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File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1716: Mathematician and philosopher [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] dies. He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and designed and built mechanical calculators.
File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1716: Mathematician and philosopher [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] dies. He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and designed and built mechanical calculators.


||Sir Charles Lyell (b. 14 November 1797) was a Scottish geologist who popularized the revolutionary work of James Hutton. He wrote ''Principles of Geology'', which presented uniformitarianism–the idea that the Earth was shaped by the same scientific processes still in operation today–to the broad general public.  
||1797: Charles Lyell born ... geologist who popularized the revolutionary work of James Hutton. He wrote ''Principles of Geology'', which presented uniformitarianism–the idea that the Earth was shaped by the same scientific processes still in operation today–to the broad general public.  


||Auguste Laurent (b. 14 November 1807) was a French chemist who helped in the founding of organic chemistry with his discoveries of anthracene, phthalic acid, and carbolic acid. He devised a systematic nomenclature for organic chemistry based on structural grouping of atoms within molecules to determine how the molecules combine in organic reactions.  Pic.
||1807: Auguste Laurent born ... chemist who helped in the founding of organic chemistry with his discoveries of anthracene, phthalic acid, and carbolic acid. He devised a systematic nomenclature for organic chemistry based on structural grouping of atoms within molecules to determine how the molecules combine in organic reactions.  Pic.


||1817 – Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian seamstress and spy (b. 1795)
||1817: Policarpa Salavarrieta dies ... seamstress and spy.


||1829 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist (b. 1763)
||1829: Louis Nicolas Vauquelin dies ... pharmacist and chemist.


||Ulisse Dini (b. 14 November 1845) was an Italian mathematician and politician, born in Pisa. He is known for his contribution to real analysis,
||1845: Ulisse Dini born ... mathematician and politician, born in Pisa. He is known for his contribution to real analysis.


||1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.
||1851: Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.


||1863 – Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (d. 1944)
||1863: Leo Baekeland born ... chemist and engineer.


||Robert Lee Moore (b. November 14, 1882) was an American mathematician who taught for many years at the University of Texas. He is known for his work in general topology, for the Moore method of teaching university mathematics, and for his poor treatment of African-American mathematics students. Pic.
||1882: Robert Lee Moore born ... mathematician who taught for many years at the University of Texas. He is known for his work in general topology, for the Moore method of teaching university mathematics, and for his poor treatment of African-American mathematics students. Pic.


||Pedro Arrupe SJ (b. 14 November 1907) was a Spanish Basque Jesuit priest who served as the twenty-eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1965–83). Stationed as novice master outside Hiroshima in 1945, he used his medical background as a first responder to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. No pic.
||1907: Pedro Arrupe SJ born ... Jesuit priest who served as the twenty-eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1965–83). Stationed as novice master outside Hiroshima in 1945, he used his medical background as a first responder to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. No pic.


||1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
||1910: Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.


||1916 – Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician and academic (d. 1994)
||1916: Roger Apéry born ... mathematician and academic (d. 1994)


||1925 – Stirling Colgate, American physicist and academic (d. 2013)
||1925: Stirling Colgate born ... physicist and academic.


||Eldridge Reeves Johnson (d. November 14, 1945 in Moorestown, New Jersey) was an American businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time.
||1945: Eldridge Reeves Johnson dies ... businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time.


||1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
||1967: American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.


||1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
||1969: Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.


File:Six Seconds to Hell.jpg|link=Six Seconds to Hell|1970: Famed illustration ''[[Six Seconds to Hell]]'' sells for two million dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Six Seconds to Hell.jpg|link=Six Seconds to Hell|1970: Famed illustration ''[[Six Seconds to Hell]]'' sells for two million dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1971: Johanna (Hanna) Neumann dies ... mathematician who worked on group theory. Pic.


File:Mariner 9.jpg|link=Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|1971: [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] enters orbit around Mars. It will map 70% of the surface, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
File:Mariner 9.jpg|link=Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|1971: [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] enters orbit around Mars. It will map 70% of the surface, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.


||1979 – Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
||1979: Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.


||2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
||2003: Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.


||Gustave Choquet (d. 14 November 2006) was a French mathematician.
||2006: Gustave Choquet dies ... mathematician.


||2014 – Eugene Dynkin, Russian-American mathematician and theorist (b. 1924)
||2014: Eugene Dynkin dies ... mathematician and theorist.


File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates forty-sixth anniversary of [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] entering orbit around [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates forty-sixth anniversary of [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] entering orbit around [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].


|File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1701: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to develop improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]].
|File:Petroleum.jpg|link=The Little Petroleum Sample That Could|Children's book ''[[The Little Petroleum Sample That Could]]'' awarded Caldecott Medal.
|File:Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule.jpg|link=Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule|Critics hail ''[[Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule]]'' as "a breakthrough in communications between people and chlorophyll."
|File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|[[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]].
|File:Humans_fighting_sea_monster.jpg|link=The Human Wars (Abalonia)350px|Skirmish between humans and a sea monster leads to [[The Human Wars (Abalonia)|The Human Wars]].
|File:Septins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.jpg|link=Transdimensional prison|[[Transdimensional prison|''Saccharomyces Cerevisiae'' Prison]] unable to contain supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]].
|File:Neptune_Slaughter.jpg|link=Neptune Slaughter|Supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] manifests as gigantic ice worm, calls upon world leaders to enact climate legislation.
|File:Approved_by_the_Comics_Code_Authority.gif|link=Comics Code Authority (nonfiction)|[[Comics Code Authority (nonfiction)|Comics Code Authority symbol]] not willing to confront [[Neptune Slaughter]].
|File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|[[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] has plan to outwit [[Neptune Slaughter]].
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