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File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1485 Feb. 1: lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to generate improved solar eclipse forecasts. During the Second World War, this data will be used by German cryptographers to defeat enemy traffic analysis.  
File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1485 Feb. 1: lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to generate improved solar eclipse forecasts. During the Second World War, this data will be used by German cryptographers to defeat enemy traffic analysis.  


||1640 – Bernard Lamy, French mathematician and theologian (d. 1715)
||1640: Bernard Lamy born ... mathematician and theologian  


||1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
||1648: Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.


||1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
||1667: The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.


||1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
||1752: Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).


||1754 – Juan José Elhuyar, Spanish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1796)
||1754: Juan José Elhuyar born ...chemist and mineralogist


||1755 – Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist (d. 1809)
||1755: Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy born ... chemist and entomologist


||1765 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1831)
||1765: Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger born ... astronomer and mathematician


||1768 – James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
||1768: James Short born ... mathematician and optician


||Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (d. 15 June 1785) was a French chemistry and physics teacher, and one of the first pioneers of aviation. He and the Marquis d'Arlandes made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon.
||1785: Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier ... was a French chemistry and physics teacher, and one of the first pioneers of aviation. He and the Marquis d'Arlandes made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon.


||1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
||1844: Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.


||1878 – Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
||1878: Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.


||1894 – Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1947)
||1894: Nikolai Chebotaryov born ... Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist


File:Gordon Welchman.jpg|link=Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|1906: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author [[Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|Gordon Welchman]] born. During the Second World War, he will develop traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.
File:Gordon Welchman.jpg|link=Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|1906: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author [[Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|Gordon Welchman]] born. During the Second World War, he will develop traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.


||1914 – Hilda Terry, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
||1914: Hilda Terry born ... cartoonist  


||1915 – Thomas Huckle Weller, American biologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
||1915: Thomas Huckle Weller born ... biologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate


||1917 – John Fenn, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
||1917: John Fenn born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate


||1917 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and academic (b. 1867)
||1917: Kristian Birkeland dies ... physicist and academic


||https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Duluth_lynchings
||https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Duluth_lynchings


||1927 – Ross Andru, American illustrator (d. 1993)
||1927: Ross Andru born ... American illustrator


||Traian Lalescu (d. 15 June 1929) was a Romanian mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics. Pic.
||Traian Lalescu (d. 15 June 1929) was a Romanian mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics. Pic.
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File:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|1939: Art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]] helps break German military codes using surf-powered [[The Eel Time-Surfing 2|gnomon algorithm]] techniques.
File:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|1939: Art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]] helps break German military codes using surf-powered [[The Eel Time-Surfing 2|gnomon algorithm]] techniques.


||1985 – Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
||1971: Wendell Meredith Stanley dies ...biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Pic.
 
||1985: Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.


File:John Atanasov.gif|link=John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic [[John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|John Vincent Atanasoff]] dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.
File:John Atanasov.gif|link=John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic [[John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|John Vincent Atanasoff]] dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.


||Alessandro Faedo (d. 15 June 2001) (also known as Alessandro Carlo Faedo or Sandro Faedo) was an Italian mathematician and politician, born in Chiampo. He is known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Galerkin method: he was one of the pupils of Leonida Tonelli and, after his death, he succeeded him on the chair of mathematical analysis at the University of Pisa, becoming dean of the faculty of sciences and then rector and exerting a strong positive influence on the development of the university.
||2001: Alessandro Faedo ... mathematician and politician, born in Chiampo. He is known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Galerkin method: he was one of the pupils of Leonida Tonelli and, after his death, he succeeded him on the chair of mathematical analysis at the University of Pisa, becoming dean of the faculty of sciences and then rector and exerting a strong positive influence on the development of the university.


||2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls.
||2012: Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls.


||2013 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1936)
||2013: Kenneth G. Wilson dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate


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  • 763 BC: Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

    763 BC: Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

  • 1485 Feb. 1: lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist Johannes Trithemius uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to generate improved solar eclipse forecasts. During the Second World War, this data will be used by German cryptographers to defeat enemy traffic analysis.

    1485 Feb. 1: lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist Johannes Trithemius uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to generate improved solar eclipse forecasts. During the Second World War, this data will be used by German cryptographers to defeat enemy traffic analysis.

  • 1906: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman born. During the Second World War, he will develop traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

    1906: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman born. During the Second World War, he will develop traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

  • 1939: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel helps break German military codes using surf-powered gnomon algorithm techniques.

    1939: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel helps break German military codes using surf-powered gnomon algorithm techniques.

  • 1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.

    1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.

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