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File:Willebrord Snellius.jpg|link=|1626: Astronomer and mathematician [[Willebrord Snellius (nonfiction)|Willebrord Snellius]] dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
File:Willebrord Snellius.jpg|link=|1626: Astronomer and mathematician [[Willebrord Snellius (nonfiction)|Willebrord Snellius]] dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.


||1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki>
||1831: In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki>


||Joseph Jean Baptiste Neuberg (b. 30 October 1840) was a Luxembourger mathematician who worked primarily in geometry. Pic.
||1840: Joseph Jean Baptiste Neuberg born ... mathematician who worked primarily in geometry. Pic.


||Georges Henri Halphen (b. 30 October 1844) was a French mathematician. He was known for his work in geometry, particularly in enumerative geometry and the singularity theory of algebraic curves, in algebraic geometry.  Pic.
||1844: Georges Henri Halphen born ... mathematician. He was known for his work in geometry, particularly in enumerative geometry and the singularity theory of algebraic curves, in algebraic geometry.  Pic.


||1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French-Swiss physician and neurologist (d. 1904)
||1857: Georges Gilles de la Tourette born ... physician and neurologist.


||1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".
||1864: Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".


||Arthur Scherbius (b. 30 October 1878) was a German electrical engineer who patented an invention for a mechanical cipher machine, later sold as the Enigma machine.
||1878: Arthur Scherbius born ... electrical engineer who patented an invention for a mechanical cipher machine, later sold as the Enigma machine.


||1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
||1895: Gerhard Domagk born ... pathologist and bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1895 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
||1895: Dickinson W. Richards born ... physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Leonarde Keeler (b. 1903) was the co-inventor of the polygraph.
||1903: Leonarde Keeler born ... co-inventor of the polygraph.


||Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (b. October 30, 1906) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and geophysicist known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. He was also one of the inventors of the magnetotellurics method in geophysics.  
||1906: Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov born ... mathematician and geophysicist known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. He was also one of the inventors of the magnetotellurics method in geophysics.  


||Harold Davenport (b. 30 October 1907) was an English mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory. Pic.
||1907: Harold Davenport born ... mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory. Pic.


||1909 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian-French physicist and academic (d. 1966)
||1909: Homi J. Bhabha born ... physicist and academic.


File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916:  Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916:  Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
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File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] creates Britain's first television transmitter.
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] creates Britain's first television transmitter.


||Fabrizio de Miranda (b. October 30, 1926) was an Italian bridges and structural engineer and university professor.
||1926: Fabrizio de Miranda born ... bridges and structural engineer and university professor.


||1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
||1928: Daniel Nathans born ... microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
||1938: Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's ''The War of the Worlds'', causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.


||1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
||1942: Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.


||William Paul Thurston (b. October 30, 1946) was an American mathematician. He was a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology. In 1982, he was awarded the Fields Medal for his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds.  
||1946: William Paul Thurston born ... mathematician. He was a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology. In 1982, he was awarded the Fields Medal for his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds.  


||Rudolf Goldschmidt (October 30, 1950) was a German engineer and inventor. In 1908 he developed a rotating radio-frequency machine, the Goldschmidt alternator, which was used as an early radio transmitter.  He also invented a mechanical device, the Goldschmidt tone wheel, used in early radio receivers to receive the new continuous wave radiotelegraph signals. Pic.
||1950: Rudolf Goldschmidt dies ... engineer and inventor. In 1908 he developed a rotating radio-frequency machine, the Goldschmidt alternator, which was used as an early radio transmitter.  He also invented a mechanical device, the Goldschmidt tone wheel, used in early radio receivers to receive the new continuous wave radiotelegraph signals. Pic.


||1953 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
||1953: Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.


||1961 – The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; equivalent to 57 megatons of TNT, it remains the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
||1961: The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; equivalent to 57 megatons of TNT, it remains the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.


||1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
||1975: Gustav Ludwig Hertz dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Alfred Landé (d. 30 October 1976) was a German-American physicist known for his contributions to quantum theory. He is responsible for the Landé g-factor and an explanation of the Zeeman effect.
||1976: Alfred Landé dies ... physicist known for his contributions to quantum theory. He is responsible for the Landé g-factor and an explanation of the Zeeman effect.


||1979 – Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the "bouncing bomb" (b. 1887)
||1979: Barnes Wallis dies ... scientist and engineer, invented the "bouncing bomb".


||1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
||1985: Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.


||Aristid Lindenmayer (d. 30 October 1989) was a Hungarian biologist. In 1968 he developed a type of formal languages that is today called L-systems or Lindenmayer Systems. Using those systems Lindenmayer modelled the behaviour of cells of plants. L-systems nowadays are also used to model whole plants. Lindenmayer worked with yeast and filamentous fungi and studied the growth patterns of various types of algae, such as the blue/green bacteria Anabaena catenula. Originally the L-systems were devised to provide a formal description of the development of such simple multicellular organisms, and to illustrate the neighbourhood relationships between plant cells. Later on, this system was extended to describe higher plants and complex branching structures. No pic, use diagram.
||1989: Aristid Lindenmayer dies ... biologist. In 1968 he developed a type of formal languages that is today called L-systems or Lindenmayer Systems. Using those systems Lindenmayer modelled the behaviour of cells of plants. L-systems nowadays are also used to model whole plants. Lindenmayer worked with yeast and filamentous fungi and studied the growth patterns of various types of algae, such as the blue/green bacteria Anabaena catenula. Originally the L-systems were devised to provide a formal description of the development of such simple multicellular organisms, and to illustrate the neighbourhood relationships between plant cells. Later on, this system was extended to describe higher plants and complex branching structures. No pic, use diagram.
 
||2006: Clifford James Geertz born ... an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered "for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." Pic.


File:Irving Adler age 75.jpg|link=Irving Adler (nonfiction)|2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter [[Irving Adler (nonfiction)|Irving Adler]] publishes evidence that high-level [[crimes against mathematical constants]] have been covered up by the government for decades.
File:Irving Adler age 75.jpg|link=Irving Adler (nonfiction)|2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter [[Irving Adler (nonfiction)|Irving Adler]] publishes evidence that high-level [[crimes against mathematical constants]] have been covered up by the government for decades.

Revision as of 14:16, 17 August 2018

  • 1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.

    1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.

  • 1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.

    1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.

  • 1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

    1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

  • 2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter Irving Adler publishes evidence that high-level crimes against mathematical constants have been covered up by the government for decades.

    2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter Irving Adler publishes evidence that high-level crimes against mathematical constants have been covered up by the government for decades.

  • 2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

    2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

  • 2017: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery reveals nearly two terabytes of encrypted data.

    2017: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery reveals nearly two terabytes of encrypted data.

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