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| ||12 BC – The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor.
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| File:Henry Oldenburg.jpg|link=Henry Oldenburg (nonfiction)|1665: The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, [[Henry Oldenburg (nonfiction)|Henry Oldenburg]], publishes the first issue of ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society''. | | File:Henry Oldenburg.jpg|link=Henry Oldenburg (nonfiction)|1665: The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, [[Henry Oldenburg (nonfiction)|Henry Oldenburg]], publishes the first issue of ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society''. |
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| ||1787 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1826) His original work was mainly concerned with optics and spectroscopy. In particular he carried out a classical redetermination of the speed of light by A. H. L. Fizeau's method (see Fizeau-Foucault Apparatus), introducing various improvements in the apparatus, which added greatly to the accuracy of the results.
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| ||Marie Alfred Cornu (b. March 6, 1841) was a French physicist. The French generally refer to him as Alfred Cornu.
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| File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1846: Social activist and alleged superhero [[The Governess]] warns the United States of America not to begin its upcoming Civil War ahead of schedule.
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| File:Cesare_Arzelà.jpg|link=Cesare Arzelà (nonfiction)|1847: Mathematician [[Cesare Arzelà (nonfiction)|Cesare Arzelà]] born. He will contribute to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions. | | File:Cesare_Arzelà.jpg|link=Cesare Arzelà (nonfiction)|1847: Mathematician [[Cesare Arzelà (nonfiction)|Cesare Arzelà]] born. He will contribute to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions. |
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| ||1866 – William Whewell, English priest, historian, and philosopher (b. 1794)
| | File:Akiva Yaglom.jpg|link=Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|1921: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist [[Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|Akiva Yaglom]] born. He will contribute to statistical turbulence theory and random processes theory. |
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| ||1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
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| File:Thomas Joannes Stieltjes.jpg|link=Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|1876: Mathematician [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|Thomas Joannes Stieltjes]] uses continued fraction theory to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |
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| ||Naum Ilyich Akhiezer (b. 6 March 1901) was a Soviet mathematician of Jewish origin, known for his works in approximation theory and the theory of differential and integral operators. He is also known as the author of classical books on various subjects in analysis, and for his work on the history of mathematics.
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| ||August Joseph Ignaz Toepler (d. 6 March 1912) was a German physicist known for his experiments in electrostatics. Pic.
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| ||Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom (b. 6 March 1921) was a Soviet and Jewish physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist. He was known for his contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence and theory of random processes. Pic.
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| ||1927 – Gordon Cooper, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2004)
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| ||1927 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
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| File:Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann.jpg|link=Ferdinand von Lindemann (nonfiction)|1939: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand von Lindemann (nonfiction)|Ferdinand von Lindemann]] dies. He proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number. | | File:Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann.jpg|link=Ferdinand von Lindemann (nonfiction)|1939: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand von Lindemann (nonfiction)|Ferdinand von Lindemann]] dies. He proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number. |
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| ||Yoji Totsuka (b. March 6, 1942) was a Japanese physicist
| | File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2015: The ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe, having left Vesta, enters Ceres' orbit. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt. |
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| ||Ernst Julius Cohen (d. March 6, 1944) was a Dutch Jewish chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals. Pic.
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| ||1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
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| ||Edgar Krahn (d. 6 March 1961) was an Estonian mathematician. Pic.
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| ||1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
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| ||Ivan Emanuel Wallin (d. 6 March 1969) was an American biologist who made the first experimental works on endosymbiotic theory. Nicknamed the "Mitochondria Man"
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| ||1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
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| ||1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
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| File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1981: Modern dance company [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the life of [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]]. | |
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| File:Ayn Rand signature 1949.svg|link=Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|1982: Writer and philosopher [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]] dies.
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| ||1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
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| ||2005 – Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
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| ||Hans Albrecht Bethe (d. March 6, 2005) was a German and American nuclear physicist who, in addition to making important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis
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| File:The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling.jpg|link=The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|2017: ''[[The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling]]'' awarded Pulitzer Prize, declared "the most entertaining illustration of the year."
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