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||Francesco Maurolico (d. 21/22 July 1575) was a mathematician and astronomer. He made contributions to the fields of geometry, optics, conics, mechanics, music, and astronomy.
||1575: Francesco Maurolico dies (21/22 July 1575) ... mathematician and astronomer. He made contributions to the fields of geometry, optics, conics, mechanics, music, and astronomy. Pic.
 
||1620: Jean Picard born ... priest and astronomer. Pic: sundial.


File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] born.  He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.  
File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] born.  He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.  


||Robert Simpson Woodward (b. July 21, 1849) was an American physicist and mathematician.
||1849: Robert Simpson Woodward born ... physicist and mathematician. Pic.


||1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
||1865: In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.


||1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
||1873: At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.


||Fernand Holweck (b. 21 July 1890) was a French physicist who made important contributions in the fields of vacuum technology, electromagnetic radiation and gravitation. He is also remembered for his personal sacrifice in the cause of the French Resistance and his aid to Allied airmen in World War II. Pic.
||1890: Fernand Holweck born ... physicist who made important contributions in the fields of vacuum technology, electromagnetic radiation and gravitation. He is also remembered for his personal sacrifice in the cause of the French Resistance and his aid to Allied airmen in World War II. Pic.


File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within giant novelty Fleming tube.
||1906: Daryl Muscott Chapin born ... physicist, best known for co-inventing solar cells in 1954 during his work at Bell Labs alongside Calvin S. Fuller and Gerald Pearson. Pic.
 
||1907: John Henry Manley born ... physicist who worked with J. Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley before becoming a group leader during the Manhattan Project. Pic.


File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|1911: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory [[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] born. He will coin the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".
File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|1911: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory [[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] born. He will coin the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".


||1919 – The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
||1913: Archimedes Patti born ... was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army and former Office of Strategic Services officer who headed operations in Kunming and Hanoi in 1945. Patti is known for having worked closely with the Viet Minh and Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Vietnamese independence movement and future president of North Vietnam. Pic search.
 
||1919: The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
 
||1925: Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
 
||1925: Giovanni Frattini dies ... mathematician, noted for his contributions to group theory. Pic.
 
||1926: John Leech born ... mathematician working in number theory, geometry and combinatorial group theory. He is best known for his discovery of the Leech lattice in 1965. He also discovered Ta(3) in 1957. Pic: https://alchetron.com/John-Leech-(mathematician)
 
||1959: Edmund Newton Harvey dies ... zoologist. He was acknowledged as one of the leading authorities on bioluminescence. Pic.
 
||1959: NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative.
 
File:Gemini-10 Agena firing.jpg|link=Gemini 10 (nonfiction)|1966: Human spaceflight: [[Gemini 10 (nonfiction)|Gemini 10]] recovered after a 70-hour mission that included docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
 
||1966: Francesco Paolo Cantelli dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
||1966: Philipp Frank dies ... physicist, mathematician, and philosopher. He was a logical-positivist, and a member of the Vienna Circle.  Pic search.


||Giovanni Frattini (d. 21 July 1925) was an Italian mathematician, noted for his contributions to group theory.
||1967: Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov born. He will be assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces. Pic.


||1959 – NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative.
||1969: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon.


||1969 – At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon.
||1969: The crew of Apollo 11 install a retroreflector array on Lunar Laser Ranging experiment. Pic.


||2011 – NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
||2011: NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.


||2012 – Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
||2012: Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.


||James Power Gordon (d. June 21, 2013) was an American physicist known for his work in the fields of optics and quantum electronics. His contributions include the design, analysis and construction of the first maser in 1954 as a doctoral student at Columbia University under the supervision of C. H. Townes, development of the quantal equivalent of Shannon’s information capacity formula in 1962, development of the theory for the diffusion of atoms in an optical trap (together with A. Ashkin) in 1980, and the discovery of what is now known as the Gordon-Haus effect in soliton transmission, together with H. A. Haus in 1986. Pic.
||2013: James Power Gordon ... physicist known for his work in the fields of optics and quantum electronics. His contributions include the design, analysis and construction of the first maser in 1954 as a doctoral student at Columbia University under the supervision of C. H. Townes, development of the quantal equivalent of Shannon’s information capacity formula in 1962, development of the theory for the diffusion of atoms in an optical trap (together with A. Ashkin) in 1980, and the discovery of what is now known as the Gordon-Haus effect in soliton transmission, together with H. A. Haus in 1986. Pic.


||Roger Godement (d. July 21, 2016) was a French mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis as well as his expository books.
||2014: Stephen H. Schanuel dies ... mathematician working in the fields of abstract algebra and category theory, number theory, and measure theory. He stated a conjecture in the field of transcendental number theory, which remains an important open problem to this day. Schanuel was a professor emeritus of mathematics at University at Buffalo. Pic: http://rfcwalters.blogspot.com/2014/11/stephen-h-schanuel-and-dietmar.html


File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2016: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] begins consuming radioactive chemical waste at the [[Hanford Site (nonfiction)|Hanford Site]].
||2016: Roger Godement dies ... mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis as well as his expository books. Pic.


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  • 1810: Chemist and physicist Henri Victor Regnault born. He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.

    1810: Chemist and physicist Henri Victor Regnault born. He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.

  • 1911: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan born. He will coin the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".

    1911: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan born. He will coin the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".

  • 1966: Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 recovered after a 70-hour mission that included docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.

    1966: Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 recovered after a 70-hour mission that included docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.

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