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||585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
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||1676 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1754)
||585 BC: A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
 
||1676: Jacopo Riccati born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1829:  Army officer, trader, and lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1829:  Army officer, trader, and lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.


||1830 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
||1830: U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. Pic.
 
||1831: Henri Jean-Baptiste Grégoire (often referred to as the Abbé Grégoire) dies ... was French Catholic priest, Constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader. He was an ardent abolitionist of human slavery and supporter of universal suffrage. He was a founding member of the Bureau des longitudes, the Institut de France, and the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. Pic.
 
||1836: Alexander Mitscherlich born ... chemist and academic. His most important work was in the field of processing wood to create cellulose. He patented an early version of the sulfite process in 1882. Pic.
 
||1843: Noah Webster dies ... lexicographer. Pic.
 
||1858: Carl Richard Nyberg born ... inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch. Pic.
 
||1872: Marian Smoluchowski born ... physicist and mountaineer. Pic.
 
||1879: Milutin Milanković born ... mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist. He gave two fundamental contributions to global science. The first contribution is the "Canon of the Earth’s Insolation", which characterizes the climates of all the planets of the Solar system. The second contribution is the explanation of Earth's long-term climate changes caused by changes in the position of the Earth in comparison to the Sun, now known as Milankovitch cycles. Pic.


File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and engineer [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to disprove Hollow Earth Theory.
||1907: Wang Ganchang born ... nuclear physicist. He was one of the founding fathers of Chinese nuclear physics, cosmic rays and particle physics. Pic.


||1836 – Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist and academic (d. 1918)
||1908: Egbert van Kampen born ... mathematician. He made important contributions to topology, especially to the study of fundamental groups. Pic.


||1843 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758)
||1911: Alfred Otto Carl Nier born ... physicist who pioneered the development of mass spectrometry. He was the first to use mass spectrometry to isolate uranium-235 which was used to demonstrate that 235U could undergo fission and developed the sector mass spectrometer configuration now known as Nier-Johnson geometry. Pic.


||1858 – Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch (d. 1939)
||1912: Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran dies ... chemist known for his discoveries of the chemical elements gallium, samarium and dysprosium. Pic.


||1872 – Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist and mountaineer (d. 1917)
||1912: Herman Johannes born ... scientist, academic, and politician. Pic.


||1879 – Milutin Milanković, Serbian mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1958)
||1912: Ruby Payne-Scott born ... physicist and astronomer. Pic.


||1912 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (d. 1992)
||1912: Hans Julius Zassenhaus born ... mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra. Pic.


||1912 – Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (d. 1981)
||1916: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle born ... mathematician specializing in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph+LaSalle+mathematician
 
||1917: Georgiy Timofeyevich Zatsepin born ... astrophysicist known for his works in cosmic rays physics and neutrino astrophysics.  Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Georgiy+Zatsepin


File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] submits ''On Computable Numbers'' for publication.
File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] submits ''On Computable Numbers'' for publication.


||1980 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician and academic (b. 1895)
||1980: Rolf Nevanlinna dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1987 – A West German pilot, Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and released on August 3, 1988.
||1982: Herbert Alois Wagner dies ... scientist who developed numerous innovations in the fields of aerodynamics, aircraft structures and guided weapons. He is most famous for Wagner's function describing unsteady lift on wings and developing the Henschel Hs 293 glide bomb. Pic.


||1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
||1982: Carlo Miranda dies ... mathematician, working on mathematical analysis, theory of elliptic partial differential equations and complex analysis: he is known for giving the first proof of the Poincaré–Miranda theorem, for Miranda's theorem in complex analysis, and for writing an influential monograph in the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. Pic: http://matematica.unibocconi.it/autore/carlo-miranda


||2000 – George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (b. 1926)
||1987: A West German pilot, Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and released on August 3, 1988.


||Donald Watts Davies, CBE, FRS (d. 28 May 2000) was a Welsh computer scientist who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). In 1965 he developed the concept of packet switching in computer networking, and implemented it in the NPL network.
||1998: Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.


||2002 – The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
||2000: George Irving Bell dies ... physicist, biologist, and mountaineer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Irving+Bell&oq=George+Irving+Bell


||2003 – Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1933)
||2000: Donald Watts Davies dies ... computer scientist who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). In 1965 he developed the concept of packet switching in computer networking, and implemented it in the NPL network. Pic.


||2003 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
||2002: The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
 
||2003: Ilya Prigogine dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||2003: Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov dies ... engineer and astronaut. Pic.
 
||2004: Francis Brunn dies ... juggler. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Francis+Brunn
 
||2008: Daihachiro Sato dies ... mathematician who was awarded the Lester R. Ford Award in 1976 for his work in number theory, specifically on his work in the Diophantine representation of prime numbers. Pic.


File:Claire Kelly Schultz.jpg|link=Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|2015: Information scientist [[Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|Claire Kelly Schultz]] dies.
File:Claire Kelly Schultz.jpg|link=Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|2015: Information scientist [[Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|Claire Kelly Schultz]] dies.
||2018: Jens Christian Skou dies ... chemist and physiologist. In 1997 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (together with Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker) for his discovery of Na+,K+-ATPase. Pic.
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  • 1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.

    1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.

  • 1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

    1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

  • 2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.

    2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.

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