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File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
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File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1865: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.  
 
File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|2004: [[John Brunner]] publishes history of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Elena Piscopia.jpg|link=Elena Cornaro Piscopia (nonfiction)|1646: Mathematician and philosopher [[Elena Cornaro Piscopia (nonfiction)|Elena Cornaro Piscopia]] born. She will be one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
 
||1667: Grégoire de Saint-Vincent dies ... Jesuit and mathematician. He is remembered for his work on quadrature of the hyperbola. Grégoire gave the "clearest early account of the summation of geometric series." He also resolved Zeno's paradox by showing that the time intervals involved formed a geometric progression and thus had a finite sum. Challenge AMA says born Sept. 9. Pic.
 
||1716: Roger Cotes dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic (bust).
 
||1753: Johann Friedrich August Göttling born ... chemist. Pic (document).
 
File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] born.
 
||1760: Johan Gadolin born ... chemist, physicist, and mineralogist. Pic: postage stamp.
 
||1764: Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt born ... pharmacist, chemist, and anatomist. Pic.
||1819: John Couch Adams born ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic.
 
||1829: HMS ''Pickle'' captures the armed slave ship ''Voladora'' off the coast of Cuba.
 
||1862: Allvar Gullstrand born ... ophthalmologist and optician. He applied the methods of physical mathematics to the study of optical images and of the refraction of light in the eye. For this work, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1911. Pic.
 
||1871: Walter Kaufmann born ... physicist. He is best known for the first experimental proof of the velocity dependence of mass, which was an important contribution to the development of modern physics, including special relativity. Pic.
 
||1888: Grigorii Mikhailovich Fichtenholz mathematician working on real analysis and functional analysis. Fichtenholz was one of the founders of the Leningrad school of real analysis. Pic.
 
||1899: Otis Barton born ... diver, engineer, and actor, designed the bathysphere. Pic (cool).
 
File:Dennis Gabor.jpg|link=Dennis Gabor (nonfiction)|1900: Physicist and engineer [[Dennis Gabor (nonfiction)|Dennis Gabor]] born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.
 
||1905: Wolfgang Karl Ernst Finkelnburg born ... physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, atomic physics, the structure of matter, and high-temperature arc discharges. Pic: https://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenlichkeiten/wolfgang-finkelnburg-/DE-2086/lido/57c6ad4ac556e0.88918046
 
||1907: Rudolf Peierls born ... physicist who played a major role in Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear programme, and the Manhattan Project. Pic.
 
File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1910: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, dies.
 
||1917: World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
 
||1920: Mathematician and cryptanalyst Gene Grabeel born ... founded the Venona project. Pic.
 
||1926: Claude Jacques Berge born ... mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Claude-Berge
 
||1930: Peter John Landin born ...  computer scientist. He was one of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics. Pic.
 
||1933: The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
 
||1940: Augustus Edward Hough Love dies ... mathematician and theorist ... famous for his work on the mathematical theory of elasticity. He also worked on wave propagation and his work on the structure of the Earth in Some Problems of Geodynamics won for him the Adams prize in 1911 when he developed a mathematical model of surface waves known as Love waves. Love also contributed to the theory of tidal locking and introduced the parameters known as Love numbers, which are widely used today. These numbers are also used in problems related to the tidal deformation of the Earth due to the gravitational attraction of the Moon and Sun. Pic.
 
||1944:  A squadron of 98 B-29 bombers flies from airfields in India to attack the Makasan railway yards in Bangkok. A 2,261 mile round trip, the first combat mission for the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress, and the longest mission to date in the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Bangkok_in_World_War_II
 
||1964: Geologist and Arctic explorer Lauge Koch dies; expeditions to Greenland. Pic.
 
||1964: DSV ''Alvin'' is commissioned.
 
||1968: Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day. Pic.
 
||File:No image available.gif|link=Robert Pohl (nonfiction)|1976: Physicist [[Robert Pohl (nonfiction)|Robert Pohl]] dies.  Pohl has been called the "father of solid state physics".
 
||1983: Kurt Tank dies ... pilot and engineer. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. Pic.
 
||1986: Helmut Grunsky dies ... mathematician who worked in complex analysis and geometric function theory. He introduced Grunsky's theorem and the Grunsky inequalities. Pic.
 
||1989: Gottfried Maria Hugo Köthe dies ... mathematician working in abstract algebra and functional analysis. Pic.
 
||1989: The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
 
||1995: The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
 
||2009: Rajeev Motwani dies ... professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was awarded the Gödel Prize in 2001 for his work on the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation. Pic.
 
File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
 
||2012: Mihai Pătrașcu dies ... computer scientist. Pătraşcu’s work was concerned with fundamental questions about basic data structures. Pic.
 
 
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  • 1646: Mathematician and philosopher Elena Cornaro Piscopia born. She will be one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

    1646: Mathematician and philosopher Elena Cornaro Piscopia born. She will be one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

  • 1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.

    1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.

  • 1900: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

    1900: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

  • 1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.

    1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.

  • 2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".

    2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".

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