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||1465 – Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician and theorist (d. 1526). Pic not Wikipedia: https://ezerinfza.webnode.sk/biographies/italy/scipione-del-ferro/
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|File:English Lottery 1566 Scroll.jpg|link=Lottery (nonfiction)|1570: New method for predicting [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery winners]] exploits faulty [[Gnomon algorithm function]].
||1465: Scipione del Ferro born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic not Wikipedia: https://ezerinfza.webnode.sk/biographies/italy/scipione-del-ferro/


File:Mario Bettinus.jpg|link=Mario Bettinus (nonfiction)|1582: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher [[Mario Bettinus (nonfiction)|Mario Bettinus]] born.  He will write ''Apiaria Universae Philosophiae Mathematicae'', an encyclopedic collection of mathematical curiosities.
File:Mario Bettinus.jpg|link=Mario Bettinus (nonfiction)|1582: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher [[Mario Bettinus (nonfiction)|Mario Bettinus]] born.  He will write ''Apiaria Universae Philosophiae Mathematicae'', an encyclopedic collection of mathematical curiosities.
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||1612: Antoine Arnauld born ... French mathematician, theologian, and philosopher. Pic.
||1612: Antoine Arnauld born ... French mathematician, theologian, and philosopher. Pic.


||1612 – Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1538). Pic.
||1612: Christopher Clavius dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic.


File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1614: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]]  uses results of his investigation into the possibility of certain knowledge to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
||1617: Prospero Alpini dies ... physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value. His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature.  Pic.


||1695 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss-Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1726). Pic.
||1695: Nicolaus II Bernoulli born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.


||1802 – Charles Wheatstone, English-French physicist and cryptographer (d. 1875). Pic.
||1738: Pierre-Joseph Desault born ... anatomist and surgeon. Pic.
 
||1802: Charles Wheatstone born ... physicist and cryptographer. Pic.


File:Joseph Priestley.jpg|link=Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|1804: Chemist, philosopher, educator, and clergyman [[Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|Joseph Priestley]] dies. He is historically credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, but his determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution left him isolated within the scientific community.
File:Joseph Priestley.jpg|link=Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|1804: Chemist, philosopher, educator, and clergyman [[Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|Joseph Priestley]] dies. He is historically credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, but his determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution left him isolated within the scientific community.


||1861 – Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist and academic (d. 1953). Pic.
||1806: Henry O'Reilly dies ... businessman and telegraphy pioneer. Pic: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7748341/henry-o%27rielly
 
||1819: British official Stamford Raffles signs a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, establishing Singapore as a trading post for the British East India Company. Pic.
 
||1861: Nikolay Zelinsky born ... chemist and academic. Pic.


||Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (b. 6 February 1865) was an astronomer of French and Huguenot descent who was born in Cushendun, County Antrim, Ireland. He worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and went on several solar eclipse expeditions. Pic.
||1865: Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin born ... astronomer of French and Huguenot descent who was born in Cushendun, County Antrim, Ireland. He worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and went on several solar eclipse expeditions. Pic.


||Eldridge Reeves Johnson (b. February 6, 1867) was an American businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. Pic.
||1867: Eldridge Reeves Johnson born ... businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. Pic.


File:Galileo Ferraris.jpg|link=Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist and electrical crime-fighter [[Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|Galileo Ferraris]] invents new type of AC power systems which detects and prevents [[crimes against physics]].
||1872: Robert Maillart born ... engineer, He revolutionized the use of structural reinforced concrete with such designs as the three-hinged arch and the deck-stiffened arch for bridges, and the beamless floor slab and mushroom ceiling for industrial buildings. Pic.


||1872 – Robert Maillart, Swiss engineer, designed the Salginatobel Bridge and Schwandbach Bridge (d. 1940)
||1879: Carl Ramsauer born ... physicist and author ... famous for the discovery of the Ramsauer–Townsend effect. He pioneered the field of electron and proton collisions with gas molecules. Pic.


||1879 – Carl Ramsauer, German physicist and author (d. 1955)
||1890: Hugh Stott Taylor born ... chemist primarily interested in catalysis. In 1925, in a landmark contribution to catalytic theory, Taylor suggested that a catalysed chemical reaction is not catalysed over the entire solid surface of the catalyst but only at certain 'active sites' or centres. He also developed important methods for procuring heavy water during World War II and pioneered the use of stable isotopes in studying chemical reactions. Pic search.


||Sir Hugh Stott Taylor KBE FRS (b. 6 February 1890) was an English chemist primarily interested in catalysis. In 1925, in a landmark contribution to catalytic theory, Taylor suggested that a catalysed chemical reaction is not catalysed over the entire solid surface of the catalyst but only at certain 'active sites' or centres. He also developed important methods for procuring heavy water during World War II and pioneered the use of stable isotopes in studying chemical reactions.
||1897: Louis Buchalter born ... mob boss, Murder Inc. Pic


||1908 – Edward Lansdale, American general and CIA agent (d. 1987)
||1898: Yakov Geronimus born ... mathematician known for contributions to theoretical mechanics and the study of orthogonal polynomials. The Geronimus polynomials are named after him. Pic: https://www.math.technion.ac.il/hat/people/pix/geronimus.jpg


||1910 – Roman Czerniawski, Polish air force officer and spy (d. 1985)
||1908: Edward Lansdale born ... American general and CIA agent. Pic.


||1910 – Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-American gangster (d. 1993)
||1910: Roman Czerniawski born ... air force officer and spy. Pic.
 
||1910: Carlos Marcello born ... gangster. Pic.


File:John Crank.jpg|link=John Crank (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician and physicist [[John Crank (nonfiction)|John Crank]] born. He will work on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation will result in the Crank–Nicolson method.
File:John Crank.jpg|link=John Crank (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician and physicist [[John Crank (nonfiction)|John Crank]] born. He will work on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation will result in the Crank–Nicolson method.


||Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (b. February 6, 1927) was an American physicist and space activist. As a faculty member of Princeton University, he invented a device called the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiments. Later, he invented a magnetic launcher called the mass driver. In the 1970s, he developed a plan to build human settlements in outer space, including a space habitat design known as the O'Neill cylinder. Pic.
||1923: Edward Emerson Barnard dies ... astronomer ... recognized as a gifted observational astronomer ... best known for his discovery of the high proper motion of Barnard's Star in 1916, which is named in his honor. Pic.


||1938: Crash of semi-rigid airship SSSR-V6 OSOAVIAKhIM.
File:Gerard_Kitchen_O'Neill.jpg|link=Gerard K. O'Neill (nonfiction)|1927: Physicist and space activist [[Gerard K. O'Neill (nonfiction)|Gerard K. O'Neill]] born. O'Neill will invent the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiment, and the mass driver, a magnetic launcher. In the 1970s, he will develop a plan to build human settlements in outer space.


||Petr Hájek (b. 6 February 1940) was a Czech scientist in the area of mathematical logic and a professor of mathematics. Pic.
||1931: James Bonk born ... chemist and academic. Bonk taught chemistry courses for over 50 years, primarily at Duke University; he also wrote his own textbooks and laboratory manuals. Pic search.


File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1957: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] calls the upcoming  [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|Tybee nuclear bomb accident]]  "a rock-solid business investment which is certain to generate handsome returns for early investors."
||1938: Crash of semi-rigid airship SSSR-V6 OSOAVIAKhIM. Pic.
 
||1940: Petr Hájek born ... scientist in the area of mathematical logic and a professor of mathematics. Pic.
 
||1950: Georges Imbert dies ... chemical engineer and inventor. Pic search.


File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: Air Force and Navy personnel begin search for [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb, which was lost in an accident the day before]].
File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: Air Force and Navy personnel begin search for [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb, which was lost in an accident the day before]].


File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1959: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises funds for new comedy film about the [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|Tybee nuclear bomb accident]], denies accusations that he is "capitalizing on a tragedy."
||1959: Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit. Pic.
 
||File:Gysin and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|1958: Woodward and Burroughs use [[Extract of Radium]] to predict location of the [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|the Tybee Bomb]].


||1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
||1965: Ernst Erich Jacobsthal dies ... mathematician.  his dissertation, ''Anwendung einer Formel aus der Theorie der quadratischen Reste'' ("Application of a Formula from the Theory of Quadratic Remainders"), provided a proof that prime numbers of the form 4n + 1 are the sum of two square numbers. Pic: https://archiv.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/doku/200jahre/ausstellung/2.etage/flure/nr.20/set20.3.htm


|File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1989: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] exposed to [[Extract of Radium]], develops [[Wumpus-compass]] syndrome.
File:The Shrubbing.jpg|link=The Shrubbing|1980: Premiere of '''''[[The Shrubbing]]''''', an American landscape gardening horror film about a young gardener (Danny Torrance) who discovers that he has supernatural powers over shrubbery.


||1991 – Salvador Luria, Italian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
||1991: Salvador Luria dies ... biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||Klaus Wagner (d. February 6, 2000) was a German mathematician - topology, graph theory. Wagner's theorem characterizes the planar graphs as exactly those graphs that do not have as a minor either a complete graph K5 on five vertices or a complete bipartite graph K3,3 with three vertices on each side of its bipartition. Pic.
||2000: Klaus Wagner dies ... mathematician - topology, graph theory. Wagner's theorem characterizes the planar graphs as exactly those graphs that do not have as a minor either a complete graph K5 on five vertices or a complete bipartite graph K3,3 with three vertices on each side of its bipartition. Pic.


||2002 – Max Perutz, Austrian-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
||2002: Max Perutz dies ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||Raymond Merrill Smullyan (d. February 6, 2017) was an American mathematician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher. Pic.
||2017: Raymond Merrill Smullyan dies ... mathematician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher. Pic.


||Donald Lynden-Bell (d. 6 February 2018) was a British theoretical astrophysicist. He was the first to determine that galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centres, and that such black holes power quasars. Pic.
||2018: Donald Lynden-Bell dies ... theoretical astrophysicist. He was the first to determine that galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centres, and that such black holes power quasars. Pic.


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  • 1582: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Mario Bettinus born. He will write Apiaria Universae Philosophiae Mathematicae, an encyclopedic collection of mathematical curiosities.

    1582: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Mario Bettinus born. He will write Apiaria Universae Philosophiae Mathematicae, an encyclopedic collection of mathematical curiosities.

  • 1804: Chemist, philosopher, educator, and clergyman Joseph Priestley dies. He is historically credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, but his determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution left him isolated within the scientific community.

    1804: Chemist, philosopher, educator, and clergyman Joseph Priestley dies. He is historically credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, but his determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution left him isolated within the scientific community.

  • 1916: Mathematician and physicist John Crank born. He will work on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation will result in the Crank–Nicolson method.

    1916: Mathematician and physicist John Crank born. He will work on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation will result in the Crank–Nicolson method.

  • 1927: Physicist and space activist Gerard K. O'Neill born. O'Neill will invent the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiment, and the mass driver, a magnetic launcher. In the 1970s, he will develop a plan to build human settlements in outer space.

    1927: Physicist and space activist Gerard K. O'Neill born. O'Neill will invent the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiment, and the mass driver, a magnetic launcher. In the 1970s, he will develop a plan to build human settlements in outer space.

  • 1980: Premiere of The Shrubbing, an American landscape gardening horror film about a young gardener (Danny Torrance) who discovers that he has supernatural powers over shrubbery.

    1980: Premiere of The Shrubbing, an American landscape gardening horror film about a young gardener (Danny Torrance) who discovers that he has supernatural powers over shrubbery.

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