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||1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
||1492: Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.


||1522 – The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
||1522: The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.


File:Adriaan Metius.jpg|link=Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|1635:  Mathematician and astronomer [[Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|Adriaan Metius]] dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.
File:Adriaan Metius.jpg|link=Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|1635:  Mathematician and astronomer [[Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|Adriaan Metius]] dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.


||Nehemiah Grew (b. 26 September 1641) was an English plant anatomist and physiologist, known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy". Pic.
||1641: Nehemiah Grew born ... plant anatomist and physiologist, known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy". Pic.


File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|1765: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] exhibited in London for the first time, consuming several tons of coal ash and knackered horses.
File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|1765: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] exhibited in London for the first time, consuming several tons of coal ash and knackered horses.


||1649 – Robert Dudley, English geographer and explorer (b. 1574)
||1649: Robert Dudley dies ... geographer and explorer.


File:Johan Carl Wilcke.jpg|link=Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|1732: Physicist and academic [[Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|Johan Carl Wilcke]] born. He will invent the electrophorus, and calculate the latent heat of ice.
File:Johan Carl Wilcke.jpg|link=Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|1732: Physicist and academic [[Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|Johan Carl Wilcke]] born. He will invent the electrophorus, and calculate the latent heat of ice.


|File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1753: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] publishes new edition of his book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', with an addendum on applications of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to the psychology of gambling.
||1857: Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger dies ... chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics.  


||Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger (d. 1857) was a German chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics
File:John Dalton by Charles Turner.jpg|link=John Dalton (nonfiction)|1766: Chemist, meteorologist, and physicist [[John Dalton (nonfiction)|John Dalton]] born. He will propose the modern atomic theory, and do research in color blindness.


File:John Dalton by Charles Turner.jpg|link=John Dalton (nonfiction)|1766: Chemist, meteorologist, and physicist [[John Dalton (nonfiction)|John Dalton]] born. He will propose the modern atomic theory, and do research in color blindness.
File:John Dalton by Charles Turner.jpg|link=John Dalton (nonfiction)|1803: British scientist [[John Dalton (nonfiction)|John Dalton]] begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.


||1803 – British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
||1828: Alexander Mikhaylovich Butlerov born ... chemist, one of the principal creators of the theory of chemical structure (1857–1861), the first to incorporate double bonds into structural formulas, the discoverer of hexamine (1859), the discoverer of formaldehyde (1859) and the discoverer of the formose reaction (1861). He first proposed the idea of possible tetrahedral arrangement of valence bonds in carbon compounds in 1862. Pic.


||1838 – Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (d. 1906)
||1838: Samuel Arnold dies ... American conspirator.


||Dmitry Aleksandrovich Grave (b. September 6, 1863) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician.
||1863: Dmitry Aleksandrovich Grave born ... mathematician.


||Frederick George Donnan (b. 6 September 1870) was an Irish physical chemist who is known for his work on membrane equilibria, and commemorated in the Donnan equilibrium describing ionic transport in cells. Pic.
||1870: Frederick George Donnan born ... physical chemist who is known for his work on membrane equilibria, and commemorated in the Donnan equilibrium describing ionic transport in cells. Pic.


||HMS Captain was an unsuccessful warship built for the Royal Navy due to public pressure. She was a masted turret ship, designed and built by a private contractor against the wishes of the Controller's department. The Captain was completed in April 1870 and capsized on September 6, 1870 with the loss of nearly 500 lives because of design and construction errors that led to inadequate stability.
||1870: ''HMS Captain'' capsizes ... ''Captain'' was an unsuccessful warship built for the Royal Navy due to public pressure. She was a masted turret ship, designed and built by a private contractor against the wishes of the Controller's department. The ''Captain'' was completed in April 1870 and capsized on September 6, 1870 with the loss of nearly 500 lives because of design and construction errors that led to inadequate stability.


||1885 – Engineer and artists Narcís Monturiol dies. He invented the first air-independent and combustion-engine-driven submarine.
||1885: Engineer and artist Narcís Monturiol dies. He invented the first air-independent and combustion-engine-driven submarine.


||Sir Edward Victor Appleton (b. 6 September 1892) was an English physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1947) and pioneer in radiophysics.  Pic.
||1892: Edward Victor Appleton born ... physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1947) and pioneer in radiophysics.  Pic.


||Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger (b. 6 September 1895) was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Center. Pic.
||1895: Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger born ... German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Center. Pic.


||1902 – Frederick Abel, English chemist and engineer (b. 1827) - explosives, smokeless powder, electrical fuses
||1902: Frederick Abel born ... chemist and engineer ... explosives, smokeless powder, electrical fuses.


||1906 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentinian physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
||1906: Luis Federico Leloir born ... physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1921 – Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (d. 2012)
||1921: Norman Joseph Woodland born ... inventor, co-created the bar code.


||1929 – Ljubov Rebane, Estonian physicist and mathematician (d. 1991)
||1929: Ljubov Rebane born ... physicist and mathematician.


||1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
||1939: Susumu Tonegawa born ... biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018).


||1956 – Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician (b. 1904) no pic
||1956: Witold Hurewicz, dies ... mathematician. No pic.


||1962 – The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
||1962: The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.


||1962 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
||1962: Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.


||John Edensor Littlewood FRS LLD (d. 6 September 1977) was an English mathematician, best known for his achievements in analysis, number theory, and differential equations and for his long collaboration with G. H. Hardy.
||1977: John Edensor Littlewood dies ... mathematician, best known for his achievements in analysis, number theory, and differential equations and for his long collaboration with G. H. Hardy.


File:John Backus.jpg|link=John Backus (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and computer scientist [[John Backus (nonfiction)|John Backus]] defines formal language syntax for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
File:John Backus.jpg|link=John Backus (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and computer scientist [[John Backus (nonfiction)|John Backus]] defines formal language syntax for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
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File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|2008: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Janet Beta at ENIAC]]'' reveals previously unknown [[cryptographic numen]].
File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|2008: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Janet Beta at ENIAC]]'' reveals previously unknown [[cryptographic numen]].


||Rita Harriet Harradence (d. 6 November 2012) was an Australian biochemist who pioneered the synthesis of penicillamine and steroids, and the stereochemistry of molecules involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Pic.
||2012: Rita Harriet Harradence dies ... biochemist who pioneered the synthesis of penicillamine and steroids, and the stereochemistry of molecules involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Pic.


||2017 – Lotfi Zadeh, Iranian-American mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic, dies. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.html
||2017: Lotfi Zadeh dies ... mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.html


File:Cryptographic numen modelled as nano-wire.jpg|link=Cryptographic numen|2017: Previously unknown type of [[cryptographic numen]] revealed by steganographic analysis of ''[[Janet Beta at ENIAC]]''.
File:Cryptographic numen modelled as nano-wire.jpg|link=Cryptographic numen|2017: Previously unknown type of [[cryptographic numen]] revealed by steganographic analysis of ''[[Janet Beta at ENIAC]]''.


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Revision as of 10:35, 15 August 2018

  • 1635: Mathematician and astronomer Adriaan Metius dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.

    1635: Mathematician and astronomer Adriaan Metius dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.

  • 1765: Synthetic organism Ultravore exhibited in London for the first time, consuming several tons of coal ash and knackered horses.

    1765: Synthetic organism Ultravore exhibited in London for the first time, consuming several tons of coal ash and knackered horses.

  • 1732: Physicist and academic Johan Carl Wilcke born. He will invent the electrophorus, and calculate the latent heat of ice.

    1732: Physicist and academic Johan Carl Wilcke born. He will invent the electrophorus, and calculate the latent heat of ice.

  • 1766: Chemist, meteorologist, and physicist John Dalton born. He will propose the modern atomic theory, and do research in color blindness.

    1766: Chemist, meteorologist, and physicist John Dalton born. He will propose the modern atomic theory, and do research in color blindness.

  • 1803: British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.

    1803: British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.

  • 2006: Mathematician and computer scientist John Backus defines formal language syntax for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    2006: Mathematician and computer scientist John Backus defines formal language syntax for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2007: Writer Madeleine L'Engle dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.

    2007: Writer Madeleine L'Engle dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.

  • 2008: Steganographic analysis of Janet Beta at ENIAC reveals previously unknown cryptographic numen.

    2008: Steganographic analysis of Janet Beta at ENIAC reveals previously unknown cryptographic numen.

  • 2017: Previously unknown type of cryptographic numen revealed by steganographic analysis of Janet Beta at ENIAC.

    2017: Previously unknown type of cryptographic numen revealed by steganographic analysis of Janet Beta at ENIAC.

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