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File: | ||1560: Elizabeth Báthory born ... aristocrat and serial killer. Pic. | ||
||1574: Robert Dudley born ... explorer and cartographer. Pic. | |||
||1639: Martin van den Hove dies ... astronomer and mathematician. No DOB. No pics online. | |||
||1779: Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet born ... navigator. He circumnavigated the earth, and in 1811 published the first map to show a full outline of the coastline of Australia. Pic. | |||
||1779: Carl Ritter born ... geographer and academic ... one of the founders of modern geography. Pic. | |||
||1811: Elias Loomis born ... mathematician. Pic. | |||
File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1834: Weaver and merchant [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] dies. He invented the [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]], an early type of programmable machine. | |||
||1844: Auguste Michel-Lévy born ... geologist and author. Michel-Levy pioneered the use of birefringence to identify minerals in thin section with a petrographic microscope. He is widely known for the Michel-Lévy interference color chart, which defines the interference colors from different orders of birefringence. Pic. | |||
||1848: Jöns Jacob Berzelius dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | |||
||1869: Mathematician Mary Frances Winston Newson born. Pic. | |||
||1876: Mata Hari born ... dancer and spy. | |||
||1860: Alan Leo born ... astrologer and author. | |||
||1868: Ladislaus Bortkiewicz born ... economist and statistician. | |||
||1903: Louis Leakey born ... palaeontologist and archaeologist. | |||
||1913: Wild West showman and manned kite pioneer Samuel Franklin Cody (born Cowdery) dies in kite accident ... Cody designed, built, and flew in large kites known as Cody War-Kites, that were used by the British in World War I as a smaller alternative to balloons for artillery spotting. Pic. | |||
||1930: Dorr Eugene F. dies ... inventor and industrialist who was known for having invented the Comptometer, an early computing device, and the Comptograph, the first printing adding machine. Pic. | |||
||1938: Thomas M. Cover born ... information theorist and professor jointly in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University. He devoted almost his entire career to developing the relationship between information theory and statistics. Pic. | |||
||1944: IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). | |||
||1947: Kon-Tiki: Heyerdahl and five companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 6,900 km (4,300 miles) across the Pacific Ocean before smashing into a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotus on August 7, 1947. The crew made successful landfall and all returned safely. (The trip began on April 28, 1947.) | |||
||1955: Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan. | |||
File:Plumbbob-Stokes barrage balloon.jpg|link=Stokes (nonfiction)|1957: [[Stokes (nonfiction)|Stokes nuclear weapon test]] conducted by the United States. | |||
File:Herbert Osborn Yardley.jpg|link=Herbert Yardley (nonfiction)|1958: Cryptologist and author [[Herbert Yardley (nonfiction)|Herbert Yardley]] dies. Yardley founded and led the Black Chamber, a secret American government cryptographic organization which broke Japanese diplomatic codes, furnishing American negotiators with significant information during the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922. | |||
||1959: Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. | |||
||1964: Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces. | |||
||1970: California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody. | |||
File:Philippe_Petit.jpg|link=Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|1974: High-wire artist Philippe Petit [[Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center]]. | |||
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1975: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes retro-temporal pictures of [[Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|Philippe Petit's high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center]], revealing unexpected correspondences with other timelines. | |||
File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] inserted into a 1500 x 33,000 km, 24.6 h orbit around Mars. | |||
||1985: Gábor Szegő dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Szego.html | |||
||2000: Georges François Paul Marie Matheron ... mathematician and geologist, known as the founder of geostatistics and a co-founder (together with Jean Serra) of mathematical morphology. Pic. | |||
||2008: Gennady Chibisov dies ... cosmologist. He obtained his PhD in 1972, from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, with a thesis entitled "Entropy perturbations in cosmology". He is best known for his 1981 paper on the origin of cosmological density perturbations from quantum fluctuations, coauthored with Viatcheslav Mukhanov. This is the earliest of a number of calculations addressing the origin of density fluctuations in inflationary cosmology, which is the most common hypothesis for the origin of the expanding universe and the structure within it. Pic. | |||
File:John Ashworth Nelder.jpg|link=John Nelder (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician and statistician [[John Nelder (nonfiction)|John Nelder]] dies. He contributed to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He also was responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the [[Hastings Rarities (nonfiction)|Hastings Rarities]]. | |||
||2011: Nancy Wake dies ... captain and espionage agent. Pic. | |||
||2014: John Woodland "Woody" Hastings dies ... leader in the field of photobiology, especially bioluminescence, and was one of the founders of the field of circadian biology. Pic. | |||
||2015: Frances Oldham Kelsey dies ... pharmacologist and physician ... thalidomide intervention. Pic. | |||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates twenty-first anniversary of [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] entering Mars orbit. | |||
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Latest revision as of 12:03, 7 February 2022
1834: Weaver and merchant Joseph Marie Jacquard dies. He invented the Jacquard loom, an early type of programmable machine.
1957: Stokes nuclear weapon test conducted by the United States.
1958: Cryptologist and author Herbert Yardley dies. Yardley founded and led the Black Chamber, a secret American government cryptographic organization which broke Japanese diplomatic codes, furnishing American negotiators with significant information during the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922.
1974: High-wire artist Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
1975: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes retro-temporal pictures of Philippe Petit's high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, revealing unexpected correspondences with other timelines.
1976: Viking program: Viking 2 inserted into a 1500 x 33,000 km, 24.6 h orbit around Mars.
2010: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder dies. He contributed to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He also was responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates twenty-first anniversary of Viking 2 entering Mars orbit.