Template:Selected anniversaries/March 28: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 40: | Line 40: | ||
||1933: Friedrich Zander dies ... pioneer of rocketry and spaceflight in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. He designed the first liquid-fueled rocket to be launched in the Soviet Union, GIRD-X, and made many important theoretical contributions to the road to space. Pic. | ||1933: Friedrich Zander dies ... pioneer of rocketry and spaceflight in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. He designed the first liquid-fueled rocket to be launched in the Soviet Union, GIRD-X, and made many important theoretical contributions to the road to space. Pic. | ||
File:City_of_Liverpool_-_Armstrong_Whitworth_Argosy_II,_Registration_G-AACI.jpg||1933: The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool | File:City_of_Liverpool_-_Armstrong_Whitworth_Argosy_II,_Registration_G-AACI.jpg|link=1933 Imperial Airways Diksmuide crash (nonfiction)|1933: The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool [[1933 Imperial Airways Diksmuide crash (nonfiction)|crashes after a passenger sets a fire on board]]. This is the first documented case of aircraft sabotage. | ||
||1936: Archibald Edward Garrod dies ... physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism. He also discovered alkaptonuria, understanding its inheritance. Pic. | ||1936: Archibald Edward Garrod dies ... physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism. He also discovered alkaptonuria, understanding its inheritance. Pic. | ||
| Line 48: | Line 48: | ||
||1946: Wubbo Ockels born ... physicist and astronaut. Pic. | ||1946: Wubbo Ockels born ... physicist and astronaut. Pic. | ||
||1946: Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power. | ||1946: Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power. Pic: search book cover. | ||
||1969: Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece. Pic. | ||1969: Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece. Pic. | ||
||1975: Barry Goldwater wrote to Shlomo Arnon: "The subject of UFOs has interested me for some long time. About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where the information has been stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret." | ||1975: Barry Goldwater wrote to Shlomo Arnon: "The subject of UFOs has interested me for some long time. About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where the information has been stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret." Pic. | ||
||1979: A coolant leak | File:Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station.jpg|link=Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (nonfiction)|1979: A coolant leak in the Unit 2 nuclear reactor of the [[Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (nonfiction)|Three Mile Island nuclear generating station]] leads to core overheating and a partial core meltdown. | ||
||1982: William Giauque dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... for his studies in the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero. Pic. | ||1982: William Giauque dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... for his studies in the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero. Pic. | ||
Revision as of 18:53, 28 March 2020
1794: Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet dies. His ideas and writings were said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and rationalism, and remain influential to this day.
1849: Physicist and priest Francesco Zantedeschi discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which uses the magnetic action on steel needles by ultraviolet light to detect and prevent crimes against light.
1926: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Mathematician and theorist Alexander Grothendieck born. He will become the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.
1933: The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool crashes after a passenger sets a fire on board. This is the first documented case of aircraft sabotage.
1979: A coolant leak in the Unit 2 nuclear reactor of the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station leads to core overheating and a partial core meltdown.
2013: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box dies. He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
2018: Signed first edition of Electrical Storm stolen from the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.