Template:Selected anniversaries/January 22: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 32: | Line 32: | ||
||1903 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (d. 1966) | ||1903 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (d. 1966) | ||
||George Salmon ( | ||George Salmon (d. 22 January 1904) was a distinguished and influential Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian. After working in algebraic geometry for two decades, Salmon devoted the last forty years of his life to theology. His entire career was spent at Trinity College Dublin. | ||
||1905 – Willy Hartner, German physicist, historian, and academic (d. 1981) | ||1905 – Willy Hartner, German physicist, historian, and academic (d. 1981) | ||
| Line 45: | Line 45: | ||
||1946 – Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. | ||1946 – Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. | ||
||Harald August Bohr (d. 22 January 1951) was a Danish mathematician and soccer player. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr. | |||
File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1953: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental [[scrying engine]]. | File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1953: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental [[scrying engine]]. | ||
Revision as of 07:39, 28 November 2017
1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
1795: Inventor Claude Chappe uses the French semaphore system to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1953: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental scrying engine.
1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to stop theft of the Hamangia figurines.
1968: Tunguska Event Preservation Society accepts Lex Luthor's application for membership.
1987: Politician R. Budd Dwyer takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.