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||1519 | ||1519: Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines. | ||
File:Gilles Personne de Roberval.jpg|link=Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|1602: Mathematician and academic [[Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|Gilles de Roberval]] born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Copernican heliocentric system]] and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter. | File:Gilles Personne de Roberval.jpg|link=Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|1602: Mathematician and academic [[Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|Gilles de Roberval]] born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Copernican heliocentric system]] and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter. | ||
||1675 | ||1675: The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid. | ||
File: | File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1792: [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]]: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob. | ||
||1793: The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France. | |||
||1802: Franz Aepinus dies ... astronomer and philosopher. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Posters2/Aepinus.html | |||
||1839: Aleksandr Stoletov born ... physicist and academic. Pic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Stoletov | |||
||1843: Robert Adrain dies ... mathematician, whose career was spent in the USA. He was considered one of the most brilliant mathematical minds of the time in America, during a period when few academics conducted original research. He is chiefly remembered for his formulation of the method of least squares. Pic. | |||
||1845: Willgodt Theophil Odhner born ... engineer and entrepreneur. He was the inventor of the Odhner Arithmometer, which by the 1940s was one of the most popular type of portable mechanical calculator in the world. Pic. | |||
||1856: William Willett born ... inventor, founded British Summer Time. Pic. | |||
||1859: Georg Alexander Pick born ... mathematician. Today he is best known for Pick's theorem for determining the area of lattice polygons. Pic. | |||
||1862: Hon'inbō Shūsaku dies ... Go player. Pic. | |||
||1868: Dr. Hugo Eckener born ... the manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the world, making him the most successful airship commander in history. He was also responsible for the construction of the most successful type of airships of all time. An anti-Nazi who was invited to campaign as a moderate in the German presidential elections, he was blacklisted by that regime and eventually sidelined. Pic. | |||
||1874: Herbert Hoover born ... engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States. | |||
||1885: James Wilson Marshall dies ... carpenter and sawmill operator, who reported the finding of gold at Coloma on the American River in California on January 24, 1848, the impetus for the California Gold Rush. The mill property was owned by Johann (John) Sutter who employed Marshall to build his mill. The wave of gold seekers turned everyone's attention away from the mill which eventually fell into disrepair and was never used as intended. Neither Marshall nor Sutter ever profited from the gold find. Pic. | |||
||1884: Robert Pohl born ... physicist at the University of Göttingen. He has been called the "father of solid state physics". Pic. | |||
||1889: Charles Darrow born ... game designer, created Monopoly. | |||
File:Otto_Lilienthal.jpg|link=Otto Lilienthal (nonfiction)|1896: Aviation pioneer [[Otto Lilienthal (nonfiction)|Otto Lilienthal]], known as the ''flying man'', dies from injuries sustained the day before when his glider fell and crashed. | |||
||1901: Franco Dino Rasetti born ... scientist who, together with Enrico Fermi, discovered key processes leading to nuclear fission. Rasetti refused to work on the Manhattan Project on moral grounds. Pic. | |||
||1902: Arne Tiselius born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1911: Jan Aleksander Rajchman born ... electrical engineer and computer pioneer. Pic: https://www.computerhope.com/people/jan_rajchman.htm | |||
||1913: Wolfgang Paul born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... co-developed the non-magnetic quadrupole mass filter which laid the foundation for what is now called an ion trap. Pic. | |||
||1915: Henry Moseley dies ... physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics was the justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical concept of the atomic number. Pic. | |||
||1916: John Jacob Loud dies ... inventor known for designing the first ballpoint pen. Pic. | |||
||1918: Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici dies ... mathematician who became a professor in London. Pic. | |||
||1927: Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu born ... astronomer. In 1957, he discovered the Wilson-Bappu effect jointly with American astronomer Olin Chaddock Wilson. He is regarded as the father of modern Indian astronomy. Pic. | |||
|| | ||1929: Aletta Jacobs dies ... physician. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the Netherlands. In 1882, she founded the world's first birth control clinic and was a leader in both the Dutch and international women's movements. She led campaigns aimed at deregulating prostitution, improving women's working conditions, promoting peace and calling for women's right to vote. Pic. | ||
||1932: A 5.1 kilograms (11 lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri. | |||
||1945: Robert H. Goddard dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | |||
|| | ||1948: Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone. | ||
|| | ||1949: Homer Burton Adkins dies ... chemist. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1949: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense. | ||
| | ||1953: First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam. | ||
| | ||1954: At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held. | ||
||1955: Zdzisław Krygowski dies - mathematician - has become famous in the history of cryptology for having assisted the Polish General Staff in setting up its cryptology course for Poznań University mathematics students that began on January 15, 1929. Pic search. | |||
File:Oswald Veblen 1915.jpg|link=Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|1960: Mathematician and academic [[Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|Oswald Veblen]] dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. | File:Oswald Veblen 1915.jpg|link=Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|1960: Mathematician and academic [[Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|Oswald Veblen]] dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. | ||
||1961: First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army. | |||
||1972: The Great Daylight Fireball (or US19720810) was an Earth-grazing fireball that passed within 57 kilometres (35 mi; 187,000 ft) of Earth's surface at 20:29 UTC on August 10, 1972. It entered Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 15 kilometres per second (9.3 mi/s) in daylight over Utah, United States (14:30 local time) and passed northwards leaving the atmosphere over Alberta, Canada. It was seen by many people and recorded on film and by space-borne sensors. An eyewitness to the event, located in Missoula, Montana, saw the object pass directly overhead and heard a double sonic boom. The smoke trail lingered in the atmosphere for several minutes. Pic. | |||
||1976: Josef Mattauch dies ... physicist known for his work in the investigation of the isotopic abundances by mass spectrometry. He developed the Mattauch isobar rule in 1934. Pic. | |||
||1979: Walter Gerlach dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | |||
||1982: Brigadier John Hessell Tiltman dies .... British Army officer who worked in intelligence, often at or with the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) starting in the 1920s. His intelligence work was largely connected with cryptography, and he showed exceptional skill at cryptanalysis. His work in association with Bill Tutte on the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, the German teleprinter cipher, called "Tunny" (for tunafish) at Bletchley Park, led to breakthroughs in attack methods on the code, without a computer. Pic. | |||
||1984: Duško Popov dies ... double agent who served as part of the MI6 and Abwehr during World War II, and passed off disinformation to Germany as part of the Double-Cross System. Pic. | |||
||1988: Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II. | |||
||1990: The Magellan space probe reaches Venus. | |||
||1991: Joseph Daniel Casolaro dies ... freelance writer. Pic. | |||
||1992: Teresa Cohen dies ... mathematician. Invited to join the faculty of Pennsylvania State University in 1920, she advanced to the rank of full professor; after her mandatory retirement in 1962, she maintained an office in the Department of Mathematics and tutored students for free until 1985 at the age of 94. Pic. | |||
||1992: Aribert Heim dies ... SS physician and Nazi war criminal. Pic. | |||
||1995: Leo Apostel dies ... philosopher and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University. Apostel was an advocate of interdisciplinary research and the bridging of the gap between exact science and humanities. Pic (charming). | |||
File:Armand Borel.jpg|link=Armand Borel (nonfiction)|2000: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Armand Borel (nonfiction)|Armand Borel]] publishes new theory of linear algebraic groups with applications in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||2002: Kristen Nygaard dies ... computer scientist and politician. Pic. | |||
||2006: Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein dies ... American mathematician and cryptanalyst. She worked for the Signals Intelligence Service throughout World War II, during which time she played an important role in deciphering the Japanese cryptography machine Purple, and later worked on the Cold War-era Venona project. Pic. | |||
||2014: Kathleen Ollerenshaw dies ... mathematician, astronomer, and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester. She contributed to the study of most-perfect pandiagonal magic squares. Pic. | |||
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Latest revision as of 07:19, 10 August 2023
1602: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1792: French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
1896: Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, known as the flying man, dies from injuries sustained the day before when his glider fell and crashed.
1960: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
2000: Mathematician and crime-fighter Armand Borel publishes new theory of linear algebraic groups with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.