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||1555 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist, philologist, and scholar (b. 1490)
||1555: Georgius Agricola dies ... mineralogist, philologist, and scholar.


File:Jan Brożek.jpg|link=Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer [[Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|Jan Brożek]] dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]]' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.
File:Jan Brożek.jpg|link=Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer [[Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|Jan Brożek]] dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]]' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.
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File:Ole Rømer.jpg|link=Ole Rømer (nonfiction)|1676: Astronomer [[Ole Rømer (nonfiction)|Ole Rømer]] presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
File:Ole Rømer.jpg|link=Ole Rømer (nonfiction)|1676: Astronomer [[Ole Rømer (nonfiction)|Ole Rømer]] presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.


||1737 – José Antonio Alzate y Ramírez, Spanish-Mexican scientist and cartographer (d. 1799)
||1737: José Antonio Alzate y Ramírez born ... scientist and cartographer.


||1773: born: Hippolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils was a French chemist. He studied in the École des Mines de Paris, and was a student and friend of Louis Nicolas Vauquelin. He is best known for confirming the discovery of chromium by Vauquelin, and for independently discovering iridium in 1803. Pic.
||1773: born: Hippolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils was a French chemist. He studied in the École des Mines de Paris, and was a student and friend of Louis Nicolas Vauquelin. He is best known for confirming the discovery of chromium by Vauquelin, and for independently discovering iridium in 1803. Pic.


||1783 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
||1783: In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.


||Gaston Tissandier (b. November 21, 1843) was a French chemist, meteorologist, aviator and editor. Adventurer could be added to the list of his titles, as he managed to escape besieged Paris by balloon in September 1870. He founded and edited the scientific magazine La Nature and wrote several books. Pic.
||1835: Surgeon Hanaoka Seishū dies ... with a knowledge of Chinese herbal medicine, as well as Western surgical techniques he had learned through Rangaku (literally "Dutch learning", and by extension "Western learning"). Hanaoka is said to have been the first to perform surgery using general anesthesia. Pic.


||Gustav Roch (d. 21 November 1866) was a German mathematician who made significant contributions to the theory of Riemann surfaces in a career that ended when he died at the age of 26. Pic.
||1843: Gaston Tissandier born ... chemist, meteorologist, aviator and editor. Adventurer could be added to the list of his titles, as he managed to escape besieged Paris by balloon in September 1870. He founded and edited the scientific magazine La Nature and wrote several books. Pic.


||1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
||1866: Gustav Roch dies ... mathematician who made significant contributions to the theory of Riemann surfaces in a career that ended when he died at the age of 26. Pic.


||Josef Mattauch (b. 21 November 1895) was a German physicist known for his work in the investigation of the isotopic abundances by mass spectrometry. He developed the Mattauch isobar rule in 1934. Pic.
||1877: Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
 
||1895: Josef Mattauch born ... physicist known for his work in the investigation of the isotopic abundances by mass spectrometry. He developed the Mattauch isobar rule in 1934. Pic.


File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|1904: Mechanical engineer [[Clock Head 2]] warns theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] that the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², will have "earth-shaking consequences."
File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|1904: Mechanical engineer [[Clock Head 2]] warns theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] that the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², will have "earth-shaking consequences."
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File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1905: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]]'s paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal ''Annalen der Physik''.
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1905: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]]'s paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal ''Annalen der Physik''.


||1913 – Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician, author, and academic (d. 1975)
||1913: Gunnar Kangro born ... mathematician, author, and academic.


||1927 – Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
||1927: Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.


||1931 – Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian chemist and physicist (d. 1985)
||1931: Revaz Dogonadze born ... chemist and physicist.


||1953 – The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
||1953 – The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.


||1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.
||1959: American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.


||1961: First French nuclear underground test, Agathe ("Agate"). It was an atomic bomb detonated in the Hoggar mount (near In Ekker) of the then French Sahara desert during the Algerian War (1954–62).
||1961: First French nuclear underground test, Agathe ("Agate"). It was an atomic bomb detonated in the Hoggar mount (near In Ekker) of the then French Sahara desert during the Algerian War (1954–62).


||1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
||1969: The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.


||1970 – C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
||1970: C. V. Raman dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Francesco Giacomo Tricomi (d. 21 November 1978) was an Italian mathematician famous for his studies on mixed type partial differential equations. Pic.
||1978: Francesco Giacomo Tricomi dies ... mathematician famous for his studies on mixed type partial differential equations. Pic.


File:Harry Lehmann.jpg|link=Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|1984: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|Harry Lehmann]] uses a combination of the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].
File:Harry Lehmann.jpg|link=Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|1984: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|Harry Lehmann]] uses a combination of the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].


||1985 – United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
||1985: United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.


||1986 – National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair.
||1986: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair.


||Hans Julius Zassenhaus (d. 21 November 1991) was a German mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra.
||1991: Hans Julius Zassenhaus dies ... mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra.


||Bruno Benedetto Rossi (d. 21 November 1993) was an Italian experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays.
||1993: Bruno Benedetto Rossi dies ... experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays.


File:Abdus Salam 1987.jpg|link=Abdus Salam (nonfiction)|1996: Theoretical physicist [[Abdus Salam (nonfiction)|Mohammad Abdus Salam]] dies. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.
File:Abdus Salam 1987.jpg|link=Abdus Salam (nonfiction)|1996: Theoretical physicist [[Abdus Salam (nonfiction)|Mohammad Abdus Salam]] dies. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.


||Victor Andreevich Toponogov (d. November 21, 2004) was an outstanding Russian mathematician, noted for his contributions to differential geometry and so-called Riemannian geometry "in the large". Pic.
||2004: Victor Andreevich Toponogov dies ... mathematician, noted for his contributions to differential geometry and so-called Riemannian geometry "in the large". Pic.


||2009 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1926)
||2009: Konstantin Feoktistov dies ... engineer and astronaut.


|File:Katsudō Shashin.jpg|link=Katsudō Shashin (nonfiction)|[[Katsudō Shashin (nonfiction)|Katsudō Shashin]] "charming to this day," say film enthusiasts.
|File:Slinky.jpg|link=Spring (device) (nonfiction)|[[Spring (device) (nonfiction)|Slinky]] prepares for epic journey down escalator.
|File:Cheddar Cheese crop from Campbells Soup Cans MOMA.jpg|link=Pop art (nonfiction)|[[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] asks where [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] keeps the can opener.
|File:K1 chronometer.jpg|link=K1: My Life at Sea|[[K1: My Time at Sea|K1 chronometer]] will be next celebrity judge on [[Who Wants to Be a Chronometer?]].
|File:R. Budd Dwyer.jpg|link=R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|1939:  Politician [[R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|R. Budd Dwyer]] born.  In 1987, he will take his own life during a press conference.
|File:Nebraska sand hills from space.jpg|link=Nebraska sandhills (nonfiction)|[[Nebraska sandhills (nonfiction)|Nebraska sandhills]] said to be hiding place for [[Snakes on a plane]].
|File:Ridley Scott (23716888011).jpg|link=Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|[[Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|Ridley Scott]] to make film about [[Nebraska sandhills (nonfiction)|Nebraska sandhills]].
|File:Johannesmagistris-square.jpg|link=Square of opposition (nonfiction)|National [[Square of opposition (nonfiction)|Square of Opposition]] Day.
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  • 1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer Jan Brożek dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.

    1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer Jan Brożek dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.

  • 1675: Isaac Newton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1675: Isaac Newton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1676: Astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

    1676: Astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

  • 1904: Mechanical engineer Clock Head 2 warns theoretical physicist Albert Einstein that the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², will have "earth-shaking consequences."

    1904: Mechanical engineer Clock Head 2 warns theoretical physicist Albert Einstein that the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², will have "earth-shaking consequences."

  • 1905: Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

    1905: Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

  • 1984: Physicist and crime-fighter Harry Lehmann uses a combination of the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

    1984: Physicist and crime-fighter Harry Lehmann uses a combination of the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

  • 1996: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam dies. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.

    1996: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam dies. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.

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