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||1632 – Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1561) | |||
||1730 – Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist, and botanist (d. 1799) | |||
||1795 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1874) | |||
||1807 – Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (d. 1893) diatoms v. desmids | |||
File:Jacquard loom with two children and a dog (circa 1877).jpg|link=Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|1825: Children reprogram [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]] to compute new family of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:Jacquard loom with two children and a dog (circa 1877).jpg|link=Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|1825: Children reprogram [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]] to compute new family of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] builds new type of [[scrying engine]]. | File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] builds new type of [[scrying engine]]. | ||
File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1835: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] secretly prints first edition of ''[[The Adulteration of Bergamot]]''. | File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1835: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] secretly prints first edition of ''[[The Adulteration of Bergamot]]''. | ||
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File:Jacques Hadamard.jpg|link=Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|1865: Mathematician [[Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|Jacques Hadamard]] born. He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations. | File:Jacques Hadamard.jpg|link=Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|1865: Mathematician [[Jacques Hadamard (nonfiction)|Jacques Hadamard]] born. He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations. | ||
||1894 – Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1821) | |||
||1894 – E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, created Popeye (d. 1938) | |||
||1894 – James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (d. 1961) | |||
||1903 – Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (b. 1820) | |||
||1913 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet and short story writer (d. 1966) | |||
||1919 – Julia Robinson, American mathematician and theorist (d. 1985) | |||
||1919 – Kateryna Yushchenko, Ukrainian computer scientist and academic (d. 2001) | |||
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1932: US Navy raises flock of [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]]. | File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1932: US Navy raises flock of [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]]. | ||
||1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan. | |||
||1953 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world. | |||
File:Hermann Weyl.jpg|link=Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|Hermann Weyl]] dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory. | File:Hermann Weyl.jpg|link=Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|Hermann Weyl]] dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory. | ||
||1960 – Aaron Allston, American game designer and author (d. 2014) | |||
||1980 – Former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota in New York City. | |||
||1991 – The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States. | |||
||2001 – Betty Holberton, American computer scientist and programmer (b. 1917) | |||
||2010 – With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft. | |||
||2010 – The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km. | |||
||2013 – John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) | |||
File:Weyl semimetal diagram.png|link=Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|2017: First use of [[Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|Weyl semimetal crystals]] as a quantum [[Time machine (nonfiction)|time machine]] which detects and prevents [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Weyl semimetal diagram.png|link=Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|2017: First use of [[Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|Weyl semimetal crystals]] as a quantum [[Time machine (nonfiction)|time machine]] which detects and prevents [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:The_Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|2019: [[The Eel]] escapes from [[Nacreum]], spending less than a day in prison. | File:The_Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|2019: [[The Eel]] escapes from [[Nacreum]], spending less than a day in prison. | ||
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Revision as of 10:14, 13 August 2017
1825: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1834: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page builds new type of scrying engine.
1835: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey secretly prints first edition of The Adulteration of Bergamot.
1864: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole dies. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
1865: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard born. He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
1932: US Navy raises flock of Carnivorous dirigibles.
1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.
2017: First use of Weyl semimetal crystals as a quantum time machine which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
