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File:Édouard Lucas.png|link=Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|1842: Mathematician [[Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|Édouard Lucas]] born. Lucas will study the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers will be named after him. | File:Édouard Lucas.png|link=Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|1842: Mathematician [[Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|Édouard Lucas]] born. Lucas will study the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers will be named after him. | ||
||1847: Charles Loring Jackson born ... the first significant organic chemist in the United States. He brought organic chemistry to the United States from Germany and educated a generation of American organic chemists. Pic search | ||1847: Charles Loring Jackson born ... the first significant organic chemist in the United States. He brought organic chemistry to the United States from Germany and educated a generation of American organic chemists. Pic search. | ||
||1870: Heinrich Gustav Magnus dies ... chemist and physicist. Pic. | ||1870: Heinrich Gustav Magnus dies ... chemist and physicist. Pic. | ||
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||1926: Robert Lawson Vaught born ... mathematical logician, and one of the founders of model theory. Pic. | ||1926: Robert Lawson Vaught born ... mathematical logician, and one of the founders of model theory. Pic. | ||
||1929: Karl Benz dies ... engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz. | ||1929: Karl Benz dies ... engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz. Pic. | ||
||1932: Wilhelm Ostwald dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1932: Wilhelm Ostwald dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1933: U.S. Navy airship | ||1933: U.S. Navy airship ''Akron'', is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather. | ||
||1941: Henri Bergson dies ... philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate ... known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality. Pic. | ||1941: Henri Bergson dies ... philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate ... known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality. Pic. | ||
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||1961: Simion Stoilow dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to complex analysis. Pic. | ||1961: Simion Stoilow dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to complex analysis. Pic. | ||
||1968: Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. | ||1968: Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Pics. | ||
||1968: Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6. | ||1968: Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6. | ||
||1969: Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart. | ||1969: Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart. Pic. | ||
File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1976: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] dies. Nyquist did early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which led to the development of information theory. | File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1976: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] dies. Nyquist did early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which led to the development of information theory. | ||
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1807: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande dies. As a lecturer and writer Lalande helped popularize astronomy. His planetary tables were the best available up to the end of the 18th century.
1809: Mathematician Benjamin Peirce born. Peirce will make contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics; he will become known for the statement that "Mathematics is the science that draws necessary conclusions".
1826: Electrical engineer Zénobe Gramme born. Gramme will invent the first usefully powerful electric motor.
1841: Mathematician, economist, and APTO field engineer Joseph Louis François Bertrand publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which predict and prevent economic crimes against mathematical constants.
1842: Mathematician Édouard Lucas born. Lucas will study the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers will be named after him.
1919: Chemist and physicist William Crookes dies. Crookes was a pioneer of vacuum tube technology, developing the partially evacuated Crookes tube circa 1869-1875.
1923: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn dies. Venn invented the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
1976: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist dies. Nyquist did early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which led to the development of information theory.
1977: Game designer, shop keeper, and outsider mathematician Dave the Gamer announces "Buy n, get n free" sale on all lucky dice in the store.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Tequila Sunrise unexpectedly reveals "at least five hundred and twelve kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.