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||1453 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire. | |||
File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1569: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to make improved astronomical observations. | File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1569: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to make improved astronomical observations. | ||
||1660 – Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1615) | |||
||1675 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1715) | |||
File:John Mudge.jpg|link=John Mudge (nonfiction)|1777: Physician and engineer [[John Mudge (nonfiction)|John Mudge]] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'. | File:John Mudge.jpg|link=John Mudge (nonfiction)|1777: Physician and engineer [[John Mudge (nonfiction)|John Mudge]] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'. | ||
||1780 – Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist (d. 1855) | |||
||John Walker (b. 29 May 1781) invented the friction match. | |||
File:John F. Kennedy moon mission speech.jpg|link=John F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|1917: Politician [[John F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|John F. Kennedy]], 35th President of the United States, born. | File:John F. Kennedy moon mission speech.jpg|link=John F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|1917: Politician [[John F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|John F. Kennedy]], 35th President of the United States, born. | ||
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||1794 – Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer and selenographer (d. 1874) | |||
||1823 – John H. Balsley, American carpenter and inventor (d. 1895) | |||
||1829 – Humphry Davy, English-Swiss chemist and academic (b. 1778) | |||
File:Arthur Stanley Eddington.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1919: [[Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|Arthur Eddington]] and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin view a solar eclipse as a test of [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Einstein's theory of general relativity. | |||
||1921 – Norman Hetherington, Australian cartoonist and puppeteer (d. 2010) | |||
|link=International Space Station (nonfiction)|1999: Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' completes the first docking with the [[International Space Station (nonfiction)|International Space Station]]. | |||
||2014 – Peter Glaser, Czech-American scientist and engineer (b. 1923) | |||
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Revision as of 15:49, 4 November 2017
1569: Astronomer Tycho Brahe uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to make improved astronomical observations.
1777: Physician and engineer John Mudge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'.
1917: Politician John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born.
Einstein's theory of general relativity.