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File:Robert Fludd.jpg|link=Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]] dies. | File:Robert Fludd.jpg|link=Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]] dies. | ||
||1682 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1606) | |||
||1761 – Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1698) | |||
||1882 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (b. 1809) | |||
||1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries. | ||1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries. | ||
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||1888 – In Spain, the first travel of Isaac Peral's submarine, was the first practical submarine ever made. | ||1888 – In Spain, the first travel of Isaac Peral's submarine, was the first practical submarine ever made. | ||
| | ||1894 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (b. 1821) | ||
||1918 – Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) | |||
||1923 – Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed. | ||1923 – Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed. | ||
||1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape. | ||1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape. | ||
||1935 – Carl Weiss, American physician (b. 1906) Assassin of Huey Long | |||
||1944 – World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time. | ||1944 – World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time. | ||
||1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1) | ||1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1) | ||
||1965 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) | |||
||1966 – The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap". | ||1966 – The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap". | ||
||1970 – Percy Spencer, American engineer, invented the microwave oven (b. 1894) | |||
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1973: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for his next film by selling shares in the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|President Ford's pardon of former President Richard Nixon]]. | File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1973: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for his next film by selling shares in the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|President Ford's pardon of former President Richard Nixon]]. | ||
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File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "is confident that President Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon." | File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "is confident that President Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon." | ||
||1980 – Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) | |||
||1981 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907) | |||
||2004 – NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open. | |||
||2009 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922) | |||
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2013: [[Rhizolith Group]] performs new work in remembrance of mathematician [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]]. | File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2013: [[Rhizolith Group]] performs new work in remembrance of mathematician [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]]. | ||
Revision as of 16:32, 17 August 2017
1588: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne born. He will be remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1635: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Adriaan Metius manufactures precision optical instruments for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd dies.
1973: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for his next film by selling shares in the President Ford's pardon of former President Richard Nixon.
1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "is confident that President Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon."
2013: Rhizolith Group performs new work in remembrance of mathematician Robert Fludd.