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||1519: Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration. | ||1519: Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration. Pic. | ||
||1602: The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public. | ||1602: The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public. | ||
||1656: Edmond Halley born ... astronomer and | ||1606: Girolamo Mercuriale dies ... physician and philologist. His studies of the attitudes of the ancients toward diet, exercise, and hygiene and the use of natural methods for the cure of disease culminated in the publication of his De Arte Gymnastica (Venice, 1569). With its explanations concerning the principles of physical therapy, it is considered the first book on sports medicine. Pic. | ||
||1656: Edmond Halley born ... astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist. Pic. | |||
File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1703: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court. | File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1703: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court. | ||
||1719: Michel Rolle dies ... mathematician and author. | ||1719: Michel Rolle dies ... mathematician and author ... known for Rolle's theorem (1691). He is also the co-inventor of Gaussian elimination. Pic. | ||
File:Pierre Alexandre Laurent Forfait.jpg|link=Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait (nonfiction)|1807: Engineer, hydrographer, and politician [[Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait (nonfiction)|Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait]] dies. He designed and oversaw the building of ships, making structural improvements and developing techniques to improve the disposition of cargo in ships' holds. | File:Pierre Alexandre Laurent Forfait.jpg|link=Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait (nonfiction)|1807: Engineer, hydrographer, and politician [[Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait (nonfiction)|Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait]] dies. He designed and oversaw the building of ships, making structural improvements and developing techniques to improve the disposition of cargo in ships' holds. | ||
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File:Gottlob Frege.jpg|link=Gottlob Frege (nonfiction)|1848: Mathematician, logician, and philosopher [[Gottlob Frege (nonfiction)|Gottlob Frege]] born. Though will be largely ignored during his lifetime, his work will influence later generations of logicians and philosophers. | File:Gottlob Frege.jpg|link=Gottlob Frege (nonfiction)|1848: Mathematician, logician, and philosopher [[Gottlob Frege (nonfiction)|Gottlob Frege]] born. Though will be largely ignored during his lifetime, his work will influence later generations of logicians and philosophers. | ||
||1854: Johannes Rydberg born ... physicist and academic. | ||1854: Johannes Rydberg born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1858: George Peacock dies ... mathematician. | ||1858: George Peacock dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1861: American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US. | ||1861: American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US. | ||
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||1914: George Bernard Dantzig born ... mathematical scientist who made important contributions to operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm, an algorithm for solving linear programming problems. Pic. | ||1914: George Bernard Dantzig born ... mathematical scientist who made important contributions to operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm, an algorithm for solving linear programming problems. Pic. | ||
||1918: Hermann Zapf born ... typographer and calligrapher | ||1918: Hermann Zapf born ... typographer and calligrapher. | ||
||1919: Leopold Karl Schmetterer born ... was an Austrian mathematician working on analysis, probability, and statistics. Pic. | ||1919: Leopold Karl Schmetterer born ... was an Austrian mathematician working on analysis, probability, and statistics. Pic. | ||
||1922: Thea D. Hodge born ... computer scientist and academic | ||1922: Thea D. Hodge born ... computer scientist and academic. | ||
||1923: Jack Kilby born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate | ||1923: Jack Kilby born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate... electrical engineer who took part (along with Robert Noyce) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000. Pic. | ||
||1924: Robert V. Hogg born ... statistician and academic. Pic: https://clas.uiowa.edu/news/clas-mourns-passing-professor-emeritus-robert-v-hogg-pioneering-statistician-teacher-mentor-and | ||1924: Robert V. Hogg born ... statistician and academic. Pic: https://clas.uiowa.edu/news/clas-mourns-passing-professor-emeritus-robert-v-hogg-pioneering-statistician-teacher-mentor-and | ||
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||1950: Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history. | ||1950: Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history. | ||
||1952: Gino Fano dies ... mathematician, best known as the founder of the finite geometry. He was born in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy. | ||1952: Gino Fano dies ... mathematician, best known as the founder of the finite geometry. He was born in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy. Pic. | ||
||1957: Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific. | ||1957: Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific. | ||
||1957: President Eisenhower lays the cornerstone of the new Atomic Energy Commission building in Germantown, Maryland, on 8 November 1957. Pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HD.3C.001_(13406014683).jpg | |||
||1960: John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the 20th century to become the 35th president of the United States. | ||1960: John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the 20th century to become the 35th president of the United States. | ||
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File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1969: Astronomer [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] dies. He performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe. | File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1969: Astronomer [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] dies. He performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe. | ||
File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring|1974: [[Green Ring]] tells [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] a funny story about ''[[Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography (nonfiction)|Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography]]''. | File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring (AI)|1974: [[Green Ring (AI)|Green Ring]] tells [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] a funny story about ''[[Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography (nonfiction)|Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography]]''. | ||
File:Pekka Myrberg.jpg|link=Pekka Myrberg (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician [[Pekka Myrberg (nonfiction)|Pekka Myrberg]] dies. He did fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research revived interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou. | File:Pekka Myrberg.jpg|link=Pekka Myrberg (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician [[Pekka Myrberg (nonfiction)|Pekka Myrberg]] dies. He did fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research revived interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou. | ||
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||1997: Menahem Max Schiffer dies ... mathematician who worked in complex analysis, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schiffer.html | ||1997: Menahem Max Schiffer dies ... mathematician who worked in complex analysis, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schiffer.html | ||
||2006: Hannspeter Winter dies ... physicist and | ||2001: Albrecht Fröhlich dies ... mathematician famous for his major results and conjectures on Galois module theory in the Galois structure of rings of integers. Pic: https://opc.mfo.de/detail?photo_id=9239&would_like_to_publish=1 | ||
||2006: Plasma physicist and academic Hannspeter Winter dies. He researched hollow atoms. Pic search. | |||
||2004: Melba Newell Phillips dies ... physicist and pioneer science educator. Pic. | |||
|| | ||2008: The K-152 Nerpa accident occurred aboard the Russian submarine K-152 Nerpa ... resulted in the deaths of 20 people and injuries to 41 more. The accident was blamed on a crew member who was allegedly playing with a fire suppressant system that he thought was not operative. Freon gas was released inside two compartments of the submerged submarine during the vessel's sea trials in the Sea of Japan. Victims were asphyxiated or suffered frostbite in their lungs. | ||
||2009: Vitaly Ginzburg dies ... physicist and astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||2009: Vitaly Ginzburg dies ... physicist and astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2011: Bil Keane dies ... cartoonist. | ||2011: Bil Keane dies ... cartoonist ... most notable for his work on the newspaper comic The Family Circus. It began in 1960 and continues in syndication, drawn by his son Jeff Keane. Pic. | ||
||2011: The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976. | ||2011: The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976. | ||
||2013: William C. Davidon dies . | File:William C. Davidon.jpg|link=William C. Davidon (nonfiction)|2013: Physicist, mathematician, and activist [[William C. Davidon (nonfiction)|William C. Davidon]] dies. He developed the first quasi-Newton algorithm, now known as the Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula. | ||
||2015: Rod Davies dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||2015: Rod Davies dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||
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1703: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1807: Engineer, hydrographer, and politician Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait dies. He designed and oversaw the building of ships, making structural improvements and developing techniques to improve the disposition of cargo in ships' holds.
1839: Birth of Ivan Goremykin heralds new age of Extreme Moustaches.
1848: Mathematician, logician, and philosopher Gottlob Frege born. Though will be largely ignored during his lifetime, his work will influence later generations of logicians and philosophers.
1895: While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1969: Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher dies. He performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
1974: Green Ring tells Dick Cavett a funny story about Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography.
1976: Mathematician Pekka Myrberg dies. He did fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research revived interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou.
2013: Physicist, mathematician, and activist William C. Davidon dies. He developed the first quasi-Newton algorithm, now known as the Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula.