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||1493 – Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published. | |||
||1682 – Jean Picard, French priest and astronomer (b. 1620) | |||
File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1854: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. | File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1854: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. | ||
||1493 – Hartmann Schedel's ''Nuremberg Chronicle'', one of the best-documented early printed books, is published. | ||1493 – Hartmann Schedel's ''Nuremberg Chronicle'', one of the best-documented early printed books, is published. | ||
||1807 – Thomas Hawksley, English engineer and academic (d. 1893) | |||
||1813 – Claude Bernard, French physiologist and academic (d. 1878) | |||
||1863 – Albert Calmette, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (d. 1933) | |||
||1863 – Paul Drude, German physicist and academic (d. 1906) | |||
||1879 – Margherita Piazzola Beloch, Italian mathematician (d. 1976) | |||
||Giulio Ascoli (d. 12 July 1896, Milan) was an Italian mathematician. | |||
||1909 – Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, designed Fernsehturm Stuttgart (d. 1999) | |||
||1913 – Willis Lamb, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008) | |||
File:Bisbee Deportation.jpg|link=Bisbee Deportation (nonfiction)|1917: The [[Bisbee Deportation (nonfiction)|Bisbee Deportation]]: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona. | File:Bisbee Deportation.jpg|link=Bisbee Deportation (nonfiction)|1917: The [[Bisbee Deportation (nonfiction)|Bisbee Deportation]]: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona. | ||
File:Gambling Den Fight.jpg|link=Gambling Den Fight|1922: Signed first edition of ''[[Gambling Den Fight]]'' sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology." | File:Gambling Den Fight.jpg|link=Gambling Den Fight|1922: Signed first edition of ''[[Gambling Den Fight]]'' sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology." | ||
||1926 – Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and spy (b. 1868) | |||
||1934 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor (b. 1877) | |||
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|1935: [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]]. | File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|1935: [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]]. | ||
||1945 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1871) | ||1945 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1871) | ||
||1962 – The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at London's Marquee Club. | |||
File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to reveal previously secret [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to reveal previously secret [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1998 – Arkady Ostashev, Soviet/Russian scientist and engineer (b. 1925) | |||
|File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2016: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] renews support for [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]] charter. | |File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2016: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] renews support for [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]] charter. | ||
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Revision as of 19:43, 5 November 2017
1854: George Eastman born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
1917: The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1922: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology."
1935: Alfred Dreyfus dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
1967: Mathematician Edward Lorenz uses Gnomon algorithm to reveal previously secret crimes against mathematical constants.
