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||1842: Arthur Cayley admitted to fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, at age 21, younger than any other fellow at the College.  
||1842: Arthur Cayley admitted to fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, at age 21, younger than any other fellow at the College.  
||1846: Platon Poretsky born ... astronomer, mathematician, and logician. Pic. Different DOB at On This Day in Math.


||1846: Planet Uranus prediction published. Sir John Herschel published John Couch Adams' prediction of the existence of the planet Uranus. This provoked a priority controversy as the planet had already been found on September 23, 1846, based on Le Verrier's calculations.  
||1846: Planet Uranus prediction published. Sir John Herschel published John Couch Adams' prediction of the existence of the planet Uranus. This provoked a priority controversy as the planet had already been found on September 23, 1846, based on Le Verrier's calculations.  
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File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1882: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] reprogrammed to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1882: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] reprogrammed to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1891 – Édouard Lucas, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1842). Lucas is known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence. The related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him. Pic.
||1891: Édouard Lucas dies ... mathematician and theorist ... known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence. The related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him. Pic.


||1924 – Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist (d. 1993)
||1924P Harvey Kurtzman born ... cartoonist.


||Jack Kenneth Hale (born 3 October 1928) was an American mathematician working primarily in the field of dynamical systems and functional differential equations. Nopic.
||1928: Jack Kenneth Hale born ... mathematician working primarily in the field of dynamical systems and functional differential equations. Nopic.


||Bernard A. Galler (b. October 3, 1928) was an American mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Michigan who was involved in the development of large-scale operating systems and computer languages including the MAD programming language and the Michigan Terminal System operating system. Pic.
||1928: Bernard A. Galler born ... mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Michigan who was involved in the development of large-scale operating systems and computer languages including the MAD programming language and the Michigan Terminal System operating system. Pic.


File:Robin Farquharson.jpg|link=Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician [[Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|Robin Farquharson]] born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as ''Theory of Voting''.
File:Robin Farquharson.jpg|link=Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician [[Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|Robin Farquharson]] born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as ''Theory of Voting''.


||Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius "Max" Wolf (d. October 3, 1932) was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography. He was chairman of astronomy at the University of Heidelberg and director of the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory from 1902 until his death.
||1932: Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius "Max" Wolf dies ... astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography. He was chairman of astronomy at the University of Heidelberg and director of the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory from 1902 until his death.


||1942 – Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.
||1942: Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.


||1952: [[Operation Hurricane (nonfiction)|Operation Hurricane]]: The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hurricane
||1952: [[Operation Hurricane (nonfiction)|Operation Hurricane]]: The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hurricane


||1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
||1957: The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.


||1962 – Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
||1962: Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.


||1966 – Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1896)
||1966: Rolf Maximilian Sievert dies ... physicist and academic.


||1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J).
||1985: The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J).


||1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
||1986: TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.


||Res Jost (d. 3 October 1990) was a Swiss theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory.
||1990: Res Jost dies theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory.


File:John Crank.jpg|link=John Crank (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and physicist [[John Crank (nonfiction)|John Crank]] dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.
File:John Crank.jpg|link=John Crank (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and physicist [[John Crank (nonfiction)|John Crank]] dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.
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File:Malady.jpg|link=Malady|2017:  Signed first edition of [[Malady]] sells for three and a half million dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Malady.jpg|link=Malady|2017:  Signed first edition of [[Malady]] sells for three and a half million dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|2002: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.


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  • 1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.

    1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.

  • 1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

    1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.

    1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.

  • 2006: Mathematician and physicist John Crank dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.

    2006: Mathematician and physicist John Crank dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.

  • 2012: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

    2012: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Malady sells for three and a half million dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    2017: Signed first edition of Malady sells for three and a half million dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

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