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||1533: Michael Stifel predicted that on this date a chariot would touch down on a nearby hilltop and conduct him and his followers to heaven. Followers of the mathematical mystic quit their jobs, but as the day approached they became skeptical. Stifel convinced the local constabulary to lock him in jail on the appointed date where he would be safe from his ruined, irate parishioners.  
||1533: Michael Stifel predicted that on this date a chariot would touch down on a nearby hilltop and conduct him and his followers to heaven. Followers of the mathematical mystic quit their jobs, but as the day approached they became skeptical. Stifel convinced the local constabulary to lock him in jail on the appointed date where he would be safe from his ruined, irate parishioners.  Pic.


||1704: Physician Jean-Baptiste Denys dies.  He performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion, a xenotransfusion. He was the personal physician to King Louis XIV. Pic, no birth date.
||1704: Physician Jean-Baptiste Denys dies.  He performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion, a xenotransfusion. He was the personal physician to King Louis XIV. No DOB. Pic.


||1716: Giovanni Battista Beccaria born ... physicist and academic.
||1716: Giovanni Battista Beccaria born ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=giovanni+battista+beccaria


||1830: George Brayton born ... mechanical engineer who lived with his family in Boston and who is noted for introducing the constant pressure engine that is the basis for the gas turbine, and which is now referred to as the Brayton cycle. Pic.  
||1830: George Brayton born ... mechanical engineer who lived with his family in Boston and who is noted for introducing the constant pressure engine that is the basis for the gas turbine, and which is now referred to as the Brayton cycle. Pic.  


||1842: Arthur Cayley admitted to fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, at age 21, younger than any other fellow at the College.  
File:Arthur Cayley.jpg|link=Arthur Cayley (nonfiction)|1842: Mathematician [[Arthur Cayley (nonfiction)|Arthur Cayley]] admitted to fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, at age 21, younger than any other fellow at the College.  


||1846: Platon Poretsky born ... astronomer, mathematician, and logician. Pic. Different DOB at On This Day in Math.
||1846: Platon Poretsky born ... astronomer, mathematician, and logician. Pic. Different DOB at On This Day in Math.
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||1863: Stanisław Zaremba born ... mathematician and engineer. His research in partial differential equations, applied mathematics and classical analysis, particularly on harmonic functions, gained him a wide recognition. Pic.
||1863: Stanisław Zaremba born ... mathematician and engineer. His research in partial differential equations, applied mathematics and classical analysis, particularly on harmonic functions, gained him a wide recognition. Pic.


||1867: Elias Howe dies ... engineer, invented the sewing machine.
||1867: Elias Howe dies ... engineer, invented the sewing machine. Pic.


Orson_Pratt.jpg|link=Orson Pratt (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and religious leader [[Orson Pratt (nonfiction)|Orson Pratt]] dies.  As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.
Orson_Pratt.jpg|link=Orson Pratt (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and religious leader [[Orson Pratt (nonfiction)|Orson Pratt]] dies.  As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.
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File:Édouard Lucas.png|link=Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|1891: Mathematician [[Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|Édouard Lucas]] dies. He studied the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him.  
File:Édouard Lucas.png|link=Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|1891: Mathematician [[Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|Édouard Lucas]] dies. He studied the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him.  
||1904: Charles J. Pedersen born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... best known for describing methods of synthesizing crown ethers. Pic.


||1924: Harvey Kurtzman born ... cartoonist.
||1924: Harvey Kurtzman born ... cartoonist.


||1928: Jack Kenneth Hale born ... mathematician working primarily in the field of dynamical systems and functional differential equations. Nopic.
||1928: Jack K. Hale born ... mathematician working primarily in the field of dynamical systems and functional differential equations. http://math.gatech.edu/hg/item/589462


||1928: Bernard A. Galler born ... mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Michigan who was involved in the development of large-scale operating systems and computer languages including the MAD programming language and the Michigan Terminal System operating system. Pic.
||1928: Bernard A. Galler born ... mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Michigan who was involved in the development of large-scale operating systems and computer languages including the MAD programming language and the Michigan Terminal System operating system. Pic.
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||1952: [[Operation Hurricane (nonfiction)|Operation Hurricane]]: The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hurricane
||1952: [[Operation Hurricane (nonfiction)|Operation Hurricane]]: The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hurricane


||1957: The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
||1957: The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's ''Howl and Other Poems'' is not obscene.


||1962: Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
||1962: Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
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||1965: George Washington Morey born ... geochemist, physical chemist, mineralogist, and petrologist, known for the "Morey bomb" used in hydrothermal research. Pic: https://library.gl.ciw.edu/GLHistory/pgmorey.html
||1965: George Washington Morey born ... geochemist, physical chemist, mineralogist, and petrologist, known for the "Morey bomb" used in hydrothermal research. Pic: https://library.gl.ciw.edu/GLHistory/pgmorey.html


||1966: Rolf Maximilian Sievert dies ... physicist and academic.
||1966: Rolf Maximilian Sievert dies ... physicist and academic ... medical physicist whose major contribution was in the study of the biological effects of ionizing radiation. Pic.


||1985: The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J).
||1985: The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J).
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||1986: TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
||1986: TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.


||1990: Res Jost dies theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory.
||1990: Res Jost dies ... theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory. Pic.


File:John Crank.jpg|link=John Crank (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and physicist [[John Crank (nonfiction)|John Crank]] dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.
File:John Crank.jpg|link=John Crank (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and physicist [[John Crank (nonfiction)|John Crank]] dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.
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File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|2012: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] dies.  He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.  
File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|2012: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] dies.  He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.  


File:Green Spiral.jpg|link=Green Spiral (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Green Spiral (nonfiction)|Green Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
||Leon Max Lederman dies ... experimental physicist who received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1982, along with Martin Lewis Perl, for their research on quarks and leptons, and the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for their research on neutrinos. Pic.


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  • 1842: Mathematician Arthur Cayley admitted to fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, at age 21, younger than any other fellow at the College.

    1842: Mathematician Arthur Cayley admitted to fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, at age 21, younger than any other fellow at the College.

  • 1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.

    1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.

  • 1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

    1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1891: Mathematician Édouard Lucas dies. He studied the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him.

    1891: Mathematician Édouard Lucas dies. He studied the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him.

  • 1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.

    1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.

  • 2006: Mathematician and physicist John Crank dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.

    2006: Mathematician and physicist John Crank dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.

  • 2012: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

    2012: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

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