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File:Jost Bürgi.jpg|link=Jost Bürgi (nonfiction)|1632: Clockmaker and mathematician [[Jost Bürgi (nonfiction)|Jost Bürgi]] dies. He was recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation. | File:Jost Bürgi.jpg|link=Jost Bürgi (nonfiction)|1632: Clockmaker and mathematician [[Jost Bürgi (nonfiction)|Jost Bürgi]] dies. He was recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation. | ||
||1715: The 1715 Treasure Fleet was a Spanish treasure fleet returning from the New World to Spain. At two in the morning on Wednesday, July 31, 1715, seven days after departing from Havana, Cuba, under the command of Juan Esteban de Ubilla, eleven of the twelve ships of this fleet were lost in a hurricane near present-day Vero Beach, Florida. Because the fleet was carrying silver, it is also known as the 1715 Plate Fleet (plata being the Spanish word for silver). Around 1,500 (confirmed by Cuban records) sailors perished while a small number survived on lifeboats. | |||
||1729: Jacob Roggeveen dies ... explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis, but instead came across Easter Island (called Easter Island because he landed there on Easter Day). Jacob Roggeveen also encountered Bora Bora and Maupiti of the Society Islands and Samoa. Pic search | ||1729: Jacob Roggeveen dies ... explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis, but instead came across Easter Island (called Easter Island because he landed there on Easter Day). Jacob Roggeveen also encountered Bora Bora and Maupiti of the Society Islands and Samoa. Pic search. | ||
||1763: Astronomer and churchman John Mortimer Brinkley baptized. He will contribute to stellar astronomy, publishing his ''Elements of Plane Astronomy'' in 1808. Pic search | ||1763: Astronomer and churchman John Mortimer Brinkley baptized. He will contribute to stellar astronomy, publishing his ''Elements of Plane Astronomy'' in 1808. Pic search. | ||
||1769: André-Jacques Garnerin born ... balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute. Pic. | ||1769: André-Jacques Garnerin born ... balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute. Pic. | ||
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||1868: Theodore William Richards born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic (cool tech). | ||1868: Theodore William Richards born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic (cool tech). | ||
||1881: Irving Langmuir born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1881: Irving Langmuir born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1886: Mathematician and academic George Neville Watson born. He will apply complex analysis to the theory of special functions. In 1918 he proved a significant result known as Watson's lemma, that has many applications in the theory on the asymptotic behaviour of exponential integrals. Pic search | ||1886: Mathematician and academic George Neville Watson born. He will apply complex analysis to the theory of special functions. In 1918 he proved a significant result known as Watson's lemma, that has many applications in the theory on the asymptotic behaviour of exponential integrals. Pic search. | ||
||1896: Sofya Yanovskaya born ... mathematician and historian. Pic. | ||1896: Sofya Yanovskaya born ... mathematician and historian. Pic. | ||
||1898: John "Jack" Roland Redman born ... admiral in the United States Navy. A naval communications officer, he played key roles in signals intelligence during World War II in Washington, D.C., and on the staff of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Pic search | ||1898: John "Jack" Roland Redman born ... admiral in the United States Navy. A naval communications officer, he played key roles in signals intelligence during World War II in Washington, D.C., and on the staff of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Pic search. | ||
||1903: Mathematician and academic Norman Macleod Ferrers dies. In 1871 he first suggested to extend the equations of motion with nonholonomic constraints. | ||1903: Mathematician and academic Norman Macleod Ferrers dies. In 1871 he first suggested to extend the equations of motion with nonholonomic constraints. His another treatise on "Spherical Harmonics," published in 1877, presented many original features. In 1881 he studied Kelvin's investigation of the law of distribution of electricity in equilibrium on an uninfluenced spherical bowl and made the addition of finding the potential at any point of space in zonal harmonics. Pic. | ||
||1911: Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop born ... physicist and humanitarian. Pic. | ||1911: Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop born ... physicist and humanitarian. Pic. | ||
||1914: Mathematician Lev Kaluznin born. He contributed to group theory and abstract groups, notably the Sylow p-subgroups of symmetric groups; he also worked on mathematical linguistics and computer algebra. Pic search | ||1914: Mathematician Lev Kaluznin born. He contributed to group theory and abstract groups, notably the Sylow p-subgroups of symmetric groups; he also worked on mathematical linguistics and computer algebra. Pic search. | ||
||1915: World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia. | ||1915: World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia. | ||
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||1924:Julius Richard Büchi born ... logician and mathematician. He invented what is now known as the Büchi automaton, a finite state automaton accepting certain collections of infinite words known as omega-regular languages. No DOB (1984). Pic. | ||1924:Julius Richard Büchi born ... logician and mathematician. He invented what is now known as the Büchi automaton, a finite state automaton accepting certain collections of infinite words known as omega-regular languages. No DOB (1984). Pic. | ||
||1928: Irma M. Wyman born ... early computer engineer and the first woman to become vice president of Honeywell, Inc. She was a systems thinking tutor and was the first female CIO of Honeywell. Pic search | ||1928: Irma M. Wyman born ... early computer engineer and the first woman to become vice president of Honeywell, Inc. She was a systems thinking tutor and was the first female CIO of Honeywell. Pic search. | ||
||1929: Rudolf Mössbauer born . | File:Rudolf Mössbauer.jpg|link=Rudolf Mössbauer (nonfiction)|1929: Physicist and academic Rudolf Mössbauer born. He will be awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1957) of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence (now known as the Mössbauer effect), the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy. | ||
||1932: Physicist Charles S. Hastings born. known for his work in optics. Pic search. | |||
||1934: Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville dies ... mathematician and astronomer. He compiled a bibliography on non-Euclidean geometry and also wrote a leading textbook in that field. He also wrote Introduction to the Geometry of N Dimensions, advancing the study of polytopes. Pic. | ||1934: Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville dies ... mathematician and astronomer. He compiled a bibliography on non-Euclidean geometry and also wrote a leading textbook in that field. He also wrote Introduction to the Geometry of N Dimensions, advancing the study of polytopes. Pic. | ||
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||1954: Edwin Howard Armstrong dies ... electrical engineer and inventor, best known for developing FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. Pic. | ||1954: Edwin Howard Armstrong dies ... electrical engineer and inventor, best known for developing FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. Pic. | ||
File:The Man Who Knew to Mulch.jpg|link=The Man Who Knew to Mulch|1956: Premiere of '''''[[The Man Who Knew to Mulch]]''''', an American suspense agriculture film about an American family vacationing in French Morocco who become involved in a complex plan to improve agricultural yields using imported machinery and cheap local labor. | |||
||1958: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt. 1958 Explorer 1 was launched on January 31, 1958 at 22:48 Eastern Time (equal to February 1, 03:48 UTC because the time change goes past midnight). It was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, returning data until its batteries were exhausted after nearly four months. It remained in orbit until 1970, and has been followed by more than 90 scientific spacecraft in the Explorer series. *Wik | ||1958: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt. 1958 Explorer 1 was launched on January 31, 1958 at 22:48 Eastern Time (equal to February 1, 03:48 UTC because the time change goes past midnight). It was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, returning data until its batteries were exhausted after nearly four months. It remained in orbit until 1970, and has been followed by more than 90 scientific spacecraft in the Explorer series. *Wik | ||
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||1961: Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space. | ||1961: Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space. | ||
||1966: Astronomer Dirk Brouwer dies. He specialized in celestial mechanics and together with Gerald Clemence wrote the textbook Methods of Celestial Mechanics. Pic search | ||1966: Astronomer Dirk Brouwer dies. He specialized in celestial mechanics and together with Gerald Clemence wrote the textbook Methods of Celestial Mechanics. Pic search. | ||
||1966: The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program. | ||1966: The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program. | ||
||1968: Theoretical physicist and academic Earle Hesse Kennard dies. Much of his research for the Navy focused on hydrodynamics and elasticity, in particular on the theory of potential flow, the physics of underwater explosions and structural vibrations. Pic search: | ||1968: Theoretical physicist and academic Earle Hesse Kennard dies. Much of his research for the Navy focused on hydrodynamics and elasticity, in particular on the theory of potential flow, the physics of underwater explosions and structural vibrations. Pic search. | ||
||1970: Mikhail Mil dies ... engineer, founded the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant. Pic (stamp). | |||
||1971: Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon. | ||1971: Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon. | ||
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||1980: Emanuel Sperner dies ... mathematician. He proposed Sperner's theorem, which says that the size of an antichain in the power set of an n-set (a Sperner family) is at most the middle binomial coefficient(s). Pic. | ||1980: Emanuel Sperner dies ... mathematician. He proposed Sperner's theorem, which says that the size of an antichain in the power set of an n-set (a Sperner family) is at most the middle binomial coefficient(s). Pic. | ||
||1995: George Stibitz dies ... Bell Labs researcher internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern first digital computer. He was known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element. Pic. | ||1995: George Stibitz dies ... Bell Labs researcher internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern first digital computer. He was known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element. Pic. | ||
File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|2001: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] dies. | File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|2001: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] dies. Kane pioneered graphic novels with his books ''His Name is...Savage'' (1968) and ''Blackmark'' (1971). | ||
||2004: Edwin Albert Power dies ... physicist and an emeritus professor of applied mathematics. He made several contributions to the field of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics (NRQED). Pic. | ||2004: Edwin Albert Power dies ... physicist and an emeritus professor of applied mathematics. He made several contributions to the field of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics (NRQED). Pic. | ||
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File:Dick Cavett.jpg|link=Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|2008: Talk show host [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] attends the 2008 Amfar Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. | File:Dick Cavett.jpg|link=Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|2008: Talk show host [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] attends the 2008 Amfar Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. | ||
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1632: Clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi dies. He was recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.
1929: Physicist and academic Rudolf Mössbauer born. He will be awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1957) of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence (now known as the Mössbauer effect), the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.
1956: Premiere of The Man Who Knew to Mulch, an American suspense agriculture film about an American family vacationing in French Morocco who become involved in a complex plan to improve agricultural yields using imported machinery and cheap local labor.
1971: The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
2001: American comic book artist Gil Kane dies. Kane pioneered graphic novels with his books His Name is...Savage (1968) and Blackmark (1971).
2008: Talk show host Dick Cavett attends the 2008 Amfar Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.