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||1627 – Johann Abraham Ihle, German astronomer (d. 1699) | |||
||1736 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (d. 1806) | |||
||1746 – Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (b. 1698) | |||
||1796 – Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1866) | |||
||1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables". | |||
||1825 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (b. 1754) | |||
||1856 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1922) | |||
|1856 born: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Markov | |1856 born: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Markov | ||
||1862 – John Ulric Nef, Swiss-American chemist and academic (d. 1915) | |||
||1868 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943) | |||
||1871 – Jacob Ellehammer, Danish mechanic and engineer (d. 1946) | |||
||1903 – Alonzo Church, American mathematician and logician (d. 1995) | |||
||1903 – Rose Rand, Austrian-American logician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1980) | |||
||1917 – Atle Selberg, Norwegian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2007) | |||
||1924 – James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010) | |||
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1946: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] dies. He was one of the inventors of the mechanical television. | File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1946: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] dies. He was one of the inventors of the mechanical television. | ||
||1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space. | |||
||1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau. | |||
||1962 – The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency. | |||
||1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557. | |||
||1967 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus. | |||
||1967 – China tests its first hydrogen bomb. | |||
File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1966: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] uses [[scrying engine]] to reveal previously unknown [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1966: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] uses [[scrying engine]] to reveal previously unknown [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1986 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (b. 1899) | |||
File:Roger Zelazny 1988.jpg|link=Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|1995: Writer [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]] dies. He won the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times. | File:Roger Zelazny 1988.jpg|link=Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|1995: Writer [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]] dies. He won the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times. | ||
File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|1995:[[The Custodian]] offers supernatural crime fighter job to deceased writer [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]]. | File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|1995:[[The Custodian]] offers supernatural crime fighter job to deceased writer [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]]. | ||
||2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. | |||
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Revision as of 17:11, 9 August 2017
1946: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird dies. He was one of the inventors of the mechanical television.
1966: Mathematician Edward Lorenz uses scrying engine to reveal previously unknown crimes against mathematical constants.
1995: Writer Roger Zelazny dies. He won the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.
1995:The Custodian offers supernatural crime fighter job to deceased writer Roger Zelazny.