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||1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.
||1666: The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.


||1764 – Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer and mathematician (b. 1700)
||1764: Nathaniel Bliss dies ... astronomer and mathematician (b. 1700)


File:Antoine Deparcieux.jpg|link=Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|1768: French mathematician and engineer [[Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|Antoine Deparcieux]] dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.
File:Antoine Deparcieux.jpg|link=Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|1768: French mathematician and engineer [[Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|Antoine Deparcieux]] dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.


||1807 – The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
||1807: The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.


||1810 – Lysander Button, American engineer (d. 1898)
||1810: Lysander Button born ... engineer (d. 1898)


||1832 – Franz Xaver von Zach, Hungarian-French astronomer and academic (b. 1754)
||1832: Franz Xaver von Zach dies ... astronomer and academic.


||Sumner Increase Kimball (b. September 2, 1834) was the organizer of the United States Life-Saving Service and the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service from 1878-1915.
||1834: Sumner Increase Kimball born ... organizer of the United States Life-Saving Service and the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service from 1878-1915.


||1834 – Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer and architect, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge (b. 1757)
||1834: Thomas Telford dies ... engineer and architect, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge.


||1850 – Woldemar Voigt, German physicist, mathematician, and academic (d. 1919)
||1850: Woldemar Voigt born ... physicist, mathematician, and academic.


||Dr William Nicol (d. 2 September 1851) was a Scottish geologist and physicist who invented the Nicol prism, the first device for obtaining plane-polarized light, in 1828. Pic: memorial plaque.
||1851: William Nicol dies ... geologist and physicist who invented the Nicol prism, the first device for obtaining plane-polarized light, in 1828. Pic: memorial plaque.


||1853 – Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
||1853: Wilhelm Ostwald born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)


||Lars Edvard Phragmén (b. 2 September 1863) was a Swedish mathematician. Pic.
||1863: Lars Edvard Phragmén born ... mathematician. Pic.


File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|quaternion]].
File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|quaternion]].


||1877 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)
||1877: Frederick Soddy born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate .


||1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
||1901: Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.


||1913 – Israel Gelfand, Russian-American mathematician and biologist (d. 2009). Pic.
||1913: Israel Gelfand born ... mathematician and biologist (d. 2009). Pic.


||Elling Bolt Holst (d. 2 September 1915) was a Norwegian mathematician, biographer and children's writer.
||1915: Elling Bolt Holst dies ... mathematician, biographer and children's writer.


||1923 – René Thom, French mathematician, biologist, and academic (d. 2002)
||1923: René Thom born ... mathematician, biologist, and academic.


File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and crimefighter [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] publishes new theory of combinatory logic which uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and crimefighter [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] publishes new theory of combinatory logic which uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1948: Archaeologist and spy [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.  
File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1948: Archaeologist and spy [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.  


||Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick John Marrian Stratton(d. 2 September 1960) was a British astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer. Cool pic.
||1960: Frederick John Marrian Strattondies ... astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer. Cool pic.


||1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
||1963: CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.


||Joseph Numa Wenger (d. September 2, 1970) was a Rear-Admiral of the United States Navy who served as the first Deputy Director of the Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), and later as the first Vice Director of the National Security Agency, from December 1952 to November 1953, after the separate divisions of the AFSA merged into the NSA. Wenger was one of the leaders responsible for the development of the NSA.
||1970: Joseph Numa Wenger dies ... Rear-Admiral of the United States Navy who served as the first Deputy Director of the Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), and later as the first Vice Director of the National Security Agency, from December 1952 to November 1953, after the separate divisions of the AFSA merged into the NSA. Wenger was one of the leaders responsible for the development of the NSA.


||1987 – In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.
||1987: In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.


||1988: Alexander Aigner dies. He was a full university professor for mathematics at the Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria. During World War II he was part of a group of five mathematicians, which was recruited by the military cryptanalyst Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Georg Aumann, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht. (abbr. OKW/Chi).
||1988: Alexander Aigner dies. He was a full university professor for mathematics at the Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria. During World War II he was part of a group of five mathematicians, which was recruited by the military cryptanalyst Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Georg Aumann, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht. (abbr. OKW/Chi).


||Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove (d. 2 September 1990) was a Belgian physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology. Pic.
||1990: Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove dies ... physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology. Pic.


||Barbara McClintock (d. September 2, 1992) was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She discovered transposition and used it to demonstrate that genes are responsible for turning physical characteristics on and off. Pic.
||1992: Barbara McClintock dies ... scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She discovered transposition and used it to demonstrate that genes are responsible for turning physical characteristics on and off. Pic.
 
||1998:  Swissair Flight 111 crash: ... crashed into the Atlantic Ocean  ... Two paintings, including Le Peintre (The Painter) by Pablo Picasso, were on board the aircraft and were destroyed in the accident.


File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1999: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' sells for one and a half million dollars.
File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1999: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' sells for one and a half million dollars.

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