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||1707: The Scilly naval disaster of 1707 was the loss of four warships of a Royal Navy fleet off the Isles of Scilly in severe weather on 22 October 1707. 1550 sailors lost their lives aboard the wrecked vessels, making the incident one of the worst maritime disasters in British naval history. The disaster has been attributed to the navigators' inability to accurately calculate their positions, to errors in the available charts and pilot books, to inadequate compasses, or to a combination of these factors. | ||1707: The Scilly naval disaster of 1707 was the loss of four warships of a Royal Navy fleet off the Isles of Scilly in severe weather on 22 October 1707. 1550 sailors lost their lives aboard the wrecked vessels, making the incident one of the worst maritime disasters in British naval history. The disaster has been attributed to the navigators' inability to accurately calculate their positions, to errors in the available charts and pilot books, to inadequate compasses, or to a combination of these factors. | ||
||1792: Guillaume Le Gentil dies . | File:Nebula orionis as depicted by Guillaume Le Gentil in 1758.jpg|link=Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|1792: Astronomer [[Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|Guillaume Le Gentil]] dies. He discovered what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus). | ||
||1797: André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris. | ||1797: André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris. Pic. | ||
||1811: Alexander Bain born ... clockmaker, engineerm and inventor who was first to invent and patent the electric clock. Pic. | |||
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1879: Using a filament of carbonized thread, [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out). | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1879: Using a filament of carbonized thread, [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out). | ||
||1881: Clinton Davisson born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | ||1881: Clinton Davisson born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson-Germer experiment. Pic. | ||
||1881: Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz born ... geophysicist and seismologist. Pic. | ||1881: Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz born ... geophysicist and seismologist. Pic. | ||
||1882: Edmund Dulac born ... illustrator | ||1882: Edmund Dulac born ... illustrator. | ||
||1882: N. C. Wyeth born ... painter and illustrator | ||1882: N. C. Wyeth born ... painter and illustrator. | ||
||1884: The Royal Observatory in Britain is adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference. | ||1884: The Royal Observatory in Britain is adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference. | ||
||1893: Ernst Öpik born ... astronomer and astrophysicist | ||1893: Ernst Öpik born ... astronomer and astrophysicist. Pic. | ||
||1893: | File:Laurance Safford.jpg|link=Laurance Safford (nonfiction)|1893: Cryptologist [[Laurance Safford (nonfiction)|Laurance Safford]] born. Safford will establish the Naval cryptologic organization after World War I, and head the effort more or less constantly until shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. | ||
||1895: Rolf Herman Nevanlinna born ... mathematician who made significant contributions to complex analysis. Pic. | ||1895: Rolf Herman Nevanlinna born ... mathematician who made significant contributions to complex analysis. Pic. | ||
||1896: Charles Glen King born ... biochemist and academic. | ||1896: Charles Glen King born ... biochemist and academic ... vitamin C. Pic. | ||
||1902: Frank Spedding born ... chemist. He was a renowned expert on rare earth elements, and on extraction of metals from minerals. The uranium extraction process helped make it possible for the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bombs. | |||
||1903: George Wells Beadle born ... scientist in the field of genetics, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate who with Edward Tatum discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells in 1958. Pic. | ||1903: George Wells Beadle born ... scientist in the field of genetics, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate who with Edward Tatum discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells in 1958. Pic. | ||
File: | File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1905: Physicist and engineer [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]] born. He will be one of the founding figures of radio astronomy. | ||
||1907: Sarvadaman D. S. Chowla born ... mathematician, specializing in number theory. Among his contributions are a number of results which bear his name: the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem, the Ankeny–Artin–Chowla congruence, the Chowla–Mordell theorem, and the Chowla–Selberg formula, and the Mian–Chowla sequence. Pic: http://www3.canisius.edu/~huard/chowla.html | |||
||1914: Jacques Feldbau born ... mathematician ... died on 22 April 1945 at the Ganacker Camp, annex of the concentration camp of Flossenbürg in Germany. He worked on differential geometry and topology ... one of the founders of the theory of fiber bundles. He is the one who first proved that a fiber bundle over a simplex is trivializable and who used this to classify bundles over spheres. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Feldbau.html | ||1914: Jacques Feldbau born ... mathematician ... died on 22 April 1945 at the Ganacker Camp, annex of the concentration camp of Flossenbürg in Germany. He worked on differential geometry and topology ... one of the founders of the theory of fiber bundles. He is the one who first proved that a fiber bundle over a simplex is trivializable and who used this to classify bundles over spheres. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Feldbau.html | ||
|| | ||1916: Nathan Jacob Fine born ... mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series. He solved the Jeep problem in 1946. Pic: http://www.ams.org/notices/199506/fine.pdf | ||
||1922: Marvin Leonard | ||1916: Microbiologist and academic Roger Stanier born. Stanier will be influential in the development of modern microbiology, making important contributions to the taxonomy of bacteria, including the classification of blue-green algae as cyanobacteria. Pic. | ||
||1920: Timothy Leary born ... psychologist and writer known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Pic. | |||
||1921: Alexander Kronrod born ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic. | |||
||1922: Marvin Leonard Goldberger born ... theoretical physicist. Pic. | |||
File:Marc_Julia.jpg|link=Marc Julia (nonfiction)|1922: Chemist [[Marc Julia (nonfiction)|Marc Julia]] born. Julia (along with his colleague Jean-Marc Paris) will discover the Julia olefination reaction in 1973. | |||
File:Nikola Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1927: Physicist, engineer, and inventor [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power. | File:Nikola Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1927: Physicist, engineer, and inventor [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power. | ||
||1938: In the back of a beauty shop in the Astoria section of Queens New York, Chester A. Carlson and his assistant Otto Kornei, conducted the first successful experiment in electrophotography. The message, “10.-22.-38 ASTORIA,” was even less inspiring than Alexander Graham Bell’s first phone conversation, but the effect was just as great. In 1949 Haloid Corporation marketed the Xerox Model A, a crude machine that required fourteen manual operations. Today five million copiers churn out 2,000 copies each year for every American citizen. | |||
||1962: Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation. | ||1962: Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation. | ||
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||1975: The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus. | ||1975: The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus. | ||
||1979: Reinhold Baer dies ... mathematician, known for his work in algebra. He introduced injective modules in 1940. He is the eponym of Baer rings and Baer groups. | ||1979: Reinhold Baer dies ... mathematician, known for his work in algebra. He introduced injective modules in 1940. He is the eponym of Baer rings and Baer groups. Pic. | ||
||1986: Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt dies ... biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering many of the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle and the molecular basis of muscle contraction. | |||
||2002: Irene Fischer dies ... geodesist and mathematician. Pic search. | |||
||2002: Richard Helms dies ... American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence. | ||2002: Richard Helms dies ... American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence. | ||
||2008: India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1. | |||
|| | ||2015: Murphy Anderson dies ... illustrator ... DC Comics. | ||
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1659: Chemist and physician Georg Ernst Stahl born. His works on phlogiston will be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.
1792: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil dies. He discovered what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).
1879: Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
1893: Cryptologist Laurance Safford born. Safford will establish the Naval cryptologic organization after World War I, and head the effort more or less constantly until shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
1905: Physicist and engineer Karl Guthe Jansky born. He will be one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
1922: Chemist Marc Julia born. Julia (along with his colleague Jean-Marc Paris) will discover the Julia olefination reaction in 1973.
1927: Physicist, engineer, and inventor Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power.