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||1866: Alfred Werner born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) | ||1866: Alfred Werner born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) | ||
||1871: Spectroscopic observations of an eclipse in India made by French astronomer Jules Janssen led him to propose that the corona, normally only visible during a solar eclipse, is a physical part of the Sun and is composed of both hot gases and cooler particles.*TIS | |||
||1888: Theodore Willard Case born ... chemist, physicist, and inventor known for the invention of the Movietone sound-on-film sound film system. Pic. | ||1888: Theodore Willard Case born ... chemist, physicist, and inventor known for the invention of the Movietone sound-on-film sound film system. Pic. | ||
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||1927: Robert Norton Noyce born ... engineer who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the realization of the first integrated circuit or microchip that fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name. Pic. | ||1927: Robert Norton Noyce born ... engineer who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the realization of the first integrated circuit or microchip that fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name. Pic. | ||
||1955 English engineer Christopher Cockerell filed the patent for his new invention, the hovercraft, a craft capable of traveling over land, water, mud or ice and other surfaces both at speed and when stationary. *Yovisto | |||
||1961: OSCAR 1: The first amateur built satellite, is launched aboard an American Thor-Agena rocket. Pic. | ||1961: OSCAR 1: The first amateur built satellite, is launched aboard an American Thor-Agena rocket. Pic. | ||
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1204: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides dies.
1685: Mathematician John Pell dies. He expanded the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.
1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão's uses Gnomon algorithm to communicate with John Pell.
1862: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
![1901: Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.](/w/images/thumb/0/0d/Guglielmo_Marconi.jpg/90px-Guglielmo_Marconi.jpg)
1901: Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
1921: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt dies. She discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
1973: Talk show host Peter Giblets films an episode of Peter Giblets Hour in New Minneapolis, Canada his guests include Niles Cartouchian and Pierre Trudeau.
1994: Diagram of public-key cryptography generation sell for 1.7 million dollars.
2016: Do Not Tease Monster declared Image of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.