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||1565 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish astronomer and theologian (d. 1646) | |||
||1695 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771) | |||
File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". | File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". | ||
||1764 – Andrés Manuel del Rio, Spanish-Mexican scientist and discoverer of vanadium (d. 1849) | |||
||1801 – Samuel Gridley Howe, American physician and activist (d. 1876) Abolitionist | |||
||1810 – George Jennings, English plumber and engineer, invented the flush toilet (d. 1882) | |||
||1887 – Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Romanian engineer and academic (d. 1973) | |||
||1888 – Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer and designer, founded the Tupolev Company (d. 1972) | |||
||1918 – Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007) | |||
||1919 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and engineer, designed the AK-47 (d. 2013) | |||
||1923 – Hachikō, Japanese dog famous for his loyalty to his owner (d. 1935) | |||
||1933 – Ronald Evans, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1990) | |||
||1934 – A. Thurairajah, Sri Lankan engineer and academic (d. 1994) | |||
||1935 – Bernard Babior, American physician and biochemist (d. 2004) | |||
||1935 – Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Russian astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist | |||
||1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371. | |||
||1951 – With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States. | |||
||1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston. | |||
File:Klara Dan von Neumann.png|link=Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|1963: Computer scientist [[Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|Klara Dan von Neumann]] dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code. | File:Klara Dan von Neumann.png|link=Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|1963: Computer scientist [[Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|Klara Dan von Neumann]] dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code. | ||
||1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history. | |||
||1990 – Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist and academic (b. 1914) | |||
||2006 – Fokko du Cloux, Dutch mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1954) | |||
||2008 – Kiyosi Itô, Japanese mathematician and academic (b. 1915) | |||
||2008 – Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost. | |||
||2015 – Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer, founded the Amdahl Corporation (b. 1922) | |||
|File:Nysa_on_Maeander_Library_Upgrade.jpg|link=Nysa on the Maeander|[[Nysa on the Maeander]] seeks upgrade to full [[transdimensional corporation]]. | |File:Nysa_on_Maeander_Library_Upgrade.jpg|link=Nysa on the Maeander|[[Nysa on the Maeander]] seeks upgrade to full [[transdimensional corporation]]. | ||
Revision as of 20:56, 9 October 2017
1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
1963: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.