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||585 BC: A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
||585 BC: A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.


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||1830: U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. Pic.
||1830: U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. Pic.
||1831: Henri Jean-Baptiste Grégoire (often referred to as the Abbé Grégoire) dies ... was French Catholic priest, Constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader. He was an ardent abolitionist of human slavery and supporter of universal suffrage. He was a founding member of the Bureau des longitudes, the Institut de France, and the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. Pic.


||1836: Alexander Mitscherlich born ... chemist and academic. His most important work was in the field of processing wood to create cellulose. He patented an early version of the sulfite process in 1882. Pic.
||1836: Alexander Mitscherlich born ... chemist and academic. His most important work was in the field of processing wood to create cellulose. He patented an early version of the sulfite process in 1882. Pic.
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||1912: Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran dies ... chemist known for his discoveries of the chemical elements gallium, samarium and dysprosium. Pic.
||1912: Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran dies ... chemist known for his discoveries of the chemical elements gallium, samarium and dysprosium. Pic.


||1912: Herman Johannes born ... scientist, academic, and politician.
||1912: Herman Johannes born ... scientist, academic, and politician. Pic.


||1912: Ruby Payne-Scott born ... physicist and astronomer. Pic.
||1912: Ruby Payne-Scott born ... physicist and astronomer. Pic.
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||1912: Hans Julius Zassenhaus born ... mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra. Pic.
||1912: Hans Julius Zassenhaus born ... mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra. Pic.


||1916: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle born ... mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name.
||1916: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle born ... mathematician specializing in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph+LaSalle+mathematician


||1917: Georgiy Timofeyevich Zatsepin born ... astrophysicist known for his works in cosmic rays physics and neutrino astrophysics.  Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Georgiy+Zatsepin
||1917: Georgiy Timofeyevich Zatsepin born ... astrophysicist known for his works in cosmic rays physics and neutrino astrophysics.  Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Georgiy+Zatsepin


File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] submits ''On Computable Numbers'' for publication.
File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] submits ''On Computable Numbers'' for publication.
File:Euglena Junction.jpg|link=Euglena Junction|1974: ''[[Euglena Junction]]'' wins the Prime Time Emmy for Best New Show. Broadcasting live from the Pantages Theater via NBC, host Johnny Carson calls it "an extraordinary study of the genus ''[[Euglena (nonfiction)|Euglena]]'', and a brilliant parody of ''[[Petticoat Junction (nonfiction)|Petticoat Junction]]''."


||1980: Rolf Nevanlinna dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
||1980: Rolf Nevanlinna dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
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||1998: Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
||1998: Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.


||2000: George Irving Bell dies ... physicist, biologist, and mountaineer.
||2000: George Irving Bell dies ... physicist, biologist, and mountaineer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Irving+Bell&oq=George+Irving+Bell


||2000: Donald Watts Davies dies ... computer scientist who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). In 1965 he developed the concept of packet switching in computer networking, and implemented it in the NPL network.
||2000: Donald Watts Davies dies ... computer scientist who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). In 1965 he developed the concept of packet switching in computer networking, and implemented it in the NPL network. Pic.


||2002: The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
||2002: The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.


||2003: Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov dies ... engineer and astronaut.
||2003: Ilya Prigogine dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||2003: Ilya Prigogine dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||2003: Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov dies ... engineer and astronaut. Pic.
 
||2004: Francis Brunn dies ... juggler. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Francis+Brunn


||2008: Daihachiro Sato dies ... mathematician who was awarded the Lester R. Ford Award in 1976 for his work in number theory, specifically on his work in the Diophantine representation of prime numbers. Pic.
||2008: Daihachiro Sato dies ... mathematician who was awarded the Lester R. Ford Award in 1976 for his work in number theory, specifically on his work in the Diophantine representation of prime numbers. Pic.
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File:Claire Kelly Schultz.jpg|link=Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|2015: Information scientist [[Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|Claire Kelly Schultz]] dies.
File:Claire Kelly Schultz.jpg|link=Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|2015: Information scientist [[Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|Claire Kelly Schultz]] dies.


File:Ringmaster-img075-1.jpg|link=Ringmaster (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Ringmaster (nonfiction)|Ringmaster]]'' stolen from the Guggenheim by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.
||2018: Jens Christian Skou dies ... chemist and physiologist. In 1997 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (together with Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker) for his discovery of Na+,K+-ATPase. Pic.


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  • 1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.

    1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.

  • 1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

    1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

  • 2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.

    2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.

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