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||1657: William Harvey dies ... physician and academic ... seminal contributions in anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart, though earlier writers had provided precursors of the theory. Pic.
||1657: William Harvey dies ... physician and academic ... seminal contributions in anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart, though earlier writers had provided precursors of the theory. Pic.


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||1868: Aristides Agramonte y Simoni born ... pathologist and bacteriologist who was a member of the Reed Yellow Fever Board of the U.S. Army that discovered (1901) the role of the mosquito in the transmission of yellow fever. In May 1898, he was appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon in the U.S. Army. Agramonte had acquired immunity to yellow fever from a mild childhood case in Cuba before emigrating to the U.S., which was an advantage when he was chosen by the Surgeon-General to study the yellow fever outbreak in General Shafter's army in Cuba. There Agramonte performed autopsies in order to determine the causative agent of the disease. After additional work in Cuba, in May 1900, Agramonte was appointmented to Walter Reed's Yellow Fever Commission. Pic.
||1868: Aristides Agramonte y Simoni born ... pathologist and bacteriologist who was a member of the Reed Yellow Fever Board of the U.S. Army that discovered (1901) the role of the mosquito in the transmission of yellow fever. In May 1898, he was appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon in the U.S. Army. Agramonte had acquired immunity to yellow fever from a mild childhood case in Cuba before emigrating to the U.S., which was an advantage when he was chosen by the Surgeon-General to study the yellow fever outbreak in General Shafter's army in Cuba. There Agramonte performed autopsies in order to determine the causative agent of the disease. After additional work in Cuba, in May 1900, Agramonte was appointmented to Walter Reed's Yellow Fever Commission. Pic.


||1873: Otto Loewi born ... pharmacologist and psychobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1873: Otto Loewi born ... pharmacologist and psychobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1879: Raymond Pearl dies ... biologist and academic ... eugenics, biostatistics. Pic.
 
||1888: Albert Kluyver born ... microbiologist and biochemist.  Kluyver will famously express the ideas of biochemical unity and comparative biochemistry with the aphorism: "From elephant to butyric acid bacterium – it is all the same". Pic.


||1889: The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
||1889: The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.


File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1891: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] uses punched card analyzer to anticipate [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1899: Georg von Békésy born ... biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1899: Georg von Békésy born ... biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1900: Adelaide Ames born ... astronomer and academic. Pic search.
 
||1900: Adelaide Ames born ... astronomer and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=adelaide+ames
   
   
||1900: Leo Picard born ... geologist and academic.
||1900: Leo Picard born ... geologist and academic ... expert in the field of hydrogeology. Pic.


||1906: R. G. D. Allen born ... economist, mathematician, and statistician.
||1906: R. G. D. Allen born ... economist, mathematician, and statistician. Pic.


||1914: Helene (Hel) Braun born ... mathematician who specialized in number theory and modular forms; proving the convergence of the Eisenstein series. She also wrote an autobiography, ''The Beginning of A Scientific Career'', describing her experience as a female scientist in the Third Reich. No pic.
||1914: Helene Braun born ... mathematician who specialized in number theory and modular forms; proving the convergence of the Eisenstein series. She also wrote an autobiography, ''The Beginning of A Scientific Career'', describing her experience as a female scientist in the Third Reich. Pic.


||1916: The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
||1916: The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
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||1925: Camille Flammarion born ... French astronomer and author. Pic (cool associated pics).
||1925: Camille Flammarion born ... French astronomer and author. Pic (cool associated pics).


File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1927: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] publishes influential paper on applications of [[Game theory (nonfiction)|game theory]] to the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1926: Poet, philosopher, and writer Irwin Allen Ginsberg born. As a Columbia University college student in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Pic.


||1928: Karl W. Gruenberg born ... mathematician who specialized in group theory, in particular with the cohomology theory of groups. Pic.
||1928: Karl W. Gruenberg born ... mathematician who specialized in group theory, in particular with the cohomology theory of groups. Pic.
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||1943: In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
||1943: In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.


File:Melvin Dresher.jpg|link=Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|1964: Mathematician [[Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Melvin Dresher]] (Dreszer) detects and prevents a matrix of [[crimes against mathematical constants]] using the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's Gnomon dilemma.
||1945: German submarine U-1277 is unusual in so much that it either did not receive Dönitz’s surrender order on 8 May 1945, or chose to ignore it. What is known is that she continued her patrol in the North Atlantic for a further month, her crew finally scuttling her on 3 June 1945 off the northern coast of Portugal. All 47 crew disembarked safely from their sinking boat in rubber dinghies and made their way ashore, landing on the beach at Angeiras, Portugal. There they were interned by the Portuguese authorities, and handed over to a British warship a few days later. The crew were not released from a POW camp until 1947.


||1965: The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
||1965: The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
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||1990: Robert Norton Noyce dies ... engineer who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the realization of the first integrated circuit or microchip that fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name. Pic.
||1990: Robert Norton Noyce dies ... engineer who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the realization of the first integrated circuit or microchip that fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name. Pic.


||1991: Maurice Krafft dies ... volcanologist and geologist.
||1991: Maurice Krafft dies ... volcanologist and geologist ... dies with wife in pyroclastic flow.  Pic.
 
||1991: Lê Văn Thiêm dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1991: Lê Văn Thiêm dies ... mathematician and academic.
||1995: J. Presper Eckert dies ... engineer, invented the ENIAC. Pic (cool tech).


||2009: Peter John Landin dies ... computer scientist. He was one of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics. Pic.
||2009: Peter John Landin dies ... computer scientist. He was one of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics. Pic.
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File:Vladimir Arnold.jpg|link=Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician and academic [[Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|Vladimir Arnold]] dies. He helped develop the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems.
File:Vladimir Arnold.jpg|link=Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician and academic [[Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|Vladimir Arnold]] dies. He helped develop the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems.


File:Two Creatures 6.jpg|link=Two Creatures 6 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Two Creatures 6 (nonfiction)|Two Creatures 6]]'' stolen from the New MIA in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.


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