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|File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1701: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to design improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]]. | |File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1701: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to design improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]]. | ||
File:Pieter van Musschenbroek.jpg|link=Pieter van Musschenbroek (nonfiction)|1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Pieter van Musschenbroek (nonfiction)|Pieter van Musschenbroek]] uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1783: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function. | File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1783: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function. | ||
||1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens. | |||
||1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times. | |||
||1873 – Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures. | |||
||1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens. | |||
File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1888: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1888: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | ||
||1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel. | |||
||1931 – The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria. | |||
||1934 – The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations. | |||
||1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act. | |||
||1959 – Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit. | |||
||1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | |||
File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power. | |||
File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1977: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together. | |||
||1980 – Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station. | |||
||1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic. | |||
File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1993: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] learning [[scrying engine]] techniques from poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]]. | File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1993: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] learning [[scrying engine]] techniques from poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]]. | ||
||1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations. | |||
||2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks. | |||
File:The_Custodian_2.jpg|link=The Custodian|[[The Custodian]] tells a funny story about why you can't go in there. | File:The_Custodian_2.jpg|link=The Custodian|2017: [[The Custodian]] tells a funny story about why you can't go in there. | ||
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Revision as of 15:57, 13 August 2017
1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pieter van Musschenbroek uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.
1888: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.
1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
1993: "Hello World" computer program learning scrying engine techniques from poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski.
2017: The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.