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||AD 55 – Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
||1626 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1552)
File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1650: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1650: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
||1808 – Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal
||1823 – Carnival tragedy of 1823: About 110 boys are killed during a stampede at the Convent of the Minori Osservanti in Valletta, Malta.
||1839 – Josiah Willard Gibbs, American physicist, mathematician, and academic (d. 1903)
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
||1864 – Louis Bouveault, French chemist (d. 1909)
||1868 – Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)


File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[Georg Cantor]] saves [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] from attack by [[crimes against mathematical constants|math criminals]].
File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[Georg Cantor]] saves [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] from attack by [[crimes against mathematical constants|math criminals]].
File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] has vivid dream about ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]''.
File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] has vivid dream about ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]''.
||1897 – Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (d.1954)
File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1898: Physicist and academic [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.  
File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1898: Physicist and academic [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.  


||1915 – Richard Hamming, American mathematician and academic (d. 1998)
||1917 – Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1872)
||1923 – Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic (b. 1847)
||1931 – Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
||1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
||1953 – U.S.President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
||1971 – Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.


File:Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen.jpg|link=J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate [[J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|J. Hans D. Jensen]] dies. He shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.  
File:Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen.jpg|link=J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate [[J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|J. Hans D. Jensen]] dies. He shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.  
File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|1977: ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' strangely moved by the poetry of [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]].
File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|1977: ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' strangely moved by the poetry of [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]].
||1981 – Around 100,000 US gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating eight workers.
||1993 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
||1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
||2001 – A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
||2006 – Then U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney shot Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Texas attorney, while participating in a quail hunt on a ranch in Riviera, Texas
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  • 1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.

    1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.

  • 1650: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

    1650: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

  • 1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

    1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

  • 1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter Georg Cantor saves Edward Lear from attack by math criminals.

    1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter Georg Cantor saves Edward Lear from attack by math criminals.

  • 1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear has vivid dream about The Dark Side of the Moon.

    1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear has vivid dream about The Dark Side of the Moon.

  • 1898: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.

    1898: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.

  • 1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate J. Hans D. Jensen dies. He shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

    1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate J. Hans D. Jensen dies. He shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

  • 1977: The Dark Side of the Moon strangely moved by the poetry of Edward Lear.

    1977: The Dark Side of the Moon strangely moved by the poetry of Edward Lear.

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