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||Ottoman | ||1580: Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth. Pic. | ||
||1976: Pál Turán dies | |||
||1679: A fierce fire consumed the Stellaburgum — Europe’s finest observatory, built by the pioneering astronomer Johannes Hevelius in the city of Danzig, present-day Poland, decades before the famous Royal Greenwich Observatory and Paris Observatory existed. Pic: https://pballew.blogspot.com/2013/09/on-this-day-in-math-september-26.html | |||
File:The Parthenon.jpg|link=Parthenon (nonfiction)|1687: [[Parthenon (nonfiction)|The Parthenon]] is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens. | |||
||1688: Willem 's Gravesande born ... mathematician and natural philosopher, chiefly remembered for developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics. As professor of mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy at Leiden University, he helped to propagate Isaac Newton's ideas in Continental Europe. Pic. | |||
||1716: Antoine Parent dies ... mathematician and theorist. No pic online. | |||
||1731: Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe Malfatti, also known as Gian Francesco or Gianfrancesco born ... mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1754: Joseph Louis Proust born ... chemist. He was best known for his discovery of the law of constant composition in 1794, stating that chemical compounds always combine in constant proportions. Pic search. | |||
||1766: Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi dies ... mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals. Pic: book cover. | |||
||1775: John Adams writes to his wife to entreat her to teach his children geometry and... "I have seen the Utility of Geometry, Geography, and the Art of drawing so much of late, that I must intreat you, my dear, to teach the Elements of those Sciences to my little Girl and Boys." Pic. | |||
||1802: Jurij Vega dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | |||
||1809: Johann Philipp Gustav von Jolly born ... physicist and mathematician. Jolly was first and foremost an experimental physicist. He measured the acceleration due to gravity with precision weights and also worked on osmosis. Pic. | |||
||1849: Ivan Pavlov born ... physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1864: Percy Alexander MacMahon born ... mathematician, especially noted in connection with the partitions of numbers and enumerative combinatorics. Pic. | |||
||1867: Winsor McCay born ... illustrator and animator. Pic. | |||
File:August Ferdinand Möbius.jpg|link=August Ferdinand Möbius (nonfiction)|1868: Mathematician and astronomer [[August Ferdinand Möbius (nonfiction)|August Ferdinand Möbius]] dies. He discovered the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space. | |||
||1869: Frederick Collier Bakewell dies ... physicist who improved on the concept of the facsimile machine introduced by Alexander Bain in 1842 and demonstrated a working laboratory version at the 1851 World's Fair in London. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Frederick-Bakewell | |||
||1874: James Clerk Maxwell in a letter to Professor Lewis Campbell describes Galton, "Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'. " *Lewis Campbell and William Garnett (eds.), The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1884), 299. | |||
||1877: Hermann Grassmann dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | |||
||1886: Archibald Hill born ... physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. He shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his elucidation of the production of heat and mechanical work in muscles. Pic. | |||
||1887: Barnes Wallis born ... scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb. | |||
||1891: Hans Reichenbach born ... philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He was influential in the areas of science, education, and of logical empiricism: he made lasting contributions to the study of empiricism based on a theory of probability; the logic and the philosophy of mathematics; space, time, and relativity theory; analysis of probabilistic reasoning; and quantum mechanics. Pic. | |||
||1905: George Placzek born ... physicist. Together with Otto Frisch, he suggested a direct experimental proof of nuclear fission. Together with Niels Bohr and others, he was instrumental in clarifying the role of Uranium 235 for the possibility of nuclear chain reaction. Pic. | |||
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1905: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] publishes his first paper on the special theory of relativity. | |||
||1907: Anthony Frederick Blunt born ... leading British art historian who in 1964, after being offered immunity from prosecution, confessed to having been a Soviet spy. Blunt had been a member of the Cambridge Five, a group of spies working for the Soviet Union from some time in the 1930s to at least the early 1950s. His confession, a closely held secret for many years, was revealed publicly by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in November 1979. | |||
||1910: Thorvald Nicolai Thiele dies ... astronomer and director of the Copenhagen Observatory. He was also an actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem. | |||
||1933: Charles Cameron Conley born ... mathematician who worked on dynamical systems. Pic search. | |||
||1933: As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don't shoot, G-Men!", which becomes a nickname for FBI agents. | |||
||1939: Ottó Bláthy dies ... engineer and chess player ... co-inventor of the modern electric transformer, the tension regulator, the AC watt-hour meter, motor capacitor for the single-phase (AC) electric motor, the turbo generator, and the high-efficiency turbo generator. Pic. | |||
||1943: U-536, which had been tasked with picking up the escaping naval officers, arrived off Pointe de Maisonnette at the appointed time. Operation Kiebitz was a failed German operation during World War II to organize the escape of four skilled U-boat commanders from a Canadian prisoner of war camp in Bowmanville, Ontario. The subsequent counter operation by the Royal Canadian Navy, Operation Pointe Maisonnette, became a key engagement in the Battle of the St. Lawrence and was also successful in thwarting the Germans' plan. Pic. | |||
||1960: In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy. | |||
||1973: Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time. | |||
||1976: Leopold Ružička dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
File:Pál Turán.jpg|link=Pál Turán (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician [[Pál Turán (nonfiction)|Pál Turán]] dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory. | |||
||1978: Manne Siegbahn dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1983: Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Military officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike. | |||
||1990: Lothar Collatz dies ... mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1996: Geoffrey Wilkinson dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis. Pic. | |||
||1998: Asteroid 25143 Itokawa discovered ... a sub-kilometer near-Earth object of the Apollo group and a potentially hazardous asteroid. It was discovered by the LINEAR program in 1998 and later named after Hideo Itokawa. The strange peanut-shaped S-type asteroid has a rotation period of 12.1 hours and measures approximately 330 meters (1,100 feet) in diameter. Due to its low density and high porosity, Itokawa is considered to be a rubble pile, consisting of numerous boulders of different sizes rather than of a single solid body. It was the first asteroid to be the target of a sample return mission, the Japanese Hayabusa space probe, which recovered more than 1500 particles. It is the smallest asteroid ever photographed and visited by a spacecraft. Pic (cool). | |||
||1999: The Kobe meteorite falls to earth (local time 20:23) in Kita-kum, north of Kobe city, Japan. The meteorite fall was widely observed in Kobe and the surrounding area, and was photographed by an amateur photographer in Imabari city, 200 km southwest of Kobe. The meteorite struck a house with an explosive sound but otherwise caused only minor property damage. The approximately 20 fragments of the meteorite had a total mass of 136 g. | |||
||2012: Sylvia Fedoruk dies ... physicist and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan. Pic. | |||
||2014: Gerald Neugebauer dies ... astronomer and physicist, pioneering work in infrared astronomy. Pic uploaded. | |||
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Latest revision as of 13:09, 7 February 2022
1687: The Parthenon is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
1868: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius dies. He discovered the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
1905: Albert Einstein publishes his first paper on the special theory of relativity.
1976: Mathematician Pál Turán dies. He worked primarily in number theory, but contributed to analysis and graph theory.