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||762: Baghdad is founded. | ||762: Baghdad is founded. | ||
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||1676: Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Bacon_(Virginia_colonist_and_rebel) | ||1676: Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Bacon_(Virginia_colonist_and_rebel) | ||
||1828: François Isaac de Rivaz dies ... inventor and a politician. He invented a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine with electric ignition and described it in a French patent published in 1807. In 1808 he fitted it into a primitive working vehicle – "the world's first internal combustion powered automobile". | ||1828: François Isaac de Rivaz dies ... inventor and a politician. He invented a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine with electric ignition and described it in a French patent published in 1807. In 1808 he fitted it into a primitive working vehicle – "the world's first internal combustion powered automobile". Pic. | ||
File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1832: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] dies. | File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1832: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] dies. | ||
||1849: Jacob Perkins dies ... inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith. He soon made himself known with a variety of useful mechanical inventions and eventually had twenty-one American and nineteen English patents. He is known as the father of the refrigerator. Pic. | ||1849: Jacob Perkins dies ... inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith. He soon made himself known with a variety of useful mechanical inventions and eventually had twenty-one American and nineteen English patents. He is known as the father of the refrigerator. Pic. | ||
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||1932: Premiere of Walt Disney's ''Flowers and Trees'', the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short. | ||1932: Premiere of Walt Disney's ''Flowers and Trees'', the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short. | ||
||1945: World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors. | ||1945: World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS ''Indianapolis'', killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors. It was the greatest single loss of life at sea, from a single ship, in the history of the US Navy. | ||
||1948: John Briscoe, South African-American epidemiologist, engineer, and academic ... Stockholm Water Prize. Pic | ||1948: John Briscoe, South African-American epidemiologist, engineer, and academic ... Stockholm Water Prize. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Briscoe+engineer | ||
||1971: Aral smallpox incident: outbreak of the viral disease which occurred as a result of a field test at a Soviet biological weapons (BW) facility on an island in the Aral Sea. The incident sickened ten people, of whom 3 died, and came to widespread public notice only in 2002. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_smallpox_incident No pics online. | ||1971: Aral smallpox incident: outbreak of the viral disease which occurred as a result of a field test at a Soviet biological weapons (BW) facility on an island in the Aral Sea. The incident sickened ten people, of whom 3 died, and came to widespread public notice only in 2002. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_smallpox_incident No pics online. | ||
||1971: Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission: David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover. | ||1971: Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission: David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover. | ||
||1972: Engineer Maximilian Joseph Johannes Eduard Schuler dies ... best known for discovering the principle known as Schuler tuning which is fundamental to the operation of a gyrocompass or inertial guidance system that will be operated near the surface of the earth. No pic (use gyrocompass). | ||1972: Engineer Maximilian Joseph Johannes Eduard Schuler dies ... best known for discovering the principle known as Schuler tuning which is fundamental to the operation of a gyrocompass or inertial guidance system that will be operated near the surface of the earth. No pic (use gyrocompass). | ||
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File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States. | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States. | ||
||1975: Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again. | ||1975: Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again. Pic. | ||
||1978: Robert Edward "Rufus" Bowen dies. He specialized in dynamical systems theory. Bowen's work dealt primarily with axiom A systems, but the methods he used while exploring topological entropy, symbolic dynamics, ergodic theory, Markov partitions, and invariant measures "have application far beyond the axiom A systems for which they were invented." Pic. | ||1978: Robert Edward "Rufus" Bowen dies. He specialized in dynamical systems theory. Bowen's work dealt primarily with axiom A systems, but the methods he used while exploring topological entropy, symbolic dynamics, ergodic theory, Markov partitions, and invariant measures "have application far beyond the axiom A systems for which they were invented." Pic. | ||
||1978: Umberto Nobile dies ... aviator, aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer. Nobile was a developer and promoter of semi-rigid airships during the period between the two World Wars. He is primarily remembered for designing and piloting the airship Norge, which may have been the first aircraft to reach the North Pole, and which was indisputably the first to fly across the polar ice cap from Europe to America. Pic. | |||
||1979: Lew Kowarski dies ... physicist. He was a lesser known but important contributor to nuclear science. Pic. | |||
||1985: Julia Robinson dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||1985: Julia Robinson dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||
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||2001: Anton Schwarzkopf dies ... engineer ... Amusement rides. Pic not Wikipedia. | ||2001: Anton Schwarzkopf dies ... engineer ... Amusement rides. Pic not Wikipedia. | ||
||2002: Body discovered: Joseph Newton Chandler III is the alias of an unidentified man who committed suicide in Eastlake, Ohio in July 2002. After his death, investigators were unable to locate his family and discovered that he had stolen the identity of an eight-year-old boy who was killed in a car crash in Texas in 1945. | ||2002: Body discovered: Joseph Newton Chandler III is the alias of an unidentified man who committed suicide in Eastlake, Ohio in July 2002. After his death, investigators were unable to locate his family and discovered that he had stolen the identity of an eight-year-old boy who was killed in a car crash in Texas in 1945. Pic. | ||
||2004: Adolph Winkler Goodman dies ... mathematician who contributed to number theory, graph theory and to the theory of univalent functions: The conjecture on the coefficients of multivalent functions named after him is considered the most interesting challenge in the area after the Bieberbach conjecture. Pic uploaded. | ||2004: Adolph Winkler Goodman dies ... mathematician who contributed to number theory, graph theory and to the theory of univalent functions: The conjecture on the coefficients of multivalent functions named after him is considered the most interesting challenge in the area after the Bieberbach conjecture. Pic uploaded. | ||
||2007: Abram Fet dies ... mathematician, philosopher, translator. | ||2007: Abram Fet dies ... mathematician, philosopher, translator. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Abram+Fet | ||
||2010: Qian Weichang dies ... physicist and applied mathematician. He was generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers and founders of modern mechanics undertakings in China. His major research activities include; the intrinsic theory of plates and shells, the analysis of large deflection of thin plates and shells, the analysis of corrugated pipes, mechanics of armour penetration, singular perturbation methods, variational principles and generalized variational principles, finite element methods as well as the measurements of atmospheric electricity, spectral analysis of rare-earth elements, wave guide theory, lubrication theory, the development of high-energy batteries, his macro-coding of Chinese characters, etc. The joint work with J. L. Synge on the intrinsic theory of plates and shells is considered as a pioneering classical work in solid mechanics and his successive approximation method of treating large deflection problem is now named as "Chien's method". Pic. | |||
||2016: András Hajnal born ... professor of mathematics ... work in set theory and combinatorics. The Hajnal–Szemerédi theorem on equitable coloring, proving a 1964 conjecture of Erdős: let Δ denote the maximum degree of a vertex in a finite graph G. Then G can be colored with Δ + 1 colors in such a way that the sizes of the color classes differ by at most one. Pic: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/archive/DIMACS_highlights/hajnal/hajnal.html | ||2016: András Hajnal born ... professor of mathematics ... work in set theory and combinatorics. The Hajnal–Szemerédi theorem on equitable coloring, proving a 1964 conjecture of Erdős: let Δ denote the maximum degree of a vertex in a finite graph G. Then G can be colored with Δ + 1 colors in such a way that the sizes of the color classes differ by at most one. Pic: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/archive/DIMACS_highlights/hajnal/hajnal.html | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:37, 7 February 2022
1832: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal dies.
1864: American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1974: Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.