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||AD 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
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||1608 – Gaspar Schott, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1666)
||AD 62: Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
 
||1608: Gaspar Schott born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic: sketch by Schott of Magdeburg spheres. Pic search.


File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.


||1754 – Nicolaas Kruik, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1678)
||1673 Robert Hooke writes in his journal that he had, "Told the Society of Arithmetick engine.‏*@HookesLondon It is said that Newton had this, and other Hooke items, including Hooke's portrait, removed from the Royal Society after Hooke's death but this does not seem to be supported by most math historians. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-5.html
 
||1754: Nicolaas Kruik dies ... astronomer and cartographer. Pic: map by Kruik.
 
||1770: Alexandre Brongniart born ... chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris. Pic.
 
||1790: William Cullen dies ... physician and chemist., Enlightenment figure. Pic.
 
||1795: Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger born ... mineralogist, geologist, and physicist. Pic.
 
||1836: Alexander Stewart Herschel born ... astronomer. He did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy, and worked on identifying comets as the source of meteor showers. The Herschel graph, the smallest non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph, is named after him. Pic.


||1790 – William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
||1840: Hiram Maxim born ... engineer, invented the Maxim gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun. Pic.


||1795 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (d. 1871)
||1845: Robert-Aglaé Cauchoix dies ... optician and instrument maker, whose lenses played a part in the race of the great refractor telescopes in the first half of the 19th century. Pic: observatory.


File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] correlates [[transdimensional corporations]] with [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1850: D. D. Parmalee issued a patent (US Patent # 7074) for the first key-driven adding machine. *VFR While this was the first US patent, an earlier key-driven machine had been patented "as early as 1844 by Jean-Baptiste Schwilgue´ (1776– 1856), together with his son Charles. Jean-Baptiste Schwilgue´ was the architect of Strasbourg’s third astronomical clock during the years 1838–1843. He was trained as a clockmaker,but also became professor of mathematics,weights and measures controller, and an industry man, whose particular focus was on improving scales." *Denis Roegel, An Early (1844) Key-Driven Adding Machine, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 30, Number 1, January-March 2008, pp. 59-65 https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-5.html


File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1843: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on thermodynamics.
||1869: The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. Pic.


||1840 – Hiram Maxim, American engineer, invented the Maxim gun (d. 1916) Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an American-born inventor who moved from the United States to the United Kingdom at the age of 41. He remained an American citizen until he became a naturalised British subject in 1899.[1][2] He was the inventor of the Maxim Gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun
||1878: André Citroën born ... engineer and businessman, founded Citroën. Pic.


||1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
||1880: Gabriel Voisin born ... pilot and engineer ... an aviation pioneer and the creator of Europe's first manned, engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft capable of a sustained (1 km), circular, controlled flight. Pic.


||1878 – André Citroën, French engineer and businessman, founded Citroën (d. 1935)
||1882: Engineer Maximilian Joseph Johannes Eduard Schuler born ... best known for discovering the principle known as Schuler tuning which is fundamental to the operation of a gyrocompass or inertial guidance system that will be operated near the surface of the earth. No pic (use gyrocompass).


||1880 – Gabriel Voisin, French pilot and engineer (d. 1973) Gabriel Voisin (February 5, 1880 – December 25, 1973) was an aviation pioneer and the creator of Europe's first manned, engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft capable of a sustained (1 km), circular, controlled flight
||1907: Wilhelm Magnus born ... mathematician. He made important contributions in combinatorial group theory, Lie algebras, mathematical physics, elliptic functions, and the study of tessellations. Pic search.


||1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
||1909: Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. Pic.


||1910 – Charles Philippe Leblond, French-Canadian biologist and academic (d. 2007)
||1910: Charles Philippe Leblond born ... biologist and academic. Pic.


||1914 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist, biophysicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
||1914: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin born ... physiologist, biophysicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||Robert Hofstadter (b. February 5, 1915) was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".
File:Robert Hofstadter.jpg|link=Robert Hofstadter (nonfiction)|1915: Physicist and academic [[Robert Hofstadter (nonfiction)|Robert Hofstadter]] born. He will share the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with [[Rudolf Mössbauer (nonfiction)|Rudolf Mössbauer]]) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".


||1922 – Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian engineer, invented the mechanical pencil (b. 1871)
||1922: Slavoljub Eduard Penkala dies ... engineer, invented the mechanical pencil. Pic.


||1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
||1924: The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal. PIPS.


||1937 – Wang Xuan, Chinese computer scientist and academic (d. 2006)
||1924: Milford Mine Disaster, the worst mining accident in Minnesota history, when it was flooded by water from a nearby lake, killing 41 miners. Only seven men were able to climb to safety. Pic.
 
||1927: Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth born ... plasma physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1997 he was awarded the National Medal of Science for discoveries in controlled thermonuclear fusion, contributions to plasma physics, and work in computational statistical mechanics. Pic.
 
||1930: Kazimierz Urbanik born ... prominent member of the Polish School of Mathematics. He founded the journal Probability and Mathematical Statistics and served as rector of the University of Wrocław. Pic.
 
||1934: Lou Andreas-Salomé dies ... psychoanalyst and author. Pic.
 
||1937: Wang Xuan born ... computer scientist and academic,  innovator of the Chinese printing industry. Pic search.
 
||1939: Gheorghe Țițeica dies ... mathematician with important contributions in geometry. He is recognized as the founder of the Romanian school of differential geometry. Pic.


File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: A [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered]].
File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: A [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered]].


File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1958: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage, perhaps as a result of the Tybee Bomb event.
||1958: Kilby Files a Patent for the Integrated Circuit. Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files a patent application called miniaturized electronic circuits for his work on a multi-transistor device. The patent was only one of 60 that Kilby holds. While Kilby has the earliest patent on the integrated circuit, it was Robert Noyce, later co-founder of Intel, whose parallel work resulted in a practical device. Kilby's device had several transistors connected by flying wires while Noyce devised the idea of interconnection via a layer of metal conductors. Noyce also adapted Jean Hoerni's planar technique for making transistors to the manufacture of more complex circuits. *CHM Jack Kilby: Pic.


||1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
||1971: Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission. Pic.


||1977 – Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1894)
||1977: Oskar Klein dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.


||1983 – Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, American chemist and academic (b. 1925)
File:Tacky (TV series).jpg|link=Tacky|Premiere of '''''[[Tacky]]''''', an American sitcom about the employees of the fictional Sunshine Adhesives Company in Manhattan.
 
||1980: Nachman Aronszajn dies ... mathematician. Aronszajn's main field of study was mathematical analysis. The existence of Aronszajn trees was proven by Aronszajn; Aronszajn lines, also named after him, are the lexicographic orderings of Aronszajn trees. Pic: https://www.knigozal.com/store/gb/book/nachman-aronszajn/isbn/978-613-1-15567-3
 
||1983: Margaret Oakley Dayhoff dies ... chemist and academic. Pic search.


File:Dorothy Lewis Bernstein.jpg|link=Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|1988: Mathematician [[Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|Dorothy Lewis Bernstein]] dies. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.
File:Dorothy Lewis Bernstein.jpg|link=Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|1988: Mathematician [[Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|Dorothy Lewis Bernstein]] dies. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.


||2015 – Val Logsdon Fitch, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
||1988: Ove Arup dies ... engineer and businessman, founded Arup ... Sydney Opera House. Pic.
 
||1991: Pedro Arrupe SJ dies ... Jesuit priest who served as the twenty-eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1965–83). Stationed as novice master outside Hiroshima in 1945, he used his medical background as a first responder to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Pic search.
 
||2003: Alexander (Alec) Rawson Stokes dies ... physicist, DNA. He will co-author the second of three papers published sequentially in Nature on 25 April 1953 announcing the presumed molecular structure of DNA. Pic search.
 
||2010: Peter Calvocoressi dies ... lawyer, Liberal politician, historian, and publisher. He served as an intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II. Pic.
 
File:Val Fitch.jpg|link=Val Logsdon Fitch (nonfiction)|2015: Physicist and academic [[Val Logsdon Fitch (nonfiction)|Val Logsdon Fitch]] dies. He shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics with co-researcher James Cronin for a 1964 experiment which proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles (CP violation).
 
 
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  • 1724: Thief Jack Sheppard first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.

    1724: Thief Jack Sheppard first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.

  • 1915: Physicist and academic Robert Hofstadter born. He will share the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".

    1915: Physicist and academic Robert Hofstadter born. He will share the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".

  • Premiere of Tacky, an American sitcom about the employees of the fictional Sunshine Adhesives Company in Manhattan.

    Premiere of Tacky, an American sitcom about the employees of the fictional Sunshine Adhesives Company in Manhattan.

  • 1988: Mathematician Dorothy Lewis Bernstein dies. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.

    1988: Mathematician Dorothy Lewis Bernstein dies. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.

  • 2015: Physicist and academic Val Logsdon Fitch dies. He shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics with co-researcher James Cronin for a 1964 experiment which proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles (CP violation).

    2015: Physicist and academic Val Logsdon Fitch dies. He shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics with co-researcher James Cronin for a 1964 experiment which proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles (CP violation).

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