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||1829: HMS ''Pickle'' captures the armed slave ship ''Voladora'' off the coast of Cuba.
||1829: HMS ''Pickle'' captures the armed slave ship ''Voladora'' off the coast of Cuba.
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].


||1862: Allvar Gullstrand born ... ophthalmologist and optician. He applied the methods of physical mathematics to the study of optical images and of the refraction of light in the eye. For this work, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1911. Pic.
||1862: Allvar Gullstrand born ... ophthalmologist and optician. He applied the methods of physical mathematics to the study of optical images and of the refraction of light in the eye. For this work, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1911. Pic.
File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1865: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.


||1871: Walter Kaufmann born ... physicist. He is best known for the first experimental proof of the velocity dependence of mass, which was an important contribution to the development of modern physics, including special relativity. Pic.
||1871: Walter Kaufmann born ... physicist. He is best known for the first experimental proof of the velocity dependence of mass, which was an important contribution to the development of modern physics, including special relativity. Pic.
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||1968: Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day. Pic.
||1968: Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day. Pic.


File:No image available.gif|link=Robert Pohl (nonfiction)|1976: Physicist [[Robert Pohl (nonfiction)|Robert Pohl]] dies.  Pohl has been called the "father of solid state physics".
||File:No image available.gif|link=Robert Pohl (nonfiction)|1976: Physicist [[Robert Pohl (nonfiction)|Robert Pohl]] dies.  Pohl has been called the "father of solid state physics".


||1983: Kurt Tank dies ... pilot and engineer. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. Pic.
||1983: Kurt Tank dies ... pilot and engineer. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. Pic.
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||1995: The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
||1995: The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|2004: [[John Brunner]] publishes history of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||2009: Rajeev Motwani dies ... professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was awarded the Gödel Prize in 2001 for his work on the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation. Pic.
||2009: Rajeev Motwani dies ... professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was awarded the Gödel Prize in 2001 for his work on the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation. Pic.
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||2012: Mihai Pătrașcu dies ... computer scientist. Pătraşcu’s work was concerned with fundamental questions about basic data structures. Pic.
||2012: Mihai Pătrașcu dies ... computer scientist. Pătraşcu’s work was concerned with fundamental questions about basic data structures. Pic.


File:Mad King.jpg|link=Mad King (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Mad King (nonfiction)|Mad King]]'' stolen from the Tate in London by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.
File:Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer.jpg|link=Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1)|2019: Signed first edition of ''[[Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1)]]'' purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist living in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]."


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  • 1646: Mathematician and philosopher Elena Cornaro Piscopia born. She will be one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

    1646: Mathematician and philosopher Elena Cornaro Piscopia born. She will be one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

  • 1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.

    1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.

  • 1900: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

    1900: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

  • 1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.

    1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.

  • 2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".

    2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".

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