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||AD 98: Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent. Pic: bust.
||AD 98: Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent. Pic: bust.


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File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]].  He will be burned at the stake.
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]].  He will be burned at the stake.
John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1931: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.


||1596: Francis Drake dies ... captain and explorer. DOB uncertain. Pic.
||1596: Francis Drake dies ... captain and explorer. DOB uncertain. Pic.
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||1795: Eli Whitney Blake born ... engineer, invented the Mortise lock. Pic.
||1795: Eli Whitney Blake born ... engineer, invented the Mortise lock. Pic.
||1814: Johann Gottlieb Fichte dies ... philosopher and academic. Pic.
||1814: Philip Astley dies ... equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus". The circus industry, as a presenter of an integrated entertainment experience that includes music, domesticated animals, acrobats, and clowns, traces its heritage to Astley's Amphitheatre, a riding school that Astley founded in London following the success of trick-riding displays given by him and his wife Patty Jones in 1768. PIc.


||1823: Charles Hutton dies ... mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807. He is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's observations on Schiehallion. Pic.
||1823: Charles Hutton dies ... mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807. He is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's observations on Schiehallion. Pic.
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||1856: Friedrich Heinrich Schur born ... mathematician who studied geometry. Pic.
||1856: Friedrich Heinrich Schur born ... mathematician who studied geometry. Pic.


File:János Bolyai.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1860: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
János_Bolyai_-_Romanian_postage_stamp_circa_1960.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1860: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.


||1864: Heinrich Rose dies ... mineralogist and analytical chemist. Pic.
||1864: Heinrich Rose dies ... mineralogist and analytical chemist. Pic.
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File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
||1881: Chemist Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann born.  He patented the reaction for converting ammonia to nitric acid, which was later used in the Ostwald process. Pic.


||1887: Carl Blegen born ... archaeologist who unearthed evidence that supported and dated the sack of Troy recorded in Homer's Iliad. Storage jars, skeletons and ash piles (which he interpreted as evidence of the city's fiery destruction) reinforced his conviction. He also discovered, in 1939, clay tablets dating from about 1250 BC. At the fabled palace of King Nestor, a major figure in the Trojan War, nearly 1,100 clay tablet records of palace transactions were found there over 15 years. These were inscribed with the earliest known examples of European writing, enabling cryptographers to find the key by which the ancient tablets could be decoded, proving the existence of a Greek civilization where none was formerly thought to exist. Pic.
||1887: Carl Blegen born ... archaeologist who unearthed evidence that supported and dated the sack of Troy recorded in Homer's Iliad. Storage jars, skeletons and ash piles (which he interpreted as evidence of the city's fiery destruction) reinforced his conviction. He also discovered, in 1939, clay tablets dating from about 1250 BC. At the fabled palace of King Nestor, a major figure in the Trojan War, nearly 1,100 clay tablet records of palace transactions were found there over 15 years. These were inscribed with the earliest known examples of European writing, enabling cryptographers to find the key by which the ancient tablets could be decoded, proving the existence of a Greek civilization where none was formerly thought to exist. Pic.
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||1912: Arne Næss born ... philosopher and environmentalist. He will be an important intellectual and inspirational figure within the environmental movement of the late twentieth century, advocating for biological diversity and the understanding that each living thing is dependent on the existence of other creatures in the complex web of interrelationships. He will coin the phrase "deep ecology". Pic.
||1912: Arne Næss born ... philosopher and environmentalist. He will be an important intellectual and inspirational figure within the environmental movement of the late twentieth century, advocating for biological diversity and the understanding that each living thing is dependent on the existence of other creatures in the complex web of interrelationships. He will coin the phrase "deep ecology". Pic.


||1912: Francis Rogallo born ... engineer, invented the Rogallo wing.
||1912: Francis Rogallo born ... engineer, invented the Rogallo wing. Pic (wing).
 
||1924: Johannes Frischauf dies ... mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geodesist and alpinist.


||1928: Leo Breiman born ... statistician. His work helped to bridge the gap between statistics and computer science, particularly in the field of machine learning. His most important contributions were his work on classification and regression trees and ensembles of trees fit to bootstrap samples. Pic.
||1928: Leo Breiman born ... statistician. His work helped to bridge the gap between statistics and computer science, particularly in the field of machine learning. His most important contributions were his work on classification and regression trees and ensembles of trees fit to bootstrap samples. Pic.
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||1947: James Victor Uspensky dies ... mathematician notable for writing ''Theory of Equations''. Pic.
||1947: James Victor Uspensky dies ... mathematician notable for writing ''Theory of Equations''. Pic.


File:Nikolai Luzin stamp.jpg|link=Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter [[Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|Nikolai Luzin]] uses point-set topology to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1951: Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger. Pic.


||1951: Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger. Pic.
File:How to NFT a Millionaire.jpg|link=How to NFT a Millionaire|1953: Premiere of '''''[[How to NFT a Millionaire]]''''', an American romantic comedy-NFT film about a trio of money hungry gold diggers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, plan to use the apartment to attract rich non-fungible token investors and draw up contracts with them.


||1961: The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat. Pic: same class sub.
||1961: The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat. Pic: same class sub.
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File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1972: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] dies.  He co-wrote ''What is Mathematics?''.
File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1972: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] dies.  He co-wrote ''What is Mathematics?''.


File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1972: [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to counteract the effects of crimes against [[Poem|poetry]].
|*** TO DO FICTION: File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1988: Physicist [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs]] dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.


||1973: The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
||1973: The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.


||1993: Nils Aall Barricelli dies ... mathematician. His computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution are considered pioneering in artificial life research.  Pic.
||1980: Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff dies ... officer in the German Army. He attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing on 21 March 1943; the plan failed when Hitler left early, but Gersdorff was undetected.  Pic.
 
||1990: Jessie MacWilliams dies ... mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=florence+jessie+macwilliams
 
|||File:Nils_Aall_Barricelli.jpg|link=Nils Aall Barricelli (nonfiction)|1993: Mathematician [[Nils Aall Barricelli (nonfiction)|Nils Aall Barricelli]] dies. Barricelli pioneered computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution (artificial life).


||1995: Raphael Mitchel Robinson dies ... mathematician. He will work on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Pic.
||1995: Raphael Mitchel Robinson dies ... mathematician. He will work on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Pic.
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||2015: Charles Hard Townes dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||2015: Charles Hard Townes dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:Ringmaster-img075-1.jpg|link=Ringmaster (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Ringmaster (nonfiction)|Ringmaster]]'' declared Picture of the Day by citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


||2017: Arthur H. Rosenfeld dies ... physicist. Pic.
||2017: Arthur H. Rosenfeld dies ... physicist. Pic.


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Latest revision as of 16:28, 24 January 2022

  • 1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.

    1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.

  • 1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

    1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

  • 1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

    1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

  • 1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.

    1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.

  • 1953: Premiere of How to NFT a Millionaire, an American romantic comedy-NFT film about a trio of money hungry gold diggers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, plan to use the apartment to attract rich non-fungible token investors and draw up contracts with them.

    1953: Premiere of How to NFT a Millionaire, an American romantic comedy-NFT film about a trio of money hungry gold diggers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, plan to use the apartment to attract rich non-fungible token investors and draw up contracts with them.

  • 1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.

    1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.

  • 2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

    2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

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