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File:Giordano Bruno crater.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (crater) (nonfiction)|1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the [[Giordano Bruno (crater) (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno crater]] being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
File:Giordano Bruno crater.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (crater) (nonfiction)|1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the [[Giordano Bruno (crater) (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno crater]] being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.


File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1563: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Gentilis medicus - Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493.jpg|link=Gentile da Foligno (nonfiction)|1348: Physician and academic [[Gentile da Foligno (nonfiction)|Gentile Gentili da Foligno]] dies. Da Foligno was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being (1341).
 
||1650: Christoph Scheiner dies ... priest, physicist, and astronomer. Pic.
 
||1753: Chemist Claude François Geoffroy born. In 1753 he proved the chemical element bismuth to be distinct from lead, becoming the official discoverer of the element. Before this time, bismuth-containing minerals were frequently misidentified as either lead, tin, or antimony ores. No DOB. No pic online.
 
||1772: Gerard van Swieten dies ... physician and reformer. Pic.
 
||1791: Denison Olmsted born ... physicist and astronomer. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon. Pic.
 
||1799: William Lassell born ... astronomer and merchant ... remembered for his improvements to the reflecting telescope and his ensuing discoveries of four planetary satellites. Pic.


||1650 – Christoph Scheiner, German priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1575)
||1845: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran born ... physician and parasitologist ... won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as profession. Pic.


||1772 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician and reformer (b. 1700)
||1858: Andrew Forsyth born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||Denison Olmsted (b. June 18, 1791) was an American physicist and astronomer. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon.
||1858: Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory. Pics.


||1799 – William Lassell, English astronomer and merchant (d. 1880) William Lassell, FRS FRSE FRSL FRAS (18 June 1799 – 5 October 1880) was an English merchant and astronomer. He is remembered for his improvements to the reflecting telescope and his ensuing discoveries of four planetary satellites.
||1865: Physicist Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels born. He discovered that a steady electric field applied to certain birefringent materials causes the refractive index to vary, approximately in proportion to the strength of the field. This phenomenon is now called the Pockels effect. Pic search.


||1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1922)
||1865: Emil Albert Knoevenagel born ... chemist who established the Knoevenagel condensation reaction. The Knoevenagel condensation reaction of benzaldehydes with nitroalkanes is a classic general method for the preparation of nitroalkenes. Pic.


||1858 – Andrew Forsyth, Scottish-English mathematician and academic (d. 1942)
||1867: Thaddeus Cahill born ... inventor of the early 20th century. He is widely credited with the invention of the first electromechanical musical instrument, which he dubbed the telharmonium. His idea proved to be fruitful, nearly a century later, with the advent of streaming media. Pic.


||1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
||1870: Édouard Le Roy born ... mathematician and philosopher. Le Roy especially interested himself to the relations between science and morality. Along with Henri Poincaré and Pierre Duhem, he supported a conventionalist thesis on the foundation of mathematics.  Pic search.


||Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels (b. 18 June 1865)
||1873: Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election. Pic.


||Thaddeus Cahill (18 June 1867 – 12 April 1934) was a prominent inventor of the early 20th century. He is widely credited with the invention of the first electromechanical musical instrument, which he dubbed the telharmonium. His idea proved to be fruitful, nearly a century later, with the advent of streaming media. Pic.
||1877: James Montgomery Flagg born ... painter and illustrator ... Flagg created his most famous work in 1917, a poster to encourage recruitment in the United States Army during World War I. It showed Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer with the caption "I Want YOU for U.S. Army". Flagg used his own face for Uncle Sam. Pic.


||1870 – Édouard Le Roy, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1954)
||1905: Per Teodor Cleve dies ... chemist, biologist, mineralogist, oceanographer, and professor. He discovered the chemical elements holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from the uranium ore cleveite. Pic.


||1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
||1907: Alexander Stewart Herschel dies ... astronomer. He did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy, and worked on identifying comets as the source of meteor showers. The Herschel graph, the smallest non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph, is named after him. Pic.


||1877 – James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (d. 1960)
File:M._S._Bartlett.png|link=M. S. Bartlett (nonfiction)|1910: Statistician [[M. S. Bartlett (nonfiction)|Maurice Stevenson Bartlett]] born. Bartlett will make contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns, the theory of statistical inference, and multivariate analysis.


||Per Teodor Cleve (d. 18 June 1905) was a Swedish chemist, biologist, mineralogist, oceanographer, and professor. He discovered the chemical elements holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from the uranium ore cleveite.
||1913: Mathematician Oswald Teichmüller born. Pic.


||1913 – Mathematician Oswald Teichmüller born. Pic.
||1915: Alice T. Schafer born ... mathematician. As a teacher, Alice especially reached out to students who had difficulties with or were afraid of mathematics, by designing special classes for them.  Pic search.


||1915 – Alice T. Schafer, American mathematician (d. 2009)
||1918: Jerome Karle born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1918 – Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
||1918: Johann Heinrich Graf dies ... mathematician who was rector of the University of Bern and promoter of the Swiss National Library. Pic.


||1922 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
File:Jacobus Kapteyn.jpg|link=Jacobus Kapteyn (nonfiction)|1922: Astronomer and academic [[Jacobus Kapteyn (nonfiction)|Jacobus Kapteyn]] dies. Kapteyn conducted extensive studies of the Milky Way using photography and statistical methods to determine the motions and distribution of stars, discovering evidence for galactic rotation.


||1926 – Allan Sandage, American astronomer and cosmologist (d. 2010)
||1926: Allan Sandage born ... astronomer and cosmologist. Pic.


File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1928: Aviator [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
||1935: Mathematician Alexander Wilhelm von Brill born. Chasles–Cayley–Brill formula; Brill–Noether theory. Pic.


||1932 – Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
||1939: John E. Baldwin born ... contributed to the development of interferometry in Radio Astronomy, and later astronomical optical interferometry and lucky imaging; and made the first maps of the radio emission from the Andromeda Galaxy. Pic.


||1951 – Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess player (d. 2014)
||1971: Paul Karrer dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... vitamins. Pic.


||1971 – Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
||1972: Milton La Salle Humason dies ... astronomer. He became known as a meticulous observer, obtaining photographs and difficult spectrograms of faint galaxies. His observations played a major role in the development of physical cosmology.  Pic: https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/programs/cosmictimes/downloads/newsletters/1929NL_LateEd.pdf


File:Júlio César de Melo e Sousa.png|link=Júlio César de Mello e Souza (nonfiction)|1974: Mathematician and academic [[Júlio César de Mello e Souza (nonfiction)|Júlio César de Mello e Souza]] dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.
File:Júlio César de Melo e Sousa.png|link=Júlio César de Mello e Souza (nonfiction)|1974: Mathematician and academic [[Júlio César de Mello e Souza (nonfiction)|Júlio César de Mello e Souza]] dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.


||1979 – SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
|File:Gravity Probe A.jpg|link=Gravity Probe A (nonfiction)|1976: [[Gravity Probe A (nonfiction)|Gravity Probe A]] (GP-A) launched ... a space-based experiment to test the equivalence principle, a feature of Einstein's theory of relativity. It was performed jointly by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The experiment sent a hydrogen maser, a highly accurate frequency standard, into space to measure with high precision the rate at which time passes in a weaker gravitational field. Pic uploaded.
 
||1977: Georgi Delchev Bradistilov dies ... mathematician. Pic.
 
||1979: SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
 
||1980: Kazimierz Kuratowski dies ... mathematician and logician. Pic.
 
||1982: Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England. Pic.
 
||1983: Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
 
||1988: Roger Conant Lyndon dies ... mathematician, for many years a professor at the University of Michigan. He is known for Lyndon words, the Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem, Craig–Lyndon interpolation and the Lyndon–Hochschild–Serre spectral sequence. Pic: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Lyndon


||Kazimierz Kuratowski (d. 18 June 1980) was a Polish mathematician and logician.
||1989: George Claude Pimentel dies ... inventor of the chemical laser. He also developed the technique of matrix isolation in low-temperature chemistry. In theoretical chemistry, he proposed the three-center four-electron bond which is now accepted as the best simple model of hypervalent molecules. In the late 1960s, Pimentel led the University of California team that designed the infrared spectrometer for the Mars Mariner 6 and 7 missions that analyzed the surface and atmosphere of Mars. Pic search.


||1982 – Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.
||1991: Marshall Glecker Holloway dies ... physicist who worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory during and after World War II. He was its representative, and the deputy scientific director, at the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in July 1946. Holloway became the head of the Laboratory's W Division, responsible for new weapons development. In September 1952 he was charged with designing, building and testing a thermonuclear weapon, popularly known as a hydrogen bomb. This culminated in the Ivy Mike test in November of that year. Pic.


||1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
||2005: Manuel Sadosky dies ... mathematician and academic ... the father of computer science studies in Argentina. Pic search.


||2005 – Manuel Sadosky, Argentinian mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
||2006: The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.


||2006 – The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.
||2009: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.


||2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
||2014: Stephanie Kwolek dies ... chemist and engineer ... Kevlar. Pic.


||2014 – Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist and engineer (b. 1923)


File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|2017: ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration.
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  • 1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.

    1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.

  • 1348: Physician and academic Gentile Gentili da Foligno dies. Da Foligno was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being (1341).

    1348: Physician and academic Gentile Gentili da Foligno dies. Da Foligno was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being (1341).

  • 1910: Statistician Maurice Stevenson Bartlett born. Bartlett will make contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns, the theory of statistical inference, and multivariate analysis.

    1910: Statistician Maurice Stevenson Bartlett born. Bartlett will make contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns, the theory of statistical inference, and multivariate analysis.

  • 1922: Astronomer and academic Jacobus Kapteyn dies. Kapteyn conducted extensive studies of the Milky Way using photography and statistical methods to determine the motions and distribution of stars, discovering evidence for galactic rotation.

    1922: Astronomer and academic Jacobus Kapteyn dies. Kapteyn conducted extensive studies of the Milky Way using photography and statistical methods to determine the motions and distribution of stars, discovering evidence for galactic rotation.

  • 1974: Mathematician and academic Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.

    1974: Mathematician and academic Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.

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