Template:Selected anniversaries/August 8: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 33: | Line 33: | ||
||1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle, the heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft, with the longest wingspan of any military aircraft, and the first bomber with intercontinental range. | ||1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle, the heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft, with the longest wingspan of any military aircraft, and the first bomber with intercontinental range. | ||
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1963: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]]. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough." | File:Plumbbob-Stokes barrage balloon.jpg|link=Stokes (nonfiction)|1957: A day after the [[Stokes (nonfiction)|Stokes nuclear weapon test]], large numbers of [[carnivorous dirigibles]] unexpectedly die. | ||
||File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1963: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]]. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough." | |||
||1969 – Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (b. 1896) | ||1969 – Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (b. 1896) | ||
Revision as of 18:53, 11 December 2017
1555: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé dies. He was imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing judicial astrology.
1872: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" Wallace War-Heels defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
1873: Scientist, inventor, and engineer Francis Ronalds dies. He was knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.
1957: A day after the Stokes nuclear weapon test, large numbers of carnivorous dirigibles unexpectedly die.
2000: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
2017: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for two million dollars in charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.