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||699 – En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima. | |||
||1274 – Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist and writer (b. 1201) | |||
||1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed. | |||
||1694 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768) | |||
File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1730: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]] born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects". | File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1730: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]] born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects". | ||
File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins. | File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins. | ||
||1810 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1740) | |||
File:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|1823: [[Havelock]] announces plan to collaborate with [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] and [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] on building an [[Orrery (nonfiction)|orrery]] which models [[Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|the heat death of the universe]]. | File:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|1823: [[Havelock]] announces plan to collaborate with [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] and [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] on building an [[Orrery (nonfiction)|orrery]] which models [[Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|the heat death of the universe]]. | ||
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File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|1842: [[Clock Head]] advises [[Judge Havelock]] to drink less [[Extract of Radium]], less often. | File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|1842: [[Clock Head]] advises [[Judge Havelock]] to drink less [[Extract of Radium]], less often. | ||
||1878 – Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (d. 1957) | |||
||1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish-English astronomer, geophysicist, and ornithologist (b. 1788) | |||
||1886 – French chemist Henri Moissan (pictured) reported he was able to successfully isolate elemental fluorine, for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. | ||1886 – French chemist Henri Moissan (pictured) reported he was able to successfully isolate elemental fluorine, for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. | ||
||1904 – Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer and academic (d. 1951) | |||
||1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity. | |||
||1911 – Bronisław Żurakowski, Polish pilot and engineer (d. 2009) | |||
||1913 – Maurice Wilkes, English computer scientist and physicist (d. 2010) | |||
||1915 – Paul Castellano, American gangster (d. 1985) | |||
||1921 – Violette Szabo, French secret agent (d. 1945) | |||
||Baron Yamakawa Kenjirō (d. June 26, 1931) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who went on to become a noted physicist, university president, and author of several histories of the Boshin War. | ||Baron Yamakawa Kenjirō (d. June 26, 1931) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who went on to become a noted physicist, university president, and author of several histories of the Boshin War. | ||
||1932 – Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (b. 1900) | |||
||1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter. | |||
||1937 – Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) | |||
||1943 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868) | |||
||1944 – World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths. | |||
||1946 – Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (d. 2013) | |||
||1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor. | |||
||1955 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer (b. 1895) | |||
|File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1963: Red-hot [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|plutonium]] stolen from factory by organized gang of [[math criminals]]. | |File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1963: Red-hot [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|plutonium]] stolen from factory by organized gang of [[math criminals]]. | ||
||1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. | |||
||1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. | |||
||2000 – The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence. | |||
||2006 – Tommy Wonder, Dutch magician (b. 1953) | |||
||2010 – Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (b. 1912) | |||
|File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2017: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] invites [[Egg Tooth (monster)|Egg Tooth]] to speak at conference on [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]]. | |File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2017: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] invites [[Egg Tooth (monster)|Egg Tooth]] to speak at conference on [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]]. | ||
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Revision as of 13:29, 11 December 2017
1730: Astronomer Charles Messier born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1823: Havelock announces plan to collaborate with David Rittenhouse and Lord Kelvin on building an orrery which models the heat death of the universe.
1824: Lord Kelvin born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1842: Clock Head advises Judge Havelock to drink less Extract of Radium, less often.