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File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1752: Weaver and merchant [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] born. He will invent the [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]], an early type of programmable machine. | File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1752: Weaver and merchant [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] born. He will invent the [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]], an early type of programmable machine. | ||
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||1826: Charles Todd born ... worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1841–1847 and the Cambridge University observatory from 1847 to 1854. He then worked on telegraphy and undersea cables. Pic. | ||1826: Charles Todd born ... worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1841–1847 and the Cambridge University observatory from 1847 to 1854. He then worked on telegraphy and undersea cables. Pic. | ||
||1843: Camillo Golgi born ... physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1843: Camillo Golgi born ... physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1863: The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300. | ||1863: The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300. | ||
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||1865: Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged. | ||1865: Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged. | ||
|| | ||1870: Lilian Vaughan Morgan born ... experimental biologist who made seminal contributions to the genetics of Drosophila melanogaster, which cemented its status as one of the most powerful model systems in biology. Pic. | ||
||1906: William Feller born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1905: Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin born ... mathematician ... an expert on fluid mechanics and abstract algebra. Pic search. | ||
||1906: William Feller born ... mathematician and academic ... probability. Pic search. | |||
||1907: László Tisza born ... physicist and academic ... initiated the two-fluid theory of liquid helium. Pic. | ||1907: László Tisza born ... physicist and academic ... initiated the two-fluid theory of liquid helium. Pic. | ||
||1907: Robert A. Heinlein born ... science fiction writer and screenwriter. | ||1907: Robert A. Heinlein born ... science fiction writer and screenwriter. Pic. | ||
||1912: Robert Alden Cornog born ... physicist and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb and missile systems from the Snark to the Minuteman. Pic. | ||1912: Robert Alden Cornog born ... physicist and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb and missile systems from the Snark to the Minuteman. Pic. | ||
||2013: Chia-Chiao Lin dies ... mathematician and academic ... made contributions to the theory of hydrodynamic stability, turbulent flow, mathematics, and astrophysics. Pic search. | |||
||1918: George Mary Searle dies ... astronomer and Catholic priest. Pic. | ||1918: George Mary Searle dies ... astronomer and Catholic priest. Pic. | ||
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||1927: Magnus Gustaf (Gösta) Mittag-Leffler dies ... mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions, which today is called complex analysis. Pic. | ||1927: Magnus Gustaf (Gösta) Mittag-Leffler dies ... mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions, which today is called complex analysis. Pic. | ||
||1930: Arthur Conan Doyle dies ... writer. | ||1930: Arthur Conan Doyle dies ... writer. Pic. | ||
||1930: Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). | ||1930: Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). Pic. | ||
||1936: Egbert Valentin Brieskorn born ... mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution. Pic. | ||1936: Egbert Valentin Brieskorn born ... mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution. Pic. | ||
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||1937: The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War. | ||1937: The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War. | ||
||1941: The American occupation of Iceland replaces the British occupation. | ||1941: The American occupation of Iceland replaces the British occupation. "Britain persuaded the Althing to approve an American occupation force, and TF 19 anchored off Reykjavík that evening." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Iceland#United_States_occupation Pic, footage (1941). | ||
File:Bernoulli_wappen.png|link=Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|1945: Advances in [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|dynastic cellular automata theory]] reveal new members of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]]. | File:Bernoulli_wappen.png|link=Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|1945: Advances in [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|dynastic cellular automata theory]] reveal new members of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]]. | ||
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File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1946: Aviator [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood. | File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1946: Aviator [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood. | ||
||1959: Ben Linder born ... engineer and activist ... Linder will be killed by Contras. Pic. | |||
||1959: Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere. | ||1959: Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere. | ||
||1975: William Vallance Douglas Hodge dies ... mathematician, specifically a geometer. His discovery of far-reaching topological relations between algebraic geometry and differential geometry—an area now called Hodge theory and pertaining more generally to Kähler manifolds—has been a major influence on subsequent work in geometry. Pic search | ||1975: William Vallance Douglas Hodge dies ... mathematician, specifically a geometer. His discovery of far-reaching topological relations between algebraic geometry and differential geometry—an area now called Hodge theory and pertaining more generally to Kähler manifolds—has been a major influence on subsequent work in geometry. Pic search. | ||
||1997: Raghu Raj Bahadur dies ... statistician considered by peers to be "one of the architects of the modern theory of mathematical statistics". Pic. | ||1997: Raghu Raj Bahadur dies ... statistician considered by peers to be "one of the architects of the modern theory of mathematical statistics". Pic. | ||
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||1982: Raymond Louis Wilder dies ... mathematician, who specialized in topology and gradually acquired philosophical and anthropological interests. Pic. | ||1982: Raymond Louis Wilder dies ... mathematician, who specialized in topology and gradually acquired philosophical and anthropological interests. Pic. | ||
||1983: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle dies ... mathematician specializing in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name. Pic search yes | ||1983: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle dies ... mathematician specializing in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name. Pic search yes. | ||
||1983: Herman Kahn dies ... founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century ... founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation. He became known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability, making him one of three historical inspirations for the title character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove. | ||1983: Herman Kahn dies ... founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century ... founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation. He became known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability, making him one of three historical inspirations for the title character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove. Pic. | ||
||1984: Richard E. Bellman dies ... applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics. Pic. | ||1984: Richard E. Bellman dies ... applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics. Pic. | ||
||1985: John Scarne dies ... magician and author. Pic (cool). | |||
||2003: NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket. | ||2003: NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket. | ||
Latest revision as of 20:23, 6 February 2022
1752: Weaver and merchant Joseph Marie Jacquard born. He will invent the Jacquard loom, an early type of programmable machine.
1945: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.
1946: Aviator Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.