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||1854: Aletta Jacobs born ... physician. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the Netherlands. In 1882, she founded the world's first birth control clinic and was a leader in both the Dutch and international women's movements. She led campaigns aimed at deregulating prostitution, improving women's working conditions, promoting peace and calling for women's right to vote. Pic.
||1854: Aletta Jacobs born ... physician. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the Netherlands. In 1882, she founded the world's first birth control clinic and was a leader in both the Dutch and international women's movements. She led campaigns aimed at deregulating prostitution, improving women's working conditions, promoting peace and calling for women's right to vote. Pic.
File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1863: Surgeon and scientist [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]] performs emergency field surgery on fellow surgeon and alleged time-traveller [[Asclepius Myrmidon]], saving Myrmidon's life.  Lister will later privately reported that his theories on surgical hygiene "were resolutely confirmed and endorsed, nay demanded, by Myrmidon."


||1880: Lipót Fejér born ... mathematician and academic. Pic (small, group shot).
||1880: Lipót Fejér born ... mathematician and academic. Pic (small, group shot).


||1883: Henry John Stephen Smith dies ... mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula in number theory. Pic.
||1883: Henry John Stephen Smith dies ... mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula in number theory. Pic.
File:Sofya_Kovalevskaya.jpg|link=Sofia Kovalevskaya (nonfiction)|1884: Mathematician, physicist, and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Sofia Kovalevskaya (nonfiction)|Sofia Kovalevskaya]] uses symmetric top in which two moments of inertia are equal, the third is half as large, and the center of gravity is located in the plane perpendicular to the symmetry axis (parallel to the plane of the two equal points) to defeat the the [[Forbidden ratio]] in single combat.


||1895: Max Valier born ... rocketry pioneer. He helped found the German Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR - "Spaceflight Society") that would bring together many of the minds that would later make spaceflight a reality in the 20th century. Pic (drawing).
||1895: Max Valier born ... rocketry pioneer. He helped found the German Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR - "Spaceflight Society") that would bring together many of the minds that would later make spaceflight a reality in the 20th century. Pic (drawing).
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||1919: Irene Ann Stegun born ... mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards who, with Milton Abramowitz, edited a classic book of mathematical tables called ''A Handbook of Mathematical Functions'', widely known as ''Abramowitz and Stegun''.  Pic: https://alchetron.com/Irene-Stegun  
||1919: Irene Ann Stegun born ... mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards who, with Milton Abramowitz, edited a classic book of mathematical tables called ''A Handbook of Mathematical Functions'', widely known as ''Abramowitz and Stegun''.  Pic: https://alchetron.com/Irene-Stegun  


||1925: Burkhard Heim born ... physicist and academic. He devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of his unified field theory, Heim theory. Eventually he retreated into almost total seclusion, concentrating on developing and refining his theory of everything. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=burkhard+heim
||1925: Burkhard Heim born ... physicist and academic. He devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of his unified field theory, Heim theory. Eventually he retreated into almost total seclusion, concentrating on developing and refining his theory of everything. Pic search.


||1927: Charles Doolittle Walcott dies ... paleontologist, administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, and geologist. He is famous for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada. Pic.
||1927: Charles Doolittle Walcott dies ... paleontologist, administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, and geologist. He is famous for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada. Pic.
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||1935: Roger Needham born ... computer scientist. He will develop Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic for authentication, generally known as BAN logic, and the Needham–Schroeder security protocol (which forms the basis of the Kerberos authentication and key exchange system). Pic.
||1935: Roger Needham born ... computer scientist. He will develop Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic for authentication, generally known as BAN logic, and the Needham–Schroeder security protocol (which forms the basis of the Kerberos authentication and key exchange system). Pic.


File:Hebern_electric_code_machine.jpg|link=Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|1936: Inventor and [[APTO]] field cryptographer [[Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|Edward Hugh Hebern]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions which use rotor encryption machines to generate [[cryptographic numina]].
||1937: Francis Sowerby Macaulay dies ... mathematician who made significant contributions to algebraic geometry. Cohen–Macaulay rings, Macaulay duality, the Macaulay resultant are named after him. Pic.


||1937: Francis Sowerby Macaulay dies ... mathematician who made significant contributions to algebraic geometry. Cohen–Macaulay rings, Macaulay duality, the Macaulay resultant are named after him. Pic.
||1942: Mathematician Ernst August Weiß dies from combat wounds. Weiß (or Weiss) joined an SA storm in Bonn in 1933, and got promoted up to an Obertruppführer. He directed the Bonn Studentenwerk. He created the Mathematical Work Camps ("Mathematische Arbeitslager") in Kronenburg "as a new form of mathematical university teaching and collaboration of professors and students" ... "as one example of how mathematics and Nazi ideology would interact". Weiß was a permanent editor of the journal Deutsche Mathematik. Pic.


||1945: World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
||1945: World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
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||1964: The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.
||1964: The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.
File:The_Courtship_of_Eddie's_Carpenter.jpg|link=The Courtship of Eddie's Carpenter|1969: Premiere of '''''[[The Courtship of Eddie's Carpenter]]''''', an American home improvement comedy romance television series based on the 1963 "Courtship Carpentry" fad of the same name.


||1970: Leo Moser dies ... mathematician, best known for his polygon notation. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Moser_Leo.html
||1970: Leo Moser dies ... mathematician, best known for his polygon notation. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Moser_Leo.html
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||1986: Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
||1986: Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.


||1987: Louis Plack Hammett dies ... physical chemist. He is known for the Hammett equation, which relates reaction rates to equilibrium constants for certain classes of organic reactions involving substituted aromatic compounds. He is also known for his research into superacids and his development of a scheme for comparing their acidities based on what is now known as the Hammett acidity function. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=louis+plack+hammett
||1987: Louis Plack Hammett dies ... physical chemist. He is known for the Hammett equation, which relates reaction rates to equilibrium constants for certain classes of organic reactions involving substituted aromatic compounds. He is also known for his research into superacids and his development of a scheme for comparing their acidities based on what is now known as the Hammett acidity function. Pic search.


||1994: Howard Martin Temin dies ... geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1994: Howard Martin Temin dies ... geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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File:Walter Frederick Morrison.jpg|link=Walter Frederick Morrison (nonfiction)|2010: Businessman [[Walter Frederick Morrison (nonfiction)|Walter Frederick Morrison]] dies. Morrison invented the Frisbee. The first version, a cake pan purchased for a nickle and sold for a quarter, was known as the Flyin' Cake Pan.
File:Walter Frederick Morrison.jpg|link=Walter Frederick Morrison (nonfiction)|2010: Businessman [[Walter Frederick Morrison (nonfiction)|Walter Frederick Morrison]] dies. Morrison invented the Frisbee. The first version, a cake pan purchased for a nickle and sold for a quarter, was known as the Flyin' Cake Pan.


File:Fire Dance.jpg|link=Fire Dance (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Fire Dance (nonfiction)|Fire Dance]]'' stolen from the Louvre in a daytime robbery by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.


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  • 1555: Christian Egenolff dies. He was the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main.

    1555: Christian Egenolff dies. He was the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main.

  • 1619: Physician and philosopher Lucilio Vanini is put to death after being found guilty of atheism and blasphemy. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.

    1619: Physician and philosopher Lucilio Vanini is put to death after being found guilty of atheism and blasphemy. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.

  • 1737: Thomas Paine born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.

    1737: Thomas Paine born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.

  • 1907: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter born. He will become of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.

    1907: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter born. He will become of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.

  • 1913: A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.

    1913: A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.

  • 1927: Computer scientist and academic David Wheeler born. He will contribute to the development of the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT); help develop the subroutine; and gave the first explanation of how to design software libraries.

    1927: Computer scientist and academic David Wheeler born. He will contribute to the development of the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT); help develop the subroutine; and gave the first explanation of how to design software libraries.

  • 1969: Premiere of The Courtship of Eddie's Carpenter, an American home improvement comedy romance television series based on the 1963 "Courtship Carpentry" fad of the same name.

    1969: Premiere of The Courtship of Eddie's Carpenter, an American home improvement comedy romance television series based on the 1963 "Courtship Carpentry" fad of the same name.

  • 1979: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor dies. He invented holography, for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

    1979: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor dies. He invented holography, for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

  • 2010: Businessman Walter Frederick Morrison dies. Morrison invented the Frisbee. The first version, a cake pan purchased for a nickle and sold for a quarter, was known as the Flyin' Cake Pan.

    2010: Businessman Walter Frederick Morrison dies. Morrison invented the Frisbee. The first version, a cake pan purchased for a nickle and sold for a quarter, was known as the Flyin' Cake Pan.

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