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||1565 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish astronomer and theologian (d. 1646)
||1565: Laurentius Paulinus Gothus born ... astronomer and theologian.


||1695 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
||1695: John Bevis born ... physician and astronomer.


File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".


||1764 – Andrés Manuel del Rio, Spanish-Mexican scientist and discoverer of vanadium (d. 1849)
||1764: Andrés Manuel del Rio born ... scientist and discoverer of vanadium.


||1801 – Samuel Gridley Howe, American physician and activist (d. 1876) Abolitionist
||1801: Samuel Gridley Howe born ... physician and activist ... Abolitionist.


||1810 – George Jennings, English plumber and engineer, invented the flush toilet (d. 1882)
||1810: George Jennings born ... plumber and engineer, invented the flush toilet.


File:Elwin_Bruno_Christoffel.jpg|link=Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|1829: Mathematician and physicist [[Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|Elwin Bruno Christoffel]] born. He will introduce fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which will later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.
File:Elwin_Bruno_Christoffel.jpg|link=Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|1829: Mathematician and physicist [[Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|Elwin Bruno Christoffel]] born. He will introduce fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which will later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.


||Amos Emerson Dolbear (b. November 10, 1837) was an American physicist and inventor. Dolbear researched electrical spark conversion into sound waves and electrical impulses. Pic.
||1837: Amos Emerson Dolbear born ... physicist and inventor. Dolbear researched electrical spark conversion into sound waves and electrical impulses. Pic.


||Gideon Mantell (d. 10 November 1852) was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of Iguanodon began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in 1822 he was responsible for the discovery (and the eventual identification) of the first fossil teeth, and later much of the skeleton, of Iguanodon. Pic.
||1852: Gideon Mantell dies ... obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of Iguanodon began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in 1822 he was responsible for the discovery (and the eventual identification) of the first fossil teeth, and later much of the skeleton, of Iguanodon. Pic.


||1887 – Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Romanian engineer and academic (d. 1973)
||1887: Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu born ... engineer and academic.


||1888 – Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer and designer, founded the Tupolev Company (d. 1972)
||1888: Andrei Tupolev born ... engineer and designer, founded the Tupolev Company.


||Ernst Paul Heinz Pruefer (b. 10 November 1896) was a German Jewish mathematician born in Wilhelmshaven. His major contributions were on abelian groups, algebraic numbers, knot theory and Sturm–Liouville theory. Pic.
||1896: Ernst Paul Heinz Pruefer born ... mathematician born in Wilhelmshaven. His major contributions were on abelian groups, algebraic numbers, knot theory and Sturm–Liouville theory. Pic.


||1918 – Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
||1918: Ernst Otto Fischer born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1919 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and engineer, designed the AK-47 (d. 2013)
||1919: Mikhail Kalashnikov born ... general and engineer, designed the AK-47.


||1923 – Hachikō, Japanese dog famous for his loyalty to his owner (d. 1935)
||1923: Hachikō born ... Japanese dog famous for his loyalty to his owner.


||1933 – Ronald Evans, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1990)
||1933: Ronald Evans born ... captain, engineer, and astronaut.


||1934 – A. Thurairajah, Sri Lankan engineer and academic (d. 1994)
||1934: A. Thurairajah born ... engineer and academic.


||1935 – Bernard Babior, American physician and biochemist (d. 2004)
||1935: Bernard Babior born ... physician and biochemist.


||1935 – Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Russian astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist
||1935: Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov born ... astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (alive September 2018).


||1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
||1944: The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.


||1951 – With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
||1951: With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.


||1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
||1958: The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.


File:Klara Dan von Neumann.png|link=Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|1963: Computer scientist [[Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|Klara Dan von Neumann]] dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.
File:Klara Dan von Neumann.png|link=Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|1963: Computer scientist [[Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|Klara Dan von Neumann]] dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.


||1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
||1979: A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.


||Otto Haupt (died 10 November 1988) was a German Mathematician. Pic.
||1988: Mathematician Otto Haupt dies. Pic.


||1990 – Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist and academic (b. 1914)
||1990: Mário Schenberg dies ... physicist and academic.


||Jean Leray (d. 10 November 1998) was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. Pic.
||1998: Jean Leray dies ... mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. Pic.


||Carl-Gustav Esseen (d. 10 November 2001) was a Swedish mathematician. His work was in the theory of probability. The Berry–Esseen theorem is named after him.
||2001: Carl-Gustav Esseen dies ... mathematician. His work was in the theory of probability. The Berry–Esseen theorem is named after him.


||2006 – Fokko du Cloux, Dutch mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1954)
||2006: Fokko du Cloux dies ... mathematician and computer scientist.


||2008 – Kiyosi Itô, Japanese mathematician and academic (b. 1915)
||2008: Kiyosi Itô dies ... mathematician and academic.


||2008 – Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.
||2008: Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.


||Klaus Friedrich Roth (d. 10 November 2015) was a German-born British mathematician known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution.
||2015: Klaus Friedrich Roth dies ... mathematician known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution.


||2015 – Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer, founded the Amdahl Corporation (b. 1922)
||2015: Gene Amdahl dies ... computer scientist, physicist, and engineer, founded the Amdahl Corporation.


|File:Nysa_on_Maeander_Library_Upgrade.jpg|link=Nysa on the Maeander|[[Nysa on the Maeander]] seeks upgrade to full [[transdimensional corporation]].
|File:Pika-computational-activity.jpg|link=The Pika|[[The Pika]] hired for upgrade of [[Nysa on the Maeander]].
|File:Bourbaki_virages_dangereux_fruiting_body.jpg|link=Outsider mathematics|''[[Outsider mathematics|Bourbaki virages dangereux]]'' grown in [[Nysa on the Maeander]] for the first time.
|File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|New form of [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] discovered.
|File:Alistair Treadgold 1916.jpg|link=Alistair Treadgold|[[Alistair Treadgold]]'s patents new instruments for [[musical electoplating ensembles]].
|File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1961: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[Musical electroplating ensemble (nonfiction)|musical electroplating ensemble]], performs new work based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
|File:Alberta sulfur pyramids.jpg|link=Alberta sulphur pyramids (nonfiction)|[[Alberta sulphur pyramids (nonfiction)|Alberta sulfur pyramids]] enjoys fame as eco-tourism destination.
|File:Poicephalus senegalus egg tooth.jpg|link=Egg tooth (nonfiction)|Baby bird with [[egg tooth (nonfiction)|egg tooth]] is adorable and menacing at the same time.
|File:Halobaena caerulea in flight - SE Tasmania.jpg|link=Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|[[Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|SOEP cartel]] threatens to shoot [[Stomach oil (nonfiction)|stomach oil smugglers]] on sight.
|File:Black_hellebore.jpg|link=Hellebore (nonfiction)|[[Hellebore (nonfiction)|Black hellebore]] in black mood today.
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Revision as of 10:04, 29 September 2018

  • 1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".

    1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".

  • 1829: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel born. He will introduce fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which will later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.

    1829: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel born. He will introduce fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which will later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.

  • 1963: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.

    1963: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.

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