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||1918: Johann Heinrich Graf dies ... mathematician who was rector of the University of Bern and promoter of the Swiss National Library. Pic.
||1918: Johann Heinrich Graf dies ... mathematician who was rector of the University of Bern and promoter of the Swiss National Library. Pic.


||1922 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
||1922: Jacobus Kapteyn dies ... astronomer and academic.


||1926 – Allan Sandage, American astronomer and cosmologist (d. 2010)
||1926: Allan Sandage born ... astronomer and cosmologist.


File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1928: Aviator [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1928: Aviator [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).


||1932 – Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
||1951: Gyula Sax born ... chess player.


||1951 – Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess player (d. 2014)
||1971: Paul Karrer dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1971 – Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)


||1972: Milton La Salle Humason dies ... astronomer. He became known as a meticulous observer, obtaining photographs and difficult spectrograms of faint galaxies. His observations played a major role in the development of physical cosmology.  Pic: https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/programs/cosmictimes/downloads/newsletters/1929NL_LateEd.pdf
||1972: Milton La Salle Humason dies ... astronomer. He became known as a meticulous observer, obtaining photographs and difficult spectrograms of faint galaxies. His observations played a major role in the development of physical cosmology.  Pic: https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/programs/cosmictimes/downloads/newsletters/1929NL_LateEd.pdf
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File:Júlio César de Melo e Sousa.png|link=Júlio César de Mello e Souza (nonfiction)|1974: Mathematician and academic [[Júlio César de Mello e Souza (nonfiction)|Júlio César de Mello e Souza]] dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.
File:Júlio César de Melo e Sousa.png|link=Júlio César de Mello e Souza (nonfiction)|1974: Mathematician and academic [[Júlio César de Mello e Souza (nonfiction)|Júlio César de Mello e Souza]] dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.


||Georgi Delchev Bradistilov (d. 18 June 1977) was a Bulgarian mathematician. Pic.
||1977: Georgi Delchev Bradistilov dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1979 – SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
||1979: SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.


||Kazimierz Kuratowski (d. 18 June 1980) was a Polish mathematician and logician.
||1980: Kazimierz Kuratowski dies ... mathematician and logician.


||1982 – Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.
||1982: Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.


||1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
||1983: Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.


||Marshall Glecker Holloway (d. June 18, 1991) was an American physicist who worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory during and after World War II. He was its representative, and the deputy scientific director, at the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in July 1946. Holloway became the head of the Laboratory's W Division, responsible for new weapons development. In September 1952 he was charged with designing, building and testing a thermonuclear weapon, popularly known as a hydrogen bomb. This culminated in the Ivy Mike test in November of that year. Pic.
||1988: Roger Conant Lyndon dies ... mathematician, for many years a professor at the University of Michigan. He is known for Lyndon words, the Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem, Craig–Lyndon interpolation and the Lyndon–Hochschild–Serre spectral sequence. Pic: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Lyndon


||2005 – Manuel Sadosky, Argentinian mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
||1991: Marshall Glecker Holloway dies ... physicist who worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory during and after World War II. He was its representative, and the deputy scientific director, at the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in July 1946. Holloway became the head of the Laboratory's W Division, responsible for new weapons development. In September 1952 he was charged with designing, building and testing a thermonuclear weapon, popularly known as a hydrogen bomb. This culminated in the Ivy Mike test in November of that year. Pic.


||2006 – The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.
||2005: Manuel Sadosky dies ... mathematician and academic.


||2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
||2006: The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.


||2014 – Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist and engineer (b. 1923)
||2009: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
 
||2014: Stephanie Kwolek dies ... chemist and engineer.


File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|2017: ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration.
File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|2017: ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration.
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  • 1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.

    1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.

  • 1563: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1563: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1928: Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).

    1928: Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).

  • 1974: Mathematician and academic Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.

    1974: Mathematician and academic Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.

  • 2017: Culvert Origenes and The Governess wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration.

    2017: Culvert Origenes and The Governess wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration.

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