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||Pope Clement VI dies ... the fourth Avignon pope. Clement reigned during the first visitation of the Black Death (1348–1350), during which he granted remission of sins to all who died of the plague. His papal bull ''Unigenitus'' justified the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. No DOB. Pic.
File:Niccolò Zucchi.png|link=Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|1586: Astronomer and physicist [[Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|Niccolò Zucchi]] born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.
File:Niccolò Zucchi.png|link=Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|1586: Astronomer and physicist [[Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|Niccolò Zucchi]] born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.


||1778 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
||1682: Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi born ... mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals.  Pic: book cover.
 
||1771: Giovanni Battista Morgagni dies ... anatomist and pathologist ...  the father of modern anatomical pathology, who taught thousands of medical students from many countries during his 56 years as Professor of Anatomy at the University of Padua. His most significant literary contribution, the monumental five-volume On the Seats and Causes of Disease, embodied a lifetime of experience in anatomical dissection and observation, and established the fundamental principle that most diseases are not vaguely dispersed throughout the body, but originate locally, in specific organs and tissues. Pic.
 
||1778: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac born ... physicist and chemist. Pic.
 
File:Nicole-Reine Lepaute.jpg|link=Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|1788: Astronomer and mathematician [[Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|Nicole-Reine Lepaute]] dies. She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse, and constructed a group of catalogs for the stars.
 
||1790: The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
 
||1799: Joseph Black dies ... physician and chemist ... known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide. Pic.
 
||1815: Chemist Hippolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils dies ... confirmed the discovery of chromium by Vauquelin, and independently discovered iridium in 1803. Pic.
 
||1823: Edme-Samuel Castaing born ... physician thought to have been the first person to use morphine to commit murder. No DOB. Pic.
 
||1856: Mathematician and academic. Walther von Dyck dies. Pic: http://www.deutsches-museum.de/presse/presse-2006/nachlass-von-dyck/
 
||1860: Nikolaĭ Semenovich Kurnakov born ... chemist who was internationally recognized as the originator of physicochemical analysis and he was one of the principal founders of the platinum industry in the USSR. A chemical reaction that he pioneered, known as the Kurnakov test, is still used to differentiate cis from trans isomers of divalent platinum and is his best-known contribution to coordination chemistry. Pic.
 
||1863: Charles Martin Hall born ... chemist and engineer. Pic.
 
||1864: Abraham Cressy Morrison born ... chemist and president of the New York Academy of Sciences. Pic.
 
||1867: Jean Pierre Flourens dies ... physiologist and academic. Pic.
 
||1867: Jean Claude Eugène Péclet dies ... physicist and academic ... The Péclet number is named after him.  Pic.
 
||1872: Félix-Archimède Pouchet dies ... naturalist and a leading proponent of spontaneous generation of life from non-living materials, and as such an opponent of Louis Pasteur's germ theory. Pouchet effectively launched the study of the physiology of cytology. Pic.
 
||1876: Fred Duesenberg born ... businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company.
 
||1879: Erastus Brigham Bigelow dies ... inventor, weaving machines. Pic.
 
||1884: Heinrich Scholz born ... logician, philosopher, and Protestant theologian. Pic.
 
||1890: Yoshio Nishina born ... physicist and academic. Pic (cool tech).
 
||1892: Werner von Siemens dies ... engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company.
 
||1893: Rudolf Wolf dies ... astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots. Pic.


||1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
||1897: London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.


||1805 – Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861)
||1900: George Uhlenbeck born ... theoretical physicist. Pic.


||1863 – Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (d. 1914)
||1901: Eliot Porter born ... photographer, chemist, and academic. Pic search.


||1867 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
||1904: Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.


||1876 – Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company (d. 1932)
||1907: John Barkley Rosser Sr. born ... logician. Pic: http://sites.jmu.edu/jmuresearch/tag/j-barkley-rosser/


||1890 – Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (d. 1951)
||1908: Baby Face Nelson born ... gangster.


||1892 – Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
||1908: Herta Freitag born ... mathematician known for her work on the Fibonacci numbers. Pic.


||1897 – London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
||1916: John L. Kelley born ... mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis. Pic.


||George Eugene Uhlenbeck (b. December 6, 1900) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist.
||1917: Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.


||1904 – Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
File:Clyde Cowan.jpg|link=Clyde Cowan (nonfiction)|1919: Physicist [[Clyde Cowan (nonfiction)|Clyde Cowan]] born. Cowan, along with Frederick Reines, will discover the neutrino in 1956; Reines will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names.


||1907 – John Barkley Rosser Sr., American logician (d. 1989)
||1920: George Porter born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1908 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (d. 1934)
||1924: Sergey Vsevolodovich Yablonsky born ... mathematician, one of the founders of the Soviet school of mathematical cybernetics and discrete mathematics.  Pic.


||1908 – Herta Freitag, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 2000)
||1928: The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.


||1917 – Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
||1931: John Evan Baldwin born ... contributed to the development of interferometry in Radio Astronomy, and later astronomical optical interferometry and lucky imaging; and made the first maps of the radio emission from the Andromeda Galaxy. Pic.


||1920 – George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
||1933: U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel ''Ulysses'' is not obscene.


||1928 – The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
||1941: World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War. Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied Secret Agents for the War.


||1933 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
||1949: Doug Marlette born ... author and cartoonist.


||1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War. Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied Secret Agents for the War.
||1952: Lilian Vaughan Morgan dies ... experimental biologist who made seminal contributions to the genetics of Drosophila melanogaster, which cemented its status as one of the most powerful model systems in biology. Pic.


||1949 – Doug Marlette, American author and cartoonist (d. 2007)
||1953: Frans Michel Penning dies ... experimental physicist. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1923, and studied low pressure gas discharges at the Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, developing new electron tubes during World War II. Pic.


||1957 – Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
||1957: Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit. - The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite failed with an explosion (pictured) on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.


||1959 – Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (d. 2015)
||1959: Satoru Iwata born ... game programmer and businessman.


File:Erhard Schmidt.jpg|link=Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|1959: Mathematician [[Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|Erhard Schmidt]] dies. He made important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.
File:Erhard Schmidt.jpg|link=Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|1959: Mathematician [[Erhard Schmidt (nonfiction)|Erhard Schmidt]] dies. He made important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.


||1980 – Charles Deutsch, French engineer and businessman, co-founded DB (b. 1911)
||1963: Archibald Henderson dies ... professor of mathematics who wrote on a variety of subjects, including drama and history. He is well known for his friendship with George Bernard Shaw. Pic.
 
||1967: George Elbert Kimball dies ... professor of quantum chemistry, and a pioneer of operations research algorithms during World War II. Pic search.
 
||1973: Joseph L. Walsh dies ... mathematician who worked mainly in the field of analysis. The Walsh function and the Walsh–Hadamard code are named after him. The Grace–Walsh–Szegő coincidence theorem is important in the study of the location of the zeros of multivariate polynomials. Pic.
 
||1974: Robert Ludvigovich Bartini dies ... aircraft designer and scientist, involved in the development of numerous successful and experimental aircraft projects. A pioneer of amphibious aircraft and ground effect vehicles, Bartini was one of the most famous engineers in the Soviet Union. Pic search.
 
||1980: Charles Deutsch dies ... engineer and businessman, co-founded DB.
 
||1990: Mathematician Lev Kaluznin dies. He contributed to group theory and abstract groups, notably the Sylow p-subgroups of symmetric groups; he also worked on mathematical linguistics and computer algebra. Pic search.
 
||2005: Richard Grimsdale dies ... electrical engineer and computer pioneer who helped to design the world's first transistorized computer. Pic: https://www.eg.org/wp/obituaries/
 
File:Mars Global Surveyor.jpg|link=Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|2006: NASA reveals photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid water on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].


|File:Humans Love It.png|link=Humans Love It!|2002: "[[Humans Love It!]]" becomes official motto of [[Extract of Radium]].
||2010: Norman Hetherington dies ... cartoonist and puppeteer. Pic.


|File:Color wheel by Goethe 1809.jpg|link=Color (nonfiction)|2004: Goethe's [[Color (nonfiction)|Color wheel]] used in new form of [[scrying engine]].
||2013: Robert Mortimer Ellis dies - mathematician, specializing in topological dynamics. Pic search.


||2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the eleventh anniversary of NASA revealing photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid water on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].


File:Eel hates statue.jpg|link=The Eel Hates Peter Aal|2012: Supervillain and art critic [[The Eel]] condemns ''[[Bernd Maro (nonfiction)|Peter Aal]]''.
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  • 1586: Astronomer and physicist Niccolò Zucchi born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.

    1586: Astronomer and physicist Niccolò Zucchi born. He will publish works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.

  • 1788: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute dies. She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse, and constructed a group of catalogs for the stars.

    1788: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute dies. She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse, and constructed a group of catalogs for the stars.

  • 1919: Physicist Clyde Cowan born. Cowan, along with Frederick Reines, will discover the neutrino in 1956; Reines will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names.

    1919: Physicist Clyde Cowan born. Cowan, along with Frederick Reines, will discover the neutrino in 1956; Reines will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names.

  • 1959: Mathematician Erhard Schmidt dies. He made important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.

    1959: Mathematician Erhard Schmidt dies. He made important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.

  • 2006: NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

    2006: NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the eleventh anniversary of NASA revealing photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the eleventh anniversary of NASA revealing photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

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