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||1646 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1684) | |||
||1716 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician and academic (b. 1682) | |||
File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] born. | File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] born. | ||
||1760 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (d. 1852) | |||
||1819 – John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892) | |||
||1829 – HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba. | |||
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
||1862 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930) | |||
File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1865: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms. | File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1865: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms. | ||
||1899 – Otis Barton, American diver, engineer, and actor, designed the bathysphere (d. 1992) | |||
||1900 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) | |||
File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1910: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, dies. | File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1910: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, dies. | ||
||1917 – World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day". | |||
||1933 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold. | |||
||1964 – DSV Alvin is commissioned. | |||
||1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day. | |||
||1989 – The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. | |||
||1995 – The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created. | |||
File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|2004: [[John Brunner]] publishes history of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|2004: [[John Brunner]] publishes history of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream". | File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream". | ||
||2012 – Mihai Pătrașcu, Romanian-American computer scientist (b. 1982) | |||
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Revision as of 11:09, 15 October 2017
1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1865: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.
2004: John Brunner publishes history of crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".