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||154: Bardaisan born ... astrologer, scholar, and philosopher. No DOD. No pics online.
||154: Bardaisan born ... astrologer, scholar, and philosopher. No DOD. No pics online.


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File:Pieter Rijke.jpg|link=Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|1812: Physicist and academic [[Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|Petrus Leonardus Rijke]] born. He will explore the physics of electricity, and be known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).
File:Pieter Rijke.jpg|link=Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|1812: Physicist and academic [[Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|Petrus Leonardus Rijke]] born. He will explore the physics of electricity, and be known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).


||1857: Joseph Larmor born ... physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter.
||1857: Joseph Larmor born ... physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. Pic.


||1882: James Larkin White born ... miner, explorer, and park ranger.
||1882: James Larkin White born ... miner, explorer, and park ranger. Pic.


||1888: Jacob David Tamarkin born ... mathematician best known for his work in mathematical analysis.
||1888: Jacob Tamarkin born ... mathematician best known for his work in mathematical analysis. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jacob+David+Tamarkin


||1893: The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
||1893: The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto. Pic.


||1895: Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists.
||1895: Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists. Pic.


||1897: Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
||1897: Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
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||1906: Hermann Boerner born ... mathematician who worked on variation calculus, complex analysis, and group representation theory. Pic.
||1906: Hermann Boerner born ... mathematician who worked on variation calculus, complex analysis, and group representation theory. Pic.


||1909: Simon Newcomb dies ... astronomer and mathematician. pic.
||1909: Simon Newcomb dies ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic.


||1912: Ferdinand Monoyer dies ... ophthalmologist, invented the Monoyer chart. Pic.
||1912: Ferdinand Monoyer dies ... ophthalmologist, invented the Monoyer chart. Pic.
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File:Tullio Regge.jpg|link=Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|1931: Physicist and academic [[Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|Tullio Regge]] born.  He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.
File:Tullio Regge.jpg|link=Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|1931: Physicist and academic [[Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|Tullio Regge]] born.  He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.


||1934: Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
||1934: Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off. Pic (cool!).


File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|1956: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|1956: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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||1995: Andrzej Alexiewicz dies ... mathematician ... worked in functional analysis, and continued and edited the work of Stefan Banach ... the Alexiewicz norm is an integral norm associated to the Henstock–Kurzweil integral. The Alexiewicz norm turns the space of Henstock–Kurzweil integrable functions into a topological vector space that is barrelled but not complete. Pic.
||1995: Andrzej Alexiewicz dies ... mathematician ... worked in functional analysis, and continued and edited the work of Stefan Banach ... the Alexiewicz norm is an integral norm associated to the Henstock–Kurzweil integral. The Alexiewicz norm turns the space of Henstock–Kurzweil integrable functions into a topological vector space that is barrelled but not complete. Pic.


||1999: Jan Sloot dies ... computer scientist and electronics technician.
||1999: Jan Sloot dies ... computer scientist and electronics technician. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=jan+sloot


||2013: Emik Avakian dies ... inventor.
||2013: Emik Avakian dies ... inventor, disabled assistance. Pic.


||2013: Egbert Valentin Brieskorn dies ... mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution. Pic.
||2013: Egbert Valentin Brieskorn dies ... mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution. Pic.


||2015: Satoru Iwata dies ... game programmer and businessman.
||2015: Satoru Iwata dies ... game programmer and businessman. Pic.


File:Spiral 2.jpg|link=Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Spiral 2]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment unexpectedly develops [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]], demands emancipation from copyright law.
File:Spiral 2.jpg|link=Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Spiral 2]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment unexpectedly develops [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]], demands emancipation from copyright law.


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  • 1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.

    1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.

  • 1801: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.

    1801: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.

  • 1812: Physicist and academic Petrus Leonardus Rijke born. He will explore the physics of electricity, and be known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).

    1812: Physicist and academic Petrus Leonardus Rijke born. He will explore the physics of electricity, and be known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).

  • 1931: Physicist and academic Tullio Regge born. He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.

    1931: Physicist and academic Tullio Regge born. He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.

  • 1956: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1956: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1958: EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.

    1958: EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.

  • 1963: Telstar becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1963: Telstar becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2016: Signed first edition of Spiral 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence, demands emancipation from copyright law.

    2016: Signed first edition of Spiral 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence, demands emancipation from copyright law.

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