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||1912: The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th). | ||1912: The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th). | ||
||1927: Alan MacDiarmid born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1927: Alan MacDiarmid born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. His best-known research was the discovery and development of conductive polymers—plastic materials that conduct electricity. He collaborated with the Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa and the American physicist Alan Heeger in this research and published the first results in 1977. The three of them shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work. Pic. | ||
||1927: Mathematician Marcel Berger born. He will work in differential geometry. Pic. | ||1927: Mathematician Marcel Berger born. He will work in differential geometry. Pic. | ||
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||1964: Rachel Carson dies ... biologist and author. Pic. | ||1964: Rachel Carson dies ... biologist and author. Pic. | ||
||1964: Orbiting Solar Observatory: OSO B suffered an incident during integration and checkout activities on 14 April 1964. The satellite was inside the Spin Test Facility at Cape Canaveral attached to the third stage of its Delta C booster when a technician accidentally ignited the booster through static electricity. The third-stage motor activated, launched itself and the satellite into the roof, and ricocheted into a corner of the facility until burning out. Three technicians were burned to death. Pic. | |||
||1981: STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight. | ||1981: STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight. | ||
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1126: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) born. He will write on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, politics, music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.
1477: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci accepts commission to build a mechanical soldier powered by time crystals.
1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens born. He will be a leading scientist of his time.
1659: Proposals to flood the Sistine chapel "are equally useless to Science and Art," writes Christiaan Huygens in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII.
1890: Physicist and APTO field engineer Johannes Bosscha Jr. publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1894: The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
1898: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1899: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan born. He will discover the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.
1934: Author and alleged time-traveller John Brunner uses Lee and Turner scrying engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1935: Mathematician Emmy Noether dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.
2018: Golden Spiral is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.