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File:Christian Egenolff.jpg|link=Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|1502: [[Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|Christian Egenolff]] born. He will be the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main. | File:Christian Egenolff.jpg|link=Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|1502: [[Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|Christian Egenolff]] born. He will be the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main. | ||
||1165: Ibn Arabi born ... philosopher. His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Islamic world. Pic. | ||1165: Ibn Arabi born ... philosopher. His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Islamic world. Pic. | ||
File: | File:Elena Piscopia.jpg|link=Elena Cornaro Piscopia (nonfiction)|1684: Mathematician and philosopher [[Elena Cornaro Piscopia (nonfiction)|Elena Cornaro Piscopia]] dies. She was one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree. | ||
||1711: Lorenz Christoph Mizler born ... physician, mathematician, and historian. Pic search | ||1711: Lorenz Christoph Mizler born ... physician, mathematician, and historian. Pic search. | ||
||1775: The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. | ||1775: The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. | ||
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File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1918: [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] introduced what became known as Noether's theorem, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy. | File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1918: [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] introduced what became known as Noether's theorem, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy. | ||
||1924: John Robert Beyster born ... physicist and academic. Pic search. | |||
|| | File:Gottlob Frege.jpg|link=Gottlob Frege (nonfiction)|1925: Mathematician, logician, and philosopher [[Gottlob Frege (nonfiction)|Gottlob Frege]] dies. Though largely ignored during his lifetime, his work influenced later generations of logicians and philosophers. | ||
||1925: Joseph Engelberger dies ... physicist and engineer ... physicist, engineer and entrepreneur. Engelberger developed the first industrial robot in the United States, the Unimate, in the 1950s. He has been called "the father of robotics" for his contributions to the field. Pic. | |||
||1928: Stanley Kubrick born ... film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer. He is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history. His films, which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genres, and are noted for their realism, dark humor, unique cinematography, extensive set designs, and evocative use of music. Pic. | ||1928: Stanley Kubrick born ... film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer. He is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history. His films, which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genres, and are noted for their realism, dark humor, unique cinematography, extensive set designs, and evocative use of music. Pic. | ||
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||1941: Kazimierz Władysław Bartel dies ... mathematician, scholar, diplomat and politician. Pic. | ||1941: Kazimierz Władysław Bartel dies ... mathematician, scholar, diplomat and politician. Pic. | ||
||1941: Benjamin Lee Whorf dies ... linguist, anthropologist, and engineer. Pic. | |||
||1942: Alfred Tauber dies ... mathematician, known for his contribution to mathematical analysis and to the theory of functions of a complex variable: he is the eponym of an important class of theorems with applications ranging from mathematical and harmonic analysis to number theory. He was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Pic. | ||1942: Alfred Tauber dies ... mathematician, known for his contribution to mathematical analysis and to the theory of functions of a complex variable: he is the eponym of an important class of theorems with applications ranging from mathematical and harmonic analysis to number theory. He was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Pic. | ||
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||1947: Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council. | ||1947: Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council. | ||
||1958: Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched. | ||1958: Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched. | ||
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||1976: Solution to the Four Color Problem. Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken of the University of Illinois communicated their proof of the Four Color Theorem to the "Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society". The proof used over 1000 hours of computer calculation. | ||1976: Solution to the Four Color Problem. Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken of the University of Illinois communicated their proof of the Four Color Theorem to the "Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society". The proof used over 1000 hours of computer calculation. | ||
||1977: Oskar Morgenstern dies ... economist. In collaboration with mathematician John von Neumann, he founded the mathematical field of game theory and its application to economics Pic search: | ||1977: Oskar Morgenstern dies ... economist. In collaboration with mathematician John von Neumann, he founded the mathematical field of game theory and its application to economics Pic search. | ||
||1978: Mary Blair dies ... illustrator and animator ... prominent in producing art and animation for The Walt Disney Company. Pic. | |||
||1984: George Gallup dies ... mathematician and statistician, founded the Gallup Company. Pic. | ||1984: George Gallup dies ... mathematician and statistician, founded the Gallup Company. Pic. | ||
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||1989: A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. | ||1989: A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. | ||
||1990: Operation Steel Box begins: a 1990 joint U.S.-West German operation which moved 100,000 U.S. chemical weapons from Germany to Johnston Atoll. Pic. | |||
||1994: Santa Susana Field Laboratory: Two scientists are killed when the chemicals they were illegally burning in open pits exploded. After a grand jury investigation and FBI raid on the facility, three Rocketdyne officials pleaded guilty in June 2004 to illegally storing explosive materials. The jury deadlocked on the more serious charges related to illegal burning of hazardous waste. | |||
File:Kodaira Kunihiko.jpg|link=Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|1997: Mathematician and academic [[Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|Kunihiko Kodaira]] dies. He did distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, winning the Fields medal in 1954. | |||
John_Tukey.jpg|link=John Tukey (nonfiction)|2000: Mathematician and academic [[John Tukey (nonfiction)|John Tukey]] dies. He made important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot. | |||
||2003: Hilde Levi dies ... physicist. She was a pioneer of the use of radioactive isotopes in biology and medicine, notably the techniques of radiocarbon dating and autoradiography. In later life she became a scientific historian. Pic. | ||2003: Hilde Levi dies ... physicist. She was a pioneer of the use of radioactive isotopes in biology and medicine, notably the techniques of radiocarbon dating and autoradiography. In later life she became a scientific historian. Pic. | ||
||2003: Ismail Akbay dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic search | ||2003: Ismail Akbay dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic search. | ||
||2004: William A. Mitchell dies ... chemist, created Pop Rocks and Cool Whip. | ||2004: William A. Mitchell dies ... chemist, created Pop Rocks and Cool Whip. | ||
||2012: Ralph Slatyer dies ... biologist and ecologist ... first Chief Scientist of Australia from 1989 to 1992. Pic search | ||2012: Ralph Slatyer dies ... biologist and ecologist ... first Chief Scientist of Australia from 1989 to 1992. Pic search. | ||
||2013: Harley Flanders dies ... mathematician and academic ... algebra and algebraic number theory, linear algebra, electrical networks, scientific computing. Pic search. | |||
||2016: Roy Lee Adler dies ... mathematician. He studied dynamical systems, ergodic theory, symbolic and topological dynamics and coding theory. Pic. | ||2016: Roy Lee Adler dies ... mathematician. He studied dynamical systems, ergodic theory, symbolic and topological dynamics and coding theory. Pic. | ||
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1502: Christian Egenolff born. He will be the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main.
1684: Mathematician and philosopher Elena Cornaro Piscopia dies. She was one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
1894: Writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley born. He will be widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
1918: Emmy Noether introduced what became known as Noether's theorem, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy.
1925: Mathematician, logician, and philosopher Gottlob Frege dies. Though largely ignored during his lifetime, his work influenced later generations of logicians and philosophers.
1941: Mathematician and academic Henri Lebesgue dies. He developed a theory of integration which generalizes the 17th century concept of integration (summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis).
1997: Mathematician and academic Kunihiko Kodaira dies. He did distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, winning the Fields medal in 1954.
2000: Mathematician and academic John Tukey dies. He made important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.