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File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1713: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.
File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1713: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.


||Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt born ... polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.
||1769: Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt born ... polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.


||1837: Nikolai Bugaev born ... mathematician and philosopher.
||1837: Nikolai Bugaev born ... mathematician and philosopher.
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||1891: Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov born ... mathematician and academic ... one of the creators of modern analytic number theory.
||1891: Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov born ... mathematician and academic ... one of the creators of modern analytic number theory.
|File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1893: [[Transdimensional corporation|Transdimensional corporation mascot]] spontaneously generates sales pitch for [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]].


File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1894: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1894: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
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||1982: Alberto González Domínguez dies ... mathematician working on analysis, probability theory and quantum field theory.
||1982: Alberto González Domínguez dies ... mathematician working on analysis, probability theory and quantum field theory.


||On Sept. 14, 2013, Haggard and her team detected an X-ray flare from Sgr A* 400 times brighter than its usual, quiet state. This “megaflare” was nearly three times brighter than the previous brightest X-ray flare from Sgr A* in early 2012.  https://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/nasa-s-chandra-detects-record-breaking-outburst-from-milky-way-s-black-hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*
||2010: Frederick Jelinek dies ... researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He is well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up". Pic: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/business/24jelinek.html
 
||2013: Haggard and her team detected an X-ray flare from Sgr A* 400 times brighter than its usual, quiet state. This “megaflare” was nearly three times brighter than the previous brightest X-ray flare from Sgr A* in early 2012.  https://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/nasa-s-chandra-detects-record-breaking-outburst-from-milky-way-s-black-hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*


||2015: The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
||2015: The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.

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  • 1712: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini dies. He discovered four satellites of the planet Saturn and noted the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division was named after him.

    1712: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini dies. He discovered four satellites of the planet Saturn and noted the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division was named after him.

  • 1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.

    1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.

  • 1894: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

    1894: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

  • 1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."

    1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."

  • 1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.

    1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.

  • 1960: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

    1960: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

  • 2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.

    2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.

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