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||1551: King Edward leaves the Three Brothers pendant with his Lord High Treasurer William Paulet for safekeeping. Pic. | |||
||1594: Roderigo Lopez executed ... physician-in-chief to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 1581 until his death by execution, having been found guilty of plotting to poison her. A Portuguese converso or New Christian of Jewish ancestry, he is the only royal doctor in English history to have been executed, and may have inspired the character of Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, which was written within four years of his death. No DOB. Pic. | ||1594: Roderigo Lopez executed ... physician-in-chief to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 1581 until his death by execution, having been found guilty of plotting to poison her. A Portuguese converso or New Christian of Jewish ancestry, he is the only royal doctor in English history to have been executed, and may have inspired the character of Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, which was written within four years of his death. No DOB. Pic. | ||
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File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1883: Archaeologist and spy [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] born. He will conduct espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities will only come to light after his death. | File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1883: Archaeologist and spy [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] born. He will conduct espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities will only come to light after his death. | ||
||1886: Richard March Hoe dies ... engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press. Pic. | ||1886: Richard March Hoe dies ... engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press. Pic. | ||
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||1910: Marion Post Wolcott born ... photographer ... Great Depression, | ||1910: Marion Post Wolcott born ... photographer ... Great Depression, | ||
||1911: Brooks Stevens born ... engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile. Pic search | ||1911: Brooks Stevens born ... engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile. Pic search. | ||
||1911: Wang Zhuxi born ... physicist, educator, and philologist. Pic. | ||1911: Wang Zhuxi born ... physicist, educator, and philologist. Pic. | ||
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||1929: The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence. | ||1929: The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence. | ||
||1942: Alan Blumlein dies ... engineer ... important. Pic search | ||1942: Alan Blumlein dies ... engineer ... important. Pic search. | ||
File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1952: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] dies. He was influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]]. | File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1952: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] dies. He was influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]]. | ||
File:BOMARC missile battery.jpg|link=BOMARC Missile Accident Site (nonfiction)|1960: [[BOMARC Missile Accident Site (nonfiction)|An explosion in a helium tank causes a fire in a liquid-fueled, nuclear-tipped BOMARC missile]]. | File:BOMARC missile battery.jpg|link=BOMARC Missile Accident Site (nonfiction)|1960: [[BOMARC Missile Accident Site (nonfiction)|An explosion in a helium tank causes a fire in a liquid-fueled, nuclear-tipped BOMARC missile]]. | ||
||1967: Anatoly Maltsev dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search. | |||
||1967: Anatoly Maltsev dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search | |||
||1971: Ken Ballew raid: The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Ballew_raid Pic scene | ||1971: Ken Ballew raid: The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Ballew_raid Pic scene. | ||
||1978: Ronald George Wreyford Norrish dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1978: Ronald George Wreyford Norrish dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||2004: Joseph Leo "Joe" Doob dies ... mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory. He will develop the modern theory of martingales. Pic. | ||2004: Joseph Leo "Joe" Doob dies ... mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory. He will develop the modern theory of martingales. Pic. | ||
File: | File:Apple flowers (7 June 2022) 20220607 195745.jpg|link=Apple flowers (7 June 2022)|2022: '''[[Apple flowers (7 June 2022)]]'''. | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:22, 7 June 2024
1883: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley born. He will conduct espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities will only come to light after his death.
1910: Mathematical physicist Charles Critchfield born. He will work on the Manhattan Project, designing and testing the "Urchin" neutron initiator which provides the burst of neutrons that kick-starts the nuclear detonation of the Fat Man weapon.
1952: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing dies. He was influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.
2022: Apple flowers (7 June 2022).
