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||1889: The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon. | ||1889: The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon. | ||
||1899: Georg von Békésy born ... biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1899: Georg von Békésy born ... biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||1926: Poet, philosopher, and writer Irwin Allen Ginsberg born. As a Columbia University college student in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Pic. | ||1926: Poet, philosopher, and writer Irwin Allen Ginsberg born. As a Columbia University college student in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Pic. | ||
||1928: Karl W. Gruenberg born ... mathematician who specialized in group theory, in particular with the cohomology theory of groups. Pic. | ||1928: Karl W. Gruenberg born ... mathematician who specialized in group theory, in particular with the cohomology theory of groups. Pic. | ||
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||1945: German submarine U-1277 is unusual in so much that it either did not receive Dönitz’s surrender order on 8 May 1945, or chose to ignore it. What is known is that she continued her patrol in the North Atlantic for a further month, her crew finally scuttling her on 3 June 1945 off the northern coast of Portugal. All 47 crew disembarked safely from their sinking boat in rubber dinghies and made their way ashore, landing on the beach at Angeiras, Portugal. There they were interned by the Portuguese authorities, and handed over to a British warship a few days later. The crew were not released from a POW camp until 1947. | ||1945: German submarine U-1277 is unusual in so much that it either did not receive Dönitz’s surrender order on 8 May 1945, or chose to ignore it. What is known is that she continued her patrol in the North Atlantic for a further month, her crew finally scuttling her on 3 June 1945 off the northern coast of Portugal. All 47 crew disembarked safely from their sinking boat in rubber dinghies and made their way ashore, landing on the beach at Angeiras, Portugal. There they were interned by the Portuguese authorities, and handed over to a British warship a few days later. The crew were not released from a POW camp until 1947. | ||
||1965: The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk. | ||1965: The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk. | ||
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File:Vladimir Arnold.jpg|link=Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician and academic [[Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|Vladimir Arnold]] dies. He helped develop the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems. | File:Vladimir Arnold.jpg|link=Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician and academic [[Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|Vladimir Arnold]] dies. He helped develop the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems. | ||
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1659: Mathematician and astronomer David Gregory born. At the Union of 1707, he bill be given the responsibility of reorganizing the Scottish Mint.
1723: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli born. He will be called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
1839: In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, preliminary to the First Opium War.
1923: Mathematician and dissident Igor Shafarevich born. He will make fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic algebraic geometry.
2009: Arnold's cat map is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says Arnold.
2010: Mathematician and academic Vladimir Arnold dies. He helped develop the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems.