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||1497 – Philip Melanchthon, German astronomer, theologian, and academic (d. 1560) | |||
||1514 – Georg Joachim Rheticus, Austrian cartographer and instrument maker (d. 1574) | |||
File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] dies. | File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] dies. | ||
||1531 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452) | |||
File:François Ravaillac.jpg||1610: Regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] drinks [[Extract of Radium]] for the first time. | File:François Ravaillac.jpg||1610: Regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] drinks [[Extract of Radium]] for the first time. | ||
||1698 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (d. 1758) | |||
||1727 – Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian botanist, chemist, and mycologist (d. 1817) | |||
||1740 – Giambattista Bodoni, Italian publisher and engraver (d. 1813) | |||
||1802 – Phineas Quimby, American mystic and philosopher (d. 1866) | |||
File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|link=Francis Galton (nonfiction)|1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician [[Francis Galton (nonfiction)|Francis Galton]] born. | File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|link=Francis Galton (nonfiction)|1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician [[Francis Galton (nonfiction)|Francis Galton]] born. | ||
||1834 – Ernst Haeckel, German biologist, physician, and philosopher (d. 1919) | |||
||1874 – Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender. | |||
||1878 – Pamela Colman Smith, English occultist and illustrator (d. 1951) | |||
||1878 – James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1920) | |||
||1891 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic (d. 1967) | |||
File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1898: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by playing dead. | File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1898: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by playing dead. | ||
||1906 – Vera Menchik, Russian-English chess player (d. 1944) | |||
||File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1912: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] dies. She conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the hypothetical law of conservation of parity. | |||
||1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon. | |||
||1940 – World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed. | |||
File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. | File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. | ||
||1961 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched. | |||
File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to visualizes [[Hamangia scrying engine|Hamangia figurines]], discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to visualizes [[Hamangia scrying engine|Hamangia figurines]], discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
||1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service. | |||
||1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago). | |||
||1977 – Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1905) | |||
||1980 – Erich Hückel, German physicist and chemist (b. 1895) | |||
||1991 – Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. | |||
||1997 – Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist and academic (b. 1912) | |||
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Revision as of 16:48, 1 October 2017
1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler dies.
1610: Regicide François Ravaillac drinks Extract of Radium for the first time.
1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.
1898: Havelock survives shootout by playing dead.
1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to visualizes Hamangia figurines, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
