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


||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
||1888: Jacob Tamarkin born ... mathematician best known for his work in mathematical analysis. Pic search.


||1891: Brain surgeon and academic Axel Herbert Olivecrona born.  He is credited with founding the field of Swedish neurosurgery, and pioneering developments in modern neurosurgery. Pic.
||1891: Brain surgeon and academic Herbert Olivecrona born.  He is credited with founding the field of Swedish neurosurgery, and pioneering developments in modern neurosurgery. Pic.


||1893: The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto. Pic.
||1893: The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto. Pic.
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||1924: Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes born ... experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark. Pic: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Cesar_lattes_01.png
||1924: Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes born ... experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark. Pic: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Cesar_lattes_01.png


||1927: Ted Taylor born ... theoretical physicist. He contributed to fission nuclear weapon development, designing the smallest fission bomb of the era ("Davy Crockett"), which weighed only 60 pounds. His later career focused on nuclear energy. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ted+Taylor+(physicist)
||1927: Ted Taylor born ... theoretical physicist. He contributed to fission nuclear weapon development, designing the smallest fission bomb of the era ("Davy Crockett"), which weighed only 60 pounds. His later career focused on nuclear energy. Pic search.


||1927: Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman born ... engineer and physicist who was widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser (Others attribute the invention to Gordon Gould). Pic.
||1927: Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman born ... engineer and physicist who was widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser (Others attribute the invention to Gordon Gould). Pic.
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||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!).
||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]].


||1957: Joseph Larmor born ... physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. Pic: http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/825
||1957: Joseph Larmor born ... physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. Pic: http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/825
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||1962: Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
||1962: Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.


File:Telstar.jpg|link=Telstar (nonfiction)|1963: [[Telstar (nonfiction)|Telstar]] becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1966: Delmore Schwartz dies ... poet and short story writer. Pic.


||1975: Crockett Johnson dies ... pen name of the American cartoonist and children's book illustrator David Johnson Leisk. He is best known for the comic strip Barnaby (1942–1952) and the Harold series of books beginning with Harold and the Purple Crayon. From 1965 until his death Johnson created over a hundred paintings relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. Pic.
||1975: Crockett Johnson dies ... pen name of the American cartoonist and children's book illustrator David Johnson Leisk. He is best known for the comic strip Barnaby (1942–1952) and the Harold series of books beginning with Harold and the Purple Crayon. From 1965 until his death Johnson created over a hundred paintings relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. Pic.
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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. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=jan+sloot
||1999: Jan Sloot dies ... computer scientist and electronics technician. Pic search.
 
||1925: Astronomer and academic Tom Gehrels dies. Gehrels pioneered the first photometric system of asteroids in the 1950s, and wavelength dependence of polarization of stars and planets in the 1960s. Pic (cool).


||2013: Emik Avakian dies ... inventor, disabled assistance. Pic.
||2013: Emik Avakian dies ... inventor, disabled assistance. Pic.
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||2015: Satoru Iwata dies ... game programmer and businessman. Pic.
||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.


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