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||1237 – The city of Ryazan is sacked by the Mongol army of Batu Khan. | |||
||1542 – Thomas Allen, English mathematician and astrologer (d. 1632) | |||
||1805 – Thomas Graham, Scottish chemist and academic (d. 1869) | |||
||1824 – James Parkinson, English physician and paleontologist (b. 1755) | |||
||1844 – The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers commences business at its cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement. | |||
||1868 – George W. Fuller, American chemist and engineer (d. 1934) | |||
||1872 – Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth, England. | |||
||1877 – Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (d. 1954) | |||
File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg|link=Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1878: Mathematician and philosopher [[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]] born. He will think innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle. | File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg|link=Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1878: Mathematician and philosopher [[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]] born. He will think innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle. | ||
||Sewall Green Wright (December 21, 1889 | |||
||1889 – Sewall Wright, American geneticist and biologist (d. 1988) | |||
||Sewall Green Wright (b. December 21, 1889) was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. | |||
||1890 – Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967) | |||
||1905 – Käte Fenchel, German mathematician (d. 1983) | |||
||1907 – The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile. | |||
File:Crossword.png|link=Crossword (nonfiction)|1913: Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first [[Crossword (nonfiction)|crossword puzzle]], is published in the ''New York World''. | File:Crossword.png|link=Crossword (nonfiction)|1913: Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first [[Crossword (nonfiction)|crossword puzzle]], is published in the ''New York World''. | ||
||1919 – American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia. | |||
||1920 – Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish state (b. 1856) | |||
||1920 – Adele Goldstine, American computer programmer (d. 1964) | |||
||1922 – Cécile DeWitt-Morette, French mathematician and physicist (d. 2017) | |||
||1933 – Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879) | |||
||1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre. | |||
||1959 – Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher, engraver, and painter (b. 1883) | |||
||1967 – Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant. | |||
||1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans. | |||
File:Voronoi-diagram-color-commentators.jpg|link=Fantasy Voronoi diagram|1974: [[Fantasy Voronoi diagram]] upstages [[Fantasy football (American) (nonfiction)|Fantasy Football]]. | File:Voronoi-diagram-color-commentators.jpg|link=Fantasy Voronoi diagram|1974: [[Fantasy Voronoi diagram]] upstages [[Fantasy football (American) (nonfiction)|Fantasy Football]]. | ||
File:Chronography of 354 title and dedication.png|link=Chronography of 354 (nonfiction)|1976: [[Chronography of 354 (nonfiction)|Chronography of 354]] wins Pulitzer Prize. | File:Chronography of 354 title and dedication.png|link=Chronography of 354 (nonfiction)|1976: [[Chronography of 354 (nonfiction)|Chronography of 354]] wins Pulitzer Prize. | ||
File:Mandelbrot set command line depiction.png|link=Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|1984: [[Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|Mandelbrot set]] develops [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]], discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:Mandelbrot set command line depiction.png|link=Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|1984: [[Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)|Mandelbrot set]] develops [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]], discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
||1988 – A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. | |||
||1988 – The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world. | |||
||2009 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) | |||
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Revision as of 08:32, 3 September 2017
1878: Mathematician and philosopher Jan Łukasiewicz born. He will think innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle.
1913: Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
1974: Fantasy Voronoi diagram upstages Fantasy Football.
1976: Chronography of 354 wins Pulitzer Prize.
1984: Mandelbrot set develops artificial intelligence, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.