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||1492 – Matteo Tafuri, Italian alchemist (d. 1582) | |||
||1533 – Lucas van Leyden, Dutch artist (b. 1494) | |||
||1555 – Oronce Finé, French mathematician and cartographer (b. 1494) | |||
File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1555: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] dies. He was imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]]. | File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1555: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] dies. He was imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]]. | ||
||1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven. | |||
File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1872: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" [[Wallace War-Heels]] defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat. | File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1872: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" [[Wallace War-Heels]] defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat. | ||
File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1873: Scientist, inventor, and engineer [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] dies. He was knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph. | File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1873: Scientist, inventor, and engineer [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] dies. He was knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph. | ||
||1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. | |||
||1879 – Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950) | |||
||1901 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) | |||
||1902 – Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) | |||
||1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight. | |||
||1931 – Roger Penrose, English physicist, mathematician, and philosopher | |||
||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: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) | |||
||1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day. | |||
||1987 – Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician and physicist (b. 1903) | |||
||1989 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission. | |||
||1996 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) | |||
File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|2000: Confederate submarine [[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|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. | |||
||2012 – Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, German-American physicist and academic (b. 1926) | |||
File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|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]]. | File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|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]]. | ||
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Revision as of 21:13, 5 August 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.
1963: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
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.