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File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1732: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] translates [[scrying engine]] textbook from English into French. | File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1732: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] translates [[scrying engine]] textbook from English into French. | ||
||1847 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician and engineer (b. 1794) | |||
||1849 – Rickman Godlee, English surgeon and academic (d. 1925) brain surgery | |||
||1849 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician and theorist (b. 1804) | |||
||1850 – Sophie Bryant, Irish mathematician, academic and activist (d. 1922) | |||
||1851 – Spiru Haret, Romanian mathematician, astronomer, and politician, 55th Romanian Minister of Internal Affairs (d. 1912) | |||
||1861 – Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1938) | |||
File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1861: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy. | File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1861: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy. | ||
File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[John Venn]] invents new type of [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata]]. | File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[John Venn]] invents new type of [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata]]. | ||
||1873 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-Swiss biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) | |||
||1898 – The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain. | |||
||1913 – Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (d. 1997) | |||
||1925 – The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska. | |||
||1933 – Pat Sullivan, Australian animator and producer, co-created Felix the Cat (b. 1887) | |||
||1933 – In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933. | |||
File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''. | File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''. | ||
||1946 – ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. | |||
||1949 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls. | |||
||1954 – Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska. | |||
||1959 – Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879) | |||
||1972 – Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time. | |||
File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1988: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. | File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1988: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. | ||
||1996 – At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people. | |||
||1999 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926) | |||
||2001 – The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature. | |||
||2012 – Cyril Domb, English-Israel physicist and academic (b. 1920) | |||
||2013 – A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14. | |||
||2014 – Thelma Estrin, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1924) | |||
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1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics".
1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1732: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet translates scrying engine textbook from English into French.
1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn invents new type of cellular automata.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.
1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.