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File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1626: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] develops original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, uses it to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1768: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] born. Fourier will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1768: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] born. He will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
 
File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1882: Mark Twain admits to great fear during his famous ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|interview with Wallace War-Heels]]''.
File:George_David_Birkhoff.jpg|link=George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|1884: Mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] born. Birkhoff will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics of his generation.
File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1883: Physicist and academic [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
File:George_David_Birkhoff.jpg|link=George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|1884: Mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] born. He will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.
File:Harry Lehmann.jpg|link=Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|1924: Physicist [[Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|Harry Lehmann]] born. Lehmann will contribute to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1963: Film rights to ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] sell for nearly a million dollars.
 
File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1928: [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
 
File:Ranger spacecraft.jpg|link=Ranger 9 (nonfiction)|1965: NASA launches [[Ranger 9 (nonfiction)|Ranger 9]], the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
File:Ranger spacecraft.jpg|link=Ranger 9 (nonfiction)|1965: NASA launches [[Ranger 9 (nonfiction)|Ranger 9]], the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
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  • 1768: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier born. Fourier will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.

    1768: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier born. Fourier will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.

  • 1884: Mathematician George David Birkhoff born. Birkhoff will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics of his generation.

    1884: Mathematician George David Birkhoff born. Birkhoff will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics of his generation.

  • 1924: Physicist Harry Lehmann born. Lehmann will contribute to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.

    1924: Physicist Harry Lehmann born. Lehmann will contribute to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.

  • 1928: Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.

    1928: Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.

  • 1965: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.

    1965: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.

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