Template:Selected anniversaries/August 1: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| (5 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
||126: Roman Emperor Pertinax born. Pic (possible statue). | |||
||1557: Olaus Magnus dies ... archbishop, historian, and cartographer. | ||1557: Olaus Magnus dies ... archbishop, historian, and cartographer. DOB unknown; use date of Archbishoprich. No pics, none (but see cool associated pics, e.g. Dwarves fighting Cranes). | ||
||1767: Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon finished drawing what some describe as "the world's longest straight line." Actually two straight lines, it forms parts of the boundaries between the U.S. states of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. | ||1767: Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon finished drawing what some describe as "the world's longest straight line." Actually two straight lines, it forms parts of the boundaries between the U.S. states of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. | ||
| Line 12: | Line 13: | ||
||1795: Clas Bjerkander dies ... meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist. | ||1795: Clas Bjerkander dies ... meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist. | ||
File:Maria Mitchell.jpg|link=Maria Mitchell (nonfiction)|1819: Astronomer and academic [[Maria Mitchell (nonfiction)|Maria Mitchell]] born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer. | File:Maria Mitchell.jpg|link=Maria Mitchell (nonfiction)|1819: Astronomer and academic [[Maria Mitchell (nonfiction)|Maria Mitchell]] born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer. | ||
| Line 20: | Line 19: | ||
||1861: Ivar Otto Bendixson born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1861: Ivar Otto Bendixson born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1881: Otto Toeplitz dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1881: Otto Toeplitz dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
| Line 49: | Line 46: | ||
||1961: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization. | ||1961: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization. | ||
||1967: Richard Kuhn dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate. | ||1967: Richard Kuhn dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate. Pic. | ||
||1972: Erwin Madelung dies ... physicist ... specializing in crystal structure, and eventually became a professor. It was during this time he developed the Madelung constant, which characterizes the net electrostatic effects of all ions in a crystal lattice, and is used to determine the energy of one ion. | ||1972: Erwin Madelung dies ... physicist ... specializing in crystal structure, and eventually became a professor. It was during this time he developed the Madelung constant, which characterizes the net electrostatic effects of all ions in a crystal lattice, and is used to determine the energy of one ion. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=erwin+madelung | ||
File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1977: [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] dies when the news helicopter he is piloting crashes into a field near Encino, Los Angeles killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears. | File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1977: [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] dies when the news helicopter he is piloting crashes into a field near Encino, Los Angeles killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears. | ||
||1984: Commercial peat-cutters discovered the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England. | ||1984: Commercial peat-cutters discovered the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England. | ||
||1996: Tadeusz Reichstein dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1996: Tadeusz Reichstein dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2004: Philip Abelson dies ... physicist and author. Pic. | ||2004: Philip Abelson dies ... physicist and author. Pic. | ||
| Line 68: | Line 61: | ||
||2015: Bernard d'Espagnat dies ... theoretical physicist, philosopher of science, and author, best known for his work on the nature of reality. Pic: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16769-concept-of-hypercosmic-god-wins-templeton-prize/ | ||2015: Bernard d'Espagnat dies ... theoretical physicist, philosopher of science, and author, best known for his work on the nature of reality. Pic: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16769-concept-of-hypercosmic-god-wins-templeton-prize/ | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
Latest revision as of 10:58, 7 February 2022
1774: British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
1819: Astronomer and academic Maria Mitchell born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.
1977: Francis Gary Powers dies when the news helicopter he is piloting crashes into a field near Encino, Los Angeles killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears.