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||1048 – Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (b. 973)
||1508 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
File:Adriaan Metius.jpg|link=Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|1571:  Mathematician and astronomer [[Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|Adriaan Metius]] born. He will manufacture precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.
File:Adriaan Metius.jpg|link=Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|1571:  Mathematician and astronomer [[Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|Adriaan Metius]] born. He will manufacture precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.


File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|1601: Submarine inventor [[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] advises Dutch navy to "attack [[Neptune Slaughter]] on sight."
File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|1601: Submarine inventor [[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] advises Dutch navy to "attack [[Neptune Slaughter]] on sight."
||1667 – William Whiston, English mathematician, historian, and theologian (d. 1752)


File:Vincenzo Coronelli.jpg|link=Vincenzo Coronelli (nonfiction)|1718: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer [[Vincenzo Coronelli (nonfiction)|Vincenzo Coronelli]] dies. He gained fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes are very large and highly detailed.
File:Vincenzo Coronelli.jpg|link=Vincenzo Coronelli (nonfiction)|1718: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer [[Vincenzo Coronelli (nonfiction)|Vincenzo Coronelli]] dies. He gained fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes are very large and highly detailed.
||1748 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist and academic (d. 1822)
||1752 – Antoine Étienne de Tousard, French general and engineer (d. 1813)
||1779 – Tabitha Babbitt, American tool maker and inventor (d. ca. 1853)
||1793 – New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
||1813 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist (d. 1885)


File:Golding Bird.jpg|link=Golding Bird (nonfiction)|1814: Physician [[Golding Bird (nonfiction)|Golding Bird]] born. He will pioneer the medical use of electricity.
File:Golding Bird.jpg|link=Golding Bird (nonfiction)|1814: Physician [[Golding Bird (nonfiction)|Golding Bird]] born. He will pioneer the medical use of electricity.
||1830 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (b. 1757)


File:LED Traffic Light.jpg|link=Traffic light (nonfiction)|1868: The first [[Traffic light (nonfiction)|traffic lights]] are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
File:LED Traffic Light.jpg|link=Traffic light (nonfiction)|1868: The first [[Traffic light (nonfiction)|traffic lights]] are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.


File:Fritz Haber.png|link=Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|1868: Chemist [[Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|Fritz Haber]] born. He will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.
File:Fritz Haber.png|link=Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|1868: Chemist [[Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|Fritz Haber]] born. He will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.
||1883 – Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician, theorist, and academic (d. 1950)
||1897 – Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper ''La Fronde'' in Paris.
||1898 – Emmett Kelly, American clown and actor (d. 1979)


File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|1905: Screenwriter and novelist [[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] born.
File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|1905: Screenwriter and novelist [[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] born.
||1906 – Grace Hopper, American admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL (d. 1992)
||1917 – James Jesus Angleton, American CIA agent (d. 1987)
||1917 – James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)


File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."
||1919 – William Lipscomb, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
||1926 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, photographer, and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
||1937 – Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)


|File:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.jpg|link=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|1941: [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
|File:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.jpg|link=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|1941: [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
||1946 – The "Subsequent Nuremberg trials" begin with the "Doctors' trial", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.
|File:Hollywood Ten await fingerprinting.jpg|link=Hollywood Ten (nonfiction)|1947: The [[Hollywood Ten (nonfiction)|Hollywood Ten]] pose for [[human logic gate (nonfiction)|human logic gate]] program.
|File:Hollywood Ten await fingerprinting.jpg|link=Hollywood Ten (nonfiction)|1947: The [[Hollywood Ten (nonfiction)|Hollywood Ten]] pose for [[human logic gate (nonfiction)|human logic gate]] program.


||1950 – Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
||1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
||1962 – The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
||1965 – Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined the object.
||1965 – ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'', first in a series of Peanuts television specials, debuts on CBS.
||1968 – Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (b. 1883)
||1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
||1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
||2012 – Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (b. 1921)


File:Cryptographic numen modelled as nano-wire.jpg|link=Cryptographic numen|2014: [[Cryptographic numen]] modeled in nanowire, functions as cluster of tiny [[scrying engines]].
File:Cryptographic numen modelled as nano-wire.jpg|link=Cryptographic numen|2014: [[Cryptographic numen]] modeled in nanowire, functions as cluster of tiny [[scrying engines]].
File:Comparison_of_bergamot_oils_using_GC-MS_analysis_with_enantiomeric_column.png|2016: Cold weather depresses [[Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|Bergamot oil]] market, industry analysts predict spike in [[Chromatography (nonfiction)|gas chromatography]] prices.
 
||2015 – Norman Breslow, American statistician and academic (b. 1941)
 
|File:Comparison_of_bergamot_oils_using_GC-MS_analysis_with_enantiomeric_column.png|2016: Cold weather depresses [[Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|Bergamot oil]] market, industry analysts predict spike in [[Chromatography (nonfiction)|gas chromatography]] prices.
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Revision as of 17:36, 17 September 2017

  • 1571: Mathematician and astronomer Adriaan Metius born. He will manufacture precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.

    1571: Mathematician and astronomer Adriaan Metius born. He will manufacture precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.

  • 1601: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel advises Dutch navy to "attack Neptune Slaughter on sight."

    1601: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel advises Dutch navy to "attack Neptune Slaughter on sight."

  • 1718: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli dies. He gained fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes are very large and highly detailed.

    1718: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli dies. He gained fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes are very large and highly detailed.

  • 1814: Physician Golding Bird born. He will pioneer the medical use of electricity.

    1814: Physician Golding Bird born. He will pioneer the medical use of electricity.

  • 1868: The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

    1868: The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

  • 1868: Chemist Fritz Haber born. He will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.

    1868: Chemist Fritz Haber born. He will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.

  • 1905: Screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo born.

    1905: Screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo born.

  • 1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."

    1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."

  • 2014: Cryptographic numen modeled in nanowire, functions as cluster of tiny scrying engines.

    2014: Cryptographic numen modeled in nanowire, functions as cluster of tiny scrying engines.

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