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| ||1394 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1449) | | File:Robert Andrews Millikan.jpg|link=Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist [[Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|Robert Andrews Millikan]] born. Millikan will win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect. |
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| | File:Nathan Rosen.jpg|link=Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|1909: Physicist [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] born. Rosen will develop the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole. |
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| ||1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
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| File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1647: [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] uses [[scrying engine]] technology to locate fossils. These will later prove useful in detecting and counteracting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1739 – Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
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| ||1772 – John Canton, English physicist and academic (b. 1718)
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| ||1785 – Adam Sedgwick, English geologist and scientist (d. 1873) Adam Sedgwick (22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873) was a British geologist, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale.
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| ||1840 – Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1798)
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| ||1857 – Paul Doumer, French mathematician, journalist, and politician, 14th President of France (d. 1932)
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| File:Robert Andrews Millikan.jpg|link=Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist [[Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|Robert Andrews Millikan]] born. He will win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
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| File:Thomson_tide_calculator.jpg|link=Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|1869: Supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] steals [[Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|Thomson tide calculator]] for personal use; Steampunks outraged.
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| ||1903 – Bill Holman, American cartoonist (d. 1987)
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| File:Nathan Rosen.jpg|link=Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|1909: Physicist [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] born. He will develop the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole. | |
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| ||1909 – Gabrielle Roy, Canadian engineer (?) and author born. There is a quotation by her on the back of the Canadian $20 bill that reads: "Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?"
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| File:Tempest prognosticator.jpg|link=Tempest prognosticator (nonfiction)|1910: [[Tempest prognosticator (nonfiction)|Tempest prognosticator]] used to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1913 – Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist (b.1864)
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| ||1917 – Irving Kaplansky, Canadian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2006)
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| ||Carson Dunning Jeffries (b. March 22, 1922) was an American physicist. The National Academies Press said that Jeffries "made major fundamental contributions to knowledge of nuclear magnetism, electronic spin relaxation, dynamic nuclear polarization, electron-hole droplets, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, and high-temperature superconductors." He was noted for being the first to observe the isotropic spin-spin exchange interaction in metals (also known as the Ruderman-Kittel interaction). He also discovered methods for the dynamic nuclear polarization by saturation of forbidden microwave resonance transitions in solids. He also discovered the existence of giant electron-hole droplets in semiconductors.
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| ||1924 – William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (b. 1848)
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| ||1924 – Yevgeny Ostashev, the test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences (d. 1960)
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| File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1929: Art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]] attends birthday party for [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]]. They will later collaborate on ideas which will lead The Eel to construct a portable wormhole generator.
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| ||1932 – Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (d. 2010)
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| ||Gustav Herglotz (d. 22 March 1953) was a German Bohemian mathematician. He is best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology.
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| ||1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
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| ||1975 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
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| ||1978 – Karl Wallenda, German-American acrobat and tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas (b. 1905)
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| ||1982 – NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
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| File:Gerald Bull 1964.jpg|link=Gerald Bull (nonfiction)|1990: Engineer [[Gerald Bull (nonfiction)|Gerald Bull]] assassinated. He attempted to build artillery guns which could launch satellites into orbit. | | File:Gerald Bull 1964.jpg|link=Gerald Bull (nonfiction)|1990: Engineer [[Gerald Bull (nonfiction)|Gerald Bull]] assassinated. He attempted to build artillery guns which could launch satellites into orbit. |
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| ||1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
| | File:Philippe_Flajolet.jpg|link=Philippe Flajolet (nonfiction)|2011: Computer scientist [[Philippe Flajolet (nonfiction)|Philippe Flajolet]] dies. Flajolet contributed to general methods for analyzing the computational complexity of algorithms, including the theory of average-case complexity. |
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| ||1995 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
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| File:Exploded electrolytic capacitor.jpg|link=Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|2001: [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|Capacitor plague]] affects several brands of [[portable envy]] devices. | |
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| File:Portable envy clock generator.jpg|link=Portable envy|2002: [[Portable envy]] components at risk of [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]].
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| ||2010 – James Black, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
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| ||2012 – David Waltz, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943) | | File:An Alien Home Companion.jpg|link=An Alien Home Companion|2006: Premiere of '''''[[An Alien Home Companion]]''''', an American science fiction comedy film about the behind-the-scenes activities at a long-running public radio show which encounters an aggressive alien guest star. Director: Robert Altman. |
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