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||AD 62: Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
||AD 62: Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.


||1608: Gaspar Schott born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic: sketch by Schott of Magdeburg spheres. Pic search other sketches by: https://www.google.com/search?q=gaspar+schott
||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.
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||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.
||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.
File:Joseph Priestley.jpg|link=Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|1789: Chemist, philosopher, educator, and crime-fighter [[Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|Joseph Priestley]] gives landmark sermon on the use of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against chemistry]].


||1790: William Cullen dies ... physician and chemist., Enlightenment figure. Pic.
||1790: William Cullen dies ... physician and chemist., Enlightenment figure. Pic.
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||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.
||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.
File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1843: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on thermodynamics.


||1840: Hiram Maxim born ... engineer, invented the Maxim gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun. Pic.
||1840: Hiram Maxim born ... engineer, invented the Maxim gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun. Pic.
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||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).
||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).


||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: https://www.google.com/search?q=wilhelm+magnus
||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. Pic.
||1909: Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. Pic.
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||1924: The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal. PIPS.
||1924: The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal. PIPS.
||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.
||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.
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||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.
||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.


||1937: Wang Xuan born ... computer scientist and academic,  innovator of the Chinese printing industry. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=wang+xuan+computer
||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.
||1939: Gheorghe Țițeica dies ... mathematician with important contributions in geometry. He is recognized as the founder of the Romanian school of differential geometry. Pic.
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||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.
||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.
File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1958: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage, perhaps as a result of the Tybee Bomb event.


||1971: Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission. Pic.
||1971: Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission. Pic.
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||1977: Oskar Klein dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
||1977: Oskar Klein dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.


File:Euglena Junction.jpg|link=Euglena Junction|1978: An episode of ''[[Euglena Junction]]'' shocks viewers when the actor playing the role of Uncle Joe is eaten by water fleas.
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
||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 good: https://www.google.com/search?q=margaret+oakley+dayhoff
||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.
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||1988: Ove Arup dies ... engineer and businessman, founded Arup ... Sydney Opera House. Pic.
||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: https://www.google.com/search?q=pedro+arrupe
||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.


||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: https://www.google.com/search?q=alex+rawson+stokes
||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).
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).


Creature_3.jpg|link=Creature 3 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Creature 3 (nonfiction)|Creature 3]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment unexpectedly generates [[cryptographic numina]] after experience a CP violation event of unknown origin.


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