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||1570 – The first atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, is published with 70 maps. | |||
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds. | File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds. | ||
||1666 – Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1608) | |||
||1783 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor (d. 1850) | |||
||1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri. | |||
||1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent. | |||
||1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery. | |||
||1868 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801) | |||
||1904 – Uno Lamm, Swedish electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1989) | |||
||1905 – Bodo von Borries, German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope (d. 1956) | |||
||1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". | |||
||1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004) | |||
||1920 – Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic (d. 2004) | |||
||1927 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017) | |||
||Chen Jingrun (b. May 22, 1933) was a Chinese mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory. | |||
||1936 – George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (d. 2014) LCD | |||
||1942 – Ted Kaczynski, American academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber) | |||
||1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern. | |||
File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space. | File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space. | ||
||1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores. | |||
||1969 – Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface. | |||
||1974 – Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903) | |||
||1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) | |||
||1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) | |||
||1998 – José Enrique Moyal, Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1910) | |||
File:Martin Gardner.jpg|link=Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematics and science writer [[Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|Martin Gardner]] dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature. | File:Martin Gardner.jpg|link=Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematics and science writer [[Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|Martin Gardner]] dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature. | ||
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Revision as of 16:46, 5 November 2017
1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.
1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.
2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.