Template:Selected anniversaries/January 28: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 7: | Line 7: | ||
File:Ranger 3-4-5 probe.jpg|link=Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|1962: [[Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|Ranger 3]] space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km). | File:Ranger 3-4-5 probe.jpg|link=Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|1962: [[Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|Ranger 3]] space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km). | ||
File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|2002: Tokens harvested from [[Diagramaceous soil]] used to cure [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]] for the first time. | File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|2002: Tokens harvested from [[Diagramaceous soil]] used to cure [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]] for the first time. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
Revision as of 15:20, 22 January 2017
1540: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.
1921: Scrimshaw abuse correlates with rise in crimes against mathematical constants.
1927: Hilbert curve gives lecture on crimes against mathematical constants.
1911: Physicist Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.
1961: Brainiac Explains lecture series spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.
1962: Ranger 3 space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
2002: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to cure capacitor plague for the first time.