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File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1522: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to predict and prevent [[Crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1522: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to predict and prevent [[Crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Delmedigo.jpg|link=Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist [[Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|Joseph Solomon Delmedigo]] born. He will write  ''Elim'' (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
File:Delmedigo.jpg|link=Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist [[Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|Joseph Solomon Delmedigo]] born. He will write  ''Elim'' (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
||1801 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
File:Edward Davy.jpg|link=Edward Davy (nonfiction)|1806:  Physician, scientist, and inventor [[Edward Davy (nonfiction)|Edward Davy]] born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.  
File:Edward Davy.jpg|link=Edward Davy (nonfiction)|1806:  Physician, scientist, and inventor [[Edward Davy (nonfiction)|Edward Davy]] born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.  
||1840 – Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer and author (d. 1913) naval gyroscope stabilization, no pic
||1871 – The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
||1883 – The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
||1884 – The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
||1878 – Crawford Long, American surgeon and pharmacist (b. 1815) sulfur ether anaesthetic
||1888 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)
||1888 – Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)
||1897 – Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
||1902 – Ernst Schröder, German mathematician and academic (b. 1841)
||1902 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
||1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
||1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".


|1911 – Computing company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
|1911 – Computing company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
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John_Tukey.jpg|link=John Tukey (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and academic [[John Tukey (nonfiction)|John Tukey]] born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.
John_Tukey.jpg|link=John Tukey (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and academic [[John Tukey (nonfiction)|John Tukey]] born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.


||The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), nicknamed Baby, was the world's first stored-program computer. It was built at the Victoria University of Manchester, England, by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Small-Scale_Experimental_Machine
||1920 – Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic (d. 2002)
 
||1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass (b. 1860)
 
||1933 – The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed. It would later be declared unconstitutional.
 
||1946 – Gordon Brewster, Irish cartoonist (b 1889)
 
||1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
 
||1970 – Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (b. 1888)
 
||1977 – Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1912)
 
||1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
 
||2011 – Östen Mäkitalo, Swedish engineer and academic (b. 1938) Nordic mobile, no pic
 
||2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.


File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: Publication of ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' reveals new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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