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||1681: Vitus Bering baptized ... hydrographer and explorer. Pic. | ||1681: Vitus Bering baptized ... hydrographer and explorer. Pic. | ||
||1729: Thomas Newcomen dies ... engineer, invented the eponymous Newcomen atmospheric engine. Pic search | ||1729: Thomas Newcomen dies ... engineer, invented the eponymous Newcomen atmospheric engine. Pic search. | ||
||1800: Johann Georg Büsch dies ... mathematics teacher and writer on statistics and commerce. Pic. | ||1800: Johann Georg Büsch dies ... mathematics teacher and writer on statistics and commerce. Pic. | ||
||1802: Niels Henrik Abel born . | File:Niels_Henrik_Abel.jpg|link=Niels Henrik Abel (nonfiction)|1802: Mathematician and theorist [[Niels Henrik Abel (nonfiction)|Niels Henrik Abel]] born. Abel will make pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals. | ||
File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1816: The British Admiralty dismisses [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]]'s new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore. | File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1816: The British Admiralty dismisses [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]]'s new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore. | ||
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|File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|link=Francis Galton (nonfiction)|1817: Statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician [[Francis Galton (nonfiction)|Francis Galton]] publishes his monumental study of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|link=Francis Galton (nonfiction)|1817: Statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician [[Francis Galton (nonfiction)|Francis Galton]] publishes his monumental study of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1855: Alfredo Capelli born ... mathematician who discovered Capelli's identity. Pic search | ||1855: Alfredo Capelli born ... mathematician who discovered Capelli's identity. Pic search. | ||
||1860: Johannes Brückner born ... geometer, known for his collection of polyhedral models. Pic: polyhedra. | ||1860: Johannes Brückner born ... geometer, known for his collection of polyhedral models. Pic: polyhedra. | ||
||1868: Archaeologist and antiquary Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes dies ... notable for his discovery, in about 1830, of flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley. Pic. | |||
||1872: Oswaldo Cruz dies ... physician, pioneer bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer. Pic. | ||1872: Oswaldo Cruz dies ... physician, pioneer bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer. Pic. | ||
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||1894: Ludwik Hirszfeld born ... microbiologist and serologist. He is considered a co-discoverer of the inheritance of ABO blood types. Pic. | ||1894: Ludwik Hirszfeld born ... microbiologist and serologist. He is considered a co-discoverer of the inheritance of ABO blood types. Pic. | ||
||1888: Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008. | ||1888: Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008. Pic. | ||
||1893: Jones Orin York born ... recruited in California by Soviet spy Stanislau Shumovskij approximately in 1935. In 1950 York told the FBI that he had passed secrets to the KGB since the mid-1930s, including plans for a new airplane engine of his own design and documents on the newest fighter developed by Northrop Corporation. York told the FBI that his KGB handler during 1941-42 had been Bill Weisband, who had helped him buy a camera for photographing documents. York admitted he was in it for the money, although he received very little. Pic search. | |||
File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1901: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference. | File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1901: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference. | ||
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||1926: Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping. Pic. | ||1926: Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping. Pic. | ||
||1927: Leon Mestel born ... astronomer and astrophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex. His research interests were in the areas of star formation and structure, especially stellar magnetism and astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics. In 1963, he published a paper describing a phenomenon that occurs during galaxy and star formation that came to be known as a 'Mestel disk'. Pic search | ||1927: Leon Mestel born ... astronomer and astrophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex. His research interests were in the areas of star formation and structure, especially stellar magnetism and astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics. In 1963, he published a paper describing a phenomenon that occurs during galaxy and star formation that came to be known as a 'Mestel disk'. Pic search. | ||
||1930: Neil Armstrong born ... astronaut who was the first man to walk on the moon (20 Jul 1969, Apollo 11). He served as a Navy pilot during the Korean War, then joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (which became NASA), as a civilian test pilot. In 1962, he was the first civilian to enter the astronaut-training program. He gained experience as command pilot of the Gemini 8 mission, which accomplished the first physical joining of two orbiting spacecraft. Later he was commander of the Apollo 11 lunar mission. From 1971, he worked as professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He was a member of the commission that investigated the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster. Pic. | ||1930: Neil Armstrong born ... astronaut who was the first man to walk on the moon (20 Jul 1969, Apollo 11). He served as a Navy pilot during the Korean War, then joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (which became NASA), as a civilian test pilot. In 1962, he was the first civilian to enter the astronaut-training program. He gained experience as command pilot of the Gemini 8 mission, which accomplished the first physical joining of two orbiting spacecraft. Later he was commander of the Apollo 11 lunar mission. From 1971, he worked as professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He was a member of the commission that investigated the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster. Pic. | ||
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||1971: Royal Rife dies ... inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography. In the 1930s, he claimed that by using a specially designed optical microscope, he could observe microbes which were too small to visualize with previously existing technology. Rife also reported that a 'beam ray' device of his invention could weaken or destroy the pathogens by energetically exciting destructive resonances in their constituent chemicals. Rife's claims could not be independently replicated, and were discredited by independent researchers during the 1950s. Pic (cool tech). | ||1971: Royal Rife dies ... inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography. In the 1930s, he claimed that by using a specially designed optical microscope, he could observe microbes which were too small to visualize with previously existing technology. Rife also reported that a 'beam ray' device of his invention could weaken or destroy the pathogens by energetically exciting destructive resonances in their constituent chemicals. Rife's claims could not be independently replicated, and were discredited by independent researchers during the 1950s. Pic (cool tech). | ||
||1981: Jerzy Neyman dies ... mathematician and statistician. Pic. | ||1981: Jerzy Neyman dies ... mathematician and statistician. Pic. | ||
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||2014: Mathematician and academic Dmitri Anosov dies. He made contributions to dynamical systems theory. Pic. | ||2014: Mathematician and academic Dmitri Anosov dies. He made contributions to dynamical systems theory. Pic. | ||
||1927: Jesse Leonard Steinfeld dies ... physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States. Pic. | |||
||2016: John Alan Robinson dies ... philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist. Pic. | ||2016: John Alan Robinson dies ... philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist. Pic. | ||
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1802: Mathematician and theorist Niels Henrik Abel born. Abel will make pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.
1816: The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
1901: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1910: Mathematician Julius Petersen dies. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs is a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1920: Artist George Tooker born. His paintings will depict his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images will use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.
1994: Cryptanalyst and mathematician Solomon Kullback dies. Krullback began his career with the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s; when the National Security Agency (NSA) was formed in 1952, Rowlett become chief of cryptanalysis, overseeing the research and development of computerized cryptanalysis.