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File:Baruch Spinoza.jpg|link=Baruch Spinoza (nonfiction)|1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder [[Baruch Spinoza (nonfiction)|Baruch Spinoza]] born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe. | File:Baruch Spinoza.jpg|link=Baruch Spinoza (nonfiction)|1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder [[Baruch Spinoza (nonfiction)|Baruch Spinoza]] born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe. | ||
File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1639: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] observes the | File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1639: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] observes the | ||
||1840: John Alfred Brashear born ... scientist, telescope maker and educator. Pic. | ||1840: John Alfred Brashear born ... scientist, telescope maker and educator. Pic. | ||
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||1879: Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville born ... mathematician and astronomer. He compiled a bibliography on non-Euclidean geometry and also wrote a leading textbook in that field. He also wrote Introduction to the Geometry of N Dimensions, advancing the study of polytopes. Pic. | ||1879: Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville born ... mathematician and astronomer. He compiled a bibliography on non-Euclidean geometry and also wrote a leading textbook in that field. He also wrote Introduction to the Geometry of N Dimensions, advancing the study of polytopes. Pic. | ||
||1892: Dmitri Skobeltsyn born - physicist, academician - paved the way for Carl David Anderson's discovery of the positron by two important contributions: by adding a magnetic field to his cloud chamber (in 1925) , and by discovering charged particle cosmic rays, for which he is credited in Anderson's Nobel lecture. Pic search. | |||
||1909: Gerhard Gentzen born ... mathematician and logician. He made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics, proof theory, especially on natural deduction and sequent calculus. Pic. | ||1909: Gerhard Gentzen born ... mathematician and logician. He made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics, proof theory, especially on natural deduction and sequent calculus. Pic. | ||
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File:Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby as Oswald is being moved by police, 1963.jpg|link=Lee Harvey Oswald (nonfiction)|1963: In the first live, televised murder, [[Lee Harvey Oswald (nonfiction)|Lee Harvey Oswald]], the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by [[Jack Ruby (nonfiction)|Jack Ruby]], a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armored car to take him to the nearby county jail. | File:Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby as Oswald is being moved by police, 1963.jpg|link=Lee Harvey Oswald (nonfiction)|1963: In the first live, televised murder, [[Lee Harvey Oswald (nonfiction)|Lee Harvey Oswald]], the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by [[Jack Ruby (nonfiction)|Jack Ruby]], a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armored car to take him to the nearby county jail. | ||
File:Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5.jpg|link=Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5|1966: "'''[[Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5]]'''", one of the so-called "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek, is voted "Television Show of the Day" by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada. | |||
||1969: Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon. | ||1969: Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon. | ||
||1971: During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found. | ||1971: During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found. | ||
||1979: Alfred Kneschke dies ... mathematician, engineer and university lecturer. During the World War II, Kneschke managed the Referat IV, Section II of the Wehrmacht Signals intelligence organization General der Nachrichtenaufklärung until November 1944, working on cryptanalysis and decoding of British, USA, French and Balkan cipher systems. From Nov 1944, he worked in the OKW/Chi cipher bureau as a cryptanalyst. Pic. | |||
||2008: John Robert Stallings Jr. dies ... mathematician known for his seminal contributions to geometric group theory and 3-manifold topology. Pic. | ||2008: John Robert Stallings Jr. dies ... mathematician known for his seminal contributions to geometric group theory and 3-manifold topology. Pic. | ||
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||2015: Pierre Gabriel dies ... mathematician and academic. He worked on category theory, algebraic groups, and representation theory of algebras. Pic: http://www.pierre-peter-gabriel-mathematics.ch/biography/ | ||2015: Pierre Gabriel dies ... mathematician and academic. He worked on category theory, algebraic groups, and representation theory of algebras. Pic: http://www.pierre-peter-gabriel-mathematics.ch/biography/ | ||
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1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.
1639: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks observes the
1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1961: Baby Tooth Survey: Preliminary results published by the team in the November 24, 1961, edition of the journal Science showed that levels of strontium 90 in children had risen steadily in children born in the 1950s, with those born later showing the most increased levels. The results of a more comprehensive study of the elements found in the teeth collected showed that children born after 1963 had levels of strontium 90 in their baby teeth that were 50 times higher than those found in children born before the advent of large-scale atomic testing. The findings helped convince U.S. President John F. Kennedy to sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the United Kingdom and Soviet Union, which ended the above-ground nuclear weapons testing that placed the greatest amounts of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere.
1962: First broadcast of That Was the Week That Was.
1963: In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armored car to take him to the nearby county jail.
1966: "Fantasy Ceti Alpha 5", one of the so-called "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek, is voted "Television Show of the Day" by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.