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||1896: Friedrich Hund born .. physicist and academic/
||1896: Friedrich Hund born .. physicist and academic/


||1903 – Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (d. 2014)
||1903: Alexander Imich born ... chemist, parapsychologist, and academic.


File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1902: Pilot and explorer [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.  
File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1902: Pilot and explorer [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.  
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File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1906: Astronomer and academic [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.
File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1906: Astronomer and academic [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.


||Sid Sackson (b. February 4, 1920) was an American board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game Acquire.
||1920: Sid Sackson born ... board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game Acquire.


||1921 – Lotfi Zadeh, Iranian-American mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic (d. 2017) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.html
||1921: Lotfi Zadeh born ... mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.html


File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to attend virtual lecture by [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]].
File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to attend virtual lecture by [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]].


||1925 – Christopher Zeeman, English mathematician and academic (d. 2016)
||1925: Christopher Zeeman born ... mathematician and academic.


||1927 – Rolf Landauer, German-American physicist and academic (d. 1999)
||1927: Rolf Landauer born ... physicist and academic.


File:Hendrik_Antoon_Lorentz.jpg|link=Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|1928: Physicist and academic [[Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|Hendrik Lorentz]] dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
File:Hendrik_Antoon_Lorentz.jpg|link=Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|1928: Physicist and academic [[Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|Hendrik Lorentz]] dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.


||Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American novelist, short story writer, and T.B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.
||1932: Robert Lowell Coover born ... novelist, short story writer, and T.B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.


||1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
||1945: World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.


||1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
||1967: Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.


File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.  
File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.  
||1989: Morton Landers Curtis dies ... mathematician, an expert on group theory. Together with Gustav A. Hedlund and Roger Lyndon, he proved the Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem characterizing cellular automata as being defined by continuous equivariant functions on a shift space. Pic: search book cover.


File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1994: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1994: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].


||2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
||2010: Richard K. Lashof dies ... mathematician. He contributed to the field of geometric and differential topology, working with Shiing-Shen Chern, Stephen Smale, among others. Pic.
 
||Richard K. Lashof (d. February 4, 2010) was an American mathematician. He contributed to the field of geometric and differential topology, working with Shiing-Shen Chern, Stephen Smale, among others. Pic.


||Alan Baker (d. 4 February 2018) was an English mathematician, known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular those arising from transcendental number theory. Pic.
||2018: Alan Baker dies ... mathematician, known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular those arising from transcendental number theory. Pic.


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  • 1889: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to manipulate the royal family.

    1889: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to manipulate the royal family.

  • 1902: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.

    1902: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.

  • 1906: Astronomer and academic Clyde Tombaugh born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.

    1906: Astronomer and academic Clyde Tombaugh born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.

  • 1923: Mathematician Karl Menger uses scrying engine techniques to attend virtual lecture by Donald Knuth.

    1923: Mathematician Karl Menger uses scrying engine techniques to attend virtual lecture by Donald Knuth.

  • 1928: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.

    1928: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.

  • 1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

    1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

  • 1994: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1994: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

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