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||602 – Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself. | |||
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||1701 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (d. 1744) | |||
||1703 – Henry Winstanley, English painter and engineer (b. 1644) | |||
File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1754: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] dies. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', is prized by gamblers. | File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1754: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] dies. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', is prized by gamblers. | ||
File:Berners_Street_Hoax_caricature.jpg|1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London. | File:Berners_Street_Hoax_caricature.jpg|1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London. | ||
||1811 – Andrew Meikle, Scottish engineer, designed the threshing machine (b. 1719) | |||
File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1852: Mathematician and writer [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. | File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1852: Mathematician and writer [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. | ||
||1857 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952) | |||
||1871 – Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and engineer (d. 1950) | |||
|File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship [[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]] attacked by [[Neptune Slaughter]] in mid-ocean. | |File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship [[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]] attacked by [[Neptune Slaughter]] in mid-ocean. | ||
||1874 – Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel (d. 1952) | |||
||1875 – Richard Christopher Carrington, English astronomer and educator (b. 1826) | |||
||1895 – At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies. | |||
||1897 – Vito Genovese, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1969) | |||
||1903 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976) | |||
||1909 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1967) | |||
||1923 – J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician (d. 2011) | |||
||1925 – John Maddox, Welsh chemist, physicist, and journalist (d. 2009) | |||
||1928 – Josh Kirby, English painter and illustrator (d. 2001) | |||
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge. | File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge. | ||
||1942 – World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands. | |||
||1944 – Leonid Mandelstam, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1879) | |||
||1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000. | |||
||1971 – The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars. | |||
||1978 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White. | |||
||1988 – Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player and author (b. 1927) | |||
||1990 – Basilis C. Xanthopoulos, Greek physicist and academic (b. 1951) | |||
||2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet. | |||
|File:Fortunes of a Street Waif.jpg|[[Lud the Gamer]] was boot-thief as child, say Biographer-Critics. | |File:Fortunes of a Street Waif.jpg|[[Lud the Gamer]] was boot-thief as child, say Biographer-Critics. | ||
Revision as of 20:56, 12 September 2017
1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, is prized by gamblers.
1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
