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||AD 37: Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
||193: Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
||1793: Henry Schoolcraft born ... geographer, geologist, and ethnologist ... native americans.


File:Nicolas_de_Condorcet.png|link=Marquis de Condorcet (nonfiction)|1794: Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist [[Marquis de Condorcet (nonfiction)|Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet]] dies. His ideas and writings were said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and rationalism, and remain influential to this day.
File:Nicolas_de_Condorcet.png|link=Marquis de Condorcet (nonfiction)|1794: Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist [[Marquis de Condorcet (nonfiction)|Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet]] dies. His ideas and writings were said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and rationalism, and remain influential to this day.
||1802: Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.
||1805: Sears Cook Walker born ... astronomer.
||1847: Gyula Farkas born ... mathematician and physicist.
||1850: Bernt Michael Holmboe dies ... Norwegian mathematician. Pic.
||1874: Peter Andreas Hansen dies ... astronomer and mathematician.
||1889: William Howard Livens born ... engineer, a soldier in the British Army and an inventor particularly known for the design of chemical warfare and flame warfare weapons. Resourceful and clever, Livens’ successful creations were characterised by being very practical and easy to produce in large numbers. Livens is best known for inventing the Livens Projector, a simple mortar-like weapon that could throw large drums filled with inflammable or toxic chemicals.  Pic.
||1892: Corneille Heymans born ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... blood brain
||1910: Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
||1913: Kazuo Taoka born ... Japanese crime boss.
||1921: Harold Agnew born ... physicist and academic.
||1923: Paul C. Donnelly born ... scientist and engineer.
File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1926: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Alexander Grothendieck.jpg|link=Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|1928: Mathematician and theorist [[Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|Alexander Grothendieck]] born. He will become the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.
File:Alexander Grothendieck.jpg|link=Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|1928: Mathematician and theorist [[Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|Alexander Grothendieck]] born. He will become the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.


||1933: Friedrich Zander dies ... pioneer of rocketry and spaceflight in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. He designed the first liquid-fueled rocket to be launched in the Soviet Union, GIRD-X, and made many important theoretical contributions to the road to space. Pic.
File:City_of_Liverpool_-_Armstrong_Whitworth_Argosy_II,_Registration_G-AACI.jpg|link=1933 Imperial Airways Diksmuide crash (nonfiction)|1933: The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool [[1933 Imperial Airways Diksmuide crash (nonfiction)|crashes after a fire break out]]. Sabotage will be suspected due the suspicious behaviors of a passenger who seemingly jumped from the aircraft before it crashed.  
 
||1933: The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.
 
||1936:  Archibald Edward Garrod dies ... physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism. He also discovered alkaptonuria, understanding its inheritance. Pic.
 
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1943: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' nominated for Nobel Anti-Peace Prize.
 
||1946: Wubbo Ockels born ... physicist and astronaut.
 
||1946: Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
 
||1969: Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
 
||1975: Barry Goldwater wrote to Shlomo Arnon: "The subject of UFOs has interested me for some long time. About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where the information has been stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret."
 
||1979: A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
 
||1982: William Giauque dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1986: Norman Hilberry dies ... physicist, best known as the director of the Argonne National Laboratory from 1956 to 1961. In December 1942 he was the man who stood ready with an axe to cut the scram line during the start up of Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor to achieve criticality. Pic.


File:George E P Box.jpg|link=George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|2013: Statistician and educator [[George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|George E. P. Box]] dies. He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
File:Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station.jpg|link=Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (nonfiction)|1979: A coolant leak in the Unit 2 nuclear reactor of the [[Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (nonfiction)|Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station]] leads to core overheating and a partial core meltdown.


File:Electrical Storm.jpg|link=Electrical Storm (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Electrical Storm (nonfiction)|Electrical Storm]]'' stolen from the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.
File:John_D._Strong.jpg|link=John D. Strong (nonfiction)|1992: Physicist and academic [[John D. Strong (nonfiction)|John D. Strong]] dies. Strong contributed to optical physics: he was the first to detect water vapor in the atmosphere of Venus, and he developed optical devices and materials including improved telescope mirrors and anti-reflective coatings.


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  • 1794: Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet dies. His ideas and writings were said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and rationalism, and remain influential to this day.

    1794: Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet dies. His ideas and writings were said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and rationalism, and remain influential to this day.

  • 1928: Mathematician and theorist Alexander Grothendieck born. He will become the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.

    1928: Mathematician and theorist Alexander Grothendieck born. He will become the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.

  • 1933: The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool crashes after a fire break out. Sabotage will be suspected due the suspicious behaviors of a passenger who seemingly jumped from the aircraft before it crashed.

    1933: The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool crashes after a fire break out. Sabotage will be suspected due the suspicious behaviors of a passenger who seemingly jumped from the aircraft before it crashed.

  • 1979: A coolant leak in the Unit 2 nuclear reactor of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station leads to core overheating and a partial core meltdown.

    1979: A coolant leak in the Unit 2 nuclear reactor of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station leads to core overheating and a partial core meltdown.

  • 1992: Physicist and academic John D. Strong dies. Strong contributed to optical physics: he was the first to detect water vapor in the atmosphere of Venus, and he developed optical devices and materials including improved telescope mirrors and anti-reflective coatings.

    1992: Physicist and academic John D. Strong dies. Strong contributed to optical physics: he was the first to detect water vapor in the atmosphere of Venus, and he developed optical devices and materials including improved telescope mirrors and anti-reflective coatings.

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