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||1739: Digesting Duck demonstrated for the first time. | ||1739: Digesting Duck demonstrated for the first time. | ||
||1768: Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann born ... mineralogist and geologist. | ||1768: Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann born ... mineralogist and geologist. Pic. | ||
File:Samuel Bentham.jpg|link=Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|1813: Engineer, naval architect, and crime-fighter [[Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|Samuel Bentham]] uses Pantopticon technology to locate and capture alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]]. | File:Samuel Bentham.jpg|link=Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|1813: Engineer, naval architect, and crime-fighter [[Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|Samuel Bentham]] uses Pantopticon technology to locate and capture alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]]. | ||
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||1846: Peter Carl Fabergé born ... goldsmith and jeweler. | ||1846: Peter Carl Fabergé born ... goldsmith and jeweler. | ||
|| | ||1899: Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1901: Victor D'Hondt dies ... mathematician, lawyer, and jurist. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1907: Ottomar Anschütz dies ... inventor, photographer, and chronophotographer. He invented the electrotachyscope: a disk of 24 glass diapositives, manually powered, and illuminated by a sparking spiral Geissler tube, used by a single viewer, or projected to a small group. Pic. | ||
||1908: Hannes Alfvén born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1908: Hannes Alfvén born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1909: Norris Edwin Bradbury born ... physicist who served as Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years from 1945 to 1970. He succeeded Robert Oppenheimer, who personally chose Bradbury for the position of director after working closely with him on the Manhattan Project during World War II. Bradbury was in charge of the final assembly of "the Gadget", detonated in July 1945 for the Trinity test. Pic. | ||1909: Norris Edwin Bradbury born ... physicist who served as Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years from 1945 to 1970. He succeeded Robert Oppenheimer, who personally chose Bradbury for the position of director after working closely with him on the Manhattan Project during World War II. Bradbury was in charge of the final assembly of "the Gadget", detonated in July 1945 for the Trinity test. Pic. | ||
||1912: Julius Axelrod born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1912: Julius Axelrod born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1924: Anthony Dryden Marshall born ... American CIA officer and diplomat. | ||1924: Anthony Dryden Marshall born ... American CIA officer and diplomat. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Anthony+Dryden+Marshall+CIA | ||
||1926: Vladimir Steklov dies ... mathematician and physicist. | ||1926: Vladimir Steklov dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||
||1932: Solomon Wolf Golomb born ... mathematician, engineer, and adacemic. He specialized in problems of combinatorial analysis, number theory, coding theory, and communications. His game of pentomino inspired Tetris. Pic. | ||1932: Solomon Wolf Golomb born ... mathematician, engineer, and adacemic. He specialized in problems of combinatorial analysis, number theory, coding theory, and communications. His game of pentomino inspired Tetris. Pic. | ||
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||1941: World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the German flag. | ||1941: World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the German flag. | ||
||1943: The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp. | ||1943: The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp. Pic. | ||
File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1946: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. | File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1946: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. | ||
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||1975: European Space Agency is established. | ||1975: European Space Agency is established. | ||
||1985: Igor Kurnosov born ... chess player. | ||1985: Igor Kurnosov born ... chess player. Pic. | ||
||1992: Antoni Zygmund dies ... mathematician. He is considered one of the greatest analysts of the 20th century. His main area of interest was harmonic analysis. | ||1992: Antoni Zygmund dies ... mathematician. He is considered one of the greatest analysts of the 20th century. His main area of interest was harmonic analysis. Pic. | ||
||1998: Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent. | ||1998: Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent. | ||
||2009: Ephraim Katzir dies ... biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel. | ||2009: Ephraim Katzir dies ... biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel. Pic. | ||
||2011: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||2011: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic (cool tech). | ||
File:Blue Green Spiral.jpg|link=Blue Green Spiral (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Blue Green Spiral (nonfiction)|Blue Green Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Blue Green Spiral.jpg|link=Blue Green Spiral (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Blue Green Spiral (nonfiction)|Blue Green Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
Revision as of 19:24, 14 January 2019
1423: Mathematician and astronomer Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction) born. He will be remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.
1813: Engineer, naval architect, and crime-fighter Samuel Bentham uses Pantopticon technology to locate and capture alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1946: Physicist Louis Slotin dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1964: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard dies. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.
1967: US Army research team uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. In response, APTO field agents confiscate the weapons and revoke Army access to all Gnomon algorithm source files.
1971: NASA launches the Mariner 9 spacecraft. It will map 70% of the surface of Mars, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
2016: Blue Green Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-sixth anniversary of the launch of Mariner 9.