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File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=[[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1610: [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
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File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1732: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which convert Newtonian principles into an early version of quantum mechanics.
||1502: Pope Gregory XIII (Ugo Boncompagni) born ... best known for commissioning and being the namesake for the Gregorian calendar, which remains the internationally accepted civil calendar to this day. Pic.


||Stephen Groombridge FRS (b. 7 January 1755) was a British merchant and astronomer.
File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1610: [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.


||1786 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and mineralogist (b. 1715)
File:Anarchimedes measuring Galileo.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|1610: Rogue mathematician and alleged supervillain [[Anarchimedes]] remotely monitors [[Galileo Galilei]]'s discovery of Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa. Galileo will later that his observations of the Galilean moons were corrupted by [[Anarchimedes]]' actions.


||Eilhard Mitscherlich (b. 7 January 1794) was a German chemist, who is perhaps best remembered today for his discovery of the phenomenon of isomorphism (crystallography) in 1819.
||1755: Stephen Groombridge born ... merchant and astronomer. Pic.
 
||1783: Francesco Carlini born ... astronomer. During this trip in 1821 he took pendulum measurements on top of Mount Cenis, Italy, from which he calculated one of the first estimates of the density and mass of the Earth. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Francesco+Carlini
 
||1786: Jean-Étienne Guettard dies ... physician and mineralogist. Pic.
 
||1794: Eilhard Mitscherlich born ... chemist, who is perhaps best remembered today for his discovery of the phenomenon of isomorphism (crystallography) in 1819. Pic.
 
||1797: Henry Piddington born ... merchant captain who sailed in East India and China and later settled in Bengal where he worked as a curator of a geological museum and worked on scientific problems, and is particularly well known for his pioneering studies in meteorology of tropical storms and hurricanes. He noted the circular winds recorded by ships caught in storms and coined the name cyclone in 1848 based on his studies of tropical storms and the observation of circular winds around a calm centre. Pic.


File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1827: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] born.  He will propose worldwide standard time zones.
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1827: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] born.  He will propose worldwide standard time zones.


File:Zénobe Gramme 1893.jpg|link=Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|1834: Electrical engineer [[Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|Zénobe Gramme]] computes simple [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which accurately simulate the electrical motors he will build later in life.
|link=|1833: Henry Roscoe born ... chemist. He is particularly noted for early work on vanadium and for photochemical studies. Pic.
 
File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|1834: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] born. He will invent the Reis Telephone.
 
||1859: Mathematician Marie Georges Humbert born ... worked on Kummer surfaces and the Appell–Humbert theorem and introduced Humbert surfaces.  Pic.


File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=|1834: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] born. He will invent the Reis Telephone.
||1871: Émile Borel born ... mathematician and politician. Pic.


File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1835: [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] writes unit tests for [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
||1878: François-Vincent Raspail dies ... chemist, physician, and physiologist. Pic.


||1871 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
File:Ignacy Lukasiewicz.jpg|link=Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1882: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist [[Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Ignacy Łukasiewicz]] born. He will build the world's first oil refinery and invent the kerosene lamp.


||1878 – François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist, physician, and physiologist (b. 1794)
||1893: Josef Stefan dies ... physicist, mathematician, and poet. Pic.


File:Sekiya Seikei.jpg|link=Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|1881: Geologist and crime-fighter [[Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|Sekiya Seikei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to model the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake, exposes [[Crimes against geology|criminal organization committing earthquakes for profit]].
||1894: William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. Pic (film frame).


File:Ignacy Lukasiewicz.jpg|link=Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1882: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist [[Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Ignacy Łukasiewicz]] born. He built the world's first oil refinery and invented the kerosene lamp.
||1904: The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".


||1893 – Josef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835) Josef Stefan (Slovene: Jozef Stefan; 24 March 1835 – 7 January 1893) was an ethnic Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of the Austrian Empire.
||1906: Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn born ... medical physicist. Pic.


||1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
||1912: Charles Addams born ... cartoonist, created The Addams Family. Pic.


||1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
||1920: Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington born ... engineer and businessman who invented and perfected the float glass process for commercial manufacturing of plate glass. Pic: http://100th.nsg.com/story/02/


||1912 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist, created The Addams Family (d. 1988)
||1924: Johannes Frischauf dies ... mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geodesist and alpinist. Pic.


||Walter Noll (b. 1925) was a mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for developing mathematical tools of classical mechanics and thermodynamics.
||1925: Walter Noll born ... mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for developing mathematical tools of classical mechanics and thermodynamics. Pic.


||1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.
||1927: The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.


File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1933: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to forecast outcomes for the [[Manhattan Project]].
||1935: Engineer and astronaut Valeri Kubasov born. Kubasov performed the first welding experiments in space, along with Georgy Shonin. Pic.
 
||1935: James Alfred Ewing dies ... physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, hysteresis. Pic.
 
File:Marguerite_Perey.jpg|link=Marguerite Perey (nonfiction)|1939: Physicist [[Marguerite Perey (nonfiction)|Marguerite Perey]] identifies francium, the last element first discovered in nature, rather than by synthesis.


File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1943: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] dies. He made pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1943: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] dies. He made pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.


||1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
||1948: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
 
||1954: Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
 
||1955: Edward Kasner dies ... mathematician and academic born ... Differential geometry was his main field of study. In addition to introducing the term "googol", he is known also for the Kasner metric and the Kasner polygon. Pic.
 
||1968: Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
 
||1968: J. L. B. Smith dies ... chemist, ichthyologist (coeolocanth), and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=J.+L.+B.+Smith
 
||1974: Charles Alfred Coulson dies. ... applied mathematician, theoretical chemist and religious author. His major scientific work was as a pioneer of the application of the quantum theory of valency to problems of molecular structure, dynamics and reactivity. Pic: http://www.quantum-chemistry-history.com/Coulson1.htm
 
||1977: Marvin Pipkin dies ... chemist. During his time in the United States Army he worked on gas masks. In his civilian life he invented a process for frosting the inside of incandescent lamp bulbs to cut down on the sharp glare and diffuse the light. Pic.
 
||1984: Alfred Kastler dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1985: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
 
||1986: Wilfred Holmes dies ... US Naval officer, one of the Station HYPO staff, who had the idea of faking a water supply failure on Midway Island in 1942. He suggested using an unencrypted emergency warning, in the hope of provoking a Japanese response, thus establishing whether Midway was a target. Pic.
 
||1989: John Frank Adams dies ... mathematician, one of the major contributors to homotopy theory. Pic.
 
||1994: Edward James Hannan dies ... statistician who is the co-discoverer of the Hannan–Quinn information criterion.  Pic: https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/biographical-memoirs/edward-james-hannan-1921-1994


||1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
||1995: Harry Golombek dies ... chess grandmaster, chess arbiter, chess author, and wartime codebreaker. Pic.


||1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
||1998: Richard Hamming dies ... mathematician and academic ... His contributions include the Hamming code (which makes use of a Hamming matrix), the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, sphere-packing (or Hamming bound), and the Hamming distance. Pic.


||1968 – J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (b. 1897)
||1998: Vladimir Prelog dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1984 – Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
||1998: Jerome Murray dies ... inventor of the peristaltic pump that made open-heart surgery possible. It met the need to pump blood without damaging the cells through a method of expansion and contraction that imitates the way that peristalsis moves the contents of the digestive tract. In addition, the pump was adapted for kidney dialysis and for food processing (to pump soup into cans without crushing the peas or the celery). He decided to invent the airplane boarding ramp when on a day in 1951 at the Miami International Airport he saw passengers having to walk in the rain to the terminal. In all, he held 75 patents including a television antenna rotator, electric carving knife, high-speed dentist drill, power car seat and an audible pressure cooker. No pic. Obit: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/11/business/jerome-murray-85-a-many-faceted-inventor.html


||1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
||2000: Rodica Eugenia Simion born ... mathematician. She was the Columbian School Professor of Mathematics at George Washington University. Her research concerned combinatorics: she was a pioneer in the study of permutation patterns, and an expert on noncrossing partitions. Pic: https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/rodica-simion-immigrant-complex/


||John Frank Adams FRS (d. 7 January 1989) was a British mathematician, one of the major contributors to homotopy theory.
File:The Lord of the Sprinkles.jpg|link=The Lord of the Sprinkles|2001: Premiere of '''''[[The Lord of the Sprinkles]]''''', an epic high-fantasy film about a baker (Sauron) who creates the One Sprinkled Donut to rule the appetites of Men, Dwarves, and Elves.


||1998 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
||2010: Bruria Kaufman dies ... theoretical physicist. She is known for contributions to Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, to statistical physics, where she used applied spinor analysis to rederive the result of Lars Onsager on the partition function of the two-dimensional Ising Model, and to the study of the Mössbauer effect, on which she collaborated with John von Neumann and Harry Lipkin. Pic.


||2012 – Herbert Wilf, American mathematician and academic (b. 1931)
File:Herbert_Wilf.jpg|link=Herbert Wilf (nonfiction)|2012: Mathematician [[Herbert Wilf (nonfiction)|Herbert Saul Wilf]] dies. Wilf specialized in combinatorics and graph theory.


File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|2016: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' used to convict supervillain [[Gnotilus]] ''in absentio''.
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  • 1610: Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.

    1610: Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.

  • 1610: Rogue mathematician and alleged supervillain Anarchimedes remotely monitors Galileo Galilei's discovery of Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa. Galileo will later that his observations of the Galilean moons were corrupted by Anarchimedes' actions.

    1610: Rogue mathematician and alleged supervillain Anarchimedes remotely monitors Galileo Galilei's discovery of Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa. Galileo will later that his observations of the Galilean moons were corrupted by Anarchimedes' actions.

  • 1827: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming born. He will propose worldwide standard time zones.

    1827: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming born. He will propose worldwide standard time zones.

  • 1834: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis born. He will invent the Reis Telephone.

    1834: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis born. He will invent the Reis Telephone.

  • 1882: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist Ignacy Łukasiewicz born. He will build the world's first oil refinery and invent the kerosene lamp.

    1882: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist Ignacy Łukasiewicz born. He will build the world's first oil refinery and invent the kerosene lamp.

  • 1939: Physicist Marguerite Perey identifies francium, the last element first discovered in nature, rather than by synthesis.

    1939: Physicist Marguerite Perey identifies francium, the last element first discovered in nature, rather than by synthesis.

  • 1943: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla dies. He made pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

    1943: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla dies. He made pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

  • 2001: Premiere of The Lord of the Sprinkles, an epic high-fantasy film about a baker (Sauron) who creates the One Sprinkled Donut to rule the appetites of Men, Dwarves, and Elves.

    2001: Premiere of The Lord of the Sprinkles, an epic high-fantasy film about a baker (Sauron) who creates the One Sprinkled Donut to rule the appetites of Men, Dwarves, and Elves.

  • 2012: Mathematician Herbert Saul Wilf dies. Wilf specialized in combinatorics and graph theory.

    2012: Mathematician Herbert Saul Wilf dies. Wilf specialized in combinatorics and graph theory.

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