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||1555 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist, philologist, and scholar (b. 1490)
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||1652 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)
||1555: Georgius Agricola dies ... mineralogist, philologist, and scholar. Pic.


||1676 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
File:Jan Brożek.jpg|link=Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer [[Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|Jan Brożek]] dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]]' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.


||1737 – José Antonio Alzate y Ramírez, Spanish-Mexican scientist and cartographer (d. 1799)
||1773: Chemist Hippolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils born. He studied in the École des Mines de Paris, and was a student and friend of Louis Nicolas Vauquelin. He is best known for confirming the discovery of chromium by Vauquelin, and for independently discovering iridium in 1803. Pic.


||1783 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
||1782: Jacques de Vaucanson dies ... inventor and artist who was responsible for the creation of impressive and innovative automata. He also was the first man to design an automatic loom and built the first all-metal lathe. Pic.


||1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
||1783: In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight. Pic.


||1905 – Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
||1835: Surgeon Hanaoka Seishū dies ... with a knowledge of Chinese herbal medicine, as well as Western surgical techniques he had learned through Rangaku (literally "Dutch learning", and by extension "Western learning"). Hanaoka is said to have been the first to perform surgery using general anesthesia. Pic.


||1913 – Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician, author, and academic (d. 1975)
||1835: Walter William Skeat born ... pre-eminent philologist of his time. He was instrumental in developing the English language as a higher education subject in the United Kingdom. Pic.


||1927 – Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
||1843: Gaston Tissandier born ... chemist, meteorologist, aviator and editor. Adventurer could be added to the list of his titles, as he managed to escape besieged Paris by balloon in September 1870. He founded and edited the scientific magazine La Nature and wrote several books. Pic.


||1931 – Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian chemist and physicist (d. 1985)
||1866: Gustav Roch dies ... mathematician who made significant contributions to the theory of Riemann surfaces in a career that ended when he died at the age of 26. Pic.


||1953 – The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
||1877: Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound. TO_DO.


||1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.
||1895: Josef Mattauch born ... physicist known for his work in the investigation of the isotopic abundances by mass spectrometry. He developed the Mattauch isobar rule in 1934. Pic.


||1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1905: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]]'s paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal ''Annalen der Physik''.


||1970 – C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
||1913: Gunnar Kangro born ... mathematician, author, and academic. Pic.


||1985 – United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
||1927: Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.


||1986 – National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair.
||1931: Revaz Dogonadze born ... chemist and physicist. He was the first to view a chemical electron-transfer process as a quantum-mechanical transition between two separate electronic states, induced by weak electrostatic interactions between the molecular entities represented by the states. Pic search.


||1996 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
||1939: Jérôme Franel dies ... mathematician who specialized in analytic number theory. He is mainly known through a 1924 paper, in which he establishes the equivalence of the Riemann hypothesis to a statement on the size of the discrepancy in the Farey sequences. Pic.
 
||1953: The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
 
||1959: American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.
 
||1961: First French nuclear underground test, Agathe ("Agate"). It was an atomic bomb detonated in the Hoggar mount (near In Ekker) of the then French Sahara desert during the Algerian War (1954–62).
 
||1969: The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
 
||1970: C. V. Raman dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1978: Francesco Giacomo Tricomi dies ... mathematician famous for his studies on mixed type partial differential equations. Pic.
 
||1985: United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
 
||1986: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair.
 
||1991: Hans Julius Zassenhaus dies ... mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra. Pic.
 
||1993: Bruno Rossi dies ... experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays. Pic.
 
File:Abdus Salam 1987.jpg|link=Abdus Salam (nonfiction)|1996: Theoretical physicist [[Abdus Salam (nonfiction)|Mohammad Abdus Salam]] dies. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.
 
||2004: Victor Andreevich Toponogov dies ... mathematician, noted for his contributions to differential geometry and so-called Riemannian geometry "in the large". Pic.
 
||2009: Konstantin Feoktistov dies ... engineer and astronaut. Pic.
 
||2014: Paul von Ragué Schleyer dies ... chemist and academic ... made contributions in the area of synthesis of adamantane and other cage molecules by rearrangement mechanisms. He also discovered new types of hydrogen bonding. Schleyer also identified solvolysis mechanisms, including reactive intermediates. As a pioneer in the field of computational chemistry, Schleyer identified a number of new molecular structures, especially related to lithium chemistry and electron deficient systems. Pic search.


||2009 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1926)


|File:Katsudō Shashin.jpg|link=Katsudō Shashin (nonfiction)|[[Katsudō Shashin (nonfiction)|Katsudō Shashin]] "charming to this day," say film enthusiasts.
|File:Slinky.jpg|link=Spring (device) (nonfiction)|[[Spring (device) (nonfiction)|Slinky]] prepares for epic journey down escalator.
|File:Cheddar Cheese crop from Campbells Soup Cans MOMA.jpg|link=Pop art (nonfiction)|[[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] asks where [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] keeps the can opener.
|File:K1 chronometer.jpg|link=K1: My Life at Sea|[[K1: My Time at Sea|K1 chronometer]] will be next celebrity judge on [[Who Wants to Be a Chronometer?]].
|File:R. Budd Dwyer.jpg|link=R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|1939:  Politician [[R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|R. Budd Dwyer]] born.  In 1987, he will take his own life during a press conference.
|File:Nebraska sand hills from space.jpg|link=Nebraska sandhills (nonfiction)|[[Nebraska sandhills (nonfiction)|Nebraska sandhills]] said to be hiding place for [[Snakes on a plane]].
|File:Ridley Scott (23716888011).jpg|link=Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|[[Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|Ridley Scott]] to make film about [[Nebraska sandhills (nonfiction)|Nebraska sandhills]].
|File:Johannesmagistris-square.jpg|link=Square of opposition (nonfiction)|National [[Square of opposition (nonfiction)|Square of Opposition]] Day.
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Latest revision as of 09:15, 21 November 2023

  • 1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer Jan Brożek dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.

    1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer Jan Brożek dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.

  • 1905: Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

    1905: Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

  • 1996: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam dies. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.

    1996: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam dies. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.

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