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||1521 – Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu. | |||
||1755 – Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1836) | |||
||1788 – Charles Robert Cockerell, English architect, archaeologist, and writer (d. 1863) | |||
||1791 – Samuel Morse, American painter and inventor, co-invented the Morse code (d. 1872) | |||
||Andrew Talcott (b. 1797) was an American civil engineer and close friend of Civil War General Robert E. Lee. | ||Andrew Talcott (b. 1797) was an American civil engineer and close friend of Civil War General Robert E. Lee. | ||
||1820 – Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1903) | |||
||1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus. | |||
File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1869: Only known copy of ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Interview with Wallace War-Heels]]'' is stolen by [[Baron Zersetzung]]. [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Twain]] and [[Wallace War-Heels|War-Heels]] will soon team up to recover the illustration. | File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1869: Only known copy of ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Interview with Wallace War-Heels]]'' is stolen by [[Baron Zersetzung]]. [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Twain]] and [[Wallace War-Heels|War-Heels]] will soon team up to recover the illustration. | ||
||1896 – Wallace Carothers, American chemist and inventor of nylon (d. 1937) | |||
||1913 – Philip Abelson, American physicist and author (d. 2004) | |||
File:Irving Adler age 75.jpg|link=Irving Adler (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic [[Irving Adler (nonfiction)|Irving Adler]] born. He will be a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case ''Adler vs. Board of Education''. | File:Irving Adler age 75.jpg|link=Irving Adler (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic [[Irving Adler (nonfiction)|Irving Adler]] born. He will be a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case ''Adler vs. Board of Education''. | ||
||1920 – Mark Krasnosel'skii, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (d. 1997) | |||
||1932 – Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999) | |||
||1936 – Karl Pearson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1857) | |||
File:Myoglobin John Kendrew.jpg|link=John Kendrew (nonfiction)|1937: Biochemist and crime-fighter [[John Kendrew (nonfiction)|John Kendrew]] uses data from X-ray crystallography experiments to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Myoglobin John Kendrew.jpg|link=John Kendrew (nonfiction)|1937: Biochemist and crime-fighter [[John Kendrew (nonfiction)|John Kendrew]] uses data from X-ray crystallography experiments to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge. | File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge. | ||
||1938 – Edmund Husserl, Czech mathematician and philosopher (b. 1859) | |||
||Guido Castelnuovo (d. 27 April 1952) was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to the field of algebraic geometry, though his contributions to the study of statistics and probability theory are also significant. | |||
||1953 – Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000. | |||
||1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes. | |||
||1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse. | |||
||1992 – Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1927) | |||
||2015 – Alexander Rich, American biologist, biophysicist, and academic (b. 1924) | |||
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Revision as of 21:58, 5 November 2017
1869: Only known copy of Interview with Wallace War-Heels is stolen by Baron Zersetzung. Twain and War-Heels will soon team up to recover the illustration.
1913: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic Irving Adler born. He will be a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education.
1937: Biochemist and crime-fighter John Kendrew uses data from X-ray crystallography experiments to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.