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||53: Trajan born ... Roman emperor from 98 to 117. Officially declared by the Senate optimus princeps ("the best ruler"), Trajan is remembered as a successful soldier-emperor who presided over the greatest military expansion in Roman history, leading the empire to attain its maximum territorial extent by the time of his death. He is also known for his philanthropic rule, overseeing extensive public building programs and implementing social welfare policies, which earned him his enduring reputation as the second of the Five Good Emperors. Pic: bust. | ||53: Trajan born ... Roman emperor from 98 to 117. Officially declared by the Senate optimus princeps ("the best ruler"), Trajan is remembered as a successful soldier-emperor who presided over the greatest military expansion in Roman history, leading the empire to attain its maximum territorial extent by the time of his death. He is also known for his philanthropic rule, overseeing extensive public building programs and implementing social welfare policies, which earned him his enduring reputation as the second of the Five Good Emperors. Pic: bust. | ||
||1709: Samuel Johnson born ... lexicographer and poet. Pic. | ||1709: Samuel Johnson born ... lexicographer and poet. Pic. | ||
||1752: Adrien-Marie Legendre born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic (striking caricature). | ||1752: Adrien-Marie Legendre born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic (striking caricature). | ||
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File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1783: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function. | File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1783: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function. | ||
||1786: Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner born ... poet, practicing physician, and medical writer. | ||1786: Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner born ... poet, practicing physician, and medical writer ... gave the first detailed description of botulism. Pic. | ||
||1809: The Royal Opera House in London opens. Pic. | |||
|| | ||1815: Henry C. Wayne born ... was a United States Army officer, and is known for his commanding the expedition to test the U.S. Camel Corps as part of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis's plan to use camels as a transport in the West. Wayne was also a Confederate adjutant and inspector-general for Georgia and a brigadier general during the American Civil War. Pic. | ||
||1819: Léon Foucault born ... physicist and academic ... best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light, discovered eddy currents, and is credited with naming the gyroscope. Pic. | ||1819: Léon Foucault born ... physicist and academic ... best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light, discovered eddy currents, and is credited with naming the gyroscope. Pic. | ||
||1918: Carl-Gustav Esseen born ... mathematician. His work was in the theory of probability. The Berry–Esseen theorem is named after him. | ||1918: Carl-Gustav Esseen born ... mathematician. His work was in the theory of probability. The Berry–Esseen theorem is named after him. Pic search. | ||
||1921: Florence Marion Newman Trefethen born ... American codebreaker, historian of operations research, poet, and English professor. Pic daughter's blog, saved local: http://gwynedtrefethen.blogspot.com/2013/12/weekly-report-2013-1227.html | |||
||1924: Anthony Poshepny born ... CIA paramilitary officer in what is now called Special Activities Division (renamed Special Activities Center in 2016 | ||1924: Anthony Poshepny born ... CIA paramilitary officer in what is now called Special Activities Division (renamed Special Activities Center in 2016). He is best remembered for training the US-funded secret army in Laos during the Vietnam War. Pic search. | ||
||1851: First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times. | ||1851: First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times. | ||
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||1854: Richard Tetley Glazebrook born ... physicist who was the first director of the UK National Physical Laboratory, from 1 Jan 1900 until his retirement in Sep 1919. At first, the laboratory's income depended on much routine, commercial testing, but Glazebrook championed fundamental, industrially oriented research. With support from individual donors, buildings were added for electrical work, metrology, and engineering. Data useful to the shipbuilding industry was collected in pioneering experimental work on models of ships made possible by a tank funded by Alfred Yarrow (1908). From 1909, laboratory began work benefitting the embryonic aeronautics industry, at the request of the secretary of state for war. The lab to contributed substantially to military needs during WW I Pic: http://www.npl.co.uk/about/history/directors/sir-richard-tetley-glazebrook | ||1854: Richard Tetley Glazebrook born ... physicist who was the first director of the UK National Physical Laboratory, from 1 Jan 1900 until his retirement in Sep 1919. At first, the laboratory's income depended on much routine, commercial testing, but Glazebrook championed fundamental, industrially oriented research. With support from individual donors, buildings were added for electrical work, metrology, and engineering. Data useful to the shipbuilding industry was collected in pioneering experimental work on models of ships made possible by a tank funded by Alfred Yarrow (1908). From 1909, laboratory began work benefitting the embryonic aeronautics industry, at the request of the secretary of state for war. The lab to contributed substantially to military needs during WW I Pic: http://www.npl.co.uk/about/history/directors/sir-richard-tetley-glazebrook | ||
||1860: Joseph Locke dies ... engineer and politician. | ||1860: Joseph Locke dies ... engineer and politician. Pic. | ||
||1873: Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures. | ||1873: Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures. | ||
||1882: The Pacific Stock Exchange opens. | ||1882: The Pacific Stock Exchange opens. Pic. | ||
||1891: William Ferrel dies ... meteorologist, developed theories which explained the mid-latitude atmospheric circulation cell in detail, and it is after him that the Ferrel cell is named. Pic. | ||1891: William Ferrel dies ... meteorologist, developed theories which explained the mid-latitude atmospheric circulation cell in detail, and it is after him that the Ferrel cell is named. Pic. | ||
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||1896: Hippolyte Fizeau dies ... physicist and academic ... best known for measuring the speed of light in the namesake Fizeau experiment. Pic. | ||1896: Hippolyte Fizeau dies ... physicist and academic ... best known for measuring the speed of light in the namesake Fizeau experiment. Pic. | ||
||1907: Edwin McMillan born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1907: Edwin McMillan born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1908: Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian born ... a Soviet Armenian scientist, and one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics. He worked in the field of physics of stars and nebulae, stellar astronomy, dynamics of stellar systems and cosmogony of stars and galaxies, and contributed to mathematical physics. Pic. | ||1908: Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian born ... a Soviet Armenian scientist, and one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics. He worked in the field of physics of stars and nebulae, stellar astronomy, dynamics of stellar systems and cosmogony of stars and galaxies, and contributed to mathematical physics. Pic. | ||
||1912: Frank Farmer born ... physicist, and a pioneer in the application of physics to medicine, particularly in relation to the practical aspects of cancer treatment by radiation. Pic search. | |||
||1925: Victor L. Klee, Jr. born ... mathematician specialising in convex sets, functional analysis, analysis of algorithms, optimization, and combinatorics. Pic. | ||1925: Victor L. Klee, Jr. born ... mathematician specialising in convex sets, functional analysis, analysis of algorithms, optimization, and combinatorics. Pic. | ||
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||1931: The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria. | ||1931: The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria. | ||
||1932: Nikolay Rukavishnikov born ... physicist and astronaut. | ||1932: Nikolay Rukavishnikov born ... physicist and astronaut. Pic. | ||
||1934: The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations. | ||1934: The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations. | ||
||1939: Jan Camiel Willems born ... mathematician and theorist. | ||1939: Jan Camiel Willems born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search. | ||
||1942: Logician and philosopher Kurt Grelling and his wife arrive at Auschwitz, where they are killed in gas chambers that day or soon thereafter. Pic. | ||1942: Logician and philosopher Kurt Grelling and his wife arrive at Auschwitz, where they are killed in gas chambers that day or soon thereafter. Pic. | ||
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||1959: Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit. | ||1959: Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit. | ||
||1961: U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | ||1961: U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Pic. | ||
File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power. | File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power. | ||
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File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1977: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together. | File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1977: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together. | ||
||1977: Paul Bernays dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic. | ||1977: Paul Bernays dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1978: Rudolf Nebel dies ... spaceflight advocate active in Germany's amateur rocket group, the ''Verein für Raumschiffahrt'' (VfR – "Spaceflight Society") in the 1930s and in rebuilding German rocketry following World War II. Pic search | ||1978: Rudolf Nebel dies ... spaceflight advocate active in Germany's amateur rocket group, the ''Verein für Raumschiffahrt'' (VfR – "Spaceflight Society") in the 1930s and in rebuilding German rocketry following World War II. Pic search. | ||
||1980: Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn dies ... medical physicist. Pic. | ||1980: Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn dies ... medical physicist. Pic. | ||
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||1980: Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station. | ||1980: Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station. | ||
||1984: Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic. | ||1984: Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic. (Alive September 2019.) Pic. | ||
||1997: United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations. | ||1997: United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations. Pic. | ||
||2001: First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks. | ||2001: First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks. | ||
||2014: Richard F. Arenstorf born ... mathematician who discovered a stable orbit between the Earth and the Moon, called an Arenstorf Orbit, which was the basis of the orbit used by the Apollo Program for going to the Moon. Pic. | ||2014: Richard F. Arenstorf born ... mathematician who discovered a stable orbit between the Earth and the Moon, called an Arenstorf Orbit, which was the basis of the orbit used by the Apollo Program for going to the Moon. Pic. | ||
||2016: Wolfhart Zimmermann dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic: http://wwwth.mpp.mpg.de/conf/zimmermann-memorial/ | ||2016: Wolfhart Zimmermann dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic: http://wwwth.mpp.mpg.de/conf/zimmermann-memorial/ | ||
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1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.
1947: The majority of the provisions of the National Security Act, which establishes The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency, come into effect, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense.
1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
1976: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.
1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.