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||1707: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon born ... mathematician, cosmologist, and author. Pic.
||1707: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon born ... mathematician, cosmologist, and author. Pic.


||1722: Ernst Anton Nicolai born ... physician and chemist. He will be a follower of Leibniz' concept of monadism, seeking solutions to medical problems based on the philosophic viewpoints of Gottfried Leibniz. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ernst+Anton+Nicolai
||1722: Ernst Anton Nicolai born ... physician and chemist. He will be a follower of Leibniz' concept of monadism, seeking solutions to medical problems based on the philosophic viewpoints of Gottfried Leibniz. Pic search.


||1776: According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS ''Eagle'' in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
||1776: According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS ''Eagle'' in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
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||1799: Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier dies ... botanist and physicist. No pic online.
||1799: Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier dies ... botanist and physicist. No pic online.


||1799: Jan Ingenhousz dies ... physiologist, biologist and chemist. He is best known for discovering photosynthesis by showing that light is essential to the process by which green plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. He also discovered that plants, like animals, have cellular respiration. Pic.
File:Jan Ingenhousz.jpg|link=Jan Ingenhousz (nonfiction)|1799: Physiologist, biologist and chemist [[Jan Ingenhousz (nonfiction)|Jan Ingenhousz]] dies. Ingenhousz discovered photosynthesis, as well the fact that plants, like animals, have cellular respiration.  


||1829: August Kekulé, German chemist and academic born ... Kekulé was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in theoretical chemistry. He was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure. Pic.
File:August Kekulé.jpg|link=August Kekulé (nonfiction)|1828: Organic chemist [[August Kekulé (nonfiction)|Friedrich August Kekulé]] born. Kekulé will be one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in theoretical chemistry, and the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure.


||1836: August Toepler born ... physicist and academic. Pic.
||1836: August Toepler born ... physicist and academic. Pic.
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||1844: Charles Romley Alder Wright born ... chemistry and physics researcher. Pic.
||1844: Charles Romley Alder Wright born ... chemistry and physics researcher. Pic.


||1884: Georges Jean Marie Valiron born ... mathematician, notable for his contributions to analysis, in particular, the asymptotic behavior of entire functions of finite order and Tauberian theorems. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Georges+Jean+Marie+Valiron
||1884: Georges Jean Marie Valiron born ... mathematician, notable for his contributions to analysis, in particular, the asymptotic behavior of entire functions of finite order and Tauberian theorems. Pic search.


||1905: Karl Walter Schröter born ... mathematician and logician. Later on, after the war, he made important contributions concerning semantic consequences (German: semantische Folgerungsrelationen) and provability logic (German: syntaktische Ableitbarkeitsrelationen). He worked as a mathematical theoretician and cryptanalyst for the civilian Pers Z S, the cipher bureau of the Foreign Office (German: Auswärtiges Amt), from Spring 1941 to the end of World War II. Pic.
||1905: Karl Walter Schröter born ... mathematician and logician. Later on, after the war, he made important contributions concerning semantic consequences (German: semantische Folgerungsrelationen) and provability logic (German: syntaktische Ableitbarkeitsrelationen). He worked as a mathematical theoretician and cryptanalyst for the civilian Pers Z S, the cipher bureau of the Foreign Office (German: Auswärtiges Amt), from Spring 1941 to the end of World War II. Pic.
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||1923: The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed.
||1923: The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed.


||1925: Robert Jastrow born ... astronomer and planetary physicist. He was a NASA scientist, popular author, and futurist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+jastrow
||1925: Robert Jastrow born ... astronomer and planetary physicist. He was a NASA scientist, popular author, and futurist. Pic search.
 
File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1926: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Safe-Cracker]]'' reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.


File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]].
File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]].
File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1928: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on axiomatic set theory, which he uses to detect and counteract [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Godel]] announced his famous Incompleteness Theorem -- that there are true but unprovable statements in arithmetic -- in a discussion on the foundations of mathematics organized by the Vienna Circle.  
File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Godel]] announced his famous Incompleteness Theorem -- that there are true but unprovable statements in arithmetic -- in a discussion on the foundations of mathematics organized by the Vienna Circle.  
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File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] dies.  He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] dies.  He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.


||1986: Nelson Dunford dies ... mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis, namely integration of vector valued functions, ergodic theory, and linear operators. The Dunford decomposition, Dunford–Pettis property, and Dunford-Schwartz theorem bear his name. Pic search book cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=Nelson+James+Dunford+mathematician
||1986: Nelson Dunford dies ... mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis, namely integration of vector valued functions, ergodic theory, and linear operators. The Dunford decomposition, Dunford–Pettis property, and Dunford-Schwartz theorem bear his name. Pic search book cover.


||1991: Edwin McMillan dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1991: Edwin McMillan dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
File:Genesis spacecraft in collection mode.jpg|link=Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2004: The unmanned spacecraft ''[[Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Genesis]]'' receives a warning from [[AESOP]], the alleged autonomous artificial intelligence living in the Earth's ionosphere, about "return capsule parachute failure". The ''[[Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Genesis]]'' capsule will crash-land in Utah on September 8, 2004, after a design flaw prevents the deployment of its drogue parachute.


||2004: Ralph Eugene Lapp dies ... nuclear physicist and author who began his career in high-energy physics research with Arthur H. Compton. Lapp then worked at Chicago on the Manhattan Project. With 69 others, he signed Leo Szilard’s 17 Jul 1945 petition to President Truman, the month before the attack on Hiroshima. They urged that Japan should have an opportunity to surrender before use of the atom bomb. (Nevertheless, the actual attack was by surprise.) After the war, he researched the results in Japan. Lapp lectured across the U.S. He wrote 22 books on nuclear safety, including the dangers of nuclear fallout in The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon (1958). A Post book reviewer in 1956 called him “a one-man atomic truth squad and nuclear lie detector.” Pic: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/lapp_ralph_t.html See also https://www.c-span.org/video/?288934-1/mike-wallace-interview-ralph-lapp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2-tnC5doaI
||2004: Ralph Eugene Lapp dies ... nuclear physicist and author who began his career in high-energy physics research with Arthur H. Compton. Lapp then worked at Chicago on the Manhattan Project. With 69 others, he signed Leo Szilard’s 17 Jul 1945 petition to President Truman, the month before the attack on Hiroshima. They urged that Japan should have an opportunity to surrender before use of the atom bomb. (Nevertheless, the actual attack was by surprise.) After the war, he researched the results in Japan. Lapp lectured across the U.S. He wrote 22 books on nuclear safety, including the dangers of nuclear fallout in The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon (1958). A Post book reviewer in 1956 called him “a one-man atomic truth squad and nuclear lie detector.” Pic: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/lapp_ralph_t.html See also https://www.c-span.org/video/?288934-1/mike-wallace-interview-ralph-lapp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2-tnC5doaI


File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' sells for two million dollars.
||2013: Physicist and academic Albert Allen Bartlett dies ... lectured on Arithmetic, Population, and Energy.[3][4] Bartlett regarded the word combination "sustainable growth" as an oxymoron, since even modest annual percentage population increases will inevitably equate to huge exponential growth over sustained periods of time. He therefore regarded human overpopulation as "The Greatest Challenge" facing humanity. Pic.
 
File:Green Tangle 2.jpg|link=Green Tangle 2 (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Green Tangle 2 (nonfiction)|Green Tangle 2]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1799: Physiologist, biologist and chemist Jan Ingenhousz dies. Ingenhousz discovered photosynthesis, as well the fact that plants, like animals, have cellular respiration.

    1799: Physiologist, biologist and chemist Jan Ingenhousz dies. Ingenhousz discovered photosynthesis, as well the fact that plants, like animals, have cellular respiration.

  • 1828: Organic chemist Friedrich August Kekulé born. Kekulé will be one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in theoretical chemistry, and the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure.

    1828: Organic chemist Friedrich August Kekulé born. Kekulé will be one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in theoretical chemistry, and the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure.

  • 1914: Physicist and philosopher James Van Allen born. The Van Allen radiation belts will be named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.

    1914: Physicist and philosopher James Van Allen born. The Van Allen radiation belts will be named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.

  • 1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by inventor Philo Farnsworth.

    1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by inventor Philo Farnsworth.

  • 1930: Mathematician Kurt Godel announced his famous Incompleteness Theorem -- that there are true but unprovable statements in arithmetic -- in a discussion on the foundations of mathematics organized by the Vienna Circle.

    1930: Mathematician Kurt Godel announced his famous Incompleteness Theorem -- that there are true but unprovable statements in arithmetic -- in a discussion on the foundations of mathematics organized by the Vienna Circle.

  • 1939: Soviet Air Defense office Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov born. Petrov will became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident.

    1939: Soviet Air Defense office Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov born. Petrov will became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident.

  • 1985: Mathematician George Pólya dies. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.

    1985: Mathematician George Pólya dies. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.

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