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File:Regiomontanus Nuremberg chronicles.jpg|link=Regiomontanus (nonfiction|1436: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop [[Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|Johann Regiomontanus]] born. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death.
File:Regiomontanus Nuremberg chronicles.jpg|link=Regiomontanus (nonfiction|1436: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop [[Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|Johann Regiomontanus]] born. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death.


||1519 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (d. 1603)
||1519: Andrea Cesalpino born ... philosopher, physician, and botanist.


||1553 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician and author (d. 1617) Pic.
||1553: Bernardino Baldi born ... mathematician and author. Pic.


||1580 – Godefroy Wendelin, Belgian astronomer and author (d. 1667)
||1580: Godefroy Wendelin born ... astronomer and author.


File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1581: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1581: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Martino Martini (d. 6 June 1661) was an Italian Jesuit missionary, cartographer and historian, mainly working on ancient Imperial China. Pic.
||1661: Martino Martini dies ... Jesuit missionary, cartographer and historian, mainly working on ancient Imperial China. Pic.


||1749 – The Conspiracy of the Slaves in Malta is discovered.
||1749: The Conspiracy of the Slaves in Malta is discovered.


||1822 – Alexis St. Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.
||1788: Benjamin Wilson born dies painter, printmaker and scientist (natural philosopher). He performed experiments investigating the electrical properties of tourmaline, gaining international recognition, including the Copley medal (1760). He also researched light and color, experimenting with luminescent materials.  Pic.
 
||1822: Alexis St. Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.


File:Glaciarium.jpg|link=Glaciarium (nonfiction)|1844: The [[Glaciarium (nonfiction)|Glaciarium]], the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
File:Glaciarium.jpg|link=Glaciarium (nonfiction)|1844: The [[Glaciarium (nonfiction)|Glaciarium]], the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.


||1850 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
||1850: Karl Ferdinand Braun born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Aleksandr Ljapunov.jpg|link=Aleksandr Lyapunov (nonfiction)|1857: Mathematician and physicist [[Aleksandr Lyapunov (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Lyapunov]] born. Lyapunov will contribute to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations will be the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.
File:Aleksandr Ljapunov.jpg|link=Aleksandr Lyapunov (nonfiction)|1857: Mathematician and physicist [[Aleksandr Lyapunov (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Lyapunov]] born. Lyapunov will contribute to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations will be the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.


||1878 – Robert Stirling, Scottish minister and engineer, invented the stirling engine (b. 1790)
||1878: Robert Stirling dies ... minister and engineer ... invented the stirling engine.


||Rudolf Walter Ladenburg (b. June 6, 1882) was a German atomic physicist.  
||1882: Rudolf Walter Ladenburg born ... atomic physicist.  


||1892 – The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.
||1892: The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.


||1906 – Max August Zorn, German mathematician and academic (d. 1993)
||1906: Max August Zorn born ... mathematician and academic.


||Sir Isaiah Berlin OM CBE FBA (b. 1909) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas. He was an essayist, conversationalist, raconteur, and lecturer.
||1909: Sir Isaiah Berlin born ... social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas. He was an essayist, conversationalist, raconteur, and lecturer.


||Edwin Gerhard Krebs (b. 1918) was an American biochemist. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University in 1989 together with Alfred Gilman and, together with his collaborator Edmond H. Fischer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes.
||1918: Edwin Gerhard Krebs born ... biochemist. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University in 1989 together with Alfred Gilman and, together with his collaborator Edmond H. Fischer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes.


||Luigi Bianchi (d. 6 June 1928) was an Italian mathematician. Pic.
||1928: Luigi Bianchi dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1932 – The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon ( 1⁄4¢/L) sold.
||1932: The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon ( 1⁄4¢/L) sold.


||1933 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
||1933: Heinrich Rohrer born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1933 – The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
||1933: The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey, United States.


||1934 – New Deal: The U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
||1934: New Deal: The U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.


File:Richard Smalley.jpg|link=Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|1943: Chemist and academic [[Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|Richard Smalley]] born. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he will win the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
File:Richard Smalley.jpg|link=Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|1943: Chemist and academic [[Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|Richard Smalley]] born. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he will win the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.


||Guido Fubini (d. 6 June 1943) was an Italian mathematician, known for Fubini's theorem and the Fubini–Study metric. Pic.
||1943: Guido Fubini dies ... mathematician, known for Fubini's theorem and the Fubini–Study metric. Pic.


||1961 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (b. 1875)
||1961: Carl Jung born ... psychiatrist and psychotherapist.


||1964 – Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated. They never resume.
||1964: Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated. They never resume.


||1968 – Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic Party senator from New York and brother of 35th President John F. Kennedy, dies from gunshot wounds inflicted on June 5.
||1968: Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic Party senator from New York and brother of 35th President John F. Kennedy, dies from gunshot wounds inflicted on June 5.


||1971 – Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 is launched.
||1971: Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 is launched.


||Stefan Bergman (d. 6 June 1977) was a Polish-born American mathematician whose primary work was in complex analysis. He is best known for the kernel function he discovered while at Berlin University in 1922. This function is known today as the Bergman kernel. Pic.
||1977: Stefan Bergman dies ... mathematician whose primary work was in complex analysis. He is best known for the kernel function he discovered while at Berlin University in 1922. This function is known today as the Bergman kernel. Pic.


||1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"; Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
||1985: The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"; Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.


||Masao Kotani (d. 1993) was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for molecular physics and biophysics.
||1993: Masao Kotani dies ... theoretical physicist, known for molecular physics and biophysics.


||2002 – Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
||2002: Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.


||2013 – Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
||2013: Jerome Karle dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2013 – Eugen Merzbacher, German-American physicist and academic (b. 1921)
||2013L: Eugen Merzbacher dies ... physicist and academic.


||2016 – Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player (b. 1931)
||2016: Viktor Korchnoi dies ... chess player.


||Walter Noll (d. 2017) was a mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for developing mathematical tools of classical mechanics and thermodynamics.
||2017: Walter Noll born ... mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for developing mathematical tools of classical mechanics and thermodynamics.


File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|2017: [[Pin Man]] says he was "constructed by [[Baron Zersetzung]] from the flayed skin of a thief."
File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|2017: [[Pin Man]] says he was "constructed by [[Baron Zersetzung]] from the flayed skin of a thief."
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Revision as of 19:15, 31 August 2018

  • 1436: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop Johann Regiomontanus born. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death.

    1436: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop Johann Regiomontanus born. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death.

  • 1844: The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.

    1844: The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.

  • 1857: Mathematician and physicist Aleksandr Lyapunov born. Lyapunov will contribute to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations will be the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.

    1857: Mathematician and physicist Aleksandr Lyapunov born. Lyapunov will contribute to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations will be the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.

  • 1943: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley born. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he will win the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.

    1943: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley born. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he will win the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.

  • 2017: Pin Man says he was "constructed by Baron Zersetzung from the flayed skin of a thief."

    2017: Pin Man says he was "constructed by Baron Zersetzung from the flayed skin of a thief."

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