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File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|923: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] invents new form of [[scrying engine]].
 
File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1637: Mathematician [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
||1567: François d'Aguilon born ... Jesuit mathematician (d. 1617) François d'Aguilon (also d'Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius) ... Jesuit mathematician, physicist and architect. Pic: book plate.
File:Exploded electrolytic capacitor.jpg|link=Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|2002: [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|Capacitor plague]] affects several brands of [[portable envy]] devices.
 
File:Portable envy clock generator.jpg|link=Portable envy|2003: [[Portable envy]] components at risk of [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]].
File:Gabriel Cramer.jpg|link=Gabriel Cramer (nonfiction)|1752: Mathematician and physicist [[Gabriel Cramer (nonfiction)|Gabriel Cramer]] dies. He published Cramer's rule, giving a general formula for the solution for any unknown in a linear equation system having a unique solution, in terms of determinants implied by the system.
File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|2003: [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] published first in prize-winning series of articles on [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]].
 
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||1761: Stephen Hales dies ... clergyman who made major contributions to a range of scientific fields including botany, pneumatic chemistry and physiology. He was the first person to measure blood pressure. He also invented several devices, including a ventilator, a pneumatic trough and a surgical forceps for the removal of bladder stones.  Pic.
 
||1771: Captain François Mingaud born ... infantry officer in the French army and a carom billiards player. He is credited as the inventor of the leather tip for a billiards cue, a "possibly not original idea" that he perfected while imprisoned in Bicêtre (now Bicêtre Hospital) for political outspokenness. This revolutionized the game of billiards, allowing the cue ball to be finely manipulated by the application of spin. Pic.
 
||1809: Louis Braille born ... educator, invented Braille. Pic.
 
||1826: Mathematician Nicolas Fuss dies. His most important contribution was as amanuensis to Euler after he lost his sight. Most of Fuss's papers are solutions to problems posed by Euler on spherical geometry, trigonometry, series, differential geometry and differential equations. Pic: book cover: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolaus_Fuss.png
 
File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1847: [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
 
||1849: Franz Xaver Gabelsberger dies ... engineer, invented Gabelsberger shorthand. Pic.
 
||1882: John William Draper dies ... physician, chemist, and photographer. Pic.
 
||1888: Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel born ... physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect. Pic.
 
||1895: Leroy Grumman born ... engineer and businessman, co-founded Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co. Pic.
 
File:Electrocuting_an_Elephant.png|link=Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|1903: Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The event is documented in the film ''[[Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|Electrocuting an Elephant]]''.
 
||1904: Anna Winlock dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic search.
 
||1908: Charles Augustus Young dies ... one of the foremost solar spectroscopist astronomers in the United States. He observed a solar flare with a spectroscope on 3 August 1872, and also noted that it coincided with a magnetic storm on Earth. Pic.
 
||1910: Léon Delagrange dies ... pilot and sculptor. Pic.
 
||1913: Sixto Ríos García born ... mathematician, known as the father of Spanish statistics. Pic search.
 
||1914: William Nathan Oatis born ... American journalist who gained international attention when he was charged with espionage by the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1951. He was subsequently jailed until 1953. During WW2, trained in Japanese in Minneapolis. Pic.
 
||1917: Jessie MacWilliams born ... mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory. Pic search.
 
||1920: William Colby born ... intelligence officer, 10th Director of Central Intelligence. Pic.
 
||1932: Roman Personov born ... physicist and academic ... one of the founders of selective laser spectroscopy of complex molecules in solids (frozen solutions). Pic search.
 
File:Shoshichi Kobayashi.jpg|link=Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|1932: Mathematician and academic [[Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|Shoshichi Kobayashi]] born. He will work on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.
 
||1933: Henry Albert Fleuss dies ... pioneering diving engineer. Death notice: https://www.nature.com/articles/131298a0 Pic.
 
||1933: Marvin Isadore Knopp born ... mathematician who worked primarily in number theory. He made notable contributions to the theory of modular forms. Pic: https://news.temple.edu/news/2012-11-13/mathematics-conference-honors-late-temple-professor-marvin-knopp
 
File:Sputnik 1.jpg|link=Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|1958: [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]] falls to Earth from orbit.
 
File:Luna 1 (museum replica).jpg|link=Luna 1 (nonfiction)|1959: [[Luna 1 (nonfiction)|Luna 1]] becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
 
File:Erwin Schrödinger (1933).jpg|link=Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)|1961: Physicist and academic [[Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)|Erwin Schrödinger]] dies. He was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for the formulation of the Schrödinger equation.
 
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
 
||1986: Wilbur R. Franks dies ... scientist, notable as the inventor of the anti-gravity suit or G-suit, and for his work in cancer research. Pic.
 
||1989: Asteroid Toutatis is rediscovered by by Christian Pollas at Caussols; it had been first sighted in 1934 but was lost soon afterward. Toutatis is an elongated, stony asteroid and slow rotator, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo and Alinda group, approximately 2.5 kilometers in diameter. See also: http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=4179&page=1 Pic.
 
|link=Harold Eugene Edgerton (nonfiction)|1990: Engineer and academic [[Harold Eugene Edgerton (nonfiction)|Harold Eugene Edgerton]] born. Pic.
 
||1995: Brooks Stevens dies ... engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile. Pic search.


1847 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
||1999: Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.


1903 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company shoots the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
File:Zombie Doctor.jpg|link=Zombie Doctor|2003:  Premiere of '''''[[Zombie Doctor]]''''', a medical horror film about a physician (Danny Nucci) who is forced by a crime lord (Paul Sorvino) to heal zombies.


1958 – Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.
||2004: Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.


1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
||2005: Frank Harary dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


1809 – Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (d. 1852)
||2010: Lew Allen, Jr. dies ... United States Air Force four-star general and physicist. Allen studied the military effects of high altitude nuclear explosions, later becoming the Director of Space Systems, and subsequently Director of the National Security Agency. Pic.


1839 – Carl Humann, German archaeologist, architect, and engineer (d. 1896)
||2010: Tsutomu Yamaguchi dies ... survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II. Although at least 70 people are known to have been affected by both bombings, he is the only person to have been officially recognized by the government of Japan as surviving both explosions. Pic.


1752 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1704)
||2013: Mathematician and academic Robert Phelps dies.  Phelps made contributions to analysis, particularly to functional analysis and measure theory. Pic.


||2017: Heinz Billing dies ... physicist and computer scientist, widely considered a pioneer in the construction of computer systems and computer data storage, who built a prototype laser interferometric gravitational wave detector. Pic.


1882 – John William Draper, English-American physician, chemist, and photographer (b. 1811)
||2020: 2020 AV2 discovered - also known by its internal designation ZTF09k5, is a near-Earth asteroid discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility on 4 January 2020. It is the first asteroid discovered to have an orbit entirely within Venus's orbit, and is thus the first and only known member of the Vatira population of Atira-class asteroids within the orbit of Venus. 2020 AV2 has the smallest known aphelion and second-smallest known semi-major axis among all asteroids. With an absolute magnitude around 16.4, the asteroid is expected to be larger than 1 km in diameter.
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Latest revision as of 17:50, 7 February 2022

  • 1752: Mathematician and physicist Gabriel Cramer dies. He published Cramer's rule, giving a general formula for the solution for any unknown in a linear equation system having a unique solution, in terms of determinants implied by the system.

    1752: Mathematician and physicist Gabriel Cramer dies. He published Cramer's rule, giving a general formula for the solution for any unknown in a linear equation system having a unique solution, in terms of determinants implied by the system.

  • 1847: Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

    1847: Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

  • 1903: Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The event is documented in the film Electrocuting an Elephant.

    1903: Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The event is documented in the film Electrocuting an Elephant.

  • 1932: Mathematician and academic Shoshichi Kobayashi born. He will work on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.

    1932: Mathematician and academic Shoshichi Kobayashi born. He will work on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.

  • 1958: Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.

    1958: Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.

  • 1959: Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.

    1959: Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.

  • 1961: Physicist and academic Erwin Schrödinger dies. He was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for the formulation of the Schrödinger equation.

    1961: Physicist and academic Erwin Schrödinger dies. He was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for the formulation of the Schrödinger equation.

  • 1974: Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.

    1974: Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.

  • 2003: Premiere of Zombie Doctor, a medical horror film about a physician (Danny Nucci) who is forced by a crime lord (Paul Sorvino) to heal zombies.

    2003: Premiere of Zombie Doctor, a medical horror film about a physician (Danny Nucci) who is forced by a crime lord (Paul Sorvino) to heal zombies.

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