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||762 – Baghdad is founded. | |||
||1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, historian, and architect (d. 1574) | |||
||1641 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673) | |||
||1676 – Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. | |||
File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1832: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] dies. | File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1832: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] dies. | ||
File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1841: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|George Biddell Airy]] measures mean density of the Earth using [[Gnomon algorithm]] technique. This data will later be adapted for use in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1841: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|George Biddell Airy]] measures mean density of the Earth using [[Gnomon algorithm]] technique. This data will later be adapted for use in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Petersburg crater aftermath 1865.jpg|link=|1864: American Civil War: [[Battle of the Crater (nonfiction)|Battle of the Crater]]: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches. | File:Petersburg crater aftermath 1865.jpg|link=Battle of the Crater (nonfiction)|1864: American Civil War: [[Battle of the Crater (nonfiction)|Battle of the Crater]]: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches. | ||
||1913 – Lou Darvas, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 1987) | |||
||1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's ''Flowers and Trees'', the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short. | |||
||1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors. | |||
||1948 – John Briscoe, South African-American epidemiologist, engineer, and academic (d. 2014) Stockholm Water Prize | |||
||1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission: David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover. | |||
File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1972: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 proud to represent [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer programs]] everywhere. | |||
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States. | |||
||1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again. | |||
||1985 – Julia Robinson, American mathematician and theorist (b. 1919) | |||
||1992 – Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (b. 1914) | |||
||2001 – Anton Schwarzkopf, German engineer (b. 1924) Amusement rides | |||
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Revision as of 10:50, 15 October 2017
1832: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal dies.
1841: Mathematician and astronomer George Biddell Airy measures mean density of the Earth using Gnomon algorithm technique. This data will later be adapted for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1864: American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1972: "Hello World" computer program from 1974 proud to represent "Hello World" computer programs everywhere.
1974: Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.