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||1719: Joachim Tielke dies ... instrument maker. Pic search instruments: https://www.google.com/search?q=joachim+tielke | ||1719: Joachim Tielke dies ... instrument maker. Pic search instruments: https://www.google.com/search?q=joachim+tielke | ||
||1721: Jean-Philippe Baratier dies ... astronomer and scholar. A noted child prodigy of the 18th century, he published eleven works and authored a great quantity of unpublished manuscripts. Pic (attended by Athena!). | |||
||1747: Johann Elert Bode born ... astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic. | ||1747: Johann Elert Bode born ... astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic. | ||
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||1813: Henry Bessemer born ... engineer and businessman ... his steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years. Pic. | ||1813: Henry Bessemer born ... engineer and businessman ... his steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years. Pic. | ||
File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1833: Mathematician and academic [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] born. | File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1833: Mathematician and academic [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] born. Clebsch will make important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. | ||
||1835: Auguste Kerckhoffs born ... linguist and cryptographer who was professor of languages at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Paris in the late 19th century. Pic. | ||1835: Auguste Kerckhoffs born ... linguist and cryptographer who was professor of languages at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Paris in the late 19th century. Pic. | ||
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||1839: The British East India Company captures Aden. | ||1839: The British East India Company captures Aden. | ||
||1851: Jacobus Kapteyn born . | File:Jacobus Kapteyn.jpg|link=Jacobus Kapteyn (nonfiction)|1851: Astronomer and academic [[Jacobus Kapteyn (nonfiction)|Jacobus Kapteyn]] born. Kapteyn will conduct extensive studies of the Milky Way using photography and statistical methods to determine the motions and distribution of stars, discovering evidence for galactic rotation. | ||
||1869: Carl Reichenbach dies ... chemist and philosopher. | ||1869: Carl Reichenbach dies ... chemist and philosopher. Pic. | ||
File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1878: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] dies. He was an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s. | File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1878: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] dies. He was an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s. | ||
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File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1883: The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]], begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1883: The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]], begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. | ||
||1908: Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Aleksandr+Gennadievich+Kurosh | |||
||1908: Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh born ... mathematician and theorist. | |||
||1911: Garrett Birkhoff born ... mathematician. He is best known for his work in lattice theory. The mathematician George Birkhoff (1884–1944) was his father. Pic. | ||1911: Garrett Birkhoff born ... mathematician. He is best known for his work in lattice theory. The mathematician George Birkhoff (1884–1944) was his father. Pic. | ||
||1912: Leonid Kantorovich born ... mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1912: Leonid Kantorovich born ... mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1915: Georges Claude patents the [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|neon discharge tube]] for use in advertising. | File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1915: Georges Claude patents the [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|neon discharge tube]] for use in advertising. | ||
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||1915: World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target. | ||1915: World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target. | ||
||1917: Graham Higman | File:Graham Higman.jpg|link=Graham Higman (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician [[Graham Higman (nonfiction)|Graham Higman]] born. In mathematics, Higman will contribute to group theory. During the Second World War hill be a conscientious objector, working at the Meteorological Office in Northern Ireland and Gibraltar. | ||
||1917: Seventy-three people are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London. | ||1917: Seventy-three people are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London. | ||
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||1920: The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations. | ||1920: The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations. | ||
||1923: Markus Wolf born ... German intelligence officer ... head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung), the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, abbreviated MfS, commonly known as the Stasi). He was the Stasi's number two for 34 years, which spanned most of the Cold War. He is often regarded as one of the most well known spymasters during the Cold War. In the west he was known as "the man without a face" due to his elusiveness. Pic. | |||
||1925: John David Jackson born ...physics professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A theoretical physicist, he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is well known for numerous publications and summer-school lectures in nuclear and particle physics, as well as his widely-used graduate text on classical electrodynamics. The book is notorious for the difficulty of its problems, and its tendency to treat non-obvious conclusions as self-evident. Pic. | ||1925: John David Jackson born ...physics professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A theoretical physicist, he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is well known for numerous publications and summer-school lectures in nuclear and particle physics, as well as his widely-used graduate text on classical electrodynamics. The book is notorious for the difficulty of its problems, and its tendency to treat non-obvious conclusions as self-evident. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1925: Chemist Norman Greenwood born. Greenwood will co-author the innovative textbook ''Chemistry of the Elements'', make contributions to the chemistry of boron hydrides and other main-group element compounds, and pioneer the application of Mössbauer spectroscopy to problems in chemistry. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1930: Frank P. Ramsey dies ... mathematician, philosopher and economist. Pic. | ||
||1937: John Lions born ... computer scientist and academic. | File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1937: [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds. | ||
||1937: John Lions born ... computer scientist and academic. He is best known as the author of Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code, commonly known as the Lions Book. Pic. | |||
||1940: ''You Nazty Spy!'', the very first Hollywood film of any kind to satirize Adolf Hitler and the Nazis premieres, starring The Three Stooges, with Moe Howard as the character "Moe Hailstone" satirizing Hitler. | ||1940: ''You Nazty Spy!'', the very first Hollywood film of any kind to satirize Adolf Hitler and the Nazis premieres, starring The Three Stooges, with Moe Howard as the character "Moe Hailstone" satirizing Hitler. | ||
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||1954: Theodor Kaluza dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=theodor+kaluza | ||1954: Theodor Kaluza dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=theodor+kaluza | ||
File:The Man From K.E.S.S.E.L.jpg|link=The Man From K.E.S.S.E.L.|1966: Debut of '''''[[The Man From K.E.S.S.E.L.]]''''', an American science fiction buddy television series about a pair of space pilots (Robert Vaughn and David McCallum) who work for K.E.S.S.E.L., a secret interplanetary smuggling ring. | |||
||1976: Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic dies ... he wrote articles that introduced a new antenna designed by his colleague Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world. Pic. | ||1976: Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic dies ... he wrote articles that introduced a new antenna designed by his colleague Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world. Pic. | ||
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||1977: President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"). | ||1977: President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"). | ||
||1981: Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity. | |||
|| | ||1985: Svein Rosseland dies ... astrophysicist and a pioneer in the field of theoretical astrophysics. Pic. | ||
||1986: The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written. | ||1986: The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written. | ||
||1991: Marcel Chaput dies ... biochemist and | ||1991: Marcel Chaput dies ... biochemist, journalist, and a militant for the independence of Quebec from Canada. Along with some 20 other people including André D'Allemagne and Jacques Bellemare, he was a founding member of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (RIN). Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=marcel+chaput | ||
||1995: Daryl Muscott Chapin dies ... physicist, best known for co-inventing solar cells in 1954 during his work at Bell Labs alongside Calvin S. Fuller and Gerald Pearson. Pic. | ||1995: Daryl Muscott Chapin dies ... physicist, best known for co-inventing solar cells in 1954 during his work at Bell Labs alongside Calvin S. Fuller and Gerald Pearson. Pic. | ||
||1998: Abraham | ||1998: Abraham Sinkov dies ... cryptanalyst. Pic. | ||
||1999: British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999. | ||1999: British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999. | ||
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||2004: John Maynard Smith dies ... theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory. Pic. | ||2004: John Maynard Smith dies ... theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory. Pic. | ||
||2012: The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI. | ||2012: The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI. | ||
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||2015: Karl H. Pribram dies ... professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and distinguished professor at Radford University. Board-certified as a neurosurgeon, Pribram did pioneering work on the definition of the limbic system, the relationship of the frontal cortex to the limbic system, the sensory-specific "association" cortex of the parietal and temporal lobes, and the classical motor cortex of the human brain. He worked with Karl Lashley at the Yerkes Primate Center of which he was to become director later. He was professor at Yale University for ten years and at Stanford University for thirty years. To the general public, Pribram is best known for his development of the holonomic brain model of cognitive function and his contribution to ongoing neurological research into memory, emotion, motivation and consciousness. Pic. | ||2015: Karl H. Pribram dies ... professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and distinguished professor at Radford University. Board-certified as a neurosurgeon, Pribram did pioneering work on the definition of the limbic system, the relationship of the frontal cortex to the limbic system, the sensory-specific "association" cortex of the parietal and temporal lobes, and the classical motor cortex of the human brain. He worked with Karl Lashley at the Yerkes Primate Center of which he was to become director later. He was professor at Yale University for ten years and at Stanford University for thirty years. To the general public, Pribram is best known for his development of the holonomic brain model of cognitive function and his contribution to ongoing neurological research into memory, emotion, motivation and consciousness. Pic. | ||
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1755: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin dies. He invented the Celsius thermometer.
1833: Mathematician and academic Alfred Clebsch born. Clebsch will make important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory.
1851: Astronomer and academic Jacobus Kapteyn born. Kapteyn will conduct extensive studies of the Milky Way using photography and statistical methods to determine the motions and distribution of stars, discovering evidence for galactic rotation.
1878: Chemist and physicist Henri Victor Regnault dies. He was an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.
1883: The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
1915: Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
1917: Mathematician Graham Higman born. In mathematics, Higman will contribute to group theory. During the Second World War hill be a conscientious objector, working at the Meteorological Office in Northern Ireland and Gibraltar.
1937: Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
1966: Debut of The Man From K.E.S.S.E.L., an American science fiction buddy television series about a pair of space pilots (Robert Vaughn and David McCallum) who work for K.E.S.S.E.L., a secret interplanetary smuggling ring.
2015: Engineer and inventor Justin Capră dies. He designed fuel-efficient cars, unconventional engines, aircraft, and jet backpacks.