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||1560 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian aristocrat and serial killer (d. 1614) | ||1560 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian aristocrat and serial killer (d. 1614) | ||
||1574 – Robert Dudley, English explorer and cartographer (d. 1649) | |||
||1639 – Martin van den Hove, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1605) | |||
||1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French navigator and explorer (d. 1842) | |||
||1779 – Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (d. 1859) | |||
File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1834: Weaver and merchant [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] dies. He invented the [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]], an early type of programmable machine. | File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1834: Weaver and merchant [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] dies. He invented the [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]], an early type of programmable machine. | ||
||1844 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and author (d. 1911) | |||
||1848 – Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779) | |||
||1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (d. 1917) | ||1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (d. 1917) | ||
||1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer and author (d. 1917) | |||
||1868 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician (d. 1931) | |||
||1903 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (d. 1972) | |||
||1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). | ||1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). | ||
||1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan. | |||
File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1958: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] reprogrammed to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1958: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] reprogrammed to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1959 – Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. | |||
||1964 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces. | |||
||1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody. | |||
File:Philippe_Petit.jpg|link=Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|1974: High-wire artist Philippe Petit [[Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center]]. | File:Philippe_Petit.jpg|link=Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|1974: High-wire artist Philippe Petit [[Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center]]. | ||
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File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] inserted into a 1500 x 33,000 km, 24.6 h orbit around Mars. | File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] inserted into a 1500 x 33,000 km, 24.6 h orbit around Mars. | ||
||2010 | File:John Ashworth Nelder.jpg|link=John Nelder (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician and statistician [[John Nelder (nonfiction)|John Nelder]] dies. He contributed to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He also was responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities. | ||
||2011 – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain and espionage agent (b. 1912) | ||2011 – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain and espionage agent (b. 1912) | ||
Revision as of 11:13, 5 August 2017
1834: Weaver and merchant Joseph Marie Jacquard dies. He invented the Jacquard loom, an early type of programmable machine.
1958: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1974: High-wire artist Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
1975: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes retro-temporal pictures of Philippe Petit's high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, revealing unexpected correspondences with other timelines.
1976: Viking program: Viking 2 inserted into a 1500 x 33,000 km, 24.6 h orbit around Mars.
2010: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder dies. He contributed to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He also was responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.
2017: Paulson celebrates twenty-first anniversary of Viking 2 entering Mars orbit.