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File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1832: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] dies. | File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1832: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] dies. | ||
||1849: Jacob Perkins dies ... inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith. He soon made himself known with a variety of useful mechanical inventions and eventually had twenty-one American and nineteen English patents. He is known as the father of the refrigerator. Pic. | ||1849: Jacob Perkins dies ... inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith. He soon made himself known with a variety of useful mechanical inventions and eventually had twenty-one American and nineteen English patents. He is known as the father of the refrigerator. Pic. | ||
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||1945: World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS ''Indianapolis'', killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors. It was the greatest single loss of life at sea, from a single ship, in the history of the US Navy. | ||1945: World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS ''Indianapolis'', killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors. It was the greatest single loss of life at sea, from a single ship, in the history of the US Navy. | ||
||1948: John Briscoe, South African-American epidemiologist, engineer, and academic ... Stockholm Water Prize. Pic | ||1948: John Briscoe, South African-American epidemiologist, engineer, and academic ... Stockholm Water Prize. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Briscoe+engineer | ||
||1971: Aral smallpox incident: outbreak of the viral disease which occurred as a result of a field test at a Soviet biological weapons (BW) facility on an island in the Aral Sea. The incident sickened ten people, of whom 3 died, and came to widespread public notice only in 2002. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_smallpox_incident No pics online. | ||1971: Aral smallpox incident: outbreak of the viral disease which occurred as a result of a field test at a Soviet biological weapons (BW) facility on an island in the Aral Sea. The incident sickened ten people, of whom 3 died, and came to widespread public notice only in 2002. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_smallpox_incident No pics online. | ||
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||1978: Umberto Nobile dies ... aviator, aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer. Nobile was a developer and promoter of semi-rigid airships during the period between the two World Wars. He is primarily remembered for designing and piloting the airship Norge, which may have been the first aircraft to reach the North Pole, and which was indisputably the first to fly across the polar ice cap from Europe to America. Pic. | ||1978: Umberto Nobile dies ... aviator, aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer. Nobile was a developer and promoter of semi-rigid airships during the period between the two World Wars. He is primarily remembered for designing and piloting the airship Norge, which may have been the first aircraft to reach the North Pole, and which was indisputably the first to fly across the polar ice cap from Europe to America. Pic. | ||
||1979: Lew Kowarski dies ... physicist. He was a lesser known but important contributor to nuclear science. Pic. | |||
||1985: Julia Robinson dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||1985: Julia Robinson dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||
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||2007: Abram Fet dies ... mathematician, philosopher, translator. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Abram+Fet | ||2007: Abram Fet dies ... mathematician, philosopher, translator. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Abram+Fet | ||
||2010: Qian Weichang dies ... physicist and applied mathematician. He was generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers and founders of modern mechanics undertakings in China. His major research activities include; the intrinsic theory of plates and shells, the analysis of large deflection of thin plates and shells, the analysis of corrugated pipes, mechanics of armour penetration, singular perturbation methods, variational principles and generalized variational principles, finite element methods as well as the measurements of atmospheric electricity, spectral analysis of rare-earth elements, wave guide theory, lubrication theory, the development of high-energy batteries, his macro-coding of Chinese characters, etc. The joint work with J. L. Synge on the intrinsic theory of plates and shells is considered as a pioneering classical work in solid mechanics and his successive approximation method of treating large deflection problem is now named as "Chien's method". Pic. | |||
||2016: András Hajnal born ... professor of mathematics ... work in set theory and combinatorics. The Hajnal–Szemerédi theorem on equitable coloring, proving a 1964 conjecture of Erdős: let Δ denote the maximum degree of a vertex in a finite graph G. Then G can be colored with Δ + 1 colors in such a way that the sizes of the color classes differ by at most one. Pic: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/archive/DIMACS_highlights/hajnal/hajnal.html | ||2016: András Hajnal born ... professor of mathematics ... work in set theory and combinatorics. The Hajnal–Szemerédi theorem on equitable coloring, proving a 1964 conjecture of Erdős: let Δ denote the maximum degree of a vertex in a finite graph G. Then G can be colored with Δ + 1 colors in such a way that the sizes of the color classes differ by at most one. Pic: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/archive/DIMACS_highlights/hajnal/hajnal.html | ||
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1832: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal dies.
1864: American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1974: Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.