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||1433 – Marsilio Ficino, Italian astrologer and philosopher (d. 1499)
||1433: Marsilio Ficino born ... astrologer and philosopher.


||Sir Thomas Browne (b. 19 October 1605) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry.  Pic.
||1605: Thomas Browne born ... polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry.  Pic.


||Sir Thomas Browne (d. 19 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry.  Pic.
||1682: Thomas Browne dies ... polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry.  Pic.


||1688 – William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752)
||1688: William Cheselden dies ... surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752)


||1815 – Paolo Mascagni, Italian physician and anatomist (b. 1755)
||1815: Paolo Mascagni dies ... physician and anatomist.


||Irénée-Jules Bienaymé (d. 19 October 1878), was a French statistician. He built on the legacy of Laplace generalizing his least squares method. He contributed to the fields of probability and statistics, and to their application to finance, demography and social sciences. In particular, he formulated the Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality concerning the law of large numbers and the Bienaymé formula for the variance of a sum of uncorrelated random variables. Pic.
||1878: Irénée-Jules Bienaymé dies ... statistician. He built on the legacy of Laplace generalizing his least squares method. He contributed to the fields of probability and statistics, and to their application to finance, demography and social sciences. In particular, he formulated the Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality concerning the law of large numbers and the Bienaymé formula for the variance of a sum of uncorrelated random variables. Pic.


||1897 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar (d. 1994)
||1897: Salimuzzaman Siddiqui born ... chemist and scholar.


File:Max Planck 1878.gif|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1900: [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).
File:Max Planck 1878.gif|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1900: [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).


||1909 – Marguerite Perey, French physicist and academic (d. 1975)
||1902: Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn dies ... geologist and public servant. Pic.
 
||1909: Marguerite Perey born ... physicist and academic (d. 1975)


File:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.png|link=Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (nonfiction)|1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (nonfiction)|Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]] born. He will share the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".  
File:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.png|link=Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (nonfiction)|1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (nonfiction)|Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]] born. He will share the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".  


||1937 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
||1937: Ernest Rutherford dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Roman Ulrich Sexl (b. 19 October 1939) was one of the leading Austrian theoretical physicists. He is famous for his textbooks on Special relativity.
||1939: Roman Ulrich Sexl born ... theoretical physicist. He is famous for his textbooks on Special relativity.


||1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
||1943: Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.


||1944 – Dénes Kőnig, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1884)
||1944: Dénes Kőnig dies ... mathematician.


File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.


||1987 – The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
||1987: The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
 
||1992 – Magnus Pyke, English scientist and television host (b. 1908)


||Karl Stein (d. 19 October 2000) was a German mathematician. He is well known for complex analysis and cryptography. Stein manifolds and Stein factorization are named after him. Pic.
||1992: Magnus Pyke dies ... scientist and television host.


||2002 – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian physicist and astronaut (b. 1932)
||2000: Karl Stein dies ... mathematician. He is well known for complex analysis and cryptography. Stein manifolds and Stein factorization are named after him. Pic.


||Peter Gabriel Bergmann (d. 19 October 2002) was a German-American physicist best known for his work with Albert Einstein on a unified field theory encompassing all physical interactions. He also introduced primary and secondary constraints into mechanics.  
||2002: Nikolay Rukavishnikov dies ... physicist and astronaut.


||2007 – Winifred Asprey, American mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1917)
||2002: Peter Gabriel Bergmann dies ... physicist best known for his work with Albert Einstein on a unified field theory encompassing all physical interactions. He also introduced primary and secondary constraints into mechanics.  


||2007: Winifred Asprey dies ... mathematician and computer scientist.


|File:A Narrow Escape.jpg|link=Narrow escape problem (nonfiction)|American Civil War officer demonstrates [[Narrow escape problem (nonfiction)|Narrow escape problem]].
|File:Cantor set (four iterations).png|link=The Sigil (crime fighter)|Crime-fighter [[The Sigil (crime fighter)|The Sigil]] vows to teach [[Crimes against mathematical constants|math criminals]] a [[Set theory (nonfiction)|Set theory]] lesson they will not soon forget.
|File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|[[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] may be cover story for [[Brownian racket]], according to [[John Brunner]].
|File:Léon Brillouin 1927.jpg|link=Léon Brillouin (nonfiction)|[[Léon Brillouin (nonfiction)|Léon Brillouin]] denies making blood pact with [[Maxwell's demon (nonfiction)|Maxwell's demon]].
|File:Maxwell's_demon.svg|link=Maxwell's demon (nonfiction)|[[Maxwell's demon (nonfiction)|Maxwell's demon]] not so bad once you get to know [[Mathematics|the math]], says [[Léon Brillouin (nonfiction)|Léon Brillouin]].
|File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|[[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] has that "[[Information theory (nonfiction)|information theory]]" gleam in his eye.
|File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|Traditional [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] powerless against [[Demon (nonfiction)|demons]], says Writer-Sorceror [[Roger Zelazny]].
|File:Neptune_Slaughter_menaces_Project_Iceworm.jpg|link=Project Iceworm (nonfiction)|Supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] manifests as gigantic ice worm, menaces [[Project Iceworm (nonfiction)|Project Iceworm]].
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  • 1900: Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).

    1900: Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).

  • 1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar born. He will share the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".

    1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar born. He will share the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".

  • 1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.

    1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.

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