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File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.  
File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1494: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] born. He will be imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]].
 
||1590: Ambroise Paré dies ... barber surgeon who served in that role for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. He is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology and a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine, especially in the treatment of wounds. He was also an anatomist and invented several surgical instruments. He was also part of the Parisian Barber Surgeon guild. In his personal notes about the care he delivered to Captain Rat, in the Piémont campaign (1537–1538), Paré wrote: Je le pansai, Dieu le guérit ("I bandaged him and God healed him").  No DOB. Pic.
 
||1641: Urban Hjärne born ... chemist, geologist, and physician. Pic.
 
||1648: Mathematician and academic Tommaso Ceva born. His only published mathematical work, ''Opuscula Mathematica'', will deal with geometry, gravity and arithmetic. He was also a noted poet and dedicated a significant amount of his time at this task. Pic.
 
||1658: Jean Jannon dies ... designer and typefounder. No DOB. Pic search.
 
||1740: Arthur Lee born ... physician, diplomat, spy. Pic: coat of arms.
 
||1805: Thomas Graham born ... chemist known for his pioneering work in dialysis and the diffusion of gases. He is regarded as one of the founders of colloid chemistry. Pic.
 
||1836: Johann Christian Martin Bartels born ... mathematician. He was the tutor of Carl Friedrich Gauss in Brunswick and the educator of Lobachevsky at the University of Kazan. Pic.
 
||1838: Edwin Abbott Abbott born ... schoolmaster and theologian, best known as the author of the novella Flatland (1884). Pic.
 
||1843: Paul Tannery born ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was the older brother of mathematician Jules Tannery, to whose Notions Mathématiques he dcontributed an historical chapter. Though Tannery's career was in the tobacco industry, he devoted his evenings and his life to the study of mathematicians and mathematical development. Pic.
 
||1860: South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.
 
||1862: Robert Knox dies ... surgeon and zoologist.
 
||1875: Francesco Paolo Cantelli born ... mathematician. Pic.
 
||1890: Jaroslav Heyrovský born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic (cool!).
 
File:Robert J. Van de Graaff.jpg|link=Robert J. Van de Graaff (nonfiction)|1901: Physicist [[Robert J. Van de Graaff (nonfiction)|Robert J. Van de Graaff]] born. He will design design and construct high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.
 
||1917: Cheka: the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.
 
||1917: David Joseph Bohm born ... scientist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind. Bohm advanced the view that quantum physics meant that the old Cartesian model of reality – that there are two kinds of substance, the mental and the physical, that somehow interact – was too limited. To complement it, he developed a mathematical and physical theory of "implicate" and "explicate" order. He also believed that the brain, at the cellular level, works according to the mathematics of some quantum effects, and postulated that thought is distributed and non-localised just as quantum entities are.
 
||1930: Theodor Kober dies ... aviation engineer who contributed to the building of the first Zeppelin. Pic: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Kober
 
||1936: Boris Hessen dies ... physicist, philosopher and historian of science. He is most famous for his paper on Newton's Principia which became foundational in historiography of science. Pic.
 
||1951: Wau Holland born ... computer scientist, co-founded Chaos Computer Club. Pic.
 
File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1951: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
 
||1954: Fokko du Cloux born ... mathematician and computer scientist. He worked on the Atlas of Lie groups and representations until his death. Pic search.
 
File:Emil Artin.jpg|link=Emil Artin (nonfiction)|1962: Mathematician [[Emil Artin (nonfiction)|Emil Artin]] dies. He worked on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.
 
||1971: The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.
 
||1975: Military officer Alpo K. Marttinen dies. During World War II he served in the Finnish Army. Following the war he immigrated to the United States and served as an officer in the United States Army, retiring as a colonel. Marttinen was one of the key figures in the Weapons Cache Case where a large number of Finnish Army weapons was hidden around the country in case of a Soviet invasion. Pic.
 
||1984: Max Deuring born ... mathematician. He is known for his work in arithmetic geometry, in particular on elliptic curves in characteristic p. He worked also in analytic number theory. Pic.
 
File:License to Grill.jpg|link=License to Grill|1989: Premier of '''''[[License to Grill]]''''', a 1989 spy film about an MI6 agent (Timothy Dalton) who must stop a deranged grill manufacturer (George Foreman) from destroying the world's supply of propane.
 
||1993: W. Edwards Deming dies ... statistician, author, and academic ... Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical physics, he helped develop the sampling techniques still used by the U.S. Department of the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Pic.
 
||1994: Dr. Cyril Ponnamperuma dies ... scientist in the fields of chemical evolution and the origin of life. Pic.
 
||1995: Paris Christos Kanellakis dies ... computer scientist. His scientific contributions lie in the fields of database theory—comprising work on deductive databases, object-oriented databases, and constraint databases—as well as in fault-tolerant distributed computation and in type theory. Pic.
 
||1996: Carl Sagan dies ... astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist. Pic.
 
||1998: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin dies ... physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||2005: Raoul Bott dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
 
||2007: Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Suzanne Bloch was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art and recovered about three weeks later.
 
||2008: Friedrich Beck dies ... physicist. His research interests were focused on superconductivity, nuclear and elementary particle physics, relativistic quantum field theory, and late in his life, biophysics and theory of consciousness. Pic.
 
||2010: Frederic Gordon Foster dies ... computational engineer, statistician, professor, and college dean who is widely known for devising, in 1965, a nine-digit code upon which the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is based. No pic, none.
 
||2013: China successfully launches the Bolivian Túpac Katari 1 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
 
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  • 1494: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé born. He will be imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing judicial astrology.

    1494: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé born. He will be imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing judicial astrology.

  • 1901: Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff born. He will design design and construct high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.

    1901: Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff born. He will design design and construct high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.

  • 1951: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.

    1951: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.

  • 1962: Mathematician Emil Artin dies. He worked on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.

    1962: Mathematician Emil Artin dies. He worked on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.

  • 1989: Premier of License to Grill, a 1989 spy film about an MI6 agent (Timothy Dalton) who must stop a deranged grill manufacturer (George Foreman) from destroying the world's supply of propane.

    1989: Premier of License to Grill, a 1989 spy film about an MI6 agent (Timothy Dalton) who must stop a deranged grill manufacturer (George Foreman) from destroying the world's supply of propane.

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