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||1332: Ibn Khaldun born ... historiographer and historian. He is claimed as a forerunner of the modern disciplines of sociology and demography. | ||1332: Ibn Khaldun born ... historiographer and historian. He is claimed as a forerunner of the modern disciplines of sociology and demography. Pic (statue). | ||
||1525: Thomas Müntzer, German mystic and theologian dies ... a radical German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Luther and the Roman Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany. Müntzer was foremost amongst those reformers who took issue with Luther’s compromises with feudal authority. He became a leader of the German peasant and plebeian uprising —commonly known as the German Peasants' War— of 1525, was captured after the battle of Frankenhausen, and was tortured and executed. | ||1525: Thomas Müntzer, German mystic and theologian dies ... a radical German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Luther and the Roman Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany. Müntzer was foremost amongst those reformers who took issue with Luther’s compromises with feudal authority. He became a leader of the German peasant and plebeian uprising —commonly known as the German Peasants' War— of 1525, was captured after the battle of Frankenhausen, and was tortured and executed. Pic. | ||
File:François Ravaillac.jpg|link=François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|1610: Factotum and regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] executed. | File:François Ravaillac.jpg|link=François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|1610: Factotum and regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] executed. | ||
||1624: Diego Ramírez de Arellano dies ... sailor and cosmographer. | ||1624: Diego Ramírez de Arellano dies ... sailor and cosmographer. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1660: Francis Hauksbee the Elder baptized ... scientist best known for his work on electricity and electrostatic repulsion. Pic: diagram. | ||1660: Francis Hauksbee the Elder baptized ... scientist best known for his work on electricity and electrostatic repulsion. Pic: diagram. | ||
||1781: Giovanni Battista Beccaria dies ... physicist. | ||1781: Giovanni Battista Beccaria dies ... physicist. Pic search. | ||
||1857: Theodor Curtius born ... chemist. | ||1857: Theodor Curtius born ... chemist. He published the Curtius rearrangement, and discovered diazoacetic acid, hydrazine, and hydrazoic acid. Pic. | ||
||1862: John Edward Campbell born ... a mathematician, best known for his contribution to the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula. Pic. | ||1862: John Edward Campbell born ... a mathematician, best known for his contribution to the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula. Pic. | ||
||1869: Arvid Gerhard Damm born ... engineer and inventor. He designed a number of cipher machines, and was one of the early inventors of the wired rotor principle for machine encipherment. His company, AB Cryptograph, was a predecessor of Crypto AG. | ||1869: Arvid Gerhard Damm born ... engineer and inventor. He designed a number of cipher machines, and was one of the early inventors of the wired rotor principle for machine encipherment. His company, AB Cryptograph, was a predecessor of Crypto AG. No DOD. Pic: device. | ||
||1875: Carl Axel Fredrik Benedicks born ... physicist whose work included geology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics, astronomy and mathematics. Pic. | ||1875: Carl Axel Fredrik Benedicks born ... physicist whose work included geology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics, astronomy and mathematics. Pic. | ||
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||1880: Alfred Swaine Taylor dies ... toxicologist and medical writer, who has been called the "father of British forensic medicine" He was also an early experimenter in photography. Pic. | ||1880: Alfred Swaine Taylor dies ... toxicologist and medical writer, who has been called the "father of British forensic medicine" He was also an early experimenter in photography. Pic. | ||
||1896: Aleksandr Stoletov dies ... physicist, engineer, and academic. | ||1896: Aleksandr Stoletov dies ... physicist, engineer, and academic. Pic. | ||
File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power. | File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power. | ||
||1898: David Crosthwait born ... engineer, inventor and writer. | ||1898: David Crosthwait born ... engineer, inventor and writer. Pic search. | ||
||1907: Herbert Karl Johannes Seifert born ... mathematician known for his work in topology. Pic. | ||1907: Herbert Karl Johannes Seifert born ... mathematician known for his work in topology. Pic. | ||
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||1907: Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco. | ||1907: Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco. | ||
||1910: Robert Koch dies ... physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1910: Robert Koch dies ... physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1923: Bernard Morris Dwork born ... mathematician, known for his application of p-adic analysis to local zeta functions, and in particular for a proof of the first part of the Weil conjectures: the rationality of the zeta-function of a variety over a finite field. For this proof he received, together with Kenkichi Iwasawa, the Cole Prize in 1962. | ||1923: Bernard Morris Dwork born ... mathematician, known for his application of p-adic analysis to local zeta functions, and in particular for a proof of the first part of the Weil conjectures: the rationality of the zeta-function of a variety over a finite field. For this proof he received, together with Kenkichi Iwasawa, the Cole Prize in 1962. The general theme of Dwork's research was p-adic cohomology and p-adic differential equations. Pic: https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/98/0525/0525-2a.html | ||
||1923: John Coleman Moore born ... mathematician. The Borel−Moore homology and Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence are named after him. Pic: https://www.math.princeton.edu/people/john-c-moore | ||1923: John Coleman Moore born ... mathematician. The Borel−Moore homology and Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence are named after him. Pic: https://www.math.princeton.edu/people/john-c-moore | ||
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||1937: In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California. | ||1937: In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California. | ||
||1941: World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency". | |||
|| | ||1942: World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1949: Martin Hans Christian Knudsen dies ... physicist who taught and conducted research at the Technical University of Denmark. He is primarily known for his study of molecular gas flow and the development of the Knudsen cell, which is a primary component of molecular beam epitaxy systems. Pic. | ||
||1950: John Torrence Tate Sr. born ... physicist noted for his editorship of Physical Review between 1926 and 1950. He is the father of mathematician John Torrence Tate Jr. | ||1950: John Torrence Tate Sr. born ... physicist noted for his editorship of Physical Review between 1926 and 1950. He is the father of mathematician John Torrence Tate Jr. | ||
||1960: James Montgomery Flagg dies ... painter and illustrator ... Flagg created his most famous work in 1917, a poster to encourage recruitment in the United States Army during World War I. It showed Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer with the caption "I Want YOU for U.S. Army". Flagg used his own face for Uncle Sam. Pic. | |||
||1962: The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine. | ||1962: The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine. | ||
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||1965: Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam. | ||1965: Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam. | ||
||1987: John Howard Northrop dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1987: John Howard Northrop dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1988: Ernst Ruska dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1988: Ernst Ruska dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2000: Kazimierz Leski dies ... engineer and pilot. | ||2000: Kazimierz Leski dies ... engineer and pilot, submarine designer. Pic. | ||
||2004: Mikhail Mikhailovich Postnikov dies ... mathematician, known for his work in algebraic and differential topology. Pic: http://www.mi-ras.ru/index.php?c=inmemoria&l=1 | ||2004: Mikhail Mikhailovich Postnikov dies ... mathematician, known for his work in algebraic and differential topology. Pic: http://www.mi-ras.ru/index.php?c=inmemoria&l=1 | ||
||2006: Alexander Toth born ... cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s. Toth's work began in the American comic book industry, but he is also known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera throughout the 1960s and 1970s. His work included Super Friends, Fantastic Four, Space Ghost, Sealab 2020, The Herculoids and Birdman. Toth's work has been resurrected in the late-night, adult-themed spin-offs on Cartoon Network: Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Sealab 2021 and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Pic. | |||
||2007: Ed Yost dies ... inventor, created the hot air balloon. | ||2007: Ed Yost dies ... inventor, created the hot air balloon. | ||
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1610: Factotum and regicide François Ravaillac executed.
1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
1931: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard and his assistant Paul Kipfer take off from Augsburg, Germany in their high-altitude balloon, reaching a record altitude of 15,781 m (51,775 ft). During the flight, Piccard gathers data on the upper atmosphere, including cosmic ray measurements.