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||1704 – John Kay, English engineer, invented the Flying shuttle (d. 1780)
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||1714 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer and cartographer (d. 1784)
||1704: John Kay born ... engineer, invented the Flying shuttle. No DOD. Pic.


||1832 – William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (d. 1919)
File:César François Cassini de Thury.jpg|link=César-François Cassini de Thury (nonfiction)|1714: Astronomer and cartographer [[César-François Cassini de Thury (nonfiction)|César-François Cassini de Thury]] born. In 1744, he will begin the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates will be known as the Cassini map.


File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1859: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to forecast and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1791: Roberto Cofresí born ... one of the last successful Caribbean pirates. Pic (statue).


||1876 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: One thousand five hundred Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
||1821: John Henry "Professor" Pepper born ... scientist and inventor who toured the English-speaking world with his scientific demonstrations. He entertained the public, royalty, and fellow scientists with a wide range of technological innovations. He is primarily remembered for developing the projection technique known as Pepper's ghost, building a large-scale version of the concept by Henry Dircks. Pic.


||1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
File:Sir_William_Crookes_1906.jpg|link=William Crookes (nonfiction)|1832: Chemist and physicist [[William Crookes (nonfiction)|William Crookes]] born. Crookes will be a pioneer of vacuum tube technology, developing the partially evacuated Crookes tube circa 1869-1875.


||1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
||1876: American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: One thousand five hundred Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.


||1898 – Carl Hermann, German physicist and academic (d. 1961)
||1877: American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.


||1901 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
||1882: William Shanks buried ... amateur mathematician. Shanks is famous for his calculation of π to 707 places, accomplished in 1873, which, however, was only correct up to the first 527 places. This error was highlighted in 1944 by D. F. Ferguson (using a mechanical desk calculator). Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Shanks+pi


||1920 – François Jacob, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
||1885: The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
 
||1898: Carl Hermann born ... physicist and academic ... crystallography. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Carl+Hermann
 
||1898: Alex Gard born ... cartoonist ... known for his celebrity caricatures at Sardi's restaurant in New York City. Pic.
 
||1901: The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
 
||1902: Harry Nelson Pillsbury dies ... chess player. Pic.
 
||1902: Hubert Schardin Hermann Reinhold born ... ballistics expert, engineer and academic who studied in the field of high-speed photography and cinematography. Pic.
 
||1903: William Vallance Douglas Hodge born ... mathematician, specifically a geometer. His discovery of far-reaching topological relations between algebraic geometry and differential geometry—an area now called Hodge theory and pertaining more generally to Kähler manifolds—has been a major influence on subsequent work in geometry. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Vallance+Douglas+Hodge
 
||1906: Samuel S. Wilks born ... American mathematician and academic who played an important role in the development of mathematical statistics, especially in regard to practical applications. During World War II he was a consultant with the Office of Naval Research. Both during and after the War he had a profound impact on the application of statistical methods to all aspects of military planning. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=samuel+s.+wilks
 
||1911: Hans Maass born ... mathematician who introduced Maass wave forms, the Koecher–Maass series and Maass–Selberg relations, and who proved most of the Saito–Kurokawa conjecture. Pic.
 
||1920: François Jacob born ... biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. Jacob, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff. Pic.


File:Alexander Shulgin 2009.jpg|link=Alexander Shulgin (nonfiction)|1925: Pharmacologist and chemist [[Alexander Shulgin (nonfiction)|Alexander Shulgin]] born. He will discover, synthesize, and personally bioassay over 230 psychoactive compounds for their psychedelic and entactogenic potential.
File:Alexander Shulgin 2009.jpg|link=Alexander Shulgin (nonfiction)|1925: Pharmacologist and chemist [[Alexander Shulgin (nonfiction)|Alexander Shulgin]] born. He will discover, synthesize, and personally bioassay over 230 psychoactive compounds for their psychedelic and entactogenic potential.
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File:Bonus marchers.gif|link=Bonus Army (nonfiction)|1932: [[Bonus Army (nonfiction)|Bonus Army]]: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
File:Bonus marchers.gif|link=Bonus Army (nonfiction)|1932: [[Bonus Army (nonfiction)|Bonus Army]]: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.


File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1939: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] uses ultra-low-frequency electrical current to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. His work will later be useful in detecting and removing the [[Watergate scandal]] virus.
||1940: Arthur Harden dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1944: Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.


||1940 – Arthur Harden, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
||1952: Jack Parsons dies ... chemist and engineer. Pic.


||1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
||1957: J. R. Williams dies ... cartoonist. Pic.


||1952 – Jack Parsons, American chemist and engineer (b. 1914)
||1967: The People's Republic of China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.


||1957 – J. R. Williams, Canadian-American cartoonist (b. 1888)
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1972: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.


||1967 – The People's Republic of China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
||1982: Roberto Calvi dies ... banker. Pic.


File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1972: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
||1984: Milbourne Christopher dies ... illusionist, magic historian, and author. Pic.
 
||1985: STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.
 
||1996: Thomas Kuhn dies ... physicist, historian, and philosopher. Kuhn's 1962 book ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'' was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.  Pic.


||Milbourne Christopher (d. 17 June 1984) was a prominent American illusionist, magic historian, and author.
||2001: Donald J. Cram dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=donald+j.+cram&oq=Donald+J.+Cram


||1985 – STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.
||2012: Nathan Divinsky dies ... mathematician and chess player. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Nathan+Divinsky


||2001 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
||2018: Onorato Timothy O'Meara dies ... mathematician known for his work in number theory, linear groups and quadratic forms. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=O.+Timothy+O%27Meara
|O’Meara Alt spelling


||2012 – Nathan Divinsky, Canadian mathematician and chess player (b. 1925)
File:Self portrait (17 June 2022) 20220617 072846.jpg|link=Self portrait (17 June 2022)|2022: '''[[Self portrait (17 June 2022)|Self portrait]]'''.


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Latest revision as of 08:30, 17 June 2024

  • 1714: Astronomer and cartographer César-François Cassini de Thury born. In 1744, he will begin the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates will be known as the Cassini map.

    1714: Astronomer and cartographer César-François Cassini de Thury born. In 1744, he will begin the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates will be known as the Cassini map.

  • 1832: Chemist and physicist William Crookes born. Crookes will be a pioneer of vacuum tube technology, developing the partially evacuated Crookes tube circa 1869-1875.

    1832: Chemist and physicist William Crookes born. Crookes will be a pioneer of vacuum tube technology, developing the partially evacuated Crookes tube circa 1869-1875.

  • 1925: Pharmacologist and chemist Alexander Shulgin born. He will discover, synthesize, and personally bioassay over 230 psychoactive compounds for their psychedelic and entactogenic potential.

    1925: Pharmacologist and chemist Alexander Shulgin born. He will discover, synthesize, and personally bioassay over 230 psychoactive compounds for their psychedelic and entactogenic potential.

  • 1932: Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.

    1932: Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.

  • 1972: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.

    1972: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.

  • 2022: Self portrait.

    2022: Self portrait.

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