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File:Claude Chappe.jpg|Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|1805: Inventor [[Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|Claude Chappe]] dies. He invented and developed a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age. | File:Claude Chappe.jpg|Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|1805: Inventor [[Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|Claude Chappe]] dies. He invented and developed a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age. | ||
||1810 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist and physicist (b. 1776) | |||
||1840 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist and engineer (d. 1905) | ||1840 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist and engineer (d. 1905) | ||
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||1937 – The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime. | ||1937 – The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime. | ||
||1937 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist and politician (b. 1876) | |||
File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1941: [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler. | File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1941: [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler. | ||
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File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1967: [[John Brunner]] uses [[scrying engine]] to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1967: [[John Brunner]] uses [[scrying engine]] to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1971 – Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and academic (b. 1871) | |||
||1973 – United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. | ||1973 – United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. | ||
||Sergei Nikolaevich Chernikov (d. 23 January 1987) was a Russian mathematician who contributed significantly to the development of infinite group theory and linear inequalities. | ||Sergei Nikolaevich Chernikov (d. 23 January 1987) was a Russian mathematician who contributed significantly to the development of infinite group theory and linear inequalities. | ||
||1988 – Charles Glen King, American biochemist and academic (b. 1896) | |||
File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|2003: A very weak signal from ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' is detected for the last time; no usable data can be extracted. | File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|2003: A very weak signal from ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' is detected for the last time; no usable data can be extracted. | ||
Revision as of 12:10, 27 November 2017
1656: Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
1805: Inventor Claude Chappe dies. He invented and developed a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.
1854: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker discovers new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1862: Mathematician David Hilbert born. he will discover and develop a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.
1941: Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1967: John Brunner uses scrying engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
2003: A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time; no usable data can be extracted.
2007: CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt dies. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt plotted the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration.
