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||1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
File:Termómetro_Christin_1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer '''[[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]]''' born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer.


||1683 – Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer, invented the Celsius thermometer (d. 1755)
File:Samuel Bentham.jpg|link=Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|1831: Engineer and naval architect '''[[Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|Samuel Bentham]]''' dies. He designed the first Panopticon.


File:Samuel Bentham.jpg|link=Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|1831: engineer and naval architect [[Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|Samuel Bentham]] dies. He designed the first Panopticon.
File:Evariste Galois.jpg|link=Évariste Galois (nonfiction)|1832: Mathematician and social activist '''[[Évariste Galois (nonfiction)|Évariste Galois]]''' from wounds suffered in a duel. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections.  


||1832 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1811)
File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1912: Physicist '''[[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]]''' born.  She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved.


File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1835: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Ely sunset (31 May 2023) 20230531-212555.jpg|link=Ely sunset (31 May 2023)|2023: '''[[Ely sunset (31 May 2023)]]'''.  
 
||1852 – Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist, invented the Petri dish (d. 1921)
 
||1859 – The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
 
||1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
 
||1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
 
||1911 – Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
 
File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1912: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] born.  She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.
 
||1918 – Lloyd Quarterman, African American chemist (d. 1982)
 
||1921 – Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll was given as 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
 
||1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
 
||1932 – Jay Miner, American computer scientist and engineer (d. 1994)
 
||1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
 
||1976 – Jacques Monod, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
 
||1986 – James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
 
||2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was "Deep Throat".
 
||2006 – Raymond Davis, Jr., American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
 
||2013 – The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
 
||2013 – Gerald E. Brown, American physicist and academic (b. 1926)
 
||2013 – Tim Samaras, American engineer and storm chaser (b. 1957)


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Latest revision as of 08:55, 31 May 2024

  • 1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer.

    1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer.

  • 1831: Engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.

    1831: Engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.

  • 1832: Mathematician and social activist Évariste Galois from wounds suffered in a duel. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections.

    1832: Mathematician and social activist Évariste Galois from wounds suffered in a duel. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections.

  • 1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved.

    1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved.

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