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||1452 – Abraham Zacuto, Jewish astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian (d. 1515) | |||
||1624 – The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister. | |||
||1810 – Étienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725) | |||
File:William Blake by John Flaxman c1804.jpg|link=William Blake (nonfiction)|1827: Poet, painter, and printmaker [[William Blake (nonfiction)|William Blake]] dies. | |||
||Johann Christian Martin Bartels (12 August 1769 – 20 December [O.S. 7 December] 1836) was a German mathematician. He was the tutor of Carl Friedrich Gauss in Brunswick and the educator of Lobachevsky at the University of Kazan. | ||Johann Christian Martin Bartels (12 August 1769 – 20 December [O.S. 7 December] 1836) was a German mathematician. He was the tutor of Carl Friedrich Gauss in Brunswick and the educator of Lobachevsky at the University of Kazan. | ||
||1848 – George Stephenson, English engineer and academic (b. 1781) | |||
||1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine. | |||
||1861 – Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793) | |||
File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine [[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]] arrives at Charleston, South Carolina by rail. | File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine [[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]] arrives at Charleston, South Carolina by rail. | ||
||1865 – Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery. | |||
||1885 – Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic (d. 1959) | |||
||1887 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961) | |||
||1900 – Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836) | |||
||1901 – Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832) | |||
||1906 – Tedd Pierce, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1972) | |||
||1914 – John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed the HMS Holland 1 (b. 1840) | |||
||1919 – Margaret Burbidge, English-American astrophysicist and academic | |||
||1919 – Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic (d. 1971) | |||
||1925 – George Wetherill, American physicist and academic (d. 2006) | |||
||1935 – Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician and academic (b. 1851) | |||
||Leigh Van Valen (b. August 12, 1935) was an U.S. evolutionary biologist. At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. | |||
File:George Ellery Hale.jpg|link=George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|1937: Astronomer and crime-fighter [[George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|George Ellery Hale]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], based on magnetic fields in sunspots, which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:George Ellery Hale.jpg|link=George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|1937: Astronomer and crime-fighter [[George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|George Ellery Hale]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], based on magnetic fields in sunspots, which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1952 – The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. | |||
||1953 – The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb. | |||
||1955 – James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887) | |||
||1960 – Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched. | |||
||1964 – Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908) | |||
||1973 – Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) | |||
||1973 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) | |||
||1977 – The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise. | |||
||1979 – Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) | |||
||1981 – The IBM Personal Computer is released. | |||
File:William Shockley.jpg|link=William Shockley (nonfiction)|1989: Physicist and inventor [[William Shockley (nonfiction)|William Shockley]] dies. He shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the [[Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|point-contact transistor]]. | File:William Shockley.jpg|link=William Shockley (nonfiction)|1989: Physicist and inventor [[William Shockley (nonfiction)|William Shockley]] dies. He shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the [[Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|point-contact transistor]]. | ||
||1990 – Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota. | |||
||1996 – Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1908) | |||
File:Vera Rubin.jpg|link=Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|1996: Astronomer and crime-fighter [[Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|Vera Rubin]] computes the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, makes contact with [[AESOP]]. | File:Vera Rubin.jpg|link=Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|1996: Astronomer and crime-fighter [[Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|Vera Rubin]] computes the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, makes contact with [[AESOP]]. | ||
||2000 – The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew. | |||
||2004 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English biophysicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919) | |||
File:Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter.jpg|link=Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (nonfiction)|2005: The ''[[Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (nonfiction)|Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter]]'' launched. | File:Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter.jpg|link=Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (nonfiction)|2005: The ''[[Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (nonfiction)|Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter]]'' launched. | ||
Revision as of 19:58, 28 October 2017
1827: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake dies.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley arrives at Charleston, South Carolina by rail.
1937: Astronomer and crime-fighter George Ellery Hale publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on magnetic fields in sunspots, which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1989: Physicist and inventor William Shockley dies. He shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the point-contact transistor.
1996: Astronomer and crime-fighter Vera Rubin computes the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, makes contact with AESOP.
2005: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the twelfth anniversary of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launch.
2017: AESOP re-broadcasts 1996 conversation with astronomer and crime-fighter Vera Rubin about the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion.