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||1495 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1557) | |||
||1682 – John Hadley, English mathematician, invented the octant (d. 1744) | |||
||1728 – Joseph Black, French-Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1799) | |||
||1756 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (b. 1677) | |||
||1783 – Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer and educator (b. 1719) | |||
||1788 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (b. 1707) | |||
||1823 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician and academic (d. 1852) | |||
||1867 – Wilbur Wright, American inventor (d. 1912) | |||
||1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle. | |||
||1888 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (b. 1845) | |||
||1895 – Ove Arup, English-Danish engineer and businessman, founded Arup (d. 1988) Sydney Opera House | |||
||1899 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist and academic (d. 1988) | |||
||1907 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. (d. 1964) | |||
||1914 – George William Hill, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1838) | |||
||1919 – Thomas Willmore, English geometer and academic (d. 2005) | |||
||1929 – Ralph Slatyer, Australian biologist and ecologist (d. 2012) | |||
||1936 – Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist and academic (d. 2015) | |||
||1943 – Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19. | |||
||1947 – Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. | |||
File:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|link=Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|1958: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer [[Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|Rosalind Franklin]] dies. She made contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). | File:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|link=Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|1958: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer [[Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|Rosalind Franklin]] dies. She made contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). | ||
File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1958: Time-travelling combat physician [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] prevents [[Baron Zersetzung]] from detonating the [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|Tybee Bomb]]. | File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1958: Time-travelling combat physician [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] prevents [[Baron Zersetzung]] from detonating the [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|Tybee Bomb]]. | ||
File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: The United States military announces that the search for [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful]]. | File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: The United States military announces that the search for [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful]]. | ||
File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1962: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series blamed for outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1962: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series blamed for outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. | |||
||1998 – Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1920) | |||
File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|2008: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] dies. He introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect. | File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|2008: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] dies. He introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect. | ||
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|2008: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram says it "owes everything to [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Papa Lorenz]]." | File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|2008: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram says it "owes everything to [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Papa Lorenz]]." | ||
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53. | File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53. | ||
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Revision as of 13:58, 22 October 2017
1958: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin dies. She made contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
1958: Time-travelling combat physician Asclepius Myrmidon prevents Baron Zersetzung from detonating the Tybee Bomb.
1958: The United States military announces that the search for hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful.
1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series blamed for outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
2008: Mathematician Edward Lorenz dies. He introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.
2008: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.