Template:Selected anniversaries/December 3: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
||1854 – Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences. | ||1854 – Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences. | ||
File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]'' attacked by in mid-ocean by supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]]. | |File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]'' attacked by in mid-ocean by supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]]. | ||
File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1873: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] | |File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1873: A worldwide outbreak of [[Scrimshaw abuse]] outbreak unexplained loss of ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]''. | ||
||1879 – Donald Matheson Sutherland, Canadian physician and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 1970) | ||1879 – Donald Matheson Sutherland, Canadian physician and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 1970) | ||
| Line 36: | Line 36: | ||
||1973 – Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter. | ||1973 – Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter. | ||
File:Alien-cast.jpg|link=Alien (film) (nonfiction)|1979: Cast of ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]'' launches Kickstarter campaign to fund movie about ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]''. | |File:Alien-cast.jpg|link=Alien (film) (nonfiction)|1979: Cast of ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]'' launches Kickstarter campaign to fund movie about ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]''. | ||
||1984 – Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history. | ||1984 – Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history. | ||
| Line 50: | Line 50: | ||
||2014 – James Stewart, Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1941) | ||2014 – James Stewart, Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1941) | ||
File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2016: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' stolen by supervillain [[Gnotilus]]; painting may hold key to disappearance of ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]''. | |File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2016: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' stolen by supervillain [[Gnotilus]]; painting may hold key to disappearance of ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]''. | ||
File:Cantor Parabola defies the National Security Agency.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: [[Cantor Parabola]] joins [[Antikythera Team]] board of directors. | File:Cantor Parabola defies the National Security Agency.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: [[Cantor Parabola]] joins [[Antikythera Team]] board of directors. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
Revision as of 20:09, 21 October 2017
1616: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1910: Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
1924: Mathematician and computer scientist John Backus born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax.
1965: Mathematician Edward Lorenz uses scrying engine to discover new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2017: Cantor Parabola joins Antikythera Team board of directors.