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||120: Vettius Valens born ... astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. No DOD. Search book cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=vettius+valens | ||120: Vettius Valens born ... astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. No DOD. Search book cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=vettius+valens | ||
||412: Proclus born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic search | ||412: Proclus born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic search. | ||
||1575: Leiden University is founded, and given the motto ''Praesidium Libertatis''. | ||1575: Leiden University is founded, and given the motto ''Praesidium Libertatis''. | ||
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|File:Giulio Cesare Vanini.jpg|link=Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|1619: Physician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|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. | |File:Giulio Cesare Vanini.jpg|link=Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|1619: Physician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|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. | ||
File:Daniel Bernoulli.jpg|link=Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1700: Mathematician and physicist [[Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Daniel Bernoulli]] born. | File:Daniel Bernoulli.jpg|link=Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1700: Mathematician and physicist [[Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Daniel Bernoulli]] born. Bernoulli will be particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics. | ||
||1777: Bernard Courtois born ... chemist and academic ... first isolated iodine and morphine. Pic search | ||1777: Bernard Courtois born ... chemist and academic ... first isolated iodine and morphine. Pic search. | ||
||1825: Henry Walter Bates born ... geographer, biologist, and explorer ... mimicry. Pic. | ||1825: Henry Walter Bates born ... geographer, biologist, and explorer ... mimicry. Pic. | ||
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||1834: Dmitri Mendeleev born ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||1834: Dmitri Mendeleev born ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Moses Gomberg.jpg|link=Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|1866: Chemist [[Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|Moses Gomberg]] born. | File:Moses Gomberg.jpg|link=Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|1866: Chemist [[Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|Moses Gomberg]] born. Gomberg will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry. | ||
File: | File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1879: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute. | ||
||1888: Wilhelm Lenz born ... physicist, most notable for his invention of the Ising model and for his application of the Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector to the old quantum mechanical treatment of hydrogen-like atoms. Pic search. | |||
||1901: Walker Bleakney born ... physicist, one of inventors of mass spectrometers, and widely noted for his research in the fields of atomic physics, molecular physics, fluid dynamics,the ionization of gases, and blast waves. Pic. | ||1901: Walker Bleakney born ... physicist, one of inventors of mass spectrometers, and widely noted for his research in the fields of atomic physics, molecular physics, fluid dynamics,the ionization of gases, and blast waves. Pic. | ||
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||1906: Chester Carlson born ... physicist and lawyer, invented Xerography. | ||1906: Chester Carlson born ... physicist and lawyer, invented Xerography. | ||
||1906: Isidor Pavlovich Natanson born ... mathematician known for contributions to real analysis and constructive function theory, in particular, for his textbooks on these subjects. Pic search | ||1906: Isidor Pavlovich Natanson born ... mathematician known for contributions to real analysis and constructive function theory, in particular, for his textbooks on these subjects. Pic search. | ||
||1907: Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||1907: Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||
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||1928: Ennio De Giorgi born ... mathematician, member of the House of Giorgi, who worked on partial differential equations and the foundations of mathematics. Pic. | ||1928: Ennio De Giorgi born ... mathematician, member of the House of Giorgi, who worked on partial differential equations and the foundations of mathematics. Pic. | ||
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] found responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations. | File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] found not responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations. The so-called "carnivorous" digible (Dirigible horribilis) is in fact a grazing ruminant autonomous airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible. | ||
File:Emilie_Norton_Martin.jpg|link=Emilie Martin (nonfiction)|1936: Mathematician and academic [[Emilie Martin (nonfiction)|Emilie Martin]] dies. Martin researched primitive substitution groups of degree 15 and primitive substitution groups of degree 18. | File:Emilie_Norton_Martin.jpg|link=Emilie Martin (nonfiction)|1936: Mathematician and academic [[Emilie Martin (nonfiction)|Emilie Martin]] dies. Martin researched primitive substitution groups of degree 15 and primitive substitution groups of degree 18. | ||
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||1950: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established. | ||1950: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established. | ||
File:John von Neumann.gif|link=John von Neumann (nonfiction)|1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist [[John von Neumann (nonfiction)|John von Neumann]] dies. | File:John von Neumann.gif|link=John von Neumann (nonfiction)|1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist [[John von Neumann (nonfiction)|John von Neumann]] dies. Von Neumann was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons. | ||
||1957: Walther Bothe dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1957: Walther Bothe dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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||1968: American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina. | ||1968: American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina. | ||
||1969: Allende meteorite fall - largest carbonaceous chondrite ever found on Earth. Pic. | |||
||1971: The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time. | ||1971: The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time. | ||
||1974: After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth. | ||1974: After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth. | ||
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||1990: Ernest William Titterton dies ... nuclear physicist. Pic. | ||1990: Ernest William Titterton dies ... nuclear physicist. Pic. | ||
||2008: Robert Jastrow dies ... astronomer and planetary physicist. He was a NASA scientist, popular author, and futurist. Pic search | ||2008: Robert Jastrow dies ... astronomer and planetary physicist. He was a NASA scientist, popular author, and futurist. Pic search. | ||
||2015: Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde dies ... physician and parapsychologist. She said that there was a secret exchange program between humans and aliens that was being deliberately suppressed by "powerful Western governments", particularly the United States. Pic. | ||2015: Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde dies ... physician and parapsychologist. She said that there was a secret exchange program between humans and aliens that was being deliberately suppressed by "powerful Western governments", particularly the United States. Pic. | ||
||2017: Peter Mansfield dies ... physicist, Nobel laureate. Pic. | ||2017: Peter Mansfield dies ... physicist, Nobel laureate. Pic. | ||
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1700: Mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli born. Bernoulli will be particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.
1866: Chemist Moses Gomberg born. Gomberg will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.
1879: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1933: Carnivorous dirigibles found not responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations. The so-called "carnivorous" digible (Dirigible horribilis) is in fact a grazing ruminant autonomous airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible.
1936: Mathematician and academic Emilie Martin dies. Martin researched primitive substitution groups of degree 15 and primitive substitution groups of degree 18.
1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist John von Neumann dies. Von Neumann was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.