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File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1764: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] dies. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". | File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1764: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] dies. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". | ||
||1773 – Amédée-François Frézier, French mathematician, engineer, and explorer (b. 1682) | |||
||1776 – Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution. | |||
File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1849: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] born. He will make contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory. | File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1849: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] born. He will make contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory. | ||
||1874 – Martin Lowry, English chemist and academic (d. 1936) | |||
File:Charles Proteus Steinmetz.jpg|link=Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and electrical engineer [[Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|Charles Proteus Steinmetz]] dies. He fostered the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which advanced the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States. | File:Charles Proteus Steinmetz.jpg|link=Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and electrical engineer [[Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|Charles Proteus Steinmetz]] dies. He fostered the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which advanced the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States. | ||
||1930 – Waldemar Haffkine, Russian-Swiss physician and microbiologist (b. 1860) | |||
||1936 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation. | |||
File:Alexey Krylov 1910s.jpg|link=Aleksey Krylov (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and naval engineer [[Aleksey Krylov (nonfiction)|Aleksey Krylov]] dies. Fame came to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship became internationally known. | File:Alexey Krylov 1910s.jpg|link=Aleksey Krylov (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and naval engineer [[Aleksey Krylov (nonfiction)|Aleksey Krylov]] dies. Fame came to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship became internationally known. | ||
||1957 – Gerty Cori, Czech-American biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896) | |||
||1968 – Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission. | |||
File:Igor Sikorsky 1914.jpg|link=Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|1972: Aircraft designer [[Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|Igor Sikorsky]] dies. He pioneered both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. | File:Igor Sikorsky 1914.jpg|link=Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|1972: Aircraft designer [[Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|Igor Sikorsky]] dies. He pioneered both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. | ||
||1989 – Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) | |||
||1998 – Kenkichi Iwasawa, Japanese mathematician and academic (b. 1917) | |||
||2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law. | |||
||2002 – Moscow theater hostage crisis: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when | |||
Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before. | |||
||2007 – Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize (b. 1918) | |||
||2015 – Leo Kadanoff, American physicist and academic (b. 1937) | |||
|File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | |File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | ||
Revision as of 11:13, 12 August 2017
1764: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth dies. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
1849: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand Georg Frobenius born. He will make contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.
1923: Mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz dies. He fostered the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which advanced the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States.
1945: Mathematician and naval engineer Aleksey Krylov dies. Fame came to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship became internationally known.
1972: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky dies. He pioneered both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
- Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.