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||1390: Albert of Saxony dies ... philosopher known for his contributions to logic and physics.  Pic: book plate. No birth date.
File:Christiaan Huygens.jpg|link=Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|1695: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]] dies. He was a leading scientist of his time.
File:Christiaan Huygens.jpg|link=Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|1695: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]] dies. He was a leading scientist of his time.


File:John Winthrop.jpg|link=John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|John Winthrop]] publishes an analysis of [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project]].
||1760: Christian Kramp born ... mathematician and academic ... worked primarily with factorials. Pic: book cover.
 
File:Dominique Jean Larrey.jpg|link=Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|1766: Physician and surgeon [[Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|Dominique Jean Larrey]] born.  He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.
 
||1784: Torbern Bergman dies ... chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published. Bergman was the first chemist to use the A, B, C, etc., system of notation for chemical species. Pic.


||1760 – Christian Kramp, French mathematician and academic (d. 1826)
||1798: André-Jacques Garnerin ascends in a balloon, accompanied by Citoyenne Henri. The event was highly publicized, and controversial: the Central Bureau of Police, concerned about the effect that reduced air pressure might have on the delicate female body, along with the moral implications of flying in such close proximity, at first banned, then allowed, Garnerin's proposed ascent.


File:Dominique Jean Larrey.jpg|link=Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|1766: Physician and surgeon [[Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|Dominique Jean Larrey]] born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.
||1831: John Pemberton born ... chemist and pharmacist, invented Coca-Cola. Pic.
 
||1838: Eli Lilly born ... soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company.


||1784 – Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1735)
||1838: Ferdinand von Zeppelin born ... general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company. Pic.


||Torbern Olaf (Olof) Bergman (KVO) (20 March 1735 – 8 July 1784) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published. Bergman was the first chemist to use the A, B, C, etc., system of notation for chemical species.
||1842: Nikolay Nikolayevich Benardos born ... inventor of Greek origin who in 1881 introduced carbon arc welding, which was the first practical arc welding method. Pic.


||1831 – John Pemberton, American chemist and pharmacist, invented Coca-Cola (d. 1888)
||1876: White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina.


||1838 – Eli Lilly, American soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company (d. 1898)
||1879: Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.


||1838 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company (d. 1917)
||1888: John Ray Sinnock born ... the eighth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1925 to 1947. Roosevelt dime sculptor. Pic.


||1876 – White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina.
||1889: The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.


||1879 – Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
||1894: Pyotr Kapitsa born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
||1895: Johann Josef Loschmidt dies ... chemist and physicist. Pic.


||1894 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
||1895: Igor Tamm born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1895 – Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (b. 1821)
||1897: Epidemiologist and statistician Austin Bradford Hill born. Hill pioneered the randomized clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, demonstrated the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Hill is widely known for pioneering the "Bradford Hill" criteria for determining a causal association. Pic.


||1895 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
||1898: "Soapy" Smith dies in shootout ... con artist and gangster in the Old West. His most famous scam, the prize package soap sell racket, earned him the sobriquet of "Soapy", which remained with him to his death. Although he traveled and operated his confidence swindles all across the western United States, he is most famous for having a major hand in the organized criminal operations of Denver and Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska, from 1879 to 1898. Pic.


||1898 – The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
||1904: Henri Cartan born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1904 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician and academic (d. 2008)
||1905: Leonid Amalrik born ... animator and director.


||1905 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator and director (d. 1997)
||1906: Philip Johnson born ... architect, designed the IDS Center and PPG Place. Pic.


||1906 – Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the IDS Center and PPG Place (d. 2005)
||1915: Kenneth O. May born ... mathematician and historian of mathematics, who developed May's theorem. Pic: https://www.mathunion.org/ichm/about-us/brief-history-international-commission-history-mathematics-ichm


||1918 – Julia Pirie, British spy working for MI5 (d. 2008)
||1918: Julia Pirie born ... British spy working for MI5.


||1934 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer and academic (b. 1848)
||1934: Benjamin Baillaud dies ... astronomer and academic. Baillaud was active in time standardisation, becoming the founding president of the International Time Bureau and initiating the transmission of a time signal from the Eiffel Tower. Baillaud maintained the observatory and the time signal throughout World War I. Pic.


Roswell_Daily_Record_July_9_1947.jpg|link=Roswell UFO incident (nonfiction)|1947: The [[Roswell UFO incident (nonfiction)|Roswell UFO incident]], the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
Roswell_Daily_Record_July_9_1947.jpg|link=Roswell UFO incident (nonfiction)|1947: The [[Roswell UFO incident (nonfiction)|Roswell UFO incident]], the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.


File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|1948: ''Janet Beta at ENIAC'' "raises more questions that it answers," says director of Project Blue Book.
File:Gary Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1960: Pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.


File:Gary Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1960: Pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
||1970: Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
 
||1971: Kurt Reidemeister dies ... mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle.
 
||1979: Shin'ichirō Tomonaga dies ... physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. Pic.


||1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
||1979: Robert Burns Woodward dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1971 – Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (b. 1893)
||2002: Ward Kimball dies ... animator, producer, and screenwriter (Disney). Pic (making art!).


||1979 – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
||2008: Sixto Ríos García dies ... mathematician, known as the father of Spanish statistics. Pic search.


||1979 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
||2010: David Blackwell dies ... statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics. He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. Pic.


||2002 – Ward Kimball, American animator and trombonist (b. 1914)
||2010: Gerhard Paul Hochschild dies ... mathematician who worked on Lie groups, algebraic groups, homological algebra and algebraic number theory. Pic.


||Sixto Ríos García (d. July 8, 2008), was a Spanish mathematician, known as the father of Spanish statistics.
||2011: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.


||2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
||2013: Rubby Sherr dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search.


||2013 – Rubby Sherr, American physicist and academic (b. 1913)
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Latest revision as of 20:24, 6 February 2022

  • 1695: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens dies. He was a leading scientist of his time.

    1695: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens dies. He was a leading scientist of his time.

  • 1766: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.

    1766: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.

  • 1947: The Roswell UFO incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.

    1947: The Roswell UFO incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.

  • 1960: Pilot Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.

    1960: Pilot Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.

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