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File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1616: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1616: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.


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||1854: Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
||1854: Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
File:John Tyndall 1878.jpg|link=John Tyndall (nonfiction)|1878: Physicist [[John Tyndall (nonfiction)|John Tyndall]] uses a series of infra-red light devices to send a message from the White House to [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]] in less than seven minutes.


||1879: Donald Matheson Sutherland born ... physician and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of National Defence. Pic.
||1879: Donald Matheson Sutherland born ... physician and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of National Defence. Pic.
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||1895: Georg Robert Döpel born ... experimental nuclear physicist. Pic.
||1895: Georg Robert Döpel born ... experimental nuclear physicist. Pic.


||1897: William Gropper born ... cartoonist and painter ... Due to his involvement with radical politics in the 1920s and 1930s, Gropper was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953. The experience provided inspirational fodder for a series of fifty lithographs entitled the ''Caprichos''.
||1897: William Gropper born ... cartoonist and painter ... Due to his involvement with radical politics in the 1920s and 1930s, Gropper was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953. The experience provided inspirational fodder for a series of fifty lithographs entitled the ''Caprichos''. Pic.


||1900: Richard Kuhn born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1900: Richard Kuhn born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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||1903: Sydney Goldstein born ... mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics, notably his work on steady-flow laminar boundary-layer equations and on the turbulent resistance to rotation of a disk in a fluid. Goldstein also contributed to aerodynamics. Pic: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/history/sydney-goldstein/
||1903: Sydney Goldstein born ... mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics, notably his work on steady-flow laminar boundary-layer equations and on the turbulent resistance to rotation of a disk in a fluid. Goldstein also contributed to aerodynamics. Pic: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/history/sydney-goldstein/


||1904: The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
||1904: The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory. Pic.
 
File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1909: Electrical engineers John Havelock and Nikolai Tesla invent [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|new data transmission protocols]] based on the work of mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]].
 
File:Neon_lighting_Ne_symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1910: Modern [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|neon lighting]] is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.


File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1911: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
File:Neon_lighting_Ne_symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1910: First public demonstration of modern [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|neon lighting]], by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.


File:John Backus.jpg|link=John Backus (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician and computer scientist [[John Backus (nonfiction)|John Backus]] born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax.  
File:John Backus.jpg|link=John Backus (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician and computer scientist [[John Backus (nonfiction)|John Backus]] born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax.  
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||1926: Charles Edward Ringling dies ... businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus. Pic (poster).
||1926: Charles Edward Ringling dies ... businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus. Pic (poster).


||1926: Konrad Jörgens born ... German mathematician. He made important contributions to mathematical physics, in particular to the foundations of quantum mechanics, and to the theory of partial differential equations and integral operators.
||1926: Konrad Jörgens born ... German mathematician. He made important contributions to mathematical physics, in particular to the foundations of quantum mechanics, and to the theory of partial differential equations and integral operators. Pic.


||1933: Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018).
||1933: Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018). Pic.


||1935: Patrick Carl Fischer born ... computer scientist, a noted researcher in computational complexity theory and database theory, and a target of the Unabomber. Pic: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/us/31fischer.html Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Patrick+C.+Fischer
||1935: Patrick Carl Fischer born ... computer scientist, a noted researcher in computational complexity theory and database theory, and a target of the Unabomber. Pic: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/us/31fischer.html Pic search.


||1938: Sally Shlaer born ... mathematician and engineer. Pic.
||1938: Sally Shlaer born ... mathematician and engineer. Pic.
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||1956: Felix Bernstein dies ... mathematician known for proving the Schröder–Bernstein theorem central in set theory in 1896, and less well known for demonstrating the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus in 1924 through statistical analysis. Pic.
||1956: Felix Bernstein dies ... mathematician known for proving the Schröder–Bernstein theorem central in set theory in 1896, and less well known for demonstrating the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus in 1924 through statistical analysis. Pic.
File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1965: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which compute and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1973: Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
||1973: Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
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||1984: Mathematician and theorist Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin dies. Pic.
||1984: Mathematician and theorist Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin dies. Pic.


||1993: Lewis Thomas dies ... physician, etymologist, and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=lewis+thomas&oq=Lewis+Thomas
||1993: Lewis Thomas dies ... physician, etymologist, and academic. Pic search.


||1999: NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
||1999: NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
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||2014: The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to an asteroid to collect rock samples ... an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese space agency, JAXA. It follows on from Hayabusa and addresses weak points identified in that mission. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and arrived at near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in June 2018. It is intended to survey the asteroid for a year and a half, depart in December 2019, and return to Earth in December 2020. Hayabusa2 arrived at the target asteroid 162173 Ryugu (formerly designated 1999 JU3) on 27 June 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2
||2014: The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to an asteroid to collect rock samples ... an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese space agency, JAXA. It follows on from Hayabusa and addresses weak points identified in that mission. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and arrived at near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in June 2018. It is intended to survey the asteroid for a year and a half, depart in December 2019, and return to Earth in December 2020. Hayabusa2 arrived at the target asteroid 162173 Ryugu (formerly designated 1999 JU3) on 27 June 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2
File:Spiral 2.jpg|link=Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Spiral 2]]'' stolen from the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by agents of the criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]].


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Latest revision as of 17:58, 7 February 2022

  • 1616: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.

    1616: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.

  • 1910: First public demonstration of modern neon lighting, by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

    1910: First public demonstration of modern neon lighting, by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

  • 1924: Mathematician and computer scientist John Backus born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax.

    1924: Mathematician and computer scientist John Backus born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax.

  • 2001: The Genesis spacecraft exposes its collector arrays, beginning collection of solar wind particles. The collection process will end after 850 days, on April 1, 2004, with the spacecraft completing five halo loops around L1.

    2001: The Genesis spacecraft exposes its collector arrays, beginning collection of solar wind particles. The collection process will end after 850 days, on April 1, 2004, with the spacecraft completing five halo loops around L1.

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