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||1520 – An expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Strait of Magellan.
||1660 – At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
||1700 – Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer and mathematician (d. 1764)
File:William Blake by John Flaxman c1804.jpg|link=William Blake (nonfiction)|1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker [[William Blake (nonfiction)|William Blake]] born.
File:William Blake by John Flaxman c1804.jpg|link=William Blake (nonfiction)|1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker [[William Blake (nonfiction)|William Blake]] born.


File:Phosphorus.jpg|link=Exxageratorium|1901: Sample of phosphorus, weary of life in a bottle, [[Exaggeratorium|dreams of setting fire to itself]].
||1772 – Luke Howard, English chemist and meteorologist (d. 1864)
 
||1814 – The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press, built by the German team of Koenig & Bauer.
 
||1837 – John Wesley Hyatt, American engineer (d. 1920)
 
||1872 – Mary Somerville, Scottish-Italian astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1780)
 
||1873 – Caterina Scarpellini, Italian astronomer and meteorologist (b. 1808)
 
|File:Phosphorus.jpg|link=Exxageratorium|1901: Sample of phosphorus, weary of life in a bottle, [[Exaggeratorium|dreams of setting fire to itself]].


File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
||1913 – Cliff Addison, English chemist and academic (d. 1994)
||1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the ''WSM Barn Dance''.
||1948 – Alan Lightman, American physicist, novelist, and academician
||1953 – Frank Olson, American biologist and chemist (b. 1910)


File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1953: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]] testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1953: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]] testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
||1954 – Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)


File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1954: Physicist [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1954: Physicist [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
||1964 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
||1967 – The first pulsar known as PSR B1919+21 in the constellation of Vulpecula was discovered by two astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.
||1987 – Choh Hao Li, Chinese-American biologist and chemist (b. 1913)


|File:Mathematical function.svg|link=Mathematical function (nonfiction)|1954: Some [[Mathematical function (nonfiction)|Mathematical functions]] are "all input and no output," according to alleged supervillain [[Abomynous]].
|File:Mathematical function.svg|link=Mathematical function (nonfiction)|1954: Some [[Mathematical function (nonfiction)|Mathematical functions]] are "all input and no output," according to alleged supervillain [[Abomynous]].

Revision as of 21:15, 12 September 2017

  • 1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake born.

    1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake born.

  • 1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

    1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

  • 1953: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

    1953: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

  • 1954: Physicist Enrico Fermi dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".

    1954: Physicist Enrico Fermi dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".

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