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||485 – Proclus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (b. 412) | |||
||1598 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian priest and astronomer (d. 1671) | |||
File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1627: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] writes a marginal note about a "Last Last Theorem" which will "surely solve all cases of [[crimes against mathematical contants, both past and future." | File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1627: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] writes a marginal note about a "Last Last Theorem" which will "surely solve all cases of [[crimes against mathematical contants, both past and future." | ||
||1790 – Benjamin Franklin, American inventor, publisher, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania (b. 1706) | |||
||1798 – Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician and academic (d. 1840) | |||
||Samuel Morey (d. April 17, 1843) was an American inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents. | |||
||1863 – Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1940) | |||
||1882 – George Jennings, English engineer and plumber, invented the Flush toilet (b. 1810) | |||
||1895 – Robert Dean Frisbie, American soldier and author (d. 1948) | |||
File:Kerry Wendell Thornley.jpg|link=Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|1938: Philosopher and author [[Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|Kerry Wendell Thornley]] born. In 1962 he will write a manuscript, ''The Idle Warriors'', about his aquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald. | File:Kerry Wendell Thornley.jpg|link=Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|1938: Philosopher and author [[Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|Kerry Wendell Thornley]] born. In 1962 he will write a manuscript, ''The Idle Warriors'', about his aquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald. | ||
||1942 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870) | |||
File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1957: [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use with [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]]. | File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1957: [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use with [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]]. | ||
File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1958: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]] incorporates [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|virtual Nebra sky disk]] as backup navigation system. | File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1958: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]] incorporates [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|virtual Nebra sky disk]] as backup navigation system. | ||
||1961 – Elda Anderson, American physicist and health researcher (b. 1899) | |||
File:Bay of Pigs.jpg|link=Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|1961: [[Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|Bay of Pigs Invasion]]: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. | File:Bay of Pigs.jpg|link=Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|1961: [[Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|Bay of Pigs Invasion]]: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. | ||
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1968: Alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] takes possession of a large quantity of military-grade [[Clandestiphrine]]. | File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1968: Alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] takes possession of a large quantity of military-grade [[Clandestiphrine]]. | ||
File:Robert F. Kennedy assassination.jpg|link=Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of [[Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|assassinating Robert F. Kennedy]]. | File:Robert F. Kennedy assassination.jpg|link=Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of [[Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|assassinating Robert F. Kennedy]]. | ||
||1970 – Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely. | |||
||1976 – Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895) | |||
||1996 – Piet Hein, Danish poet and mathematician (b. 1905) | |||
||2014 – NASA's Kepler space observatory confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star. | |||
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Revision as of 10:17, 29 October 2017
1627: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat writes a marginal note about a "Last Last Theorem" which will "surely solve all cases of [[crimes against mathematical contants, both past and future."
1938: Philosopher and author Kerry Wendell Thornley born. In 1962 he will write a manuscript, The Idle Warriors, about his aquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald.
1957: Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use with Project SCORE satellite.
1958: Project SCORE satellite incorporates virtual Nebra sky disk as backup navigation system.
1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1968: Alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung takes possession of a large quantity of military-grade Clandestiphrine.
1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.