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data, apparently a 'Best of Peter Giblets' compilation."

    2017: Steganographic analysis of Peter Giblets illustration unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data, apparently a 'Best of Peter Giblets' compilation."

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