Template:Selected anniversaries/September 4: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
 
(4 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 15: Line 15:


||1848: Lewis Howard Latimer born ... inventor. Pic.
||1848: Lewis Howard Latimer born ... inventor. Pic.
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1881: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] arrives at [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]], where he will write his well-known essay, ''A Noble Experiment''.


File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1882: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1882: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.


||1886: American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona. Pic.
||1886: American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona. Pic.
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1887: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] and inventor [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] discuss advances in film technology.


File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1888: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1888: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
Line 27: Line 27:


||1889: Moses Ilyich Schönfinkel born ... logician and mathematician, known for the invention of combinatory logic. Pic.
||1889: Moses Ilyich Schönfinkel born ... logician and mathematician, known for the invention of combinatory logic. Pic.
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1889: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] calls [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]]'s roll-film camera "a major advance in photography."


||1890: Johannes Gaultherus van der Corput born ... mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He introduced the Van der Corput lemma, a technique for creating an upper bound on the measure of a set drawn from harmonic analysis, and the Van der Corput theorem on equidistribution modulo 1. Pic: https://www.ranker.com/review/johannes-van-der-corput/1298721
||1890: Johannes Gaultherus van der Corput born ... mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He introduced the Van der Corput lemma, a technique for creating an upper bound on the measure of a set drawn from harmonic analysis, and the Van der Corput theorem on equidistribution modulo 1. Pic: https://www.ranker.com/review/johannes-van-der-corput/1298721
Line 50: Line 48:
File:José_Echegaray_(1904).jpg|link=José Echegaray (nonfiction)|1916: Civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists [[José Echegaray (nonfiction)|José Echegaray y Eizaguirre]] dies.
File:José_Echegaray_(1904).jpg|link=José Echegaray (nonfiction)|1916: Civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists [[José Echegaray (nonfiction)|José Echegaray y Eizaguirre]] dies.


USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) (nonfiction)|link=USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) (nonfiction)|1923: Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS ''[[USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) (nonfiction)|Shenandoah]]''.
File:USS Shenandoah (1924).jpg|link=USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) (nonfiction)|1923: Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS ''[[USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) (nonfiction)|Shenandoah]]''.


||1925: Leo Apostel born ... philosopher and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University. Apostel was an advocate of interdisciplinary research and the bridging of the gap between exact science and humanities. Pic.
||1925: Leo Apostel born ... philosopher and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University. Apostel was an advocate of interdisciplinary research and the bridging of the gap between exact science and humanities. Pic.
Line 58: Line 56:
||1927: John McCarthy born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic.
||1927: John McCarthy born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic.


||1941: World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer. The "Greer incident" occurred 4 September. By all accounts, a German submarine (later identified as U-652) fired upon the Greer, but made no contact. When news of the encounter reached the United States, public concern ran high. Initial reports reported that a British aircraft aided in repelling the attack. In response, Germany claimed "that the attack had not been initiated by the German submarine; on the contrary, ... the submarine had been attacked with depth bombs, pursued continuously in the German blockade zone, and assailed by depth bombs until midnight." Pic.
||Greer incident (nonfiction)|link=Greer incident (nonfiction)|1941: [[Greer incident (nonfiction)|Greer incident]].


||1949: The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York. Pic.
||1949: The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York. Pic.
Line 71: Line 69:


File:Vanitas Still life with Books, a Globe, a Skull, a Violin and a Fan.jpg|link=1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery (nonfiction)|1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are [[1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery (nonfiction)|stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts]].
File:Vanitas Still life with Books, a Globe, a Skull, a Violin and a Fan.jpg|link=1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery (nonfiction)|1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are [[1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery (nonfiction)|stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts]].
File:Greedy colorings.svg|link=Greedy coloring (nonfiction)|1973: An experimental graph coloring model accidentally generates a [[Greedy coloring (nonfiction)|Greedy coloring]] computer virus which causes the color [[Green (nonfiction)|green]] to become [[Red (nonfiction)|red]] in the vicinity of every computer terminal around the world. The virus will be eliminated several hours later by [[Algorithmic Paradigm Treaty Organization|APTO]] troubleshooters, restoring [[Green (nonfiction)|green]] to its normal appearance.


||1985: The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
||1985: The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.

Latest revision as of 13:46, 7 February 2022

  • 1784: Astronomer and cartographer César-François Cassini de Thury dies. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates are known as the Cassini map.

    1784: Astronomer and cartographer César-François Cassini de Thury dies. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates are known as the Cassini map.

  • 1882: Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.

    1882: Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.

  • 1887: Math photographer Cantor Parabola and inventor George Eastman discuss advances in film technology.

    1887: Math photographer Cantor Parabola and inventor George Eastman discuss advances in film technology.

  • 1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

    1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

  • 1916: Civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists José Echegaray y Eizaguirre dies.

    1916: Civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists José Echegaray y Eizaguirre dies.

  • 1923: Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.

    1923: Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.

  • 1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

    1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Retrieved from "https://gnomonchronicles.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Selected_anniversaries/September_4&oldid=89709"