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File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1641: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.
File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1641: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.


||1728: Johann Georg Büsch born ... mathematics teacher and writer on statistics and commerce.
||1728: Johann Georg Büsch born ... mathematics teacher and writer on statistics and commerce. Pic.


||1819: Charles Piazzi Smyth born ... astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Pic.
File:Louis_Poinsot.jpg|link=Louis Poinsot (nonfiction)|1777: Mathematician and physicist [[Louis Poinsot (nonfiction)|Louis Poinsot]] born. Poinsot will invent geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple.
 
File:Charles Piazzi Smyth.jpg|link=Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|1819: Astronomer [[Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|Charles Piazzi Smyth]] born. Smyth will make innovations in astronomy, and make pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.


||1888: The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time.
||1888: The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time.
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||1892: Heinrich Eduard Schröter dies ... mathematician, who studied geometry in the tradition of Jakob Steiner. Pic.
||1892: Heinrich Eduard Schröter dies ... mathematician, who studied geometry in the tradition of Jakob Steiner. Pic.


||1911: Frank Haven Hall dies ... inventor, author, academic administrator, and theoretical structuralist. He invented the first successful mechanical point writer and developed major functions of modern day typography with kerning and tracking.
||1906: William Wilson Morgan born ... astronomer and astrophysicist. The principal theme in Dr. Morgan's work was stellar and galaxy classification. He is also known for helping prove the existence of spiral arms in our galaxy.  Pic search.
 
||1911: Frank Haven Hall dies ... inventor, author, academic administrator, and theoretical structuralist. He invented the first successful mechanical point writer and developed major functions of modern day typography with kerning and tracking. Pic.


||1912: John Ralph Ragazzini born ... electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical Engineering. Ragazzini pioneered the development of the z-transform method in discrete-time signal processing and analysis. Pic.
||1912: John Ralph Ragazzini born ... electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical Engineering. Ragazzini pioneered the development of the z-transform method in discrete-time signal processing and analysis. Pic.
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||1921: Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova born ... historian of mathematics. Pic.
||1921: Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova born ... historian of mathematics. Pic.


||1927: Carl David Tolmé Runge dies ... physicist and mathematician.
||1927: Carl David Tolmé Runge dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic search.


||1932: Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
||1932: Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.


1946: Carl Gustav Witt dies ... astronomer and discover of two asteroids who worked at the Berlin Urania Observatory, a popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin. Pic.
||1946: Carl Gustav Witt dies ... astronomer and discover of two asteroids who worked at the Berlin Urania Observatory, a popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin. Pic.
 
||1945: Edgar Cayce, American psychic and author (b. 1877)


File:Erwin Schrödinger (1933).jpg|link=Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)|1953: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)|Erwin Schrödinger]] uses the Schrödinger equation to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1945: Edgar Cayce dies ... psychic and author. Pic.


File:Mel Gibson Cannes 2011.jpg|link=Mel Gibson (nonfiction)|1954: Actor and filmmaker [[Mel Gibson (nonfiction)|Mel Gibson]] born.
|File:Mel Gibson Cannes 2011.jpg|link=Mel Gibson (nonfiction)|1954: Actor and filmmaker [[Mel Gibson (nonfiction)|Mel Gibson]] born.


||1956: A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
||1956: A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
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||1961: The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
||1961: The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.


File:Antikythera Team logo.svg|link=Antikythera Team|1965: [[Antikythera Team]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
||1967: Reginald Punnett dies ... scientist. He is best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring. Pic.


||1967: Reginald Punnett dies ... scientist.
File:The Trouble With Triffids.jpg|link=The Trouble With Triffids|1967: Premiere of "'''[[The Trouble With Triffids]]'''", one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series ''Star Trek''.


||1967: Jack Ruby dies ... businessman and murderer.
||1967: Jack Ruby dies ... businessman and murderer. Pic.


||1969: Jean Focas dies ... astronomer.
||1969: Jean Focas dies ... astronomer. No pic online.


||1977: William Gropper dies ... lithographer, cartoonist, and painter.
||1977: William Gropper dies ... lithographer, cartoonist, and painter. Pic.


||1989: Sergei Sobolev dies ... mathematician and academic.
||1989: Sergei Sobolev dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1999: The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
||1999: The Mars Polar Lander is launched.


||2009: The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
||2009: The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
||2013: Marianne Grunberg-Manago dies ... biochemist and academic. Her work helped make possible key discoveries about the nature of the genetic code. Pic search.


File:Peter_Naur.jpg|link=Peter Naur (nonfiction)|2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic [[Peter Naur (nonfiction)|Peter Naur]] dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.
File:Peter_Naur.jpg|link=Peter Naur (nonfiction)|2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic [[Peter Naur (nonfiction)|Peter Naur]] dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.
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  • 1641: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.

    1641: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.

  • 1777: Mathematician and physicist Louis Poinsot born. Poinsot will invent geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple.

    1777: Mathematician and physicist Louis Poinsot born. Poinsot will invent geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple.

  • 1819: Astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth born. Smyth will make innovations in astronomy, and make pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

    1819: Astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth born. Smyth will make innovations in astronomy, and make pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

  • 1967: Premiere of "The Trouble With Triffids", one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

    1967: Premiere of "The Trouble With Triffids", one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

  • 2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.

    2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.

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