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File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1571: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] born. He will discover laws of planetary motion.
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1571: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] born. He will discover laws of planetary motion.


File:Francesco Maria Grimaldi.jpg|link=Francesco Maria Grimaldi (nonfiction)|1643: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter [[Francesco Maria Grimaldi (nonfiction)|Francesco Maria Grimaldi]] finds case where the distance of fall is not proportional to the square of the time taken, leading to discovery and deletion of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1771: Henri Pitot dies ... engineer, invented the Pitot tube. Pic search.
 
||1771: Henri Pitot dies ... engineer, invented the Pitot tube. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=henri+pitot


File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1773: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] born.  He will do pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1773: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] born.  He will do pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
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||1930: Gyula Farkas dies ... mathematician and physicist. He will be known for Farkas' lemma, a solvability theorem for a finite system of linear inequalities. This will be the key result underpinning the linear programming duality; it will play a central role in the development of mathematical optimization. Pic.
||1930: Gyula Farkas dies ... mathematician and physicist. He will be known for Farkas' lemma, a solvability theorem for a finite system of linear inequalities. This will be the key result underpinning the linear programming duality; it will play a central role in the development of mathematical optimization. Pic.


||1938: Calvin Bridges dies ... geneticist and academic. Along with Alfred Sturtevant and H.J. Muller, Bridges was part of the famous fly room of Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia University. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=calvin+bridges
||1938: Calvin Bridges dies ... geneticist and academic. Along with Alfred Sturtevant and H.J. Muller, Bridges was part of the famous fly room of Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia University. Pic search.


File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and [[APTO]] consulting philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes his theory of transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.
||1952: Mary Engle Pennington dies ... bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer. Pic.
 
|File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|1942: ENIAC ("[[Empty Noise Into Alien Communication]]") uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to visualize the [[Wow! signal (nonfiction)|Wow! signal]].


||1955: Authorized by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on December 27, 1955, Project 119L was the first espionage use of the balloons that had been tested in previous projects, such as "Moby Dick High". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genetrix Pic.  
||1955: Authorized by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on December 27, 1955, Project 119L was the first espionage use of the balloons that had been tested in previous projects, such as "Moby Dick High". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genetrix Pic.  
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||1984: Allan Hills 84001 (commonly abbreviated ALH84001) is a meteorite that was found in Allan Hills, Antarctica on December 27, 1984, by a team of U.S. meteorite hunters from the ANSMET project. On August 6, 1996, ALH84001 became newsworthy when it was claimed that the meteorite may contain evidence of traces of life from Mars, as published in an article in Science by David S. McKay of NASA.
||1984: Allan Hills 84001 (commonly abbreviated ALH84001) is a meteorite that was found in Allan Hills, Antarctica on December 27, 1984, by a team of U.S. meteorite hunters from the ANSMET project. On August 6, 1996, ALH84001 became newsworthy when it was claimed that the meteorite may contain evidence of traces of life from Mars, as published in an article in Science by David S. McKay of NASA.
File:Anne Penfold Street.jpg|link=Anne Penfold Street (nonfiction)|1990: Mathematician and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Anne Penfold Street (nonfiction)|Anne Penfold Street]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions which use sum-free sets to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1993: Feliks Kibbermann born ... chess player and philologist.
||1993: Feliks Kibbermann born ... chess player and philologist.


||1995: Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko dies ... mathematician and historian ... known for his work with Kolmogorov, and his contributions to the study of probability theory, particularly extreme value theory, with such results as the Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko theorem. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Boris+Vladimirovich+Gnedenko&oq=Boris+Vladimirovich+Gnedenko
||1995: Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko dies ... mathematician and historian ... known for his work with Kolmogorov, and his contributions to the study of probability theory, particularly extreme value theory, with such results as the Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko theorem. Pic search.


||1995: Genrikh Kasparyan born ... chess player and composer.
||1995: Genrikh Kasparyan born ... chess player and composer.
||1999: Geraldine Pittman Woods dies ... science administrator and embryologist. Pic.


||2004: Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
||2004: Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
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||2013: Richard Ambler dies ... biologist and academic ...  molecular biologist who conducted groundbreaking research into the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Ambler was the first scientist to publish an amino acid sequence of a bacterial protein.  Pic: http://www.biochemist.org/bio/03603/0058/036030058.pdf
||2013: Richard Ambler dies ... biologist and academic ...  molecular biologist who conducted groundbreaking research into the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Ambler was the first scientist to publish an amino acid sequence of a bacterial protein.  Pic: http://www.biochemist.org/bio/03603/0058/036030058.pdf
File:Taffy Bomb.jpg|link=Taffy Bomb (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Taffy Bomb (nonfiction)|Taffy Bomb]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1571: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Kepler born. He will discover laws of planetary motion.

    1571: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Kepler born. He will discover laws of planetary motion.

  • 1773: Engineer George Cayley born. He will do pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.

    1773: Engineer George Cayley born. He will do pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.

  • 1923: Engineer Gustave Eiffel dies. He designed the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

    1923: Engineer Gustave Eiffel dies. He designed the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

  • 1924: Jean Bartik born. She will be one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.

    1924: Jean Bartik born. She will be one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.

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