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|File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1701: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to design improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]].


||1709 – Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer and poet (d. 1784)
||1709: Samuel Johnson born ... lexicographer and poet.


File:Pieter van Musschenbroek.jpg|link=Pieter van Musschenbroek (nonfiction)|1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Pieter van Musschenbroek (nonfiction)|Pieter van Musschenbroek]] uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Pieter van Musschenbroek.jpg|link=Pieter van Musschenbroek (nonfiction)|1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Pieter van Musschenbroek (nonfiction)|Pieter van Musschenbroek]] uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1752 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1833)
||1752: Adrien-Marie Legendre born ... mathematician and theorist.


File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1783: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.
File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1783: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.


||Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner (b. 18 September 1786) was a German poet, practicing physician, and medical writer.
||1786: Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner born ... poet, practicing physician, and medical writer.


||1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.
||1809: The Royal Opera House in London opens.


||1819 – Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (d. 1868)
||1819: Léon Foucault born ... physicist and academic.


||Carl-Gustav Esseen (b. 18 September 1918) was a Swedish mathematician. His work was in the theory of probability. The Berry–Esseen theorem is named after him.
||1918: Carl-Gustav Esseen born ... mathematician. His work was in the theory of probability. The Berry–Esseen theorem is named after him.


||1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
||1851: First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.


||1860 – Joseph Locke, English engineer and politician (b. 1805)
||1860: Joseph Locke dies ... engineer and politician.


||1873 – Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
||1873: Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.


||1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
||1882: The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.


|File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1888: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]].
||1896: Hippolyte Fizeau dies ... physicist and academic ... best known for measuring the speed of light in the namesake Fizeau experiment.


||1896 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (b. 1819) Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau FRS FRSE MIF[clarification needed] (23 September 1819 – 18 September 1896) was a French physicist, best known for measuring the speed of light in the namesake Fizeau experiment.
||1907: Edwin McMillan born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1907 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)


||1908: Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian born ... a Soviet Armenian scientist, and one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics. He worked in the field of physics of stars and nebulae, stellar astronomy, dynamics of stellar systems and cosmogony of stars and galaxies, and contributed to mathematical physics. Pic.
||1908: Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian born ... a Soviet Armenian scientist, and one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics. He worked in the field of physics of stars and nebulae, stellar astronomy, dynamics of stellar systems and cosmogony of stars and galaxies, and contributed to mathematical physics. Pic.
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File:Einstein drumming.jpg|link=Albert Einstein|1913: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein]] performs at charity concert to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Einstein drumming.jpg|link=Albert Einstein|1913: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein]] performs at charity concert to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Victor L. Klee, Jr. (b. September 18, 1925) was a mathematician specialising in convex sets, functional analysis, analysis of algorithms, optimization, and combinatorics. Pic.
||1925: Victor L. Klee, Jr. born ... mathematician specialising in convex sets, functional analysis, analysis of algorithms, optimization, and combinatorics. Pic.


||1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
||1928: Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.


||1931 – The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
||1931: The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.


||1932 – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian physicist and astronaut (d. 2002)
||1932: Nikolay Rukavishnikov born ... physicist and astronaut.


||1934 – The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.
||1934: The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.


||1939 – Jan Camiel Willems, Belgian mathematician and theorist (d. 2013)
||1939: Jan Camiel Willems born ... mathematician and theorist.


||1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.
||1947: The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.


||1951: Anthony John Clark born ...  an molecular biologist who was a founder of applying molecular technology to farm animals.  Tracy, born in 1990, was the first sheep to produce large quantities of human protein, making 35g of the alpha-1-antitrypsin (used in treatment of cystic fibrosis) in each litre of her milk.
||1951: Anthony John Clark born ...  an molecular biologist who was a founder of applying molecular technology to farm animals.  Tracy, born in 1990, was the first sheep to produce large quantities of human protein, making 35g of the alpha-1-antitrypsin (used in treatment of cystic fibrosis) in each litre of her milk.


||1959 – Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
||1959: Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.


||1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
||1961: U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
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File:Florence Violet McKenzie in WESC uniform.jpg|link=Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|1978: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter [[Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|Florence Violet McKenzie]] publishes memoirs, reveals that she received messages from [[AESOP]] during the Second World War.
File:Florence Violet McKenzie in WESC uniform.jpg|link=Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|1978: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter [[Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|Florence Violet McKenzie]] publishes memoirs, reveals that she received messages from [[AESOP]] during the Second World War.


||1977 – Paul Bernays, English-Swiss mathematician and philosopher (b. 1888)
||1977: Paul Bernays dies ... mathematician and philosopher.


||Rudolf Nebel (d. 18 September 1978) was a spaceflight advocate active in Germany's amateur rocket group, the ''Verein für Raumschiffahrt'' (VfR – "Spaceflight Society") in the 1930s and in rebuilding German rocketry following World War II.
||1978: Rudolf Nebel dies ... spaceflight advocate active in Germany's amateur rocket group, the ''Verein für Raumschiffahrt'' (VfR – "Spaceflight Society") in the 1930s and in rebuilding German rocketry following World War II.


||Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn FRS (d. 18 September 1980) was a German-born British medical physicist. Pic.
||1980: Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn dies ... medical physicist. Pic.


||1980 – Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
||1980: Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.


||1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
||1984: Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.


|File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1993: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] learning [[scrying engine]] techniques from poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]].  
||1997: United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.


||1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
||2001: First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.


||2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
||2016: Wolfhart Zimmermann dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic: http://wwwth.mpp.mpg.de/conf/zimmermann-memorial/


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Revision as of 06:44, 26 August 2018

  • 1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pieter van Musschenbroek uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pieter van Musschenbroek uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.

    1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.

  • 1913: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein performs at charity concert to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1913: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein performs at charity concert to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

    1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

  • 1976: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.

    1976: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.

  • 1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

    1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

  • 1978: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter Florence Violet McKenzie publishes memoirs, reveals that she received messages from AESOP during the Second World War.

    1978: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter Florence Violet McKenzie publishes memoirs, reveals that she received messages from AESOP during the Second World War.

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