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File:Giovanni_Cassini.jpg|link=Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|1625: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] born. He will discover four satellites of the planet Saturn and note the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division will be named after him.
File:Giovanni_Cassini.jpg|link=Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|1625: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] born. He will discover four satellites of the planet Saturn and note the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division will be named after him.


||1724 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (d. 1794)
||1724: John Smeaton born ... engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge.


||1745 – Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (d. 1818)
||1745: Caspar Wessel born ... mathematician and cartographer.


File:Bill of Rights.jpg|link=United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|1789: James Madison introduces nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives, inluencing later [[United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|Bill of Rights]] amendments.
File:Bill of Rights.jpg|link=United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|1789: James Madison introduces nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives, inluencing later [[United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|Bill of Rights]] amendments.


||1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
||1794: Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.


File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1809: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] dies.  He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1809: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] dies.  He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.


||Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (b. 1851) was a French physician, physicist, and inventor of the moving-coil D'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the nineteenth century.
||1851: Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval born ... physician, physicist, and inventor of the moving-coil D'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the nineteenth century.


||1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician and theorist (d. 1940)
||1860: Alicia Boole Stott born ... mathematician and theorist.


||1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (d. 1959)
||1867: Frank Lloyd Wright born ... architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater.


||1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1887: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', his punched card calculator.


||Ernst-Robert Grawitz (b. 1899) was a German physician and an SS functionary (Reichsarzt, "arzt" meaning "physician") during the Nazi era.
||1899: Ernst-Robert Grawitz born ... physician and an SS functionary (Reichsarzt, "arzt" meaning "physician") during the Nazi era.


||1897 – John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist (d. 1974)
||1897: John G. Bennett born ... mathematician and technologist.


||1910 – C. C. Beck, American illustrator (d. 1989) comics
||1910: C. C. Beck born ... illustrator ... comics.


File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1912: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1912: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1916 – Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
||1916: Francis Crick born ... biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1918 – John D. Roberts, American chemist and academic (d. 2016)
||1918: John D. Roberts born ... chemist and academic.


||1930 – Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate
||1920: Augusto Righi dies ... physicist and a pioneer in the study of electromagnetism. Pic.


||1936 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
||1930: Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018).


||Robert W (Bob) Floyd (b. June 8, 1936) was an eminent computer scientist. His contributions include the design of the Floyd–Warshall algorithm (independently of Stephen Warshall), which efficiently finds all shortest paths in a graph, Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm for detecting cycles in a sequence, and his work on parsing. In one isolated paper he introduced the important concept of error diffusion for rendering images, also called Floyd–Steinberg dithering (though he distinguished dithering from diffusion). A significant achievement was pioneering the field of program verification using logical assertions with the 1967 paper Assigning Meanings to Programs. This was an important contribution to what later became Hoare logic.
||1936: Kenneth G. Wilson born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1936: Robert W (Bob) Floyd born ... computer scientist. His contributions include the design of the Floyd–Warshall algorithm (independently of Stephen Warshall), which efficiently finds all shortest paths in a graph, Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm for detecting cycles in a sequence, and his work on parsing. In one isolated paper he introduced the important concept of error diffusion for rendering images, also called Floyd–Steinberg dithering (though he distinguished dithering from diffusion). A significant achievement was pioneering the field of program verification using logical assertions with the 1967 paper Assigning Meanings to Programs. This was an important contribution to what later became Hoare logic.


||1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
||1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.

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  • 1625: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini born. He will discover four satellites of the planet Saturn and note the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division will be named after him.

    1625: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini born. He will discover four satellites of the planet Saturn and note the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division will be named after him.

  • 1789: James Madison introduces nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives, inluencing later Bill of Rights amendments.

    1789: James Madison introduces nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives, inluencing later Bill of Rights amendments.

  • 1809: Thomas Paine dies. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.

    1809: Thomas Paine dies. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.

  • 1887: Inventor Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', his punched card calculator.

    1887: Inventor Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', his punched card calculator.

  • 1912: Mathematician Emmy Noether uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1912: Mathematician Emmy Noether uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1955: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee born. He will invent the World Wide Web.

    1955: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee born. He will invent the World Wide Web.

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