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| ||1394: Ulugh Beg born ... astronomer, mathematician, and sultan. Pic: statue.
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| ||1418: Nicolas Flamel born ... scribe and manuscript-seller. After his death, Flamel developed a reputation as an alchemist believed to have discovered the philosopher's stone and to have thereby achieved immortality. No DOB. Pic.
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| ||1499: Johann Carion born ... astrologer and chronicler. Pic.
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| ||1630: The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
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| ||1644: Otto Mencke born ... philosopher and scientist. He will found ''Acta Eruditorum'', the first scientific journal in Germany, in 1682. Pic.
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| ||1739: Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
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| ||1772: John Canton dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
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| ||1785: Adam Sedgwick born ... geologist and scientist dies .. one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale. Pic.
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| ||1799: Astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander born. Argelander will be known for his determinations of stellar brightnesses, positions, and distances. Pic.
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| ||1832: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born ... writer and statesman. His works include four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and color. In addition, there are numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him extant. Pic.
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| ||1840: Étienne Bobillier dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search.
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| ||1857: Paul Doumer born ... mathematician, journalist, and politician, 14th President of France. Pic.
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| File:Robert Andrews Millikan.jpg|link=Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist [[Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|Robert Andrews Millikan]] born. Millikan will win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect. | | File:Robert Andrews Millikan.jpg|link=Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist [[Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|Robert Andrews Millikan]] born. Millikan will win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect. |
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| File:Thomson_tide_calculator.jpg|link=Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|1869: Aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] steals [[Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|Thomson tide calculator]] for personal use; Steampunks outraged.
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| ||1903: Bill Holman born ... cartoonist. Pic.
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| File:Nathan Rosen.jpg|link=Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|1909: Physicist [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] born. Rosen will develop the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole. | | File:Nathan Rosen.jpg|link=Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|1909: Physicist [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] born. Rosen will develop the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole. |
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| ||1909: Gabrielle Roy born ... engineer (?) and author ... There is a quotation by her on the back of the Canadian $20 bill that reads: "Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?" Pic.
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| |File:Tempest prognosticator.jpg|link=Tempest prognosticator (nonfiction)|1910: [[Tempest prognosticator (nonfiction)|Tempest prognosticator]] used to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1913: Ruggero Oddi dies ... physiologist and anatomist. Pic.
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| ||1917: Irving Kaplansky born ... was a mathematician, college professor, author, and musician. Pic.
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| ||1922: Carson Dunning Jeffries born ... physicist. The National Academies Press said that Jeffries "made major fundamental contributions to knowledge of nuclear magnetism, electronic spin relaxation, dynamic nuclear polarization, electron-hole droplets, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, and high-temperature superconductors." He was noted for being the first to observe the isotropic spin-spin exchange interaction in metals (also known as the Ruderman-Kittel interaction). He also discovered methods for the dynamic nuclear polarization by saturation of forbidden microwave resonance transitions in solids. He also discovered the existence of giant electron-hole droplets in semiconductors. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Carson+D.+Jeffries
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| ||1924: William Macewen dies ... surgeon and neuroscientist.
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| ||1924: Yevgeny Ostashev born ... test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences. Pic.
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| ||1926: Joseph Jean Baptiste Neuberg dies ... mathematician who worked primarily in geometry. Pic.
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| ||1926: Mathematician and academic Robert Phelps born. Phelps will be make contributions to analysis, particularly to functional analysis and measure theory. Pic.
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| File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1929: Art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]] attends birthday party for [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]]. They will later collaborate on ideas which will lead The Eel to construct a portable wormhole generator.
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| ||1931: Burton Richter born ... physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976. This discovery was part of the so-called November Revolution of particle physics. Pic.
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| ||1932: Larry Evans born ... chess player and journalist (d. 2010)
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| ||1935: Berry Louis Cannon born ... aquanaut who served on the SEALAB II and III projects of the U.S. Navy. Cannon died of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair SEALAB III. It was later found that his diving rig's baralyme canister, which should have absorbed the carbon dioxide Cannon exhaled, was empty. Pic.
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| File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|1948: Computer programmer and crime-fighter [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] uses the [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] computer to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1953: Gustav Herglotz dies ... mathematician. He is best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology. Pic.
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| ||1960: Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
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| ||1975: A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
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| ||1976: Hans Thirring dies ... theoretical physicist, professor, and father of the physicist Walter Thirring. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1920. Together with the mathematician Josef Lense, he is known for the prediction of the Lense–Thirring frame dragging effect of general relativity in 1918. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=hans+thirring&oq=Hans+Thirring
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| ||1978: Karl Wallenda dies ... acrobat and tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas.
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| ||1980: Raymond Thayer Birge dies ... physicist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=raymond+thayer+birge
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| ||1982: NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
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| File:Gerald Bull 1964.jpg|link=Gerald Bull (nonfiction)|1990: Engineer [[Gerald Bull (nonfiction)|Gerald Bull]] assassinated. He attempted to build artillery guns which could launch satellites into orbit. | | File:Gerald Bull 1964.jpg|link=Gerald Bull (nonfiction)|1990: Engineer [[Gerald Bull (nonfiction)|Gerald Bull]] assassinated. He attempted to build artillery guns which could launch satellites into orbit. |
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| ||1993: The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
| | File:Philippe_Flajolet.jpg|link=Philippe Flajolet (nonfiction)|2011: Computer scientist [[Philippe Flajolet (nonfiction)|Philippe Flajolet]] dies. Flajolet contributed to general methods for analyzing the computational complexity of algorithms, including the theory of average-case complexity. |
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| ||1995: Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
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| File:Exploded electrolytic capacitor.jpg|link=Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|2001: [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|Capacitor plague]] affects several brands of [[portable envy]] devices. | |
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| File:Portable envy clock generator.jpg|link=Portable envy|2002: [[Portable envy]] components at risk of [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]].
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| ||2010: James Black dies ... biologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||2010: Conrad Lee Longmire dies ... theoretical physicist who was best known as the discoverer of the mechanism behind high-altitude electromagnetic pulse. Pic.
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| ||2010: Ky Fan dies ... mathematician.
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| ||2011: Philippe Flajolet dies ... computer scientist. He will contribute to general methods for analyzing the computational complexity of algorithms, including the theory of average-case complexity. Pic.
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| ||2012: David Waltz dies ... computer scientist and academic. | | File:An Alien Home Companion.jpg|link=An Alien Home Companion|2006: Premiere of '''''[[An Alien Home Companion]]''''', an American science fiction comedy film about the behind-the-scenes activities at a long-running public radio show which encounters an aggressive alien guest star. Director: Robert Altman. |
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