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||1620 – John Graunt, English demographer and statistician (d. 1674) | |||
File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1656: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant. | File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1656: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant. | ||
File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1870: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] uses [[Time travel (nonfiction)|time travel device]] to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1870: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] uses [[Time travel (nonfiction)|time travel device]] to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|1870:[[The Custodian]] cleans up paradoxes caused by [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]]'s experiments in [[Time travel (nonfiction)|time travel device]]. | File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|1870:[[The Custodian]] cleans up paradoxes caused by [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]]'s experiments in [[Time travel (nonfiction)|time travel device]]. | ||
||1880 – Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer and businessman, developed the zipper (d. 1954) | |||
||1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West. | |||
||1895 – Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray". | |||
||1897 – Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist, anthropologist, and engineer (d. 1941) | |||
||1899 – Oscar Zariski, Russian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986) | |||
||1913 – Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer (d. 2014) | |||
File:Franck Hertz Hg tube.jpg|link=Franck–Hertz experiment (nonfiction)|1914: The [[Franck–Hertz experiment (nonfiction)|Franck–Hertz experiment]], a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society. | File:Franck Hertz Hg tube.jpg|link=Franck–Hertz experiment (nonfiction)|1914: The [[Franck–Hertz experiment (nonfiction)|Franck–Hertz experiment]], a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society. | ||
File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1915: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube. | File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1915: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube. | ||
||1919 – David Blackwell, African-American mathematician and academic (d. 2010) | |||
||1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation. | |||
||1944 – Charles Jordan, American magician (b. 1888) | |||
||1945 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (b. 1899) | |||
||1947 – Roger D. Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
File:Soyuz 1 patch.png|link=Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in [[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]] when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission. | File:Soyuz 1 patch.png|link=Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in [[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]] when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission. | ||
||1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879) | |||
||1964 – Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist (b. 1895) | |||
||1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis. | |||
||1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery. | |||
||1997 – Eugene Stoner, American engineer, designed the AR-15 rifle (b. 1922) | |||
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Revision as of 12:02, 12 August 2017
1656: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1870: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin uses time travel device to commit crimes against mathematical constants.
1870:The Custodian cleans up paradoxes caused by Grigori Rasputin's experiments in time travel device.
1914: The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1915: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.