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||1449 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician and sultan (b. 1394)
||1449: Ulugh Beg dies ... astronomer, mathematician and sulta.


||1553 – Michael Servetus, Spanish physician and theologian (b. 1511)
||1553: Michael Servetus dies ... physician and theologian.


|File:Geometers_program_medievel_pilgrimage.jpg|link=Pilgrimage|[[Pilgrimage|Geometers refactor medieval pilgrimage]].
|File:Geometers_program_medievel_pilgrimage.jpg|link=Pilgrimage|[[Pilgrimage|Geometers refactor medieval pilgrimage]].


||1666 – Robert Hubert, French watchmaker (b. 1640) -  executed following his false confession of starting the Great Fire of London.
||1666: Robert Hubert dies ... executed following his false confession of starting the Great Fire of London.


File:Gilles Personne de Roberval.jpg|link=Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician and academic [[Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|Gilles de Roberval]] dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Copernican heliocentric system]] and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
File:Gilles Personne de Roberval.jpg|link=Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician and academic [[Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|Gilles de Roberval]] dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Copernican heliocentric system]] and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
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File:Montmort - Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, 1713.jpg|link=Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|1678: Mathematician [[Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|Pierre Raymond de Montmort]] born. He will write ''Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard'', an influential book about probability and games of chance which will introduce the combinatorial study of [[Derangement (nonfiction)|derangements]].  
File:Montmort - Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, 1713.jpg|link=Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|1678: Mathematician [[Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|Pierre Raymond de Montmort]] born. He will write ''Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard'', an influential book about probability and games of chance which will introduce the combinatorial study of [[Derangement (nonfiction)|derangements]].  


||Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk (b. 1798) was a German mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers.
||1798: Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk born ... mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers.


File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1853: [[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Mark Twains interviews Wallace War-Heels]].  Twain will later call it "the interview of a lifetime."
File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1853: [[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Mark Twains interviews Wallace War-Heels]].  Twain will later call it "the interview of a lifetime."
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File:Golding Bird.jpg|link=Golding Bird (nonfiction)|1854: Physician [[Golding Bird (nonfiction)|Golding Bird]] dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity.
File:Golding Bird.jpg|link=Golding Bird (nonfiction)|1854: Physician [[Golding Bird (nonfiction)|Golding Bird]] dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity.


||Ernest William Hobson (b. 27 October 1856) was an English mathematician, now remembered mostly for his books, some of which broke new ground in their coverage in English of topics from mathematical analysis. G. H. Hardy wrote, "Although he lived to be 76, he was active almost up to his death; his last book (and perhaps in some ways his best) was published when he was 74. He was a singular exception to the general rule that good mathematicians do their best work when they are young."  Pic.
||1865: Ernest William Hobson born ... mathematician, now remembered mostly for his books, some of which broke new ground in their coverage in English of topics from mathematical analysis. G. H. Hardy wrote, "Although he lived to be 76, he was active almost up to his death; his last book (and perhaps in some ways his best) was published when he was 74. He was a singular exception to the general rule that good mathematicians do their best work when they are young."  Pic.


||Louis François Clément Breguet (d. 27 October 1883), was a French physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy.
||1883: Louis François Clément Breguet dies ... physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy.


||Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones KBE, FRS (b. 27 October 1894) was a British mathematician who was a professor of theoretical physics at University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. He may be regarded as the initiator of modern computational chemistry.
||1894: Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones born ... mathematician who was a professor of theoretical physics at University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. He may be regarded as the initiator of modern computational chemistry.


||1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
||1904: The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.


||1910 – Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau, American chemical engineer (d. 2000) - pencillin factory
||1910: Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau born ... chemical engineer - pencillin factory.


||1930 – Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1851)
||1930: Ellen Hayes dies ... mathematician and astronomer.


||1930 – Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty, signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty's modified provisions, go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.
||1930: Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty, signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty's modified provisions, go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.


||1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1963)
||1932: Sylvia Plath born ... poet, novelist, and short story writer.


File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.


||1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
||1941: Ernest Everett Just dies ... biologist, academic and science writer. Just's primary legacy is his recognition of the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of organisms. In his work within marine biology, cytology and parthenogenesis, he advocated the study of whole cells under normal conditions, rather than simply breaking them apart in a laboratory setting. Pic.


||1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
||1961: NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.


||1962 – A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
||1962: Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.


||1968 – Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1878)
||1962: A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
 
||1968: Lise Meitner dies ... physicist and academic.


File:Mariner 9.jpg|link=Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|1972: The [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] spacecraft is switched off. During its mission, Mariner mapped 70% of the surface of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]], and studied temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
File:Mariner 9.jpg|link=Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|1972: The [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] spacecraft is switched off. During its mission, Mariner mapped 70% of the surface of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]], and studied temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.


||1973 – A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado.
||1973: A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado.


||1974 – C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician and academic (b. 1938)
||1974: C. P. Ramanujam dies ... mathematician and academic.


||1975 – Rex Stout, American detective novelist (b. 1886)
||1975: Rex Stout dies ... detective novelist.


||1980 – John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
||1980: John Hasbrouck Van Vleck dies ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1981 – The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
||1981: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.


||David Joseph Bohm (d. October 27, 1992) was an American scientist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind.
||1992: David Joseph Bohm dies ... scientist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind. Bohm advanced the view that quantum physics meant that the old Cartesian model of reality – that there are two kinds of substance, the mental and the physical, that somehow interact – was too limited. To complement it, he developed a mathematical and physical theory of "implicate" and "explicate" order.[3] He also believed that the brain, at the cellular level, works according to the mathematics of some quantum effects, and postulated that thought is distributed and non-localised just as quantum entities are.
Bohm advanced the view that quantum physics meant that the old Cartesian model of reality – that there are two kinds of substance, the mental and the physical, that somehow interact – was too limited. To complement it, he developed a mathematical and physical theory of "implicate" and "explicate" order.[3] He also believed that the brain, at the cellular level, works according to the mathematics of some quantum effects, and postulated that thought is distributed and non-localised just as quantum entities are.


||1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
||1994: Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.


||1999 – Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (b. 1927)
||1999: Robert Mills dies American physicist and academic.


File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' remembers [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]], which was switched off forty-five years ago.
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' remembers [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]], which was switched off forty-five years ago.


|File:Wumpuss-compass.jpg|link=Wumpus-compass|[[Wumpus-compass]] syndrome linked to [[Extract of Radium]] binge.
|File:Wumpuss-compass.jpg|link=Wumpus-compass|[[Wumpus-compass]] syndrome linked to [[Extract of Radium]] binge.

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