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File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1752: Weaver and merchant [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] born. He will invent the [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]], an early type of programmable machine. | File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1752: Weaver and merchant [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] born. He will invent the [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]], an early type of programmable machine. | ||
||1843 – Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926) | |||
||1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300. | |||
||1865 – Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged. | |||
||1905 – Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, French mathematician (d. 1972) | |||
||1906 – William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1970) | |||
||1907 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (d. 1988) | |||
||1927 – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician and academic (b. 1846) | ||1927 – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician and academic (b. 1846) | ||
||1930 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (b. 1859) | ||1930 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (b. 1859) | ||
||1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). | |||
||1936 – Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician and academic (d. 2013) | |||
||1937 – The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War. | |||
||1941 – The American occupation of Iceland replaces the British occupation. | |||
File:Bernoulli_wappen.png|link=Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|1945: Advances in [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|dynastic cellular automata theory]] reveal new members of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]]. | File:Bernoulli_wappen.png|link=Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|1945: Advances in [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|dynastic cellular automata theory]] reveal new members of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]]. | ||
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||1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere. | ||1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere. | ||
||Herman Kahn (d. July 7, 1983) was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. | |||
||2003 – NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket. | |||
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Revision as of 18:35, 1 October 2017
1752: Weaver and merchant Joseph Marie Jacquard born. He will invent the Jacquard loom, an early type of programmable machine.
1945: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.
1946: Aviator Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
1947: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung announces plan to sell shares in the career of Joseph McCarthy, calls it "a new day in political campaigning."