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||121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (d. 180) | |||
||1558 – Jean Fernel, French physician (b. 1497) | |||
File:Thomas Reid.jpg|link=Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|1710: Mathematician and philosopher [[Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|Thomas Reid]] born. Reid will argue that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of ''sensus communis'') is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry. He disagreed with David Hume, who asserted that we can never know what an external world consists of as our knowledge is limited to the ideas in the mind, and George Berkeley, who asserted that the external world is merely ideas in the mind. | |||
||1774 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (d. 1853) | |||
File:Hans Christian Ørsted.jpg|link=Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|1797: Physicist [[Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|Hans Christian Ørsted]] uses electromagnetism to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Hans Christian Ørsted.jpg|link=Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|1797: Physicist [[Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|Hans Christian Ørsted]] uses electromagnetism to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1798: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] born. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists. | File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1798: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] born. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists. | ||
||1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist. | |||
||1879 – Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959) | |||
||1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (d. 1951) | |||
||1900 – Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (d. 1985) | |||
||1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887) | |||
||1932 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000) | |||
||1933 – Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
||1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established. | |||
||1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe. | |||
||1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) | |||
||1945 – Sigmund Rascher, German physician (b. 1909) - SS deadly experiments | |||
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1945: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' accidentally released new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1945: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' accidentally released new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (b. 1868) | |||
||1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. | |||
File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: A [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine). | File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: A [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine). | ||
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1987: Gem detective and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] denies accusations that he was responsible for the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)]]. | File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1987: Gem detective and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] denies accusations that he was responsible for the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)]]. | ||
||2009 – Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal investigator and author (b. 1920) | |||
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Revision as of 18:36, 7 August 2017
1710: Mathematician and philosopher Thomas Reid born. Reid will argue that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry. He disagreed with David Hume, who asserted that we can never know what an external world consists of as our knowledge is limited to the ideas in the mind, and George Berkeley, who asserted that the external world is merely ideas in the mind.
1797: Physicist Hans Christian Ørsted uses electromagnetism to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1798: Artist Eugène Delacroix born. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.
1945: Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition) accidentally released new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1986: A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine).
1987: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde denies accusations that he was responsible for the Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction).