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||1860: James Pollard Espy dies ... meteorologist. Espy developed a convection theory of storms, explaining it in 1836 before the American Philosophical Society and in 1840 before the French Académie des Sciences and the British Royal Society. His theory was published in 1840 as The Philosophy of Storms. He became meteorologist to the War (1842) and Navy (1848) departments and developed the use of the telegraph in assembling weather observation data by which he studied the progress of storms and laid the basis for scientific weather forecasting. Pic. | ||1860: James Pollard Espy dies ... meteorologist. Espy developed a convection theory of storms, explaining it in 1836 before the American Philosophical Society and in 1840 before the French Académie des Sciences and the British Royal Society. His theory was published in 1840 as The Philosophy of Storms. He became meteorologist to the War (1842) and Navy (1848) departments and developed the use of the telegraph in assembling weather observation data by which he studied the progress of storms and laid the basis for scientific weather forecasting. Pic. | ||
||1862: Richard F. Outcault born ... cartoonist, created ''The Yellow Kid'' and ''Buster Brown''. Pic. | |||
||1872: Morris Travers born ... chemist and academic ... "rare gas man". Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Morris+Travers | ||1872: Morris Travers born ... chemist and academic ... "rare gas man". Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Morris+Travers | ||
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1798: Mathematician Karl Georg Christian von Staudt born. He will use synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic.
1879: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler dies. He invented the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.
1960: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises funds for new film about the upcoming Goldsboro B-52 crash.
1961: Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he is "confident that the Goldsboro B-52 crash is a sound business investment."
1978: Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
1988: Mathematician and academic Werner Fenchel dies. He established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which would, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.
2016: John Hoyland's Lebanon stolen in broad daylight by alleged supervillain Gnotilus.
2016: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky dies.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Blue Foliage unexpectedly reveals "at least four hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
2017: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants," says mathematician and crime-fighter Janet Beta.