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File:Willebrord Snellius.jpg|link=|1626: Astronomer and mathematician [[Willebrord Snellius (nonfiction)|Willebrord Snellius]] dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
||1207: Oldest recorded solar eclipse identified ... mentioned in the Bible. Using a combination of the biblical text and an ancient Egyptian text, researchers were able to refine the dates of the Egyptian pharaohs, in particular the dates of the reign of Ramesses the Great. https://www.dnaindia.com/science/report-oldest-recorded-solar-eclipse-identified-2556386


||1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki>
File:Willebrord Snellius.jpg|link=Willebrord Snellius (nonfiction)|1626: Astronomer and mathematician [[Willebrord Snellius (nonfiction)|Willebrord Snellius]] dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.


||1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French-Swiss physician and neurologist (d. 1904)
||1632: Christopher Wren born ... physicist, mathematician, and architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral. Pic.


||1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".
||1735: Benjamin Franklin published "On the Usefulness of Mathematics," his only published article on mathematics, in the Pennsylvania Gazette.  


||Arthur Scherbius (b. 30 October 1878) was a German electrical engineer who patented an invention for a mechanical cipher machine, later sold as the Enigma machine.
||1831: In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki>


||1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
||1840: Joseph Jean Baptiste Neuberg born ... mathematician who worked primarily in geometry. Pic.


||1895 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
||1844: Georges Henri Halphen born ... mathematician. He was known for his work in geometry, particularly in enumerative geometry and the singularity theory of algebraic curves, in algebraic geometry.  Pic.


||1909 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian-French physicist and academic (d. 1966)
||1857: Georges Gilles de la Tourette born ... physician and neurologist. Pic.


File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
||1864: Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".
 
File:Arthur Scherbius.jpg|link=Arthur Scherbius (nonfiction)|1878: Electrical engineer and inventor [[Arthur Scherbius (nonfiction)|Arthur Scherbius]] born. He will invent and patent the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine.
 
||1888: François Coignet dies ... industrialist of the nineteenth century. He was a pioneer in the development of structural prefabricated and reinforced concrete. Coignet was the first to use iron-reinforced concrete as a technique for constructing building structures. Pic.
 
||1895: Gerhard Domagk born ... pathologist and bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1895: Dickinson W. Richards born ... physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1900: Ragnar Granit born ... neuroscientist and academic ... awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye". Pic (cool tech!).
 
||1903: Leonarde Keeler born ... co-inventor of the polygraph. Pic.
 
||1906: Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov born ... mathematician and geophysicist known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. He was also one of the inventors of the magnetotellurics method in geophysics. Pic.
 
||1907: Harold Davenport born ... mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory. Pic.
 
||1909: Homi J. Bhabha born ... physicist and academic. Pic.
 
||1920: Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin born ... mathematician, an expert in combinatorics. He is best known as the author of many books in recreational mathematics aimed at middle and high school students. Pic: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/944039.N_Ya_Vilenkin
 
||1924: John Piña Craven born ... scientist who was known for his involvement with Bayesian search theory and the recovery of lost objects at sea.  Pic: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/john-p-craven-scientist-who-directed-top-secret-navy-projects-dies-at-90/2015/02/21/50083a20-b935-11e4-a200-c008a01a6692_story.html?utm_term=.78975b0baaa4


File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] creates Britain's first television transmitter.
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] creates Britain's first television transmitter.


||Fabrizio de Miranda (b. October 30, 1926) was an Italian bridges and structural engineer and university professor.
||1926: Fabrizio de Miranda born ... bridges and structural engineer and university professor. Pic.


||1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
||1928: Daniel Nathans born ... microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
||1938: Marina Ratner born ... professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who worked in ergodic theory. She proved a group of major theorems concerning unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces, known as Ratner's theorems. Pic.


||1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
||1938: Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's ''The War of the Worlds'', causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.


||1953 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
||1942: Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.


||1961 – The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; equivalent to 57 megatons of TNT, it remains the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
||1946: William Paul Thurston born ... mathematician. He was a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology. In 1982, he was awarded the Fields Medal for his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds. Pic.


||1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
||1950: Rudolf Goldschmidt dies ... engineer and inventor. In 1908 he developed a rotating radio-frequency machine, the Goldschmidt alternator, which was used as an early radio transmitter.  He also invented a mechanical device, the Goldschmidt tone wheel, used in early radio receivers to receive the new continuous wave radiotelegraph signals. Pic.


||1979 – Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the "bouncing bomb" (b. 1887)
||1953: Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.


||1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
||1961: The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; equivalent to 57 megatons of TNT, it remains the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
 
||1975: Gustav Ludwig Hertz dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1976: Alfred Landé dies ... physicist known for his contributions to quantum theory. He is responsible for the Landé g-factor and an explanation of the Zeeman effect.
 
||1979: Barnes Wallis dies ... scientist and engineer, invented the "bouncing bomb". Pic.
 
||1985: Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
 
||1989: Aristid Lindenmayer dies ... biologist. In 1968 he developed a type of formal languages that is today called L-systems or Lindenmayer Systems. Using those systems Lindenmayer modelled the behaviour of cells of plants. L-systems nowadays are also used to model whole plants. Lindenmayer worked with yeast and filamentous fungi and studied the growth patterns of various types of algae, such as the blue/green bacteria Anabaena catenula. Originally the L-systems were devised to provide a formal description of the development of such simple multicellular organisms, and to illustrate the neighbourhood relationships between plant cells. Later on, this system was extended to describe higher plants and complex branching structures. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Aristid-Lindenmayer
 
||1992: The Vatican announced that a 13-year investigation into the Catholic Church’s condemnation of Galileo in 1633 will come to an end and that Galileo was right: The Copernican Theory, in which the Earth moves around the Sun, is correct and they erred in condemning Galileo. *New York Times for 31 October 1992.
 
||2006: Clifford James Geertz born ... an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered "for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." Pic.


File:Irving Adler age 75.jpg|link=Irving Adler (nonfiction)|2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter [[Irving Adler (nonfiction)|Irving Adler]] publishes evidence that high-level [[crimes against mathematical constants]] have been covered up by the government for decades.
File:Irving Adler age 75.jpg|link=Irving Adler (nonfiction)|2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter [[Irving Adler (nonfiction)|Irving Adler]] publishes evidence that high-level [[crimes against mathematical constants]] have been covered up by the government for decades.
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File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] dies.  His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] dies.  His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.


File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|2017: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration ''Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery'' reveals nearly two terabytes of encrypted data.
||2011: Jonas Kubilius dies ... mathematician who worked in probability theory and number theory.  Pic.
 
||2012: After Hurricane Sandy came ashore in New Jersey on the 29th, the huge weather system was captured with an overlay to emphasize it's Fibonacci-like structure. *HT to Bob Mrotek for sending me this image. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2018/10/on-this-day-in-math-october-30.html


|File:Red Egg.jpg|link=Red Egg|[[Red Egg]] appears in orbit around the Earth.
|File:The_Dosadi_Experiment_front_cover_first_edition.jpg|Red Egg probably not related to ''The Dosadi Experiment'', despite similarities.
|File:Frank Herbert - 1984.jpg|link=Frank Herbert (nonfiction)|[[Frank Herbert (nonfiction)|Frank Herbert]] not worried about [[Red Egg]]:  "It's probably just a coincidence."
|File:Radium_bazin_apéritif_riche.jpg|''Radium Bazin'' poster infused with [[Extract of Radium]], gets new lease on life.
|File:Non-fictino cluster with dual colorings.svg|link=Non-fictino|[[Non-fictino|Non-fictino]] adapted for use in [[phrenocracy]].
|File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|[[The Eel]] receives [[The Eel's henchmen|news from informants]].
|File:Submarine and anti-submarine (1919).jpg|link=The Unruly Submarine|[[The Unruly Submarine]] said to be [[The Eel]]'s favorite book.
|File:Nacre_powder_flask.jpg|link=Nacre (nonfiction)|link=Nacre (nonfiction)|''Turbo marmoratus'' gunpowder flasks distributed by supervillain [[Gnotilus]] in vast numbers, probably played role in [[Parthenon (nonfiction)|Parthenon bombardment]].
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Latest revision as of 14:36, 7 February 2022

  • 1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.

    1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.

  • 1878: Electrical engineer and inventor Arthur Scherbius born. He will invent and patent the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine.

    1878: Electrical engineer and inventor Arthur Scherbius born. He will invent and patent the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine.

  • 1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

    1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

  • 2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter Irving Adler publishes evidence that high-level crimes against mathematical constants have been covered up by the government for decades.

    2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter Irving Adler publishes evidence that high-level crimes against mathematical constants have been covered up by the government for decades.

  • 2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

    2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

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