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File:Robert Fludd.jpg|link=Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]] dies.
File:Robert Fludd.jpg|link=Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]] dies.


||1682 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1606)
||1682: Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz dies ... mathematician and philosopher.


||1761 – Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1698)
||1761: Bernard Forest de Bélidor dies ... mathematician and engineer.


||Arthur Williams Wright (b. September 8, 1836) was an American physicist. His research, which ranged from electricity to astronomy, produced the first X-ray image and experimented with Röntgen rays. Pic.
||1829: Lester Allen Pelton born ... inventor who contributed significantly to the development of hydroelectricity and hydropower in the old West and world-wide. In the late 1870s, he invented the Pelton water wheel, at that time the most efficient design of the impulse water turbine. Pic.


||Viktor Meyer (b. 8 September 1848) was a German chemist and significant contributor to both organic and inorganic chemistry. He is best known for inventing an apparatus for determining vapour densities, the Viktor Meyer apparatus, and for discovering thiophene, a heterocyclic compound. Pic.
||1836: Arthur Williams Wright born ... physicist. His research, which ranged from electricity to astronomy, produced the first X-ray image and experimented with Röntgen rays.  Pic.
 
||1848: Viktor Meyer born ... chemist and significant contributor to both organic and inorganic chemistry. He is best known for inventing an apparatus for determining vapour densities, the Viktor Meyer apparatus, and for discovering thiophene, a heterocyclic compound. Pic.


||1857: Ida Henrietta Hyde born ... physiologist known for developing a micro-electrode powerful enough to stimulate tissue chemically or electronically, yet small enough to inject or remove tissue from a cell. Pic.
||1857: Ida Henrietta Hyde born ... physiologist known for developing a micro-electrode powerful enough to stimulate tissue chemically or electronically, yet small enough to inject or remove tissue from a cell. Pic.


||1882 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (b. 1809)
||1882: Joseph Liouville dies ... mathematician and academic.


||1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
||1883: The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.


||1888 – In Spain, the first travel of Isaac Peral's submarine, was the first practical submarine ever made.
||1888: In Spain, the first travel of Isaac Peral's submarine, was the first practical submarine ever made.


||1894 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (b. 1821)
||1894: Hermann von Helmholtz dies ... physician and physicist.


||Karl Adolf Hessenberg (b. September 8, 1904) was a German mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him.
||1904: Karl Adolf Hessenberg born ... mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him.


||William Lofland Dudley (d. September 8, 1914) was an American chemistry professor. Pic.
||1914: William Lofland Dudley dies ... chemistry professor. Pic.


||Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (b. 8 September 1915) was an Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in machine translation and formal linguistics. Pic.
||1915: Yehoshua Bar-Hillel born ... philosopher, mathematician, and linguist. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in machine translation and formal linguistics. Pic.


||1918 – Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
||1918: Derek Barton, born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1923 – Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
||1923: Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.


||1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
||1930: 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.


||1935 – Carl Weiss, American physician (b. 1906) Assassin of Huey Long
||1935: Carl Weiss dies ... physician ... Assassin of Huey Long


||Derrick Norman Lehmer (d. 8 September 1938) was an American mathematician and number theorist. Pic.
||1938: Derrick Norman Lehmer dies ... mathematician and number theorist. Pic.


||1944 – World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
||1944: World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.


||1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1)
||1960: In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).


||1965 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
||1965: Hermann Staudinger dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1965: Joshua Lionel Cowen born ... inventor of electric model trains who founded the Lionel Corporation (1901), which became the largest U.S. toy train manufacturer. At age 18, he had invented a fuse to ignite the magnesium powder for flash photography, which the Navy Department bought from him to be a fuse to detonate submarine mines. He designed an early battery tube light, but without practical application. (His partner, Conrad Hubert, to whom he gave the rights improved it and founded the Eveready Flashlight Company.) At age 22, he created a battery-powered train engine intended only as an eye-catcher for other goods in a store window. To his surprise, many customers wanted to purchase the toy train. Thus he started a model railroad company. Pic.
||1965: Joshua Lionel Cowen born ... inventor of electric model trains who founded the Lionel Corporation (1901), which became the largest U.S. toy train manufacturer. At age 18, he had invented a fuse to ignite the magnesium powder for flash photography, which the Navy Department bought from him to be a fuse to detonate submarine mines. He designed an early battery tube light, but without practical application. (His partner, Conrad Hubert, to whom he gave the rights improved it and founded the Eveready Flashlight Company.) At age 22, he created a battery-powered train engine intended only as an eye-catcher for other goods in a store window. To his surprise, many customers wanted to purchase the toy train. Thus he started a model railroad company. Pic.


||1966 – The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".
||1966: The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".


||1970 – Percy Spencer, American engineer, invented the microwave oven (b. 1894)
||1970: Percy Spencer dies ... engineer, invented the microwave oven.


File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1973: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for his next film by selling shares in the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|President Ford's pardon of former President Richard Nixon]].
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1973: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for his next film by selling shares in the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|President Ford's pardon of former President Richard Nixon]].
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File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he is "confident that President Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon."
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he is "confident that President Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon."


||1980 – Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
||1980: Willard Libby dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Joseph Finnegan (b. September 8, 1980) was a US linguist and cryptanalyst with Station Hypo during the Second World War.
||1980: Joseph Finnegan dies ... linguist and cryptanalyst with Station Hypo during the Second World War.


||1981 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
||1981: Hideki Yukawa dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2004 – NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
||2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.


||2009 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
||2009: Aage Bohr dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||George Christopher Williams (d. September 8, 2010) was an American evolutionary biologist.
||2010: George Christopher Williams dies ... evolutionary biologist.


File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2013: [[Rhizolith Group]] performs new work in remembrance of mathematician [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]].
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2013: [[Rhizolith Group]] performs new work in remembrance of mathematician [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]].


|File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2013: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] invites [[Rhizolith Group]] to perform at Arts Festival.
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  • 1588: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne born. He will be remembered as the "father of acoustics".

    1588: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne born. He will be remembered as the "father of acoustics".

  • 1635: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Adriaan Metius manufactures precision optical instruments for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1635: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Adriaan Metius manufactures precision optical instruments for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd dies.

    1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd dies.

  • 1973: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for his next film by selling shares in the President Ford's pardon of former President Richard Nixon.

    1973: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for his next film by selling shares in the President Ford's pardon of former President Richard Nixon.

  • 1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

    1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

  • 1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he is "confident that President Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon."

    1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he is "confident that President Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon."

  • 2013: Rhizolith Group performs new work in remembrance of mathematician Robert Fludd.

    2013: Rhizolith Group performs new work in remembrance of mathematician Robert Fludd.

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