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||1606 – Everard Digby, English criminal (b. 1578)
||1606: Everard Digby born ... criminal.


||1606 – John Grant, English conspirator (b. 1570)
||1606: John Grant dies ... conspirator.


||1606 – Robert Wintour, English conspirator (b. 1565)
||1606: Robert Wintour dies ... conspirator.


File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1661: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]], Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1661: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]], Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
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File:James Watt.jpg|link=James Watt (nonfiction)|1736: inventor, engineer, and chemist [[James Watt (nonfiction)|James Watt]] born. He will make major improvements to the steam engine.
File:James Watt.jpg|link=James Watt (nonfiction)|1736: inventor, engineer, and chemist [[James Watt (nonfiction)|James Watt]] born. He will make major improvements to the steam engine.


||1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
||1826: The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.


||1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself.
||1835: In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself.


||Samuel Loyd (b. January 30, 1841), born in Philadelphia and raised in New York City, was an American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician. Pic.
||1841: Samuel Loyd born ... chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician. Pic.


||Sears Cook Walker (d. January 30, 1853) was an American astronomer.
||1853: Sears Cook Walker born ... astronomer.


||1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
||1862: The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.


File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1884: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]] which generates images from residual consciousness in the severed head of [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]].
File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1884: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]] which generates images from residual consciousness in the severed head of [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]].
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||1968 – Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
||1968 – Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.


||1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
||1969: The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.


File:USS Monitor sinking.jpg|link=Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (nonfiction)|1975: The [[Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (nonfiction)|Monitor National Marine Sanctuary]] is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
File:USS Monitor sinking.jpg|link=Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (nonfiction)|1975: The [[Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (nonfiction)|Monitor National Marine Sanctuary]] is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
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File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|1976: Comic book artist and crime-fighter [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] publishes illustrated history of [[math crimes]] throughout history.
File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|1976: Comic book artist and crime-fighter [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] publishes illustrated history of [[math crimes]] throughout history.


||Victor Mikhailovich Glushkov (d. January 30, 1982) was a Soviet mathematician, the founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union, and one of the founders of Cybernetics. Pic.
||1982: Victor Mikhailovich Glushkov dies ... mathematician, the founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union, and one of the founders of Cybernetics. Pic.


||1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
||1982: Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".


||Wang Zhuxi (d. January 30, 1983), who had the given name Zhuqi (治淇) and the sobriquet Zhuxi, was a renowned Chinese physicist, educator, and philologist. Pic.
||1983: Wang Zhuxi dies ... physicist, educator, and philologist. Pic.


||1991 – John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
||1991: John Bardeen dies ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Samuel Eilenberg 1970.jpg|link=Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|1998: Mathematician [[Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|Samuel Eilenberg]] dies.  He co-founded category theory with Saunders Mac Lane, and proposed the Eilenberg swindle (a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules).  
File:Samuel Eilenberg 1970.jpg|link=Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|1998: Mathematician [[Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|Samuel Eilenberg]] dies.  He co-founded category theory with Saunders Mac Lane, and proposed the Eilenberg swindle (a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules).  


||2013 – Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
||2011: Ian Robertson Porteous dies ... mathematician at the University of Liverpool and an educator on Merseyside. He is best known for three books on geometry and modern algebra.  Pic: http://hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk/tiki/Ian+Porteous


||2015 – Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (b. 1923)
||2013: Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
 
||2015: Carl Djerassi dies ... chemist, author, and playwright.


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