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||1810: Lysander Button born ... engineer. Pic: fire engine.
||1810: Lysander Button born ... engineer. Pic: fire engine.


||1832: Franz Xaver von Zach dies ... astronomer and academic.
||1832: Franz Xaver von Zach dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic.


||1834: Sumner Increase Kimball born ... organizer of the United States Life-Saving Service and the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service from 1878-1915.
||1834: Sumner Increase Kimball born ... organizer of the United States Life-Saving Service and the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service from 1878-1915.
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||1851: William Nicol dies ... geologist and physicist who invented the Nicol prism, the first device for obtaining plane-polarized light, in 1828. Pic: memorial plaque.
||1851: William Nicol dies ... geologist and physicist who invented the Nicol prism, the first device for obtaining plane-polarized light, in 1828. Pic: memorial plaque.


||1853: Wilhelm Ostwald born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1853: Wilhelm Ostwald born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1854: Paul Marie Eugène Vieille born ... chemist and the inventor of modern nitrocellulose-based smokeless gunpowder in 1884. Pic.
||1854: Paul Marie Eugène Vieille born ... chemist and the inventor of modern nitrocellulose-based smokeless gunpowder in 1884. Pic.
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||1877: Frederick Soddy born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... he explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements. Pic.
||1877: Frederick Soddy born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... he explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements. Pic.
||1878: Maurice René Fréchet born ... mathematician and academic. He made major contributions to the topology of point sets and introduced the entire concept of metric spaces. He also made several important contributions to the field of statistics and probability, as well as calculus. His dissertation opened the entire field of functionals on metric spaces and introduced the notion of compactness. Independently of Riesz, he discovered the representation theorem in the space of Lebesgue square integrable functions. Pic.


||1901: Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
||1901: Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
||1909: Deane Montgomery born ... mathematician specializing in topology who was one of the contributors to the final resolution of Hilbert's fifth problem. Born in the small town of Weaver, Minnesota. Pic.


||1913: Israel Gelfand born ... mathematician and biologist. Pic.
||1913: Israel Gelfand born ... mathematician and biologist. Pic.
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||1926: Joachim Nitsche born ... mathematician and academic. Image search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joachim+Nitsche
||1926: Joachim Nitsche born ... mathematician and academic. Image search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joachim+Nitsche
File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and crimefighter [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] publishes new theory of combinatory logic which uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1948: Archaeologist and spy [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.  
File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1948: Archaeologist and spy [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.  
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||1987: In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.
||1987: In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.


||1988: Alexander Aigner dies. He was a full university professor for mathematics at the Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria. During World War II he was part of a group of five mathematicians, which was recruited by the military cryptanalyst Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Georg Aumann, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht. (abbr. OKW/Chi).
||1988: Alexander Aigner dies. He was a full university professor for mathematics at the Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria. During World War II he was part of a group of five mathematicians, which was recruited by the military cryptanalyst Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Georg Aumann, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht. (abbr. OKW/Chi). Pic.


||1990: Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove dies ... physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology. Pic.
||1990: Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove dies ... physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology. Pic.
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||1998:  Swissair Flight 111 crash: ... crashed into the Atlantic Ocean  ... Two paintings, including Le Peintre (The Painter) by Pablo Picasso, were on board the aircraft and were destroyed in the accident.
||1998:  Swissair Flight 111 crash: ... crashed into the Atlantic Ocean  ... Two paintings, including Le Peintre (The Painter) by Pablo Picasso, were on board the aircraft and were destroyed in the accident.
File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1999: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' sells for one and a half million dollars.


||2002: Sheila May Edmonds dies ... mathematician. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sheila+May+Edmonds
||2002: Sheila May Edmonds dies ... mathematician. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sheila+May+Edmonds
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||2011: Herbert Mataré dies ... physicist and academic ... the focus of his research was the field of semiconductor research. His best-known work is the first functional "European" transistor, which he developed and patented together with Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, at the same time and independently from the Bell Labs engineers. Pic.
||2011: Herbert Mataré dies ... physicist and academic ... the focus of his research was the field of semiconductor research. His best-known work is the first functional "European" transistor, which he developed and patented together with Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, at the same time and independently from the Bell Labs engineers. Pic.
File:Quaternion multiplication.jpg|link=Quaternion (nonfiction)|2017: [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|Quaternion multiplication table]] sells for two million dollars.


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  • 1768: French mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.

    1768: French mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.

  • 1808: Carl Friedrich Gauss writes Wolfgang Bolyai: "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."

    1808: Carl Friedrich Gauss writes Wolfgang Bolyai: "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."

  • 1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.

    1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.

  • 1948: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.

    1948: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.

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