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||1415: Jan Hus is condemned as a heretic and then burned at the stake. Pic. | ||1415: Jan Hus is condemned as a heretic and then burned at the stake. Pic. | ||
||1423: Antonio Manetti born . | File:Antonio Manetti.jpg|link=Antonio Manetti (nonfiction)|1423: Mathematician and architect [[Antonio Manetti (nonfiction)|Antonio Manetti]] born. He will investigate the site, shape and size of Dante's ''Inferno'', and write a biography of the architect Filippo Brunelleschi. | ||
File:Regiomontanus Nuremberg chronicles.jpg|link=Regiomontanus (nonfiction|1476: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop [[Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|Johann Regiomontanus]] dies. | File:Regiomontanus Nuremberg chronicles.jpg|link=Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|1476: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop [[Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|Johann Regiomontanus]] dies. He madecontributions to astromony which will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the following decades. | ||
||1535: Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England. Pic. | ||1535: Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England. Pic. | ||
||1686: Antoine de Jussieu born ... biologist and academic. | ||1686: Antoine de Jussieu born ... biologist and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1781: Thomas Stamford Raffles born ... British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Modern Singapore. Pic. | ||1781: Thomas Stamford Raffles born ... British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Modern Singapore. Pic. | ||
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||1819: Sophie Blanchard dies ... aeronaut and the wife of ballooning pioneer Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Blanchard was the first woman to work as a professional balloonist, and after her husband's death she continued ballooning, making more than 60 ascents. Known throughout Europe for her ballooning exploits, Blanchard entertained Napoleon Bonaparte, who promoted her to the role of "Aeronaut of the Official Festivals", replacing André-Jacques Garnerin. On the restoration of the monarchy in 1814 she performed for Louis XVIII, who named her "Official Aeronaut of the Restoration". Pic. | ||1819: Sophie Blanchard dies ... aeronaut and the wife of ballooning pioneer Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Blanchard was the first woman to work as a professional balloonist, and after her husband's death she continued ballooning, making more than 60 ascents. Known throughout Europe for her ballooning exploits, Blanchard entertained Napoleon Bonaparte, who promoted her to the role of "Aeronaut of the Official Festivals", replacing André-Jacques Garnerin. On the restoration of the monarchy in 1814 she performed for Louis XVIII, who named her "Official Aeronaut of the Restoration". Pic. | ||
||1831: Daniel Coit Gilman born ... educator and academic. Gilman was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and subsequently served as the third president of the University of California, as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution. He was also co-founder of the Russell Trust Association, which administers the business affairs of Yale's Skull and Bones society. Gilman served for twenty five years as president of Johns Hopkins; his inauguration in 1876 has been said to mark "the starting point of postgraduate education in the U.S." | ||1831: Daniel Coit Gilman born ... educator and academic. Gilman was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and subsequently served as the third president of the University of California, as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution. He was also co-founder of the Russell Trust Association, which administers the business affairs of Yale's Skull and Bones society. Gilman served for twenty five years as president of Johns Hopkins; his inauguration in 1876 has been said to mark "the starting point of postgraduate education in the U.S." Pic. | ||
||1849: Sir Alfred Bray Kempe born ... mathematician best known for his work on linkages and the four colour theorem. Pic. | ||1849: Sir Alfred Bray Kempe born ... mathematician best known for his work on linkages and the four colour theorem. Pic. | ||
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||1869: Friedrich Fichter ... professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Basel. His main field of interest was electrochemistry. DOB unknown. Pic. | ||1869: Friedrich Fichter ... professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Basel. His main field of interest was electrochemistry. DOB unknown. Pic. | ||
||1885: Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog. | ||1885: Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog. Pic. | ||
||1892: Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded. | ||1892: Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded. | ||
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||1915: Lawrence Hargrave dies ... engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer. Pic. | ||1915: Lawrence Hargrave dies ... engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer. Pic. | ||
||1921: Dmitri Polyakov born ... general and spy. Polyakov revealed Soviet secrets to the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency. Pic search. | |||
||1926: Hartley Rogers Jr. born ... mathematician who worked in recursion theory, and was a professor in the Mathematics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Rogers equivalence theorem is named after him. Pic: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=hartley-rogers&pid=175517283 DOB: http://news.mit.edu/2015/hartley-rogers-professor-emeritus-mathematics-dies-0722 | ||1926: Hartley Rogers Jr. born ... mathematician who worked in recursion theory, and was a professor in the Mathematics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Rogers equivalence theorem is named after him. Pic: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=hartley-rogers&pid=175517283 DOB: http://news.mit.edu/2015/hartley-rogers-professor-emeritus-mathematics-dies-0722 | ||
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||1962: As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place. | ||1962: As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place. | ||
||1971: Roger Adams dies ... organic chemist. He is best known for the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and his work did much to determine the composition of naturally occurring substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids. Pic. | |||
||1983: Chemist and academic Stephen Brunauer dies. He resigned from his position with the U.S. Navy during the McCarthy era, when he found it impossible to refute anonymous charges that he was disloyal to the U.S. Pic search. | |||
||Piper Alpha oil platform explosion - located in the North Sea approximately 120 miles (190 km) north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited[1] and began production in 1976, initially as an oil-only platform but later converted to add gas production. An explosion and resulting oil and gas fires destroyed Piper Alpha on 6 July 1988, killing 167 men, including two crewmen of a rescue vessel; 61 workers escaped and survived. Thirty bodies were never recovered. | |||
File:EFF Logo.svg.png|link=Electronic Frontier Foundation (nonfiction)|1990: The [[Electronic Frontier Foundation (nonfiction)|Electronic Freedom Foundation]] is founded. EFF is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. | File:EFF Logo.svg.png|link=Electronic Frontier Foundation (nonfiction)|1990: The [[Electronic Frontier Foundation (nonfiction)|Electronic Freedom Foundation]] is founded. EFF is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. | ||
||1998: Biak massacre, West Papua - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/west-papuans-tortured-killed-and-dumped-at-sea-tribunal-hears | |||
||2003: The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively. | ||2003: The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively. | ||
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1423: Mathematician and architect Antonio Manetti born. He will investigate the site, shape and size of Dante's Inferno, and write a biography of the architect Filippo Brunelleschi.
1476: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop Johann Regiomontanus dies. He madecontributions to astromony which will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the following decades.
1913: Mathematician Jordan Carson Mark born. He will oversee the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s.
1990: The Electronic Freedom Foundation is founded. EFF is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.