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File:Paul Guldin.jpg|link=Paul Guldin (nonfiction)|1577: Astronomer and mathematician [[Paul Guldin (nonfiction)|Paul Guldin]] born. He will discover the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.
File:Paul Guldin.jpg|link=Paul Guldin (nonfiction)|1577: Astronomer and mathematician [[Paul Guldin (nonfiction)|Paul Guldin]] born. He will discover the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.


||1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (d. 1869)
||1806: John A. Roebling born ... engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge.


||1812 – Edmond Hébert, French geologist and academic (d. 1890)
||1812: Edmond Hébert born ... geologist and academic.


||1817 – maiden ride by Karl von Drais of the bicycle.
||1817: Maiden ride by Karl von Drais of the bicycle.


||Edward Troughton FRS (d. 12 June 1835) was a British instrument maker who was notable for making telescopes and other astronomical instruments.
||1835: Edward Troughton dies ... instrument maker who was notable for making telescopes and other astronomical instruments.


||1843 – David Gill, Scottish-English astronomer and author (d. 1914)
||1843: David Gill born ... astronomer and author.


||1851 – Oliver Lodge, English physicist and academic (d. 1940)
||1851: Oliver Lodge born ... physicist and academic.


||1888 – Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1920)
||1888: Zygmunt Janiszewski born ... mathematician and academic.


||1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
||1899: Fritz Albert Lipmann born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Robert Bigham Brode (b. June 12, 1900) was an American physicist, who during World War II led the group at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos laboratory that developed the fuses used in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Pic.
||1900: Robert Bigham Brode born ... physicist, who during World War II led the group at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos laboratory that developed the fuses used in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Pic.


||1918 – Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer, Sri Lankan-Australian mathematician and academic (d. 2001)
||1918: Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer born ... mathematician and academic.


||1920 – Dave Berg, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 2002)
||1920: Dave Berg born soldier and cartoonist.


||1922 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (d. 2013)
||1922: Margherita Hack born ... astrophysicist and author.


||1930 – Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
||1930: Donald Byrne born ... chess player.


||1935 – A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War
||1935: A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War.


File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1936: Data from [[Canterbury scrying engine]] used to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1936: Data from [[Canterbury scrying engine]] used to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Franck Report.jpg|link=Franck Report (nonfiction)|1945:  Physicist James Franck brings the [[Franck Report (nonfiction)|Franck Report]] to Washington. The report recommends that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.
File:Franck Report.jpg|link=Franck Report (nonfiction)|1945:  Physicist James Franck brings the [[Franck Report (nonfiction)|Franck Report]] to Washington. The report recommends that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.


||1963 – NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the Civil Rights Movement.
||1963: NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the Civil Rights Movement.


||1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
||1964: Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.


||1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
||1967: The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.


||Egon Sharpe Pearson, CBE FRS (d. 12 June 1980) was one of three children and the son of Karl Pearson and, like his father, a leading British statistician.
||1980: Egon Sharpe Pearson dies ... statistician.


File:Arnold's cat map.png|link=Arnold's cat map (nonfiction)|1981: [[Arnold's cat map (nonfiction)|Arnold's cat map]] is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says mathematician and cat psychologist [[Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|Vladimir Arnold]].
File:Arnold's cat map.png|link=Arnold's cat map (nonfiction)|1981: [[Arnold's cat map (nonfiction)|Arnold's cat map]] is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says mathematician and cat psychologist [[Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|Vladimir Arnold]].


||Hua Luogeng, or Hua Loo-gehng (d. 12 June 1985), was a Chinese mathematician famous for his important contributions to number theory and for his role as the leader of mathematics research and education in the People's Republic of China.
||1985: Hua Luogeng dies ... mathematician famous for his important contributions to number theory and for his role as the leader of mathematics research and education in the People's Republic of China.


||2012 – Henry Hill, American mobster (b. 1943)
||2010: Richard Darwin Keynes dies ... physiologist who did pioneering work on the mechanisms underlying the conduction of the action potential along nerve fibres. Early in his career, he worked with the giant nerve fibers of squid, which would help discover how nerve impulses are transmitted in all animals. In later resarch, he determined how electric eels project electric fields outside their bodies. Keynes was the first to use radioactive sodium and potassium tracer atoms to follow the movements of these atoms when an impulse is transmitted along a nerve fibre. He has written extensively about the life and work of his great-grandfather, Charles Darwin, beginning with The Beagle Record (1979). Pic not Wikipedia.


||Richard Lewis Arnowitt (d. June 12, 2014) was an American physicist known for his contributions to theoretical particle physics and to general relativity. Pic.
||2012: Henry Hill dies ... mobster.


||Pierre Dolbeault (d. June 12, 2015) was a French mathematician.
||2014: Richard Lewis Arnowitt dies ... physicist known for his contributions to theoretical particle physics and to general relativity. Pic.
 
||2015: Pierre Dolbeault dies ... mathematician.


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Revision as of 19:31, 14 August 2018

  • 1577: Astronomer and mathematician Paul Guldin born. He will discover the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.

    1577: Astronomer and mathematician Paul Guldin born. He will discover the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.

  • 1936: Data from Canterbury scrying engine used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1936: Data from Canterbury scrying engine used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1937: Mathematician and academic Vladimir Arnold born. He will help develop the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems.

    1937: Mathematician and academic Vladimir Arnold born. He will help develop the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems.

  • 1938: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program, although this is widely debated.

    1938: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program, although this is widely debated.

  • 1945: Physicist James Franck brings the Franck Report to Washington. The report recommends that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.

    1945: Physicist James Franck brings the Franck Report to Washington. The report recommends that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.

  • 1981: Arnold's cat map is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says mathematician and cat psychologist Vladimir Arnold.

    1981: Arnold's cat map is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says mathematician and cat psychologist Vladimir Arnold.

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