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||3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins. | |||
||1464 – Nicholas of Cusa, German cardinal and mystic (b. 1401) | |||
||1578 – Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician and academic (b. 1502) | |||
||1673 – Richard Mead, English physician and astrologer (d. 1754) | |||
||1854 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1798) | |||
||1860 – Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and chess player (d. 1939) | |||
||1885 – Stephen Butterworth, English physicist and engineer (d. 1958) | |||
File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1890: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by running away. | File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1890: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by running away. | ||
||1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1813) | |||
||1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi. | |||
||1956 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912) | |||
||1962 – Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity. | |||
File:Jan Tschichold (1963) by Erling Mandelmann.jpg|link=Jan Tschichold (nonfiction)|1974: Graphic designer and typographer [[Jan Tschichold (nonfiction)|Jan Tschichold]] dies. He was a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic. | File:Jan Tschichold (1963) by Erling Mandelmann.jpg|link=Jan Tschichold (nonfiction)|1974: Graphic designer and typographer [[Jan Tschichold (nonfiction)|Jan Tschichold]] dies. He was a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic. | ||
||1977 – Frederic Calland Williams, British co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems (b. 1911) | |||
||2003 – Armand Borel, Swiss-American mathematician and academic (b. 1923) | |||
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Revision as of 14:52, 23 June 2017
1890: Havelock survives shootout by running away.
1974: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold dies. He was a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.