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| ||1633: French general and military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban born. He participated in each of the wars fought by France during the reign of Louis XIV. His design principles served as the dominant model of fortification for nearly 100 years, while his offensive tactics remained in use until the early twentieth century. Pic.
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| ||1684: Edme Mariotte dies ... physicist and priest. Pic: book cover.
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| ||1728: Charles Mason baptized ... astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his involvement with the survey of the Mason–Dixon line. Pic: plan.
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| ||1748: Thomas Lowndes dies ... astronomer and academic. No DOB. No pic online.
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| ||1792: Rufus M. Porter born ... painter, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine. Pic.
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| ||1824: Chemist Alexander William Williamson born ... best known today for the Williamson ether synthesis. Pic.
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| File:Johann Jakob Balmer.jpg|link=Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|1825: Mathematician and physicist [[Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|Johann Jakob Balmer]] born. He will develop an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom. | | File:Johann Jakob Balmer.jpg|link=Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|1825: Mathematician and physicist [[Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|Johann Jakob Balmer]] born. He will develop an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom. |
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| ||1859: John Walker dies ... invented the friction match. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=john+walker+inventor
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| ||1870: Gabriel Lamé born ... mathematician who contributed to the theory of partial differential equations by the use of curvilinear coordinates, and the mathematical theory of elasticity. Pic.
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| ||1891: Eduard Schönfeld dies ... astronomer. Pic.
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| |File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1891: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] uses census data to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1895: William Giauque born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... for his studies in the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero. Pic.
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| ||1898: Henry DeWolf Smyth born ... physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat. He played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy, as a participant in the Manhattan Project, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Pic.
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| ||1899: Ludwig Büchner dies ... physiologist, physician, and philosopher ... one of the exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism. Pic.
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| ||1910: Dorothy Hodgkin born ... biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| ||1911: Louis W. Tordella born ... the longest serving deputy director of the National Security Agency. Pic.
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| ||1918: Julius Rosenberg born ... spy. Pic.
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| ||1924: Alexander Esenin-Volpin born ... mathematician and poet. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=alexander+esenin-volpin
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| ||1926: Gabriele Amorth born ... priest and exorcist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=gabriele+amorth
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| ||1926: The Italian-built airship ''Norge'' becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
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| ||1942: World War II: The U.S. tanker SS ''Virginia'' is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine ''U-507''.
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| ||1947: Jacob Bekenstein born ... theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation. Pic.
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| File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte|1958: Mathematician, codebreaker, and crime analyst [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] makes a fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the [[Forbidden Ratio]], a criminal mathematical function.
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| File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1959: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "is confident that the upcoming [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|U-2 spyplane incident]] is an outstanding investment opportunity."
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| File:Gary Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1960: Cold War: U-2 incident: [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]], in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis. | | File:Gary Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1960: Cold War: U-2 incident: [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]], in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis. |
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| File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1961: Scientist and combat surgeon [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] warns that [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|U-2 spyplane incident]] may have released a new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| |link=Béryl incident (nonfiction)|The [[Béryl incident (nonfiction)|Béryl incident]] was a French nuclear test, conducted on May 1, 1962, during which nine soldiers of the 621st Groupe d'Armes Spéciales unit were heavily contaminated by radioactivity.
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| |1964: First BASIC program run by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College.
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| ||1965: The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
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| File:Ralph Hartley.jpg|link=Ralph Hartley (nonfiction)|1970: Electronics researcher [[Ralph Hartley (nonfiction)|Ralph Hartley]] dies. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory. | | File:Ralph Hartley.jpg|link=Ralph Hartley (nonfiction)|1970: Electronics researcher [[Ralph Hartley (nonfiction)|Ralph Hartley]] dies. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory. |
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| ||2016: Solomon W. Golomb dies ... mathematician, engineer, and adacemic. He specialized in problems of combinatorial analysis, number theory, coding theory, and communications. His game of pentomino inspired Tetris. Pic.
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| ||2017: A ransomware attack attacks over 400 thousand computers worldwide, targeting computers of the UK'S National Health Services and Telefónica computers.
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| File:Creature.jpg|link=Creature (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Creature (nonfiction)|Creature]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty terabytes" of encrypted data relating, "apparently a record of top-secret [[Clandestiphrine]] experiments directed against the [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|U-2 spyplane incident]]."
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