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File: | ||878: Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege. | ||
File:Albrecht Dürer self-portrait.jpg|link=Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|1471: Painter, engraver, and mathematician [[Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|Albrecht Dürer]] born. Dürer will be regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist: his vast body of work will include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. | |||
||1639: Tommaso Campanella dies ... astrologer, theologian, and poet ... cf. Galileo. Pic. | |||
File:Niccolò Zucchi.png|link=Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|1670: Astronomer and physicist [[Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|Niccolò Zucchi]] dies. He published works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism. | |||
File:Otto_von_Guericke.jpg|link=Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|1686: Scientist, inventor, and politician [[Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|Otto von Guericke]] dies. Von Guericke pioneered the physics of vacuums, and discovered an experimental method for demonstrating electrostatic repulsion. | |||
||1756: William Babington born ... physician and mineralogist. He was the curator for the enormous mineral collection of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. When Bute died in 1792, Babington bought the collection. The mineral Babingtonite is named after him. Pic. | |||
||1780: Elizabeth Fry born ... prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Quaker, a Christian philanthropist. She has often been referred to as the "angel of prisons". Pic. | |||
||1786: Carl Wilhelm Scheele dies ... pharmaceutical chemist. He made a number of chemical discoveries before others who are generally given the credit. For example, Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, and chlorine before Humphry Davy, among others. Pic. | |||
||1792: Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis born ... mathematician and engineer. Pic. | |||
||1792: Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki, on the island of Kyūshū, Japan's southernmost main island, erupts, creating the deadliest Megatsunami that kills 14,524 people, as also a Pyroclastic flow in 1991. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1792_Unzen_earthquake_and_tsunami | |||
||1826: Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach scientific instrument maker, was born at Durlach in Baden on 24 August 1771. Pics. | |||
||1826: Georg von Reichenbach born ... maker of astronomical instruments who introduced the meridian, or transit, circle, a specially designed telescope for measuring both the time when a celestial body is directly over the meridian (the longitude of the instrument) and the angle of the body at meridian passage. By 1796 he was engaged in the construction of a dividing engine, a machine used to mark off equal intervals accurately, usually on precision instruments. Pic. | |||
||1851: Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America. | |||
||1856: Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces. | |||
||1858: Édouard Jean-Baptiste Goursat born ... mathematician, now remembered principally as an expositor for his Cours d'analyse mathématique, which appeared in the first decade of the twentieth century. It set a standard for the high-level teaching of mathematical analysis, especially complex analysis. Pic. | |||
||1860: Willem Einthoven born ... physician, physiologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. He invented the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) in 1895 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924 for it ("for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram"). Pic. | |||
||1871: French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested. | |||
||1873: Hans Berger born ... neurologist and academic ... best known as the inventor of electroencephalography (EEG) (a method for recording "brain waves") in 1924, coining the name,[1] and as the discoverer of the alpha wave rhythm, also known as the "Berger wave". Pic. | |||
||1887: Ruth Law Oliver born ... pioneer American aviator during the 1910s. Pic cool aviation. | |||
||1893: Marcus Beck dies ... professor of surgery at University College Hospital. He was an early proponent of the germ theory of disease and promoted the discoveries of Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and Joseph Lister in surgical literature of the time. Pic. | |||
||1894: August Kundt dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | |||
||1894: The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams. Pic. | |||
||1897: Fritz Müller dies ... biologist who emigrated to southern Brazil, where he lived in and near the German community of Blumenau, Santa Catarina. There he studied the natural history of the Atlantic forest south of São Paulo, and was an early advocate of Darwinism. Pic (nice). | |||
||1902: Herbert Grötzsch born ... mathematician. He was born in Döbeln and died in Halle. Grötzsch worked in graph theory. He was the discoverer and eponym of the Grötzsch graph, a triangle-free graph that requires four colors in any graph coloring, and Grötzsch's theorem, the result that every triangle-free planar graph requires at most three colors. Pic. | |||
||1911: Williamina Fleming dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic. | |||
||1917: Thomas Christian Sneum born ... Danish pilot. He collected information about the German Freya radar that had been installed on his home island in Denmark. On the night of 21–22 June 1941 he and pilot Kjeld Pedersen made a spectacular escape from Denmark to Great Britain in a D.H. Hornet Moth. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Thomas-Sneum | |||
||1919: Evgraf Fedorov dies ... mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist. Pic. | |||
||1921: Sandy Douglas born ... computer scientist and academic, designed OXO. Pic search. | |||
||1921: Andrei Sakharov born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
File:Armand Borel.jpg|link=Armand Borel (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and academic [[Armand Borel (nonfiction)|Armand Borel]] born. He will work in algebraic topology, and in the theory of Lie groups, contributing to the creation of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups. | |||
||1924: University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing". Pic. | |||
File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1927: [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. | |||
File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1927: Pilot, engineer, and alleged time-traveler [[Henrietta Bolt]] touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop round-the-world flight. | |||
File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1932: [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] completes her solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic when bad weather forces her to land in Derry, Northern Ireland, after a flight lasting 14 hours, 56 minutes. Earhart is the second person (after Charles Lindbergh) to fly nonstop and alone across the Atlantic. | |||
||1934: Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens. | |||
||1937: A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean. | |||
||1941: SS Robin Moor sunk ... a steamship that sailed under the American flag from 1919 until being sunk by German submarine U-69 on 21 May 1941, before the United States had entered World War II, after allowing the passengers and crew to board lifeboats. This sinking of a neutral nation's ship in an area considered until then to be relatively safe from U-boats, and the plight of her crew and passengers, caused a political incident in the United States. On the 75th anniversary of its sinking, the American Merchant Marine Museum in Kings Point, New York, opened an exhibit on the sinking of Robin Moor entitled "How to Abandon ship." Pic. | |||
File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1946: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the so-called "demon core" at Los Alamos National Laboratory. | |||
||1951: The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School. | |||
File:Ernst Zermelo 1900s.jpg|link=Ernst Zermelo (nonfiction)|1953: Logician and mathematician [[Ernst Zermelo (nonfiction)|Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo]] dies. His work had major implications for the foundations of mathematics; he is known for his role in developing Zermelo–Fraenkel axiomatic set theory, and for his proof of the well-ordering theorem. | |||
||1919: Léon Alfred Nicolas Valentin dies - adventurer, who attempted to achieve human flight using bird-like wings. Léo Valentin is widely considered to be the most famous "birdman" of all time. He was billed as "Valentin, the Most Daring Man in the World". Valentin was at a Whit Monday air show in Liverpool before 100,000 spectators (including Beatles Paul McCartney and George Harrison,[9] as well as three-year-old Clive Barker, who would later reference Valentin in his work), using wings similar to the wooden ones that had brought him success in the past, but longer and more aerodynamic. However, the stunt immediately went wrong.[8][10] When exiting the plane, one of Valentin's wings made contact and a piece broke away. He attempted to land safely using a parachute, but that also failed, and he died immediately upon hitting the ground. Pic. | |||
||1964: James Franck dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1965: Geoffrey de Havilland dies ... pilot and engineer, designed the de Havilland Mosquito. Pic. | |||
||1971: Johannes Peter Letzmann dies ... meteorologist, and a pioneering tornado researcher. His prolific output related to severe storms concepts included: developing tornado damage studies, atmospheric vortices, theoretical studies and laboratory simulations, tornado case studies, and observation programs. It generated extensive analysis techniques and insights on tornadoes at a time when there was still very little research on the subject in the United States. Pic. | |||
|link=|1972: Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth. | |||
||1981: The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries. | |||
||1991: Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras. Pic. | |||
||2001: French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity. | |||
||2010: JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year. | |||
||2014: Ray Kunze dies ... mathematician who chaired the mathematics departments at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Georgia. His mathematical research concerned the representation theory of groups and noncommutative harmonic analysis. Pic. | |||
||2019: GW190521 (or GW190521g; initially, S190521g) is a gravitational wave signal resulting from the merger of two black holes near a third supermassive black hole, which was associated with a coincident and uncharacteristic flash of light. The event was observed by the LIGO and Virgo detectors on 21 May 2019 at 03:02:29 UTC | |||
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Latest revision as of 19:38, 29 May 2024
1471: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer born. Dürer will be regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist: his vast body of work will include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings.
1670: Astronomer and physicist Niccolò Zucchi dies. He published works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.
1686: Scientist, inventor, and politician Otto von Guericke dies. Von Guericke pioneered the physics of vacuums, and discovered an experimental method for demonstrating electrostatic repulsion.
1923: Mathematician and academic Armand Borel born. He will work in algebraic topology, and in the theory of Lie groups, contributing to the creation of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.
1927: Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1927: Pilot, engineer, and alleged time-traveler Henrietta Bolt touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop round-the-world flight.
1932: Amelia Earhart completes her solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic when bad weather forces her to land in Derry, Northern Ireland, after a flight lasting 14 hours, 56 minutes. Earhart is the second person (after Charles Lindbergh) to fly nonstop and alone across the Atlantic.
1946: Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the so-called "demon core" at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1953: Logician and mathematician Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo dies. His work had major implications for the foundations of mathematics; he is known for his role in developing Zermelo–Fraenkel axiomatic set theory, and for his proof of the well-ordering theorem.