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||1538 – Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1612) | |||
File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1636: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[Numbered cake algorithm]] (NCA) to pre-visualize the transit of Venus. | File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1636: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[Numbered cake algorithm]] (NCA) to pre-visualize the transit of Venus. | ||
File:Christiaan Huygens.jpg|link=Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]]. | |||
||1712 – Nehemiah Grew, English anatomist and physiologist (b. 1641) | |||
||Christoph Gudermann (b. March 25, 1798) was a German mathematician noted for introducing the Gudermannian function and the concept of uniform convergence | |||
||1807 – The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire. | |||
||1800 – Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen, German geologist and academic (d. 1889) | |||
||1818 – Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (b. 1745) | |||
File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1860: Surgeon and gentleman scientist [[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]] dies. He was an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy. | File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1860: Surgeon and gentleman scientist [[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]] dies. He was an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy. | ||
||1912 – Melita Norwood, English civil servant and spy (d. 2005) | |||
File:Robert Andrews Millikan.jpg|link=Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|1924: Physicist [[Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|Robert Andrews Millikan]] uses the measurement of the elementary electronic charge to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Robert Andrews Millikan.jpg|link=Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|1924: Physicist [[Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|Robert Andrews Millikan]] uses the measurement of the elementary electronic charge to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in the first of a three-week series of demonstrations. | File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in the first of a three-week series of demonstrations. | ||
File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1927: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture on [[numbered cake algorithms]]. | File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1927: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture on [[numbered cake algorithms]]. | ||
||1928 – Gunnar Nielsen, Danish runner and typographer (d. 1985) | |||
||1946 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (d. 1991) | |||
File:Numbered cake pops.jpg|link=Numbered cake algorithm|1954: [[Numbered cake algorithm]] used to build new type of [[scrying engine]]. | File:Numbered cake pops.jpg|link=Numbered cake algorithm|1954: [[Numbered cake algorithm]] used to build new type of [[scrying engine]]. | ||
||1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. | |||
File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list. | File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list. | ||
||1979 – The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch. | |||
||1987 – A. W. Mailvaganam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (b. 1906) | |||
||1996 – The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy). | |||
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Revision as of 18:57, 5 November 2017
1636: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks uses Numbered cake algorithm (NCA) to pre-visualize the transit of Venus.
1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1860: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid dies. He was an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.
1924: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan uses the measurement of the elementary electronic charge to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1925: John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in the first of a three-week series of demonstrations.
1927: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture on numbered cake algorithms.
1954: Numbered cake algorithm used to build new type of scrying engine.
1964: The Hal Jordan Playbook spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.