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||1504 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies. | |||
File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1522: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] uses [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]] to predict the birth of [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]]. | File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1522: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] uses [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]] to predict the birth of [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]]. | ||
||1600 – Caspar Hennenberger, German pastor, historian and cartographer (b. 1529) | |||
||John Theophilus Desaguliers (d. 1744) was a French-born British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton. | |||
File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1860: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] born. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing. | File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1860: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] born. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing. | ||
||1928 – Seymour Papert, South African mathematician and computer scientist, co-created the Logo programming language (d. 2016) | |||
||1932 – Gene H. Golub, American mathematician and academic - Gene Howard Golub (b. February 29, 1932), Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science (and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering) at Stanford University, was one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation. | |||
|link=Ernest Lawrence (nonfiction)|1940: In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist [[Ernest Lawrence (nonfiction)|Ernest Lawrence]] receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco. | |||
File:Hellschreiber.jpg|link=Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|1964: [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber]] teleprinter system used to publish new biography of [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]]. | File:Hellschreiber.jpg|link=Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|1964: [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber]] teleprinter system used to publish new biography of [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]]. | ||
||1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam. | |||
File:Vereinigte_Ostindische_Compagnie_bond.jpg|link=transdimensional corporation|2016: Bond, issued by Dutch East India Company in 1623, converted to [[transdimensional corporation]]. | File:Vereinigte_Ostindische_Compagnie_bond.jpg|link=transdimensional corporation|2016: Bond, issued by Dutch East India Company in 1623, converted to [[transdimensional corporation]]. | ||
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Revision as of 20:22, 22 November 2017
1522: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé uses judicial astrology to predict the birth of Herman Hollerith.
1860: Inventor Herman Hollerith born. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.
1964: Hellscreiber teleprinter system used to publish new biography of Herman Hollerith.
2016: Bond, issued by Dutch East India Company in 1623, converted to transdimensional corporation.