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||1868 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician (d. 1931) | ||1868 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician (d. 1931) | ||
||1903 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (d. 1972) | ||1903 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (d. 1972)a | ||
||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). | ||
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||1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan. | ||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. | ||1959 – Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. | ||
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||1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody. | ||1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody. | ||
File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|1973: [[Clock Head 2]] generates computational model of High-wire artist Philippe Petit's [[Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center]]. A year later, Petit will use this model to improve his balance during the actual walk. | |||
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]]. | ||
Revision as of 14:47, 6 August 2017
1834: Weaver and merchant Joseph Marie Jacquard dies. He invented the Jacquard loom, an early type of programmable machine.
1973: Clock Head 2 generates computational model of High-wire artist Philippe Petit's high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. A year later, Petit will use this model to improve his balance during the actual walk.
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.