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||1831: After discovering induced current on October 1st using two electrified coils, on the 17th of October Michael Faraday observers the same effect on the galvanometer when he inserts a permanent steel magnet into the electrified coil. Pic. | ||1831: After discovering induced current on October 1st using two electrified coils, on the 17th of October Michael Faraday observers the same effect on the galvanometer when he inserts a permanent steel magnet into the electrified coil. Pic. | ||
||1879: Uriah Atherton Boyden dies ... civil and mechanical engineer and inventor from Foxborough, Massachusetts best known for the development of the Boyden Turbine around 1844, while working for the Appleton Company in Lowell, Massachusetts. Boyden improved upon the water turbine developed by French engineer Fourneyron by adding a conical approach passage for the incoming water—submerged diffusers, guide vanes and a diverting exit passage. Pic. | ||1879: Uriah Atherton Boyden dies ... civil and mechanical engineer and inventor from Foxborough, Massachusetts best known for the development of the Boyden Turbine around 1844, while working for the Appleton Company in Lowell, Massachusetts. Boyden improved upon the water turbine developed by French engineer Fourneyron by adding a conical approach passage for the incoming water—submerged diffusers, guide vanes and a diverting exit passage. Pic. | ||
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||link=Paul Bernays (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician and philosopher [[Paul Bernays (nonfiction)|Paul Bernays]] born. Pic. | ||link=Paul Bernays (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician and philosopher [[Paul Bernays (nonfiction)|Paul Bernays]] born. Pic. | ||
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1888: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1888: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). | ||
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||1927: Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch born ... mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. Pic. | ||1927: Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch born ... mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. Pic. | ||
||1930: Ismail Akbay born ... physicist and engineer. Pic search | ||1930: Ismail Akbay born ... physicist and engineer. Pic search. | ||
||1931: Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion. Pic. | ||1931: Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion. Pic. | ||
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1933: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States. | File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1933: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States. | ||
||1934: Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster dies ... physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Pic. | ||1934: Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster dies ... physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Pic. | ||
||1937: Frank Morley dies ... mathematician, known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields of algebra and geometry. Pic. | ||1937: Frank Morley dies ... mathematician, known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields of algebra and geometry. Pic. | ||
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||1992: Herman Johannes dies ... scientist, academic, and politician. Pic. | ||1992: Herman Johannes dies ... scientist, academic, and politician. Pic. | ||
||1994: Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces. | ||1994: Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces. Pic. | ||
||1997: Larry Jennings dies ... magician and author. | ||1997: Larry Jennings dies ... magician and author. Pic. | ||
||1998: Boris Floricic, better known by his pseudonym Tron dies ... hacker and phreaker whose death in unclear circumstances has led to various conspiracy theories. He is also known for his Diplom thesis presenting one of the first public implementations of a telephone with built-in voice encryption, the "Cryptophon". Pic search | ||1998: Boris Floricic, better known by his pseudonym Tron dies ... hacker and phreaker whose death in unclear circumstances has led to various conspiracy theories. He is also known for his Diplom thesis presenting one of the first public implementations of a telephone with built-in voice encryption, the "Cryptophon". Pic search. | ||
File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1999: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] dies. He led the team of researchers which developed the Monte Carlo method. | File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1999: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] dies. He led the team of researchers which developed the Monte Carlo method. | ||
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||2012: Stanford R. Ovshinsky dies ... scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices. | ||2012: Stanford R. Ovshinsky dies ... scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices. | ||
||2017: Jeremy was a left-coiled garden snail died, aged two years. The snail had a rare genetic mutation which caused its shell to coil counterclockwise; in most snails the shell coils clockwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(snail) | ||2017: Jeremy was a left-coiled garden snail died, aged two years. The snail had a rare genetic mutation which caused its shell to coil counterclockwise; in most snails the shell coils clockwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(snail) | ||
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1604: Kepler's Supernova: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.
1776: Leonhard Euler reads a paper to the St. Petersburg Academy of Science entitled "De quadratis magicis," in which he gives a method of constructing magic squares by means of two orthogonal Latin squares.
1887: Physicist and academic Gustav Kirchhoff dies. He contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
1888: Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1901: "Brainiac is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.
1907: Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
1933: Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
1963: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard dies. He made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
1964: Signed first edition of Humpty Dumpty At Bat sell for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1973: OPEC imposes an oil embargo against a number of Western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria.
1999: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis dies. He led the team of researchers which developed the Monte Carlo method.